This how to says freedos can do it but do we really know that this particular patch will work? DOS, like ACPI, is so sabotaged that you can never be sure. Tell me why I'd trust a patch from a company that appears to have put in a bogus GNU/Linux ACPI table. It would be easier to get a known good mother board than it would be to fry your BIOS because of some DOSy problem.
A fix is nice, but it's still a PITA that requires DOS to fix. Why not just buy a board that works out of the box? That's the bad news.
The good news is that GNU/Linux market is a bigger pool than these people thought it was. Given Vista's popularity, there's hardly anyone who would buy a motherboard that would accept one that would not work well with GNU/Linux.
Pointing to Geer's paper which warned of M$ using "fixes" of security failures as a means of lock in but not being able to recognize these practices is a security failure worthy of their own award. Vista's DRM and code signing are blatant mechanisms to damage M$'s competitors.
Good tools don't undermine anyone who's not trying to sell tools. Freedom is hard but slavery is always harder. This is why free software is able to embrace its "enemies" and sooner or later M$ will have to embrace free software.
Wii on a large screen 1080p is stunningly good, if cartoonish. OK, it's only 480p but it fills up the screen beautifully. There are shadows, reflections and all that other cool stuff. The physics works in real time and play is about as realistic as you can get with the level of motion tracking given. Games like bowling, tenis and golf look great and are enjoyable. The single object physics is modest enough to work well. The golf graphis often look better than the stuff used to narate actual HD golf games, especially with frequent cable signal cuts out and leaves you with giant box shapes all over the screen.
I hate to agree with a troll like Macthrope, but you are full of it. Even if the primary and intended use of free software on the PSP were to allow people to share games, it should be legal. The fact is that you can't tell me what general purpose software is supposed to be used for and have no right to keep me from using my property as I see fit. If your business model can't survive in freedom, you need to find another business model.
Ordinary police work has done a good job catching crooks without harming the rest of us, so you need to justify the civil harm kill switches can do. The rich and powerful with to keep people from recording or communicating their actions. They can also use kill switches to harass people they don't like. Imagine that you could crap out the phones, cars, cameras and everything else your political opposition owns. You could make sure that people you don't like can't get anything done reliably by randomly disabling the things they depend on. In a really non free society, no one would be able to tell or prove it. The kind of people making "terrorist" watch lists will really love this but everyone else will hate it. I'm not willing to turn over that kind of control to others even if it would solve the non problem of police chases.
The other guy was telling you to use less of resources that belong to everyone. Aviation is a significant contributor to global warming which is killing people in the developing world and harming almost everyone else. We should not put our own pleasures before the necessities of others. You should see your friends and family when you can but you must realize the cost.
Taking a boat would not be better. Aviation simply needs to get beyond fossil fuel.
There are a host of other injustices that make the problem of global warming that you have nothing to do with. The US automotive industry has thwarted electric transport and all efforts to improve US fuel economy. Multinational agricultural firms have destroyed most of the world's independent farms and left us with wasteful and soulless machine farms that produce poisoned and contaminated food. They have even taken a toll on the world's oceans but global warming promises to be much worse than overfishing small fish for fertilizer and pig feed or dead zones from run off. As the oceans warm and acidify, the world's reefs and fisheries are dissolving. Yet the people running the companies doing this are more powerful and better compensated than ever. Their solution is not to fix anything, it's to reduce your ability to use resources even if it kills you.
There is no shortage of free fonts that are better in every way than those M$ choses to distribute. The choice to suck is made by M$ not free software distributions and no one but M$ wants to limit anyone.
The new set of fonts removes one more part of those restrictions. Word users can now chose a different editor with less loss of their work and GNU/Linux users don't have to buy word to get along with paytards like you.
If you want market share and have zero budget, the best thing to do is give your games away. If it's really good, people will buy it and even 0.68% of the 400 million PCs in the world is a lot of revenue. People actually sent money to people who gave their software away back in the early days and probably still do.
All of this is besides the point, the most popular game system in the world runs commercial Linux. Sony has made plenty of money from PS/2, PSP and PS/3.
Microsoft has been doing this same thing from the very start. Notice that the language never changes:
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
They mostly go after mom and pop computer stores and scare them into a settlement even if it's not their fault. I know someone who fought and won.
The owner of Computer Heaven in Baton Rouge is one of the few people who bothered to fight them in court. He was innocent and everyone knew it. If there was any "piracy" involved it happened to his upstream suppliers. The man made a ton of money for M$ then they treated him like shit. The defense cost him just about everything he had, but he persisted out of principle and won. The poor man kept the store and kept selling Windows hoping the next upgrade wave would fill up his savings again. His reward for that was Vista disappointment. Now he has GNU/Linux experts on staff.
What do you consider funny about the incarceration, torture and murder of dissidents in China? It is sickening that a government that so often stonewalls it's own citizens is using software that leakes the same information to it's worst enemies. It's sad incompetence which does real harm to people.
Everyone's favorite weak link is revealed in the article:
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce Department computers.
The government has more secure systems for people's laptops, like Bastile Linux, and should be using them instead of a consumer grade OS that was never intended to store anything more important than Solitair. When insecure systems are used to access secure systems, security falls to the level of the weak system.
How much free content do you need to see before you realize that people want to share? There's more music on Archive.org than you can listen to in hundreds of years. Wikipedia spanks all other encyclopedias so badly that Britannica has given up and started to accept downloads. Free software is about to entirely replace non free software. You are spending your own time on a user created news service. It's not a free ride, but it's a lot cheaper than depending on some kind of publisher/freeloader.
PJ sang the praises of file sharing years ago but well. We are all richer if we share and artists benefit most of all through well earned fame. If we don't share all we are left with 19th century distribution efficiency and ratings. Many people do share their work and P2P of the same is perfectly legitimate, but idiotic laws make that difficult.
I'm not going to bother reading this article because I know enough already. We have already seen how the Media Defender dirt bags attack trackers by stuffing them with RIAA crap and DoS attack. Big publishers have no place in the P2P world and would rather eliminate free press than give up their position in the world. They may be punished for that but that won't cure copyright laws that are equally obsolete.
Copyright needs to allow us to share our culture without worry. To that end, non commercial personal copy should be allowed.
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This how to says freedos can do it but do we really know that this particular patch will work? DOS, like ACPI, is so sabotaged that you can never be sure. Tell me why I'd trust a patch from a company that appears to have put in a bogus GNU/Linux ACPI table. It would be easier to get a known good mother board than it would be to fry your BIOS because of some DOSy problem.
A fix is nice, but it's still a PITA that requires DOS to fix. Why not just buy a board that works out of the box? That's the bad news.
The good news is that GNU/Linux market is a bigger pool than these people thought it was. Given Vista's popularity, there's hardly anyone who would buy a motherboard that would accept one that would not work well with GNU/Linux.
It's just another TNAA first poster mod. They hate twitter. Weird isn't it?
Pointing to Geer's paper which warned of M$ using "fixes" of security failures as a means of lock in but not being able to recognize these practices is a security failure worthy of their own award. Vista's DRM and code signing are blatant mechanisms to damage M$'s competitors.
Good tools don't undermine anyone who's not trying to sell tools. Freedom is hard but slavery is always harder. This is why free software is able to embrace its "enemies" and sooner or later M$ will have to embrace free software.
twitter, cut that out! You make the paytards cry.
Looks like he made good fun of you too. Your RIAA paymasters must be proud of how you craped up this conversation though.
Wii on a large screen 1080p is stunningly good, if cartoonish. OK, it's only 480p but it fills up the screen beautifully. There are shadows, reflections and all that other cool stuff. The physics works in real time and play is about as realistic as you can get with the level of motion tracking given. Games like bowling, tenis and golf look great and are enjoyable. The single object physics is modest enough to work well. The golf graphis often look better than the stuff used to narate actual HD golf games, especially with frequent cable signal cuts out and leaves you with giant box shapes all over the screen.
It's apparent that you have not played a Wii.
You just know this is going to be a misserable thread. Really
I hate to agree with a troll like Macthrope, but you are full of it. Even if the primary and intended use of free software on the PSP were to allow people to share games, it should be legal. The fact is that you can't tell me what general purpose software is supposed to be used for and have no right to keep me from using my property as I see fit. If your business model can't survive in freedom, you need to find another business model.
Ordinary police work has done a good job catching crooks without harming the rest of us, so you need to justify the civil harm kill switches can do. The rich and powerful with to keep people from recording or communicating their actions. They can also use kill switches to harass people they don't like. Imagine that you could crap out the phones, cars, cameras and everything else your political opposition owns. You could make sure that people you don't like can't get anything done reliably by randomly disabling the things they depend on. In a really non free society, no one would be able to tell or prove it. The kind of people making "terrorist" watch lists will really love this but everyone else will hate it. I'm not willing to turn over that kind of control to others even if it would solve the non problem of police chases.
The other guy was telling you to use less of resources that belong to everyone. Aviation is a significant contributor to global warming which is killing people in the developing world and harming almost everyone else. We should not put our own pleasures before the necessities of others. You should see your friends and family when you can but you must realize the cost.
Taking a boat would not be better. Aviation simply needs to get beyond fossil fuel.
There are a host of other injustices that make the problem of global warming that you have nothing to do with. The US automotive industry has thwarted electric transport and all efforts to improve US fuel economy. Multinational agricultural firms have destroyed most of the world's independent farms and left us with wasteful and soulless machine farms that produce poisoned and contaminated food. They have even taken a toll on the world's oceans but global warming promises to be much worse than overfishing small fish for fertilizer and pig feed or dead zones from run off. As the oceans warm and acidify, the world's reefs and fisheries are dissolving. Yet the people running the companies doing this are more powerful and better compensated than ever. Their solution is not to fix anything, it's to reduce your ability to use resources even if it kills you.
There is no shortage of free fonts that are better in every way than those M$ choses to distribute. The choice to suck is made by M$ not free software distributions and no one but M$ wants to limit anyone.
The new set of fonts removes one more part of those restrictions. Word users can now chose a different editor with less loss of their work and GNU/Linux users don't have to buy word to get along with paytards like you.
If you want market share and have zero budget, the best thing to do is give your games away. If it's really good, people will buy it and even 0.68% of the 400 million PCs in the world is a lot of revenue. People actually sent money to people who gave their software away back in the early days and probably still do.
All of this is besides the point, the most popular game system in the world runs commercial Linux. Sony has made plenty of money from PS/2, PSP and PS/3.
Microsoft has been doing this same thing from the very start. Notice that the language never changes:
They mostly go after mom and pop computer stores and scare them into a settlement even if it's not their fault. I know someone who fought and won.
The owner of Computer Heaven in Baton Rouge is one of the few people who bothered to fight them in court. He was innocent and everyone knew it. If there was any "piracy" involved it happened to his upstream suppliers. The man made a ton of money for M$ then they treated him like shit. The defense cost him just about everything he had, but he persisted out of principle and won. The poor man kept the store and kept selling Windows hoping the next upgrade wave would fill up his savings again. His reward for that was Vista disappointment. Now he has GNU/Linux experts on staff.
M$ greed does not pay.
What do you consider funny about the incarceration, torture and murder of dissidents in China? It is sickening that a government that so often stonewalls it's own citizens is using software that leakes the same information to it's worst enemies. It's sad incompetence which does real harm to people.
Ethanol will eventually come from switchgrass and be very cheap.
That would not have been much better, now would it? The point is that sensitive information deserves proper care.
Everyone's favorite weak link is revealed in the article:
The government has more secure systems for people's laptops, like Bastile Linux, and should be using them instead of a consumer grade OS that was never intended to store anything more important than Solitair. When insecure systems are used to access secure systems, security falls to the level of the weak system.
Because I did not see the link. Nothing sinister here, despite some interesting flamebait about it.
Thanks for pointing it out politely, though there's nothing that I can do about it now. Some people get themselves all worked up about these things.
Here. There are lots of goodies.
How much free content do you need to see before you realize that people want to share? There's more music on Archive.org than you can listen to in hundreds of years. Wikipedia spanks all other encyclopedias so badly that Britannica has given up and started to accept downloads. Free software is about to entirely replace non free software. You are spending your own time on a user created news service. It's not a free ride, but it's a lot cheaper than depending on some kind of publisher/freeloader.
PJ sang the praises of file sharing years ago but well. We are all richer if we share and artists benefit most of all through well earned fame. If we don't share all we are left with 19th century distribution efficiency and ratings. Many people do share their work and P2P of the same is perfectly legitimate, but idiotic laws make that difficult.
I'm not going to bother reading this article because I know enough already. We have already seen how the Media Defender dirt bags attack trackers by stuffing them with RIAA crap and DoS attack. Big publishers have no place in the P2P world and would rather eliminate free press than give up their position in the world. They may be punished for that but that won't cure copyright laws that are equally obsolete.
Copyright needs to allow us to share our culture without worry. To that end, non commercial personal copy should be allowed.
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