Uh, this is/. From any ISP's perspective, most of us ARE criminals. I think we'd be hard pressed to find a single person here who HASN'T violated at least some part of copyright law.
Because in 2050, you version 2.0 will say "Hey, guys, if we continue at the current rate, sea levels will rise by about 11 centimeters in *2150*. Let's just work on the problem later".
See, the link you posted costs $150 (ebay stores screw you intentionally on shipping, it's just over $50 in this case), AND it's DIY. Since when does the price of a DIY upgrade = the price of purchasing a computer with the upgrade included? Furthermore, the touchscreen is irrelevant. My price quotes are accurate. Yours are still inaccurate because you're making irrelevant comparisons.
It's clever how you compared it to a touchscreen. That alone pops the price up by $400 - $500 bucks. At the retail establishment in which I used to work, we sold a similar touchscreen machine, and it was twice as expensive as a comparable desktop. The sale price of such a comparable desktop could be as low as $600. In a RETAIL establishment, God knows what you can find online. Add $150 for a monitor (yeah, pretend you don't already have three sitting around). A tad over half the price of the Mac.
New totals:
$600 PC + $150 Monitor + $200 Win7 Home Premium + $100 MS Office: $1150.
$1500 Mac including SL: $1500.
Sorry, and I know I'll look like an idiot in ten years when it happens, but how could an OS deny access to camera, speakers, and microphone to all applications without a major (noticeable, uproar-inducing) functionality decrease?
Furthermore, I doubt it's stealing audio at the hardware level, it seems talking the audio from Skype as it is sent / received would be a better plan.
PCs to most people are the scary blinky box in the corner. PCs to some are any x86 machine (Macs included). The original acronym means Personal Computers, as you stated. By that definition, my cell phone is a PC. While some may argue the point, it seems most likely that when the average/.er says PC, they mean x86, running Windows.
The AC got yanked away from his computer by the men in the black helicopters as he typed his subversive speech on that machine (which has no rights to free speech)!~
1. Poisoning education: They made a easier to use product in which people who work in the field of education found value. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?
2. Invading privacy: Those jerks don't want to call it Windows Gestapo! Curse their backwards naming!!!
3. Monopoly behavior: See "poisoning education", but this time, for hardware vendors! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE NERDS (5% or less) who don't WANT windows?!?
4. Lock-in: They don't even support their own stuff anymore! By God, I couldn't find ANYONE to help me with my DOS 6.22 install!
5. Abusing standards: Our standards are better than theirs, but they don't agree!!
6. Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM): They allowed their media player to work with DRM-enabled files, therefore NOT alienating most of their users! What jerks!!
7. Threatening user security: They're popular and people try to hack it! How DARE they?
8. ???
9. Profit!
You are an incoherent babbler. Please attempt to pay attention in your high school English course. Then perhaps we will be able to understand you and critique your logic instead.
It's still free, still an encyclopedia, and anyone can still edit it. Identically to before with any article NOT about a livin person. It's equivalent to "locking" an entire class of pages. No big deal.
Technically, it IS your phone to go jailbreak and do whatever the hell you want with. Even write your own app for Google Talk if you want it.
Or you can make disgusted comments about the software the company chooses to provide.
Either way, have fun.
Where I live, there are not enough devices that would function after the detonation of an EMP to provide food or water. Long-range communication becomes trivial at this point.
Also, in your nightmare world, has everyone been hit with this EMP? In that case, even if you COULD subsist on what you have without electronic equipment, long-range communication would again be trivial. Who exists and has the capacity to do the rescuing?
I'll bite.
It's because the legislators and, indirectly, people, have arrived at the conclusion (fallaciously, in my opinion, but that's neither here nor there) that the safety of the general public ("We the people, in order to form a more perfect union... ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense... do ordain and establish this Constitution...") is a higher priority than the constitutional right to bear arms. This is the same logic that allows them to place in effect laws further restricting the right to bear arms (no small handguns, no switchblades, etc).
I am no Con Law lawyer, but it appears to me to be blatantly wrong as the amendment is currently worded, and people with the opinion I stated above should try to get it changed (though I can count at least 1/4 of the states that would die and burn in hell before they saw "the gummint takin away their guns", and therefore it's unlikely to pass as an amendment).
If you want a true offroad vehicle you get a military surplus HMMV, if you want a truly seemless out-of-box KDE experience you should get a linux distro built around KDE.
From kubuntu.org (it's the quote in gargantuan font on the FRONT PAGE, in case you missed it...)
What is Kubuntu?
Kubuntu is a free, user-friendly operating system based on the K Desktop Environment and on the award winning Ubuntu operating system.
Performance numbers so far show the games to run at the same speed _or_slower_ under Win7. The only things that run better (like video) are due to MS spending all of their time streamlining the DRM code that will prevent you from using *your* legally purchased files wherever you want.
Citation needed.
There won't be any decent use of D3D11 for a long time. Not even MS sponsored games are going to require D3D11, since they want everything to also support D3D9 for porting to the 360.
Citation needed.
Personally, I game infrequently - but the half-dozen games I play (mostly HL2 engine games, CoH/V, and WoW) now run just fine under Wine.
Irrelevant. Unless of course you want to prove that WINE is faster than / as fast as native execution. AND that Wine is compatible with everything.
Why don't you go work on those three things? Then perhaps the scorn you are receiving from almost everyone here will fade.
Also... It looks like something a mildly talented person could do in under an hour in Photoshop. The street artist (because that's what he is) says he drew the image for the poster using the (copyrighted) photo as a visual reference... But they look identical. Tracing something and applying three color filters is NOT fair use. As the AP says:
"The Infringing Works do not alter any of the distinctive
characteristics that make the Obama Photo so striking -- from the selection of subject
matter, to the composition, to the exacting details of the photo. All the recognizable
elements remain completely and unmistakably intact in the Infringing Works, including
the angle and slant of President Obama's head, and his gaze and expression; the contrast,
focus, and depth of field of the photograph; as well as the shadow lines created by the
lighting in the original photo. Fairey even used the red, white and blue flag imagery that
Mr. Garcia worked to capture in the background of The AP's photo."
Even if you don't agree that someone should be able to copyright the angle and slant of a famous figure's head, gaze and expression (which they shouldn't be able to), you HAVE to admit that contrast, focus, depth of field, shadow lines, blah, blah, blah are all elements that should be copyrighted. Else a tracing of an image you found online WOULD be valid for commercial use. But the long and short of it is, it ISN'T.
And I'm depressed that this crap is going to be the case they use to try the fair use doctrine in the media ("the media", ironically, being one of the parties in the suit...)
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Uh, this is /.
From any ISP's perspective, most of us ARE criminals. I think we'd be hard pressed to find a single person here who HASN'T violated at least some part of copyright law.
*whoosh*
Careful there, it almost hit you.
Isn't Lossless FLAC redundant? Lossless Free Lossless Audio Codec? Kinda like an ATM Machine or a PIN Number.
Actually, you have infinitely more options. Any of them being viable, well, that's another story.
Because in 2050, you version 2.0 will say
"Hey, guys, if we continue at the current rate, sea levels will rise by about 11 centimeters in *2150*. Let's just work on the problem later".
See, the link you posted costs $150 (ebay stores screw you intentionally on shipping, it's just over $50 in this case), AND it's DIY. Since when does the price of a DIY upgrade = the price of purchasing a computer with the upgrade included? Furthermore, the touchscreen is irrelevant. My price quotes are accurate. Yours are still inaccurate because you're making irrelevant comparisons.
It's clever how you compared it to a touchscreen. That alone pops the price up by $400 - $500 bucks. At the retail establishment in which I used to work, we sold a similar touchscreen machine, and it was twice as expensive as a comparable desktop. The sale price of such a comparable desktop could be as low as $600. In a RETAIL establishment, God knows what you can find online. Add $150 for a monitor (yeah, pretend you don't already have three sitting around). A tad over half the price of the Mac.
New totals:
$600 PC + $150 Monitor + $200 Win7 Home Premium + $100 MS Office: $1150.
$1500 Mac including SL: $1500.
Sorry, and I know I'll look like an idiot in ten years when it happens, but how could an OS deny access to camera, speakers, and microphone to all applications without a major (noticeable, uproar-inducing) functionality decrease?
Furthermore, I doubt it's stealing audio at the hardware level, it seems talking the audio from Skype as it is sent / received would be a better plan.
PCs to most people are the scary blinky box in the corner. PCs to some are any x86 machine (Macs included). The original acronym means Personal Computers, as you stated. By that definition, my cell phone is a PC. While some may argue the point, it seems most likely that when the average /.er says PC, they mean x86, running Windows.
They're saying "Oracle says it won't, but *I* think they will! And so does some other unnamed source!"
Are you honestly claiming to have read every review ever?
Those are all reviews with praise OTHER than "It's better than vista".
In other words: [citation needed].
Either A) whoever modded you "insightful" WHOOSH'ed, or B) I failed to take you seriously because your point makes no sense.
Please, let it be A.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NANP
The AC got yanked away from his computer by the men in the black helicopters as he typed his subversive speech on that machine (which has no rights to free speech)!~
This screwed me up ever since I realized you can make the "L for left" shape with both hands if you reverse one. Craziness!
1. Poisoning education: They made a easier to use product in which people who work in the field of education found value. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN? 2. Invading privacy: Those jerks don't want to call it Windows Gestapo! Curse their backwards naming!!! 3. Monopoly behavior: See "poisoning education", but this time, for hardware vendors! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE NERDS (5% or less) who don't WANT windows?!? 4. Lock-in: They don't even support their own stuff anymore! By God, I couldn't find ANYONE to help me with my DOS 6.22 install! 5. Abusing standards: Our standards are better than theirs, but they don't agree!! 6. Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM): They allowed their media player to work with DRM-enabled files, therefore NOT alienating most of their users! What jerks!! 7. Threatening user security: They're popular and people try to hack it! How DARE they? 8. ??? 9. Profit!
You are an incoherent babbler. Please attempt to pay attention in your high school English course. Then perhaps we will be able to understand you and critique your logic instead.
Most epic WHOOOSH ever! Come ON! It's right there in italics! How hard IS this? XD
It's still free, still an encyclopedia, and anyone can still edit it. Identically to before with any article NOT about a livin person. It's equivalent to "locking" an entire class of pages. No big deal.
Technically, it IS your phone to go jailbreak and do whatever the hell you want with. Even write your own app for Google Talk if you want it. Or you can make disgusted comments about the software the company chooses to provide. Either way, have fun.
Where I live, there are not enough devices that would function after the detonation of an EMP to provide food or water. Long-range communication becomes trivial at this point. Also, in your nightmare world, has everyone been hit with this EMP? In that case, even if you COULD subsist on what you have without electronic equipment, long-range communication would again be trivial. Who exists and has the capacity to do the rescuing?
I'll bite. It's because the legislators and, indirectly, people, have arrived at the conclusion (fallaciously, in my opinion, but that's neither here nor there) that the safety of the general public ("We the people, in order to form a more perfect union ... ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense ... do ordain and establish this Constitution...") is a higher priority than the constitutional right to bear arms. This is the same logic that allows them to place in effect laws further restricting the right to bear arms (no small handguns, no switchblades, etc).
I am no Con Law lawyer, but it appears to me to be blatantly wrong as the amendment is currently worded, and people with the opinion I stated above should try to get it changed (though I can count at least 1/4 of the states that would die and burn in hell before they saw "the gummint takin away their guns", and therefore it's unlikely to pass as an amendment).
From kubuntu.org (it's the quote in gargantuan font on the FRONT PAGE, in case you missed it...)
That's why it's called Kubuntu.
Citation needed.
Citation needed.
Irrelevant. Unless of course you want to prove that WINE is faster than / as fast as native execution. AND that Wine is compatible with everything. Why don't you go work on those three things? Then perhaps the scorn you are receiving from almost everyone here will fade.
Even if you don't agree that someone should be able to copyright the angle and slant of a famous figure's head, gaze and expression (which they shouldn't be able to), you HAVE to admit that contrast, focus, depth of field, shadow lines, blah, blah, blah are all elements that should be copyrighted. Else a tracing of an image you found online WOULD be valid for commercial use. But the long and short of it is, it ISN'T.
And I'm depressed that this crap is going to be the case they use to try the fair use doctrine in the media ("the media", ironically, being one of the parties in the suit...)