Right on. Nothing wrong with high resolution video, but Bluray is a crappy distribution medium.
I'm even surprised dvds became so popular. The thing that drives me nuts about dvds is the damn menus they put at the start. I just want to watch the movie. I don't want to watch a 30 second un-skipable menu animation and then have to press enter on a remote and then watch another 5 second "leaving the menu" animation. I just want the movie.
Don't get me started about the ads that make you feel like a criminal at the start of rental dvds.
the easiest hack for gaining local Linux admin rights would have to be at the _grub_ boot loader prompt
That's not a hack. If you have physical access to the machine you could also boot into another O/S or get out your screw driver and remove the hard disk if you wanted. Or just pull out a hammer and execute a very effective denial of service.
To anyone who doesn't know, the two major political parties in Australia are the Labor party (left-center) and the ironically named Liberal party (right conservative). The term "liberal" in Australia is therefore rather ambigious a lot of the time.
The new broadband network is being proposed by our current Labor government.
The desktop enviornment is only part of the story. Ubuntu (and all its derivitives) still launch loads of daemons. I've tried Xubuntu on old pentium 3 machines. It's pretty bad. Then I tried ZenWalk, an XFCE distro that is actually designed for old machines and it ran heaps better.
ZenWalk unfortunatly is slackware based (and I personally can't stand slackware) so I ended up not using it anyway. But it ran well. In the end I just switched back to Arch which is great for any machine. That's what I use on my primary desktop too.
Second that. People who come from disadvantaged families who want post-highschool education should have the opportunity to get it and not just be told "no, you've got to take and bare some responsibility on your own life".
The Commonwealth bank in Australia (and probably many others) sends you a random code via SMS to your phone that you have to type back in to the site in order to transfer money to an account you've never transfered to before.
Don't you think its kind of wrong/impossible to prevent a windows or mac port of any peice free software if there is someone out there who wants to make one?
And if perhaps you were thinking of making the game non-free, that seems like a rather ironic way of drawing people towards linux adoption.
Greater linux adoption would be very nice (for better driver support and better compatability with others) but I think it needs to be achieved in ways other than killer apps. Enlightening people on the benefits of FOSS is surely the only way.
Also, a lot of patches for linux software are adding new functionality. Not just fixing bugs.
Furthermore, what exactly is contained in one Windows "update"? As far as we know one windows update contains as many changes to the system as dozens of smaller patches in a linux distro.
But yeah, the idea that more released patches = less secure system isn't a very good one.
Yeah thats right. It takes very little energy to use a mouse. Very small hand gestures can make big things happen on the screen. Imagine how tired your arm would get if you had to touch the screen all day to make anything happen. Even if the screen was closer to you, possibly lying flat on the desk, it would still be harder.
The problem is the Australian government are already trying to censor our internet connections at the ISP level and whilst getting rid of bot nets sounds like a great idea, building any sort of traffic monitoring in now sounds dangeroulsy close to their existing plan to filter the net.
Hell, this could even be their plan, bring in filtering to take down bot nets then slowly but surely start to block porn they don't like and pro-abortion web sites and before you know it any political site not to their liking
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He didn't even mention China. He was just using the thread to make, in my oppinion, a valid point about the USA's view on child pornography.
No need for the hostility.
Right on. Nothing wrong with high resolution video, but Bluray is a crappy distribution medium.
I'm even surprised dvds became so popular. The thing that drives me nuts about dvds is the damn menus they put at the start. I just want to watch the movie. I don't want to watch a 30 second un-skipable menu animation and then have to press enter on a remote and then watch another 5 second "leaving the menu" animation. I just want the movie.
Don't get me started about the ads that make you feel like a criminal at the start of rental dvds.
And they wonder why people use bittorrent..
Too late
the easiest hack for gaining local Linux admin rights would have to be at the _grub_ boot loader prompt
That's not a hack. If you have physical access to the machine you could also boot into another O/S or get out your screw driver and remove the hard disk if you wanted. Or just pull out a hammer and execute a very effective denial of service.
The good thing about sudo though is that your environment variables and path shortcuts like ~ still work because you're not actually switching users.
Somebody mod down every post by this user
(no, I'm not a liberal, not even close)
To anyone who doesn't know, the two major political parties in Australia are the Labor party (left-center) and the ironically named Liberal party (right conservative). The term "liberal" in Australia is therefore rather ambigious a lot of the time.
The new broadband network is being proposed by our current Labor government.
The desktop enviornment is only part of the story. Ubuntu (and all its derivitives) still launch loads of daemons. I've tried Xubuntu on old pentium 3 machines. It's pretty bad. Then I tried ZenWalk, an XFCE distro that is actually designed for old machines and it ran heaps better.
ZenWalk unfortunatly is slackware based (and I personally can't stand slackware) so I ended up not using it anyway. But it ran well. In the end I just switched back to Arch which is great for any machine. That's what I use on my primary desktop too.
GP is wrong but we both know Ubuntu couldn't do that either.
You're new here arn't you?
Don't forget that CSIRO are a research organisation like PARC to pick an example in the USA.
Nobody likes a patent troll but I'd rather see CSIRO win a case like this than say Microsoft or IBM.
Perhaps it is because you are 14 that you can't be bothered reading it.
That and he's a slashdotter
Lets hope you stay living in the US of A then.
Second that. People who come from disadvantaged families who want post-highschool education should have the opportunity to get it and not just be told "no, you've got to take and bare some responsibility on your own life".
Right. I'm off to Finland.
The Commonwealth bank in Australia (and probably many others) sends you a random code via SMS to your phone that you have to type back in to the site in order to transfer money to an account you've never transfered to before.
Hey! I resent that.
Don't you think its kind of wrong/impossible to prevent a windows or mac port of any peice free software if there is someone out there who wants to make one?
And if perhaps you were thinking of making the game non-free, that seems like a rather ironic way of drawing people towards linux adoption.
Greater linux adoption would be very nice (for better driver support and better compatability with others) but I think it needs to be achieved in ways other than killer apps. Enlightening people on the benefits of FOSS is surely the only way.
Also, a lot of patches for linux software are adding new functionality. Not just fixing bugs.
Furthermore, what exactly is contained in one Windows "update"? As far as we know one windows update contains as many changes to the system as dozens of smaller patches in a linux distro.
But yeah, the idea that more released patches = less secure system isn't a very good one.
No, the AFACT are just retarded. I'm an Australian.
Very interesting post though
That slashdot outage was terrible. I almost got some work done..
Way to ruin an otherwise perfectly good anti-microsoft story..
Look, I did a class on VB in high school so I know what I'm talking about.
COBOL is so crap that you can't even create a new COBOL project in Visual Studio anymore. You really need to get up to speed.
So what's happening to the woman who stupidly ran an exe she recieved in an email?
Yeah thats right. It takes very little energy to use a mouse. Very small hand gestures can make big things happen on the screen. Imagine how tired your arm would get if you had to touch the screen all day to make anything happen. Even if the screen was closer to you, possibly lying flat on the desk, it would still be harder.
The problem is the Australian government are already trying to censor our internet connections at the ISP level and whilst getting rid of bot nets sounds like a great idea, building any sort of traffic monitoring in now sounds dangeroulsy close to their existing plan to filter the net.
Hell, this could even be their plan, bring in filtering to take down bot nets then slowly but surely start to block porn they don't like and pro-abortion web sites and before you know it any political site not to their liking