If the Hackintosh community open-sourced the method that Psystar is using, then unless they are not complying with the terms of the license (i.e. not providing the source if GPL) they really didn't "steal" anything. Also, who knows, maybe they will donate some of their profits to the project if they ever make any. Maybe they already have. I'm a big fan of open-source, but whats the point of opening your source if you are just going to bitch when someone uses it?
I thought chrome opens a new process for each tab. IE 8 is the one that opens a thread for each tab. I'd hope that Starter will recognize when processes are from the same application. There are a lot of applications out there that open up more than one process. Hell, the ALPS driver for the touchpad on my laptop has 2 processes.
"Starter edition" has been around since XP, with the same restrictions. It is only sold in "emerging markets" in an uphill battle against piracy. The major flaw is who the hell will pay money for an extremely limited edition when they've probably already paid for a fully functional pirated edition? This article is just spreading FUD as this was never meant to be sold in "first-world" markets and does not increase the price of normal functioning versions.
I hate to look like an apologist, but I definitely agree with you here. Starter edition was always meant for "emerging markets" as a cheaper version to combat piracy. The problem is that pirated copies are free or nearly free and do not have these crazy restrictions. Just "being legal" is not a big enough incentive to poor people in these nations to take the weaker product.
This story and the "Broken Fix-it Tool" article are some examples of criticizing Microsoft just to criticize Microsoft. There are tons of things wrong with their anti-competitive business practices and buggy software to complain about.
This guy mostly just posts somewhat relevant copy pasta with links to zoy.org(don't click the link unless you like your browser flooded with gay porn pop-ups, if you do like that kind of thing, have fun!).
Is the light itself in frame that it is red? I know it is anecdotal, but I have heard of issues with (intentional?) miscalibration of the lights such that they go off while the light is still green. If all that is pictured that the car is moving, there is no proof there that the light was actually red.
Could you explain how Group Policy in Active Directory is at all similar? For the most part, Group Policy is a way to push registry, system, and application settings out to members of the domain. While it is forced on user accounts, applications can ignore the settings if they so choose, meaning it is nothing like SELinux.
Pretty sure most of the rest of the world was convinced he was full of shit. Also, incompetent idiots are fully capable of lying. These traits are not mutually exclusive.
Linux isn't Windows, which is apparently very hard for lots of people (like you) to understand.
I've never understood why people have no trouble understanding that with a Mac they can't use Windows software. But with a linux distro, they scream that they can't install the free* smiley pack they downloaded. This is the sole reason I haven't moved most of my family to linux and thus freeing myself from having to remove viruses and spyware every month.
*Free to install, and only US $60 to remove all the spyware that program it came with found!
is plural possessive. There was a US before Clinton. I know that's hard to believe. It's obvious he was referring to the history of Muslim policy in the US.
While I don't disagree that it is also a huge culture difference that they hold against us, it sounds like you are grouped in their minds as "European". "Europe" includes the countries that have long history of war and colonialism against the Middle East that dates back to the Crusades, and likely further.
Its bad enough trying not to offend people by avoiding common words and phrases that once had a racist intent in our home countries. Lately people have even started becoming offended by things that sort of sound like racial slurs, like "niggardly"(means "stingy" or "miserly", you know what it sounds like) and "samba"(a type of music and dance, also a popular OSS implementation of a windows protocol, people argue that it sounds too much like "sambo"). Now you are saying that we need to do so for the entire world?
I agree with you and I did not see any inkling of racism in either of your posts. Would using an analogy about altar boys asking a priest not to rape them be racist against whites because most Catholic priests in the US are whites? While I feel diplomacy should be used MORE in negating conflicts, I understand that force can be necessary. It is more important how you use your weapons than it is what weapons you have. Not allowing space weapons to be made will make us more vulnerable in the future. Iran recently launched a satellite into orbit. This means they are capable of space travel at some level. Do you think they, or any other nation with hostilities towards us will follow this ban? And what about the off-chance we do meet another intelligent species in space? It is possible that they will regard us with as much fear and panic as we would them. It is also possible that they might wish to conquer us.
Not sure if download.com has changed their tune recently, but when I last used it nearly everything was at best adware. I know for a fact several apps downloaded from them had installed viruses and other malware. Maybe they do attempt to screen software, but with surely tens of thousands, if not more, of applications hosted by them, how could they possibly give a thorough evaluation to everything?
No, they really should have done this with the original release of NT. That way, once the DOS-based hell-holes were fully deprecated (95, 98, ME, etc.), we wouldn't be having these issues. However, in doing so, they would have had to kill nearly all backwards-compatibility with DOS. That right there might have killed sales considerably.
Exactly. Compared to Windows terminology, I liken root(*nix) to SYSTEM(win) instead of Administrator(win). Administrator(win) I would liken to a user in the sudo group (normally called the "wheel" group). However, the behavior is closer to running as Administrator(win) with UAC enabled in Vista or 7 than Administrator(win) in XP.
To be fair, that one isn't meant to be a reference calendar. It is meant to be used to change the date and time of the system (why Windows continues to write changes directly to the system instead of a UTC offset like most *nixes is beyond me). Regular user accounts should not be modifying system time.
VMWare Server is great if you don't mind the bloat of the new version. I gave up on using it on my laptop to work with images on the go because it was such a resource hog. I could install one of the older versions, but all my VMs are configured for "v7" on VMware server and will no longer load properly in VMware server 1.x. Now I work on images using Sun VirtualBox and create and run images on a server running VMware Server.
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If the Hackintosh community open-sourced the method that Psystar is using, then unless they are not complying with the terms of the license (i.e. not providing the source if GPL) they really didn't "steal" anything. Also, who knows, maybe they will donate some of their profits to the project if they ever make any. Maybe they already have. I'm a big fan of open-source, but whats the point of opening your source if you are just going to bitch when someone uses it?
I thought chrome opens a new process for each tab. IE 8 is the one that opens a thread for each tab. I'd hope that Starter will recognize when processes are from the same application. There are a lot of applications out there that open up more than one process. Hell, the ALPS driver for the touchpad on my laptop has 2 processes.
"Starter edition" has been around since XP, with the same restrictions. It is only sold in "emerging markets" in an uphill battle against piracy. The major flaw is who the hell will pay money for an extremely limited edition when they've probably already paid for a fully functional pirated edition? This article is just spreading FUD as this was never meant to be sold in "first-world" markets and does not increase the price of normal functioning versions.
I hate to look like an apologist, but I definitely agree with you here. Starter edition was always meant for "emerging markets" as a cheaper version to combat piracy. The problem is that pirated copies are free or nearly free and do not have these crazy restrictions. Just "being legal" is not a big enough incentive to poor people in these nations to take the weaker product.
This story and the "Broken Fix-it Tool" article are some examples of criticizing Microsoft just to criticize Microsoft. There are tons of things wrong with their anti-competitive business practices and buggy software to complain about.
That looks like it might be a good analogy, does it come in cars?
This guy mostly just posts somewhat relevant copy pasta with links to zoy.org(don't click the link unless you like your browser flooded with gay porn pop-ups, if you do like that kind of thing, have fun!).
Is the light itself in frame that it is red? I know it is anecdotal, but I have heard of issues with (intentional?) miscalibration of the lights such that they go off while the light is still green. If all that is pictured that the car is moving, there is no proof there that the light was actually red.
They are both bloated and broken paradigms that are often used inappropriately? Or maybe it was just a misplaced attempt at sarcasm from "the B0fh".
Could you explain how Group Policy in Active Directory is at all similar? For the most part, Group Policy is a way to push registry, system, and application settings out to members of the domain. While it is forced on user accounts, applications can ignore the settings if they so choose, meaning it is nothing like SELinux.
Pretty sure most of the rest of the world was convinced he was full of shit. Also, incompetent idiots are fully capable of lying. These traits are not mutually exclusive.
if you want to get a more realistic effect you should probably have the window rotate based on the torque that you place on the window when moving it.
Your idea is pretty cool. When I get home I'll have to see if someone with the same idea made a Compiz plugin.
Linux isn't Windows, which is apparently very hard for lots of people (like you) to understand.
I've never understood why people have no trouble understanding that with a Mac they can't use Windows software. But with a linux distro, they scream that they can't install the free* smiley pack they downloaded. This is the sole reason I haven't moved most of my family to linux and thus freeing myself from having to remove viruses and spyware every month.
*Free to install, and only US $60 to remove all the spyware that program it came with found!
They did, in Vista and probably 7 it is now a reference calendar. But the post I was responding was talking about XP.
I just noticed I spelled calendar "calender" in my previous post. Why the hell isn't my spell checker catching that?
But he has statistics to prove his case!
Don't you ever get tired of repeating the same joke over and over and over and over and over?
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is plural possessive. There was a US before Clinton. I know that's hard to believe. It's obvious he was referring to the history of Muslim policy in the US.
While I don't disagree that it is also a huge culture difference that they hold against us, it sounds like you are grouped in their minds as "European". "Europe" includes the countries that have long history of war and colonialism against the Middle East that dates back to the Crusades, and likely further.
Its bad enough trying not to offend people by avoiding common words and phrases that once had a racist intent in our home countries. Lately people have even started becoming offended by things that sort of sound like racial slurs, like "niggardly"(means "stingy" or "miserly", you know what it sounds like) and "samba"(a type of music and dance, also a popular OSS implementation of a windows protocol, people argue that it sounds too much like "sambo"). Now you are saying that we need to do so for the entire world?
I agree with you and I did not see any inkling of racism in either of your posts. Would using an analogy about altar boys asking a priest not to rape them be racist against whites because most Catholic priests in the US are whites? While I feel diplomacy should be used MORE in negating conflicts, I understand that force can be necessary. It is more important how you use your weapons than it is what weapons you have. Not allowing space weapons to be made will make us more vulnerable in the future. Iran recently launched a satellite into orbit. This means they are capable of space travel at some level. Do you think they, or any other nation with hostilities towards us will follow this ban? And what about the off-chance we do meet another intelligent species in space? It is possible that they will regard us with as much fear and panic as we would them. It is also possible that they might wish to conquer us.
Not sure if download.com has changed their tune recently, but when I last used it nearly everything was at best adware. I know for a fact several apps downloaded from them had installed viruses and other malware. Maybe they do attempt to screen software, but with surely tens of thousands, if not more, of applications hosted by them, how could they possibly give a thorough evaluation to everything?
No, they really should have done this with the original release of NT. That way, once the DOS-based hell-holes were fully deprecated (95, 98, ME, etc.), we wouldn't be having these issues. However, in doing so, they would have had to kill nearly all backwards-compatibility with DOS. That right there might have killed sales considerably.
Exactly. Compared to Windows terminology, I liken root(*nix) to SYSTEM(win) instead of Administrator(win). Administrator(win) I would liken to a user in the sudo group (normally called the "wheel" group). However, the behavior is closer to running as Administrator(win) with UAC enabled in Vista or 7 than Administrator(win) in XP.
To be fair, that one isn't meant to be a reference calendar. It is meant to be used to change the date and time of the system (why Windows continues to write changes directly to the system instead of a UTC offset like most *nixes is beyond me). Regular user accounts should not be modifying system time.
VMWare Server is great if you don't mind the bloat of the new version. I gave up on using it on my laptop to work with images on the go because it was such a resource hog. I could install one of the older versions, but all my VMs are configured for "v7" on VMware server and will no longer load properly in VMware server 1.x. Now I work on images using Sun VirtualBox and create and run images on a server running VMware Server.
Sure it is over-hyped. But it is a security hole if an application can change UAC settings on a default install without user interaction.