That's a pretty small markup for a US->Europe product. Of course my only point of comparison is software, which tends to be closer to the 50% mark for MS "productivity" apps.
I've played quite a bit of single player of all three of those games, and dabbled in multiplayer as well. Keep in mind that you don't need to be online to play multiplayer, and can play with a pirated copy. Indeed,Blizzard makes it easy with cd keys like 123456 etc working on Starcraft.
I suspect that Google has this so sandboxed to hell they don't give a fuck what you do to it. VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM rebooting and losing state every 5 minutes sounds about right. Also alternate between linux and windows in the VMs, and make sure to run Norton antivirus on all hte Windows ones.
For optimal security, randomly vary the VM recursion depth so attackers can't figure it out.
I can't find it on google so that may give you a clue as to the accuracy, but I was given to understand that at least for a time Apple used a different metal than the standard gold on the RAM contacts on their mobos so that non-genuine RAM would undergo a corrosive reaction slowly over time, eating away the contacts leading to degradation, physical damage, and loss of system stability. The point here was to cause people to think that non-mac ram was lower quality or some such bullshit. I never bothered to verify it before now as I don't own an Apple computer.
That said, I may well buy one of the smaller Macbooks when my current Thinkpad kicks the bucket, as it seems like it's getting harder and harder to find quality laptop manufacturers whose products tend to be linux compatible.
Not fitting in the slot or BSDing on boot is kinda mean but it does no permanent damage. The Apple thing not only damages your property but is intended to gradually become less reliable to mislead the customer into thinking that non-Apple RAM is low quality.
I just got generic ram and it worked fine, by the way. Maybe I got lucky or something, I do think it was kingston. Whatever, I'm a pretty loyal Sager customer now for the big cindreblock desktop replacements and I'll stick to Lenovo Thinkpads for now for the smaller ones, though that may well change based on what I've been hearing about their newer models
I can't believe I'm defending Dell, it's pretty out of character, but this is one case where it makes sense.
I'm in favor of small computers that aren't especially cheap. If the iPad actually had the features I wanted (full computer instead of etch-a-sketch), that price point would seem reasonable for a netbook. I'd want the extra money to go to reliability/durability, battery life, and, if possible, power.
Although I agree, it's worth pointing out that in the past ten years laptops have gone from monolithic everything-on-board devices to reasonably pluggable, at least at the larger end. My GIGANTIC desktop replacement from Sager has a desktop motherboard and graphics card (and a battery life of about 10 minutes new).
My older laptop from Dell I upgraded the gfx card from one laptop form factor card to another. Also laptop ram is pretty interchangeable, except for that nasty shit Apple pulls with the differing electronegativity.
The problem is that it used to be that an "invention" was largely self describing. The other day, I noticed a vice grip attached to the back of a pickup truck of some maintenance workers. This is the sort of thing where thinking of it is equivalent to knowing how to build it. This is increasingly less true, but patent law hasn't been keeping up.
If I sat around all day thinking up bullshit patents I could make a fortune off extortion as a parasitic leech on people who actually contribute to society. Ideas are a dime a dozen, the hard part is building them. Come up with a cool car idea? Great, now build one. Isn't so easy, is it?
If Apple decides to patent some technology essential to a smart phone (they probably have), and refuses to license it, this creates a monopoly not just on their particular invention, but on all similar inventions. I feel that patent laws were intended to give people monopoly on a particular good, not on all things that might possibly resemble or compete with it.
Of course, the solution here is cross licensing agreements and defensive patenting, but that only works if you're a huge corporation.
and I associate TVs, cable and the like with the likes of Betamax, System 5, and floppy disks. Haven't owned or had easy access to a television since I went off to college when I was 18.
You have a point in general, but in the context of eBooks, who is the content provider? Seems to me it's the guy bitching he can't sell his books for less. I think blaming the Cult for this is completely reasonable.
I was trying to differentiate ability to get info on/anyone/ vs ability to get info on/everyone/ but I guess I didn't make it clear. As long as you have nothing to hide AND htey can't watch us all, life is good.
I suppose that's fair enough. Still, when I think about culture and the like, the web is all that really comes to mind. Even things that may happen in other protocols still end up on the web if they are more fleeting than a moment or public than a few people.
If someone told me to archive the entire internet, I'd consider the www both necessary and sufficient.
Regardless, I would assume the NSA has its fingers everywhere. Backdoors are not trivial to catch in the source code, like the famous if (uid = 0) test on an obscure flag combination on an obscure call.
Don't get me wrong, I'll trust OSS a lot more if the code can be read by anyone,but what good is the potential if no one actually does it?
The beauty is the I don't do anything the NSA cares about, I just like my privacy. Anyone powerful enough to get my personal data has bigger fish to fry.
If you bought the PS3 with the primary intent of doing scientific computing (don't laugh, it's actually a thing), it's not an issue since you will just never upgrade the firmware and chug along happily.
If you bought the PS3 for games, then you won't care about the other OS.
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That's a pretty small markup for a US->Europe product. Of course my only point of comparison is software, which tends to be closer to the 50% mark for MS "productivity" apps.
You used to be able to sudo apt-get install keylogger under Debian. Even when it comes to being compromised, Linux makes it easier;)
It'd be easier to fight h264 if it weren't so damn good.
I've played quite a bit of single player of all three of those games, and dabbled in multiplayer as well. Keep in mind that you don't need to be online to play multiplayer, and can play with a pirated copy. Indeed ,Blizzard makes it easy with cd keys like 123456 etc working on Starcraft.
Of course not! It's not spying, it's "instant personalization" to "deliver a richer experience".
Good point, we can replace it with a busy waiting process that also thrashes disk, only just a little bet less. Save RAM too.
I suspect that Google has this so sandboxed to hell they don't give a fuck what you do to it. VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM rebooting and losing state every 5 minutes sounds about right. Also alternate between linux and windows in the VMs, and make sure to run Norton antivirus on all hte Windows ones.
For optimal security, randomly vary the VM recursion depth so attackers can't figure it out.
I can't find it on google so that may give you a clue as to the accuracy, but I was given to understand that at least for a time Apple used a different metal than the standard gold on the RAM contacts on their mobos so that non-genuine RAM would undergo a corrosive reaction slowly over time, eating away the contacts leading to degradation, physical damage, and loss of system stability. The point here was to cause people to think that non-mac ram was lower quality or some such bullshit. I never bothered to verify it before now as I don't own an Apple computer.
That said, I may well buy one of the smaller Macbooks when my current Thinkpad kicks the bucket, as it seems like it's getting harder and harder to find quality laptop manufacturers whose products tend to be linux compatible.
Not fitting in the slot or BSDing on boot is kinda mean but it does no permanent damage. The Apple thing not only damages your property but is intended to gradually become less reliable to mislead the customer into thinking that non-Apple RAM is low quality.
I just got generic ram and it worked fine, by the way. Maybe I got lucky or something, I do think it was kingston. Whatever, I'm a pretty loyal Sager customer now for the big cindreblock desktop replacements and I'll stick to Lenovo Thinkpads for now for the smaller ones, though that may well change based on what I've been hearing about their newer models
I can't believe I'm defending Dell, it's pretty out of character, but this is one case where it makes sense.
I'm in favor of small computers that aren't especially cheap. If the iPad actually had the features I wanted (full computer instead of etch-a-sketch), that price point would seem reasonable for a netbook. I'd want the extra money to go to reliability/durability, battery life, and, if possible, power.
Although I agree, it's worth pointing out that in the past ten years laptops have gone from monolithic everything-on-board devices to reasonably pluggable, at least at the larger end. My GIGANTIC desktop replacement from Sager has a desktop motherboard and graphics card (and a battery life of about 10 minutes new).
My older laptop from Dell I upgraded the gfx card from one laptop form factor card to another. Also laptop ram is pretty interchangeable, except for that nasty shit Apple pulls with the differing electronegativity.
The problem is that it used to be that an "invention" was largely self describing. The other day, I noticed a vice grip attached to the back of a pickup truck of some maintenance workers. This is the sort of thing where thinking of it is equivalent to knowing how to build it. This is increasingly less true, but patent law hasn't been keeping up.
If I sat around all day thinking up bullshit patents I could make a fortune off extortion as a parasitic leech on people who actually contribute to society. Ideas are a dime a dozen, the hard part is building them. Come up with a cool car idea? Great, now build one. Isn't so easy, is it?
If Apple decides to patent some technology essential to a smart phone (they probably have), and refuses to license it, this creates a monopoly not just on their particular invention, but on all similar inventions. I feel that patent laws were intended to give people monopoly on a particular good, not on all things that might possibly resemble or compete with it.
Of course, the solution here is cross licensing agreements and defensive patenting, but that only works if you're a huge corporation.
and I associate TVs, cable and the like with the likes of Betamax, System 5, and floppy disks. Haven't owned or had easy access to a television since I went off to college when I was 18.
If you're too lazy to innovate, you can always use the legal system to steal other people's hard work. God bless IP extortion.
You have a point in general, but in the context of eBooks, who is the content provider? Seems to me it's the guy bitching he can't sell his books for less. I think blaming the Cult for this is completely reasonable.
Tell them you don't have a computer at home, you insensitive clod!
I was trying to differentiate ability to get info on /anyone/ vs ability to get info on /everyone/ but I guess I didn't make it clear. As long as you have nothing to hide AND htey can't watch us all, life is good.
I suppose that's fair enough. Still, when I think about culture and the like, the web is all that really comes to mind. Even things that may happen in other protocols still end up on the web if they are more fleeting than a moment or public than a few people.
If someone told me to archive the entire internet, I'd consider the www both necessary and sufficient.
...futureslashdot.future users will be futuretorrenting the history of the www when it gives way to the next iteration.
Oh and we'll all be plated in gold, because that's what happens in the future.
They teach us the difference and why it no longer matters;P
Regardless, I would assume the NSA has its fingers everywhere. Backdoors are not trivial to catch in the source code, like the famous if (uid = 0) test on an obscure flag combination on an obscure call.
Don't get me wrong, I'll trust OSS a lot more if the code can be read by anyone,but what good is the potential if no one actually does it?
The beauty is the I don't do anything the NSA cares about, I just like my privacy. Anyone powerful enough to get my personal data has bigger fish to fry.
>> You can just bet there are already backdoors for the NSA/CIA/FBI/etc.
Fixed that for you.
It's written on the box in disappearing ink activated by the purchase so that by the time you get it home it's quietly faded. MS doesn't take chances.
If you bought the PS3 with the primary intent of doing scientific computing (don't laugh, it's actually a thing), it's not an issue since you will just never upgrade the firmware and chug along happily.
If you bought the PS3 for games, then you won't care about the other OS.
Really this only hurts the tinkerer.
Incidentally I never seem to play games (purchased or pirated) within a year or so of their release.