It's designed for web kiosks, like the kind you see in libraries. It's not for power Linux users. It's for a "set-up-and-forget" installation where everything just works, and magically stays updated and patched.
"For keygens, I run them in an isolated VM instance and roll back the disk files after I'm done using them. You can never be too sure." Or you could, I dunno, not use keygens? (I'm sure I'll hear a rejoinder about old software that you've lost the key for, but we all know what people are really using them for).
Hack-and-slash / beat-em-up? Unless you mean something specific for the focus on agility & avoiding being hit, in which case I don't have a good name for it either.
Try changing the resolution to something low like 640x400 (pretend you're emulating old Atari or Sega games). Now try changing it back to regular resolution w/o using the command line or hidden keyboard commands. If today's Ubuntu is like the 2010 version I run, it is impossible.
Just did this on Ubuntu 10.04. Clicked the little Ubuntu icon in the top left, System->Preferences->Monitor, adjusted resolution to 640x480. Accepted changes, closed window. Repeated the process, swapped back to my monitor's native resolution without issue.
The robot doesn't look like it's intended to help predict anything about Isaac.
From TFA: The NOAA believes Alex will find itself in a hurricane this coming fall.
The NOAA isn't quite ready to use Wave Glider robots like Alex to directly determine hurricane warnings and watches, but at the moment, the organization is taking notes and testing the device to assume these roles sometime in the near future.
Presumably people would stop buying wheels once they cost $100,000 each, at which point the owner would not be profiting, and would no longer renew their patent. (I believe the idea is a geometric / exponential growth in cost, not a simple linear one).
Get him to change all of his passwords, especially banking passwords. Preferably from a network that hasn't seen the computer in question (and of course not on that machine). You know that they've executed foreign code, you have to assume that the machine is pretty much forever compromised.
From the ereads link: "Like anyone else in the law enforcement field, St. James’s job is fraught with danger. “I have been threatened by one clown in Holland connected with [an underground website] when we had a five day running battle to get one of my authors works removed from his site. I’ve picked up viruses from some sites which my software has caught. Fifteen of those viruses are in quarantine, however, as there apparently is no antidote for the strains that infected my computer. So, the virus software simply isolated the virus.”"
To be fair, some people do buy a new $3000 laptop every year or two. They usually resell their old one for a large portion of the original purchase price, though (MacBooks in particular retain their resale value reasonably well).
To the rest of your post, you've got it exactly right - it's not motivated by a nefarious lock-in plot to take away consumer choice. It simply reflects a prioritization of user-customizability below other factors, like product aesthetics and cost reduction.
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This doesn't get you out of the Amazon partnership, does it?
It's designed for web kiosks, like the kind you see in libraries. It's not for power Linux users. It's for a "set-up-and-forget" installation where everything just works, and magically stays updated and patched.
So do cigarettes. And while cigarettes aren't exactly healthy, I don't think anyone's worried about carrying them in their shirt pocket.
Reprint books from 1600-1923, then - copyright's expired.
Yes - corporate workplaces are one of the last bastions of IE usage.
You mean desert?
It's easier to fool some people than all people.
"For keygens, I run them in an isolated VM instance and roll back the disk files after I'm done using them. You can never be too sure."
Or you could, I dunno, not use keygens?
(I'm sure I'll hear a rejoinder about old software that you've lost the key for, but we all know what people are really using them for).
That's pause. Record is a filled circle.
He would be better off dead in a ditch than in prison?
The point is obviously that indie devs were able to do what professional devs have not. (An 1800-player action game).
Hack-and-slash / beat-em-up? Unless you mean something specific for the focus on agility & avoiding being hit, in which case I don't have a good name for it either.
OSX comes with attack hipsters? I guess I know where my next computer is coming from...
[citation needed]
Which show?
Try changing the resolution to something low like 640x400 (pretend you're emulating old Atari or Sega games). Now try changing it back to regular resolution w/o using the command line or hidden keyboard commands. If today's Ubuntu is like the 2010 version I run, it is impossible.
Just did this on Ubuntu 10.04. Clicked the little Ubuntu icon in the top left, System->Preferences->Monitor, adjusted resolution to 640x480. Accepted changes, closed window. Repeated the process, swapped back to my monitor's native resolution without issue.
Any other tasks you'd like done?
24 million pounds means a lot of inertia.
A penny a day? So if I save for 10 years, I'll be able to buy a $36.50 monitor?
The robot doesn't look like it's intended to help predict anything about Isaac.
From TFA:
The NOAA believes Alex will find itself in a hurricane this coming fall.
The NOAA isn't quite ready to use Wave Glider robots like Alex to directly determine hurricane warnings and watches, but at the moment, the organization is taking notes and testing the device to assume these roles sometime in the near future.
Presumably people would stop buying wheels once they cost $100,000 each, at which point the owner would not be profiting, and would no longer renew their patent. (I believe the idea is a geometric / exponential growth in cost, not a simple linear one).
I take something like this on this bus: http://www.walmart.com/ip/2-Wheel-Folding-Shopping-Cart-w-Folding-Shelf-Silver/10929354
Or a trailer like this for my bike: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=4y7&channel=fs&q=bike+trailer&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1280&bih=787&noj=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=2622355757712821004&sa=X&ei=hxs9UIO2NKfs0gHesoD4Ag&ved=0CKgBEPMCMAg
Or walk with a wagon like this: http://www.sears.com/tricam-industries-steel-garden-cart/p-07164406000P
Get him to change all of his passwords, especially banking passwords. Preferably from a network that hasn't seen the computer in question (and of course not on that machine). You know that they've executed foreign code, you have to assume that the machine is pretty much forever compromised.
From the ereads link:
"Like anyone else in the law enforcement field, St. James’s job is fraught with danger. “I have been threatened by one clown in Holland connected with [an underground website] when we had a five day running battle to get one of my authors works removed from his site. I’ve picked up viruses from some sites which my software has caught. Fifteen of those viruses are in quarantine, however, as there apparently is no antidote for the strains that infected my computer. So, the virus software simply isolated the virus.”"
Such a dangerous job!
It's also pretty tasty.
Montana has tourists?
To be fair, some people do buy a new $3000 laptop every year or two. They usually resell their old one for a large portion of the original purchase price, though (MacBooks in particular retain their resale value reasonably well).
To the rest of your post, you've got it exactly right - it's not motivated by a nefarious lock-in plot to take away consumer choice. It simply reflects a prioritization of user-customizability below other factors, like product aesthetics and cost reduction.