How does that take months to appear? When someone installs a dodgy copy on a computer it doesn't pass WGA right away. Why does it need to ask again in 90 days? Will the dodgy supplier have sneaked in and given you a new cracked copy of windows???
You've obviously never installed a cracked copy of Windows. If it doesn't pass WGA so you can turn on automatic updates, you're doing it wrong.
https://www.safe-mail.net/ came up in a previous/. article about privacy. I've been using it and I like it, it's a very simple and elegant interface. Conspiracy theorists will complain about the servers being located in Israel, but I frankly find that preferable to all-powerful Google.
When will people learn that companies are amoral? Sometimes they'll take actions that seem "right" or "wrong", but their goal is always increasing value.
The real problem is that so many people seem to think that companies being amoral is acceptable and justifiable, and that they should be allowed to do whatever they wish in pursuit of the almighty dollar. This delusion has had tremendous cost for both our society and our world, and nothing has been gained but an increase in "shareholder value".
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will learn that money cannot be eaten. -- Cree Indian prophecy
Honestly, I think we'll see at least 2 more years of PS2 games. The much lower cost to develop for the PS2 vs the PS3, and the huge install base, makes it an attractive platform.
If you read/. often, you'd know Wikipedia is far less free than it used to be. We even have some trolls who post complaints about Wikipedia editors here. They are people who have gotten fed up with the current "I will control whatever happens on my pages" territorial mindset of some of the editors there who have all day to police their "domains".
This sort of thing drives away and discourages many people from contributing.
If they are savvy enough to disable the NoScript add-on, they are savvy enough to pick Allow this website when a video won't play. It's hardly "complex". Annoying? sure... but getting infected with something is a whole lot more annoying.
You give up a bit of convenience for safety, there's simply no way around it.
Except you said 8, not 7, and you're bragging about playing with backwards compatibility (not purchased through PSN) - a feature that most PS3 owners do not have.
Incorrect. All PS3s have the ability to play PS1 games through software emulation.
I don't really care about Steve Job's word games. The functionality isn't even close to the same and they refer to it as iPhone OS, not OS X, in recognition of that.
Car analogy: The Chevy Corvette and the Chevy Chevette both had "vette" in their names, but they are hardy the same kind of car.
i have a 32GB iphone. i have only 80GB of music. if i listened to music on my iphone 24x7 it would take me weeks to listen to everything once. who cares about having access to your entire music collection if it's going to take you 5 years to listen to it?
He said he collection was in FLAC, so it will take up much more space than your (most likely) mp3s. Probably not "5 years worth" of music.
i don't even listen to full albums anymore. i have a bunch of smart playlists with different conditions and one with only my favorite songs from the entire collection. and my faves playlist is over 1000 songs and if i could i would cut it down to 100 or so to sync to my iphone but maybe in a future version of itunes.
Whole albums have an important place in many kinds of music I like, such as progressive metal and classical. I always listen to whole albums at a time (or pick up where I left off if I have to split the session up). The usefulness of albums is mainly dictated by your favorite genre of music.
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How does that take months to appear? When someone installs a dodgy copy on a computer it doesn't pass WGA right away. Why does it need to ask again in 90 days? Will the dodgy supplier have sneaked in and given you a new cracked copy of windows???
You've obviously never installed a cracked copy of Windows. If it doesn't pass WGA so you can turn on automatic updates, you're doing it wrong.
(Remember, most of the Bill of Rights were instituted to protect against over-reach by a central government, not protect against fellow citizens.)
This becomes very problematic when the group "fellow citizens" includes corporations with millions of times more resources than you have.
Just the first step on the way to the Eradicator Hexapod. :)
It's been linked before on Slashdot and it's about entropy:
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Iran is not party to global IP treaties, so you are free to infringe on all the Western copyrights you like if are located there.
Why would they give a shit about the laws of the Great Satan?
Nearly 1/3 of the members of a global House would be from China and India. No thanks.
I should mention that Safe-mail started way back in 1998, so it's not just a flash in the pan site.
https://www.safe-mail.net/ came up in a previous /. article about privacy. I've been using it and I like it, it's a very simple and elegant interface. Conspiracy theorists will complain about the servers being located in Israel, but I frankly find that preferable to all-powerful Google.
When will people learn that companies are amoral? Sometimes they'll take actions that seem "right" or "wrong", but their goal is always increasing value.
The real problem is that so many people seem to think that companies being amoral is acceptable and justifiable, and that they should be allowed to do whatever they wish in pursuit of the almighty dollar. This delusion has had tremendous cost for both our society and our world, and nothing has been gained but an increase in "shareholder value".
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will learn that money cannot be eaten. -- Cree Indian prophecy
Lucky guy... my mother won't always agree to bring my lunch down to the basement, let alone agree to taking dictation for my /. posting.
Honestly, I think we'll see at least 2 more years of PS2 games. The much lower cost to develop for the PS2 vs the PS3, and the huge install base, makes it an attractive platform.
or perhaps Wikipedia.
If you read /. often, you'd know Wikipedia is far less free than it used to be. We even have some trolls who post complaints about Wikipedia editors here. They are people who have gotten fed up with the current "I will control whatever happens on my pages" territorial mindset of some of the editors there who have all day to police their "domains".
This sort of thing drives away and discourages many people from contributing.
If they are savvy enough to disable the NoScript add-on, they are savvy enough to pick Allow this website when a video won't play. It's hardly "complex". Annoying? sure... but getting infected with something is a whole lot more annoying.
You give up a bit of convenience for safety, there's simply no way around it.
Why would you click on an a tinyurl link, especially from an AC?
software emulation could do the job for backwards compatibility.
The PS2 is difficult to emulate in software because of its video memory. It has a small size (4MB), but an insane amount of bandwidth (48GB/s).
Except you said 8, not 7, and you're bragging about playing with backwards compatibility (not purchased through PSN) - a feature that most PS3 owners do not have.
Incorrect. All PS3s have the ability to play PS1 games through software emulation.
"What're ya gonna keep it in?"
In a magnetic field, as is done with plasma.
If you're going to call him Mr. Gates or Mr. Trump over the big TV, why would you then assume his house is too small to meet the floor space criteria?
I agree, Chromium is way, way faster than Firefox on /., and Opera is significantly slower than Firefox on /..
The ads/popups/etc on some sites make me want to shut down Chromium, whereas trying to browse Slashdot makes me want to shut down Opera.
(like "sl," which gets very annoying now when I type sl and it googles it instead of selecting Slashdot).
That annoys me as well... It's happened enough times that I can say I remember Second Life is the first Google result from a search for "sl".
Only 11 minutes of a 185 minute NFL broadcast include actual play
So you're not missing out on any action, trust me. :)
I don't really care about Steve Job's word games. The functionality isn't even close to the same and they refer to it as iPhone OS, not OS X, in recognition of that.
Car analogy: The Chevy Corvette and the Chevy Chevette both had "vette" in their names, but they are hardy the same kind of car.
i have a 32GB iphone. i have only 80GB of music. if i listened to music on my iphone 24x7 it would take me weeks to listen to everything once. who cares about having access to your entire music collection if it's going to take you 5 years to listen to it?
He said he collection was in FLAC, so it will take up much more space than your (most likely) mp3s. Probably not "5 years worth" of music.
i don't even listen to full albums anymore. i have a bunch of smart playlists with different conditions and one with only my favorite songs from the entire collection. and my faves playlist is over 1000 songs and if i could i would cut it down to 100 or so to sync to my iphone but maybe in a future version of itunes.
Whole albums have an important place in many kinds of music I like, such as progressive metal and classical. I always listen to whole albums at a time (or pick up where I left off if I have to split the session up). The usefulness of albums is mainly dictated by your favorite genre of music.
Haiku would be even better.
Your iPhone doesn't run OS X.