If you think that lower costs for companies translate into lower costs for consumers, I have a bridge to sell you. Most markets actually have very little competition in them and prices are fixed so that shareholders and upper management can take away massive profits. Could Microsoft's costs be any lower? Sure, cut their programmer's salaries. Would your copy of XP be cheaper? Nope. Would Bill Gates get richer? Yup.
Don't you know that you're supposed to make the systems as confusing, byzantian and obfuscated as possible so that no one can ever replace you? YOU call it 'a million lines of obfuscated C'. I call it 'job security'. BWAAHAHAhaha...*cough* *choke*
I think that OneThumb's point is well made. Most DRM systems are trying so hard to be unbreakable that they become too inconvenient to use. Any scheme can and will be broken, so if you can find the right balance between ease of use and security, then most people will be happy to 'be honest'. It's like video games that require you to insert the original CD, even after you've entered in the license key, etc. I'd bet the majority of "no-cd crack" users are like myself and just hate putting a cd in the drive all the time.
If someone needs hyper-optimized code for (intel)x86 only, sure this compiler rocks. It's a big world out there however, and Intel only comprises a small percentage of the microprocessors on this planet. The bottom line is that regardless of performance, gcc is still the most portable compiler anywhere and for a lot of people, this is more important. After all, Microsoft takes advantage of the fact that computers get faster and cheaper and so will gcc. For most situations, you don't need the fastest code because the human interacting with it can't tell the difference. Gcc isn't going away. Visual Studio isn't going away. Chances are, intel's compiler won't be used by anyone outside of very specialized number crunching applications because gcc and VC have long ago reached critical mass on their respective platforms.
I think you might find RTP would run reasonably well but don't take my word for it. Go to http://qnx.tucows.com/preview/201252.html to download an iso for burning to a CD. If you insert this into the cd drive on an windows box, it will let you make a boot floppy for boxes that won't boot to the CD. Good luck. BTW, you may want to turn of some of the eye candy on the gui (the pointer cam sucks back a few cycles that you can't spare) but I think it might not be too bad.
Horse shit. EVERYONE is in a recession because the US economy drags everyone down with them remember? Billions of dollars of unilateral damage? Wah wah wah.... Your country has so much money it can take hits like that and not even flinch. Most of the countries in the ISS project are way worse off than the States.
Try this site (click on the catalog page for a pdf spec sheet). They have a card that turns your pc into a scope for like $300 bucks (vs thousands for a regular scope).
Yeah, I got a CD with about 500 SNES/Genesis/Gameboy ROMS on it as well as a couple of good quality emulators from a friend to give to my girlfriends kids. They love it.
Grass is a very powerful, free GIS system which is quite useful to scientists. A good GIS application can be used for any number of things such as terrain and weather modeling, migration pattern tracking, etc.
oops.... *.security.home.net doesn't work. I did an nslookup of authorized-scan1.security.home.net and got 24.0.0.203. Probably could use something like 24.0.0.0/24 to cut them off.... *sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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you could just put an ipchains rule in front of your input chain along the lines of 'ipchains -A input -s *.security.rogers.net -j DENY' (or something like that) Then they won't even be able to ping you.... *sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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yeah...I'm in ottawa and I get scanned by the same machine. I don't have many ports open (just smtp, dns, ssh) though.... I was tempted to turn off all response to *.security.home.net but they have never said boo to me either so I didn't bother. *shrug*
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You'd be hard pressed to find a town in Canada where you can't get cable and/or DSL. Here in Ottawa I have Rogers Cable and, aside from one or two hiccups over the past year, I've had pretty much uninterrupted service 24/7. Plenty fast too - I sometimes get 300kbps downloads. My Linux gateway is up to 210 days uptime now too...;-)
All that being said, I don't think it would take that long in the States if the regulators got serious. I only pay $40/month for mine (and that's in Canadian pesos too). I mean, when you can get cable and DSL in Kenora (small town between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg) for crying out loud, I can't see why you Yanks can't get your act together.
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is 13 and it took her all of about 5 minutes after we got our cable modem to download and install Napster and start building her song collection. Every time we turn around we're running out of hard drive space....
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He never made a nuclear reactor....He was TRYING to make a nuclear reactor. Your argument may indicate why he would have failed but it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. That's like saying early attempts to build airplanes were hoaxes because, "that design was flawed and would never have flown"
Jeez, all you have to do around here is spout a few "facts" (5000 units per gram blah blah blah) and you get put up to +5 informative.
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I don't know from American Law but don't y'all have something called a class action lawsuit where a lot of people get together to go after someone? Perhaps there would be a case to be made for all the contributors to Gracenotes database getting a share of the profits. If nothing else, at least try to get each individual's work removed from the db and Gracenote is left with nothing...
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You know what? If I pass a group of young black guys on the street, I sometimes get a little nervous....does that make me racist? Perhaps. I'll tell you one thing though, the terms 'sexist', 'racist', 'homophobic', etc. ARE used as bludgeons by liberals against people who don't agree with them. I claim, however, that normal, sensible people who were brought up to believe that people should be treated with respect KNOW racism when they see it. My 7 year old could tell you there is something wrong with a Nazi or a Klan site even though he doesn't yet understand why these people must also be allowed to have their say.
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no...read the post. I support his right to say what he likes WITHIN THE RULES OF THE FORUM. You can't legally yell 'FIRE' in a theatre (if there isn't a fire) because there are rules about that particular type of speech. That forum had rules as well and spamming, multiple addresses and posting threats were not among the permissable behaviours.
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Free Republic seems to be a load of right-wing, racist, homophobic crap but the bottom line is Aldridge stepped over the line. Either engage in discussion within the rules of the forum or leave it alone. Any sensible person should be able to see that spamming and posting personal information and threats is not the way to fight and now the courts have put it in writing. I may not like what FR has to say but I'd rather let them say it than have a**holes like Aldridge get away with that kind of behaviour...
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The main purpose of the public beta is to stress test their servers. Therefore they want people in more or less the same timezone so that they will mostly come on during the same general window.
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If you think that lower costs for companies translate into lower costs for consumers, I have a bridge to sell you. Most markets actually have very little competition in them and prices are fixed so that shareholders and upper management can take away massive profits. Could Microsoft's costs be any lower? Sure, cut their programmer's salaries. Would your copy of XP be cheaper? Nope. Would Bill Gates get richer? Yup.
Don't you know that you're supposed to make the systems as confusing, byzantian and obfuscated as possible so that no one can ever replace you? YOU call it 'a million lines of obfuscated C'. I call it 'job security'. BWAAHAHAhaha...*cough* *choke*
I think that OneThumb's point is well made. Most DRM systems are trying so hard to be unbreakable that they become too inconvenient to use. Any scheme can and will be broken, so if you can find the right balance between ease of use and security, then most people will be happy to 'be honest'. It's like video games that require you to insert the original CD, even after you've entered in the license key, etc. I'd bet the majority of "no-cd crack" users are like myself and just hate putting a cd in the drive all the time.
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If someone needs hyper-optimized code for (intel)x86 only, sure this compiler rocks. It's a big world out there however, and Intel only comprises a small percentage of the microprocessors on this planet. The bottom line is that regardless of performance, gcc is still the most portable compiler anywhere and for a lot of people, this is more important. After all, Microsoft takes advantage of the fact that computers get faster and cheaper and so will gcc. For most situations, you don't need the fastest code because the human interacting with it can't tell the difference. Gcc isn't going away. Visual Studio isn't going away. Chances are, intel's compiler won't be used by anyone outside of very specialized number crunching applications because gcc and VC have long ago reached critical mass on their respective platforms.
I think you might find RTP would run reasonably well but don't take my word for it. Go to http://qnx.tucows.com/preview/201252.html to download an iso for burning to a CD. If you insert this into the cd drive on an windows box, it will let you make a boot floppy for boxes that won't boot to the CD. Good luck. BTW, you may want to turn of some of the eye candy on the gui (the pointer cam sucks back a few cycles that you can't spare) but I think it might not be too bad.
Horse shit. EVERYONE is in a recession because the US economy drags everyone down with them remember? Billions of dollars of unilateral damage? Wah wah wah.... Your country has so much money it can take hits like that and not even flinch. Most of the countries in the ISS project are way worse off than the States.
Try this site (click on the catalog page for a pdf spec sheet). They have a card that turns your pc into a scope for like $300 bucks (vs thousands for a regular scope).
DVD players were more expensive than a PS2 in Japan so people bought them and didn't buy games. Sony took a bath until DVD players got cheap.
so when my girlfriend finally kills me for playing it, I'll be doomed to eternal torment cleaning pollution outside my cities....
Yeah, I got a CD with about 500 SNES/Genesis/Gameboy ROMS on it as well as a couple of good quality emulators from a friend to give to my girlfriends kids. They love it.
Grass is a very powerful, free GIS system which is quite useful to scientists. A good GIS application can be used for any number of things such as terrain and weather modeling, migration pattern tracking, etc.
Lots of children's books are excellent reading. "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" are great examples
oops.... *.security.home.net doesn't work. I did an nslookup of authorized-scan1.security.home.net and got 24.0.0.203. Probably could use something like 24.0.0.0/24 to cut them off....
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
you could just put an ipchains rule in front of your input chain along the lines of 'ipchains -A input -s *.security.rogers.net -j DENY' (or something like that) Then they won't even be able to ping you....
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
yeah...I'm in ottawa and I get scanned by the same machine. I don't have many ports open (just smtp, dns, ssh) though.... I was tempted to turn off all response to *.security.home.net but they have never said boo to me either so I didn't bother. *shrug*
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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oops....bytes....not bits ;-)
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You'd be hard pressed to find a town in Canada where you can't get cable and/or DSL. Here in Ottawa I have Rogers Cable and, aside from one or two hiccups over the past year, I've had pretty much uninterrupted service 24/7. Plenty fast too - I sometimes get 300kbps downloads. My Linux gateway is up to 210 days uptime now too...;-)
All that being said, I don't think it would take that long in the States if the regulators got serious. I only pay $40/month for mine (and that's in Canadian pesos too). I mean, when you can get cable and DSL in Kenora (small town between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg) for crying out loud, I can't see why you Yanks can't get your act together.
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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is 13 and it took her all of about 5 minutes after we got our cable modem to download and install Napster and start building her song collection. Every time we turn around we're running out of hard drive space....
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
He never made a nuclear reactor....He was TRYING to make a nuclear reactor. Your argument may indicate why he would have failed but it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. That's like saying early attempts to build airplanes were hoaxes because, "that design was flawed and would never have flown"
Jeez, all you have to do around here is spout a few "facts" (5000 units per gram blah blah blah) and you get put up to +5 informative.
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
I don't know from American Law but don't y'all have something called a class action lawsuit where a lot of people get together to go after someone? Perhaps there would be a case to be made for all the contributors to Gracenotes database getting a share of the profits. If nothing else, at least try to get each individual's work removed from the db and Gracenote is left with nothing...
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
You know what? If I pass a group of young black guys on the street, I sometimes get a little nervous....does that make me racist? Perhaps. I'll tell you one thing though, the terms 'sexist', 'racist', 'homophobic', etc. ARE used as bludgeons by liberals against people who don't agree with them. I claim, however, that normal, sensible people who were brought up to believe that people should be treated with respect KNOW racism when they see it. My 7 year old could tell you there is something wrong with a Nazi or a Klan site even though he doesn't yet understand why these people must also be allowed to have their say.
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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no...read the post. I support his right to say what he likes WITHIN THE RULES OF THE FORUM. You can't legally yell 'FIRE' in a theatre (if there isn't a fire) because there are rules about that particular type of speech. That forum had rules as well and spamming, multiple addresses and posting threats were not among the permissable behaviours.
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
I work all night and I post all day
Free Republic seems to be a load of right-wing, racist, homophobic crap but the bottom line is Aldridge stepped over the line. Either engage in discussion within the rules of the forum or leave it alone. Any sensible person should be able to see that spamming and posting personal information and threats is not the way to fight and now the courts have put it in writing. I may not like what FR has to say but I'd rather let them say it than have a**holes like Aldridge get away with that kind of behaviour...
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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The main purpose of the public beta is to stress test their servers. Therefore they want people in more or less the same timezone so that they will mostly come on during the same general window.
*sing* I'm a karma whore and I'm okay....
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