Having libraries and drivers be easy-to-setup is not a fault of linux specifically, it's a fault of the distros.
In Debian, installing libraries and dependencies is simple compared to my previous experience on RPM-based distros.
You're not a citizen, you're a consumer.
Remember that.
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The encryption/decryption algorithm/implementation is named CSS (Content Scrambling System), so DeCSS would be the name of the alternate decryption algorithm.
The 'average user' will take whatever comes preinstalled in that fruity plastic box that they paid big bucks for.
If they end up getting fucked over by it...
well, they'll just bend over and take it like a good consumer.
I knew uname returned system information, but I didn't know what option to use for just the kernel version. However, here's a very simple way to find things like that. The --help option is fairly universal, so I just looked at the help output and found my answer in a matter of seconds.
And anyway, if you're using GNOME, you can check your kernel name/version, dist version, processor type, your username, and your hostname by looking that the main screen of the GNOME Control Center (gnomecc).
I would bet money that KDE gives similar information in it's incarnation of a UI preferences system.
Oh, I don't doubt that you can't stop data copying. If there's a will, there's a way.
I'm just saying that MP3 isn't the only audio codec that they could use, so they could implement a system that would prevent 'casual copying', but shortly after there would be a dumbed-down gui system so that grandma could override it.
That'd be a little difficult, considering absolute zero is at -273 C and the 'vacuum' of the universe itself is at around -270 C so you'd actually be absorbing heat with that processor.
If the apollo capsules had just orbited the earth, as the show says, then there's no doubt that the Russians would have noticed that the capsule wasn't going to the moon and surely would have turned it into an unimaginably HUGE political spectacle as they did with the downing of the US U2.
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Having libraries and drivers be easy-to-setup is not a fault of linux specifically, it's a fault of the distros.
In Debian, installing libraries and dependencies is simple compared to my previous experience on RPM-based distros.
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Apple doesn't even own most of the codecs they use.
They're licensed from other companies.
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Heh, you're both morons.
Please don't ever pretend to know about things which you obviously don't.
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You're not a citizen, you're a consumer.
Remember that.
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The encryption/decryption algorithm/implementation is named CSS (Content Scrambling System), so DeCSS would be the name of the alternate decryption algorithm.
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I think the bacteria from this story might disagree with you.
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You'd better stop moving around.
You're changing the Earth's momentum which might cause a catistrophic disaster in 20M years.
How can you be so selfish?
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Well, I think god hates them on an entirely different level.
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The 'average user' will take whatever comes preinstalled in that fruity plastic box that they paid big bucks for.
If they end up getting fucked over by it...
well, they'll just bend over and take it like a good consumer.
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Wouldn't the algrorithm have also been printed in academic journals, as it was developed in universities.
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God must really hate people who live near plate faults and active volcanoes.
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The oort cloud.
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I knew uname returned system information, but I didn't know what option to use for just the kernel version. However, here's a very simple way to find things like that. The --help option is fairly universal, so I just looked at the help output and found my answer in a matter of seconds.
And anyway, if you're using GNOME, you can check your kernel name/version, dist version, processor type, your username, and your hostname by looking that the main screen of the GNOME Control Center (gnomecc).
I would bet money that KDE gives similar information in it's incarnation of a UI preferences system.
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Oh, I don't doubt that you can't stop data copying. If there's a will, there's a way.
I'm just saying that MP3 isn't the only audio codec that they could use, so they could implement a system that would prevent 'casual copying', but shortly after there would be a dumbed-down gui system so that grandma could override it.
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Most people I know who use napster use the built-in audio player, so they wouldn't notice a difference if they changed formats anyway.
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Rocket science?
No, a simple "uname -r" will suffice.
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What kerosene?
The saturn V was fueled by liquid hydrogen and licquid oxygen.
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MP3 isn't the only lossy audio encoding codec, they could use another.
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He's obviously satirizing the infamous and quite moronic posts of "Lover's Arrival, The".
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But there's also a difference between simply playing an instrument, which is quite finite-state, and actually playing music, with all it's nuances.
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That'd be a little difficult, considering absolute zero is at -273 C and the 'vacuum' of the universe itself is at around -270 C so you'd actually be absorbing heat with that processor.
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It's ok, he wouldn't have to worry about ever violating the patent on thinking anyway.
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Hey! Don't dis soma!
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If the apollo capsules had just orbited the earth, as the show says, then there's no doubt that the Russians would have noticed that the capsule wasn't going to the moon and surely would have turned it into an unimaginably HUGE political spectacle as they did with the downing of the US U2.
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Tang was actually produced for quite a while before the US space program started.
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