Back in 2000, 64 MB was the limit. Many people wanted to edit text and rich text, many people wanted to edit images, few people wanted to edit large raw images. Very few people cared about movies stored on a computer. From that mindset, adding more MB seemed useless. Now, in 2010, the limit got pushed up, with many people editing images, many people having movies and very few people having volumetric 3D movies. Adding GB seems pointless, but if we go up to 6.4 TB, people will start storing full high-definition virtual worlds on their computers. Humanity is marked by its ingenuity, we'll always find a way to take advantage of more memory/processor power/internet speed.
Boot Camp can run anything. I have a Ubuntu install running alongside Mac OSX with Boot Camp, and some people even got OpenSolaris working (not much harder than Ubuntu or Windows, from what I've heard). It's more about Mac officially supporting Windows and providing all the necessary drivers.
You could always take the driver out of the train. It's a 1D environment where the track can be specially designed for automated vehicles. Railroads are the perfect environment for automated transit.
You do not have the right to a cell phone either. In some parts of the country you can't even get cell phone coverage (read: various rural communities).
There's a difference between two kinds of rights that you're glossing over here. You have the right to bear arms in the sense that the government can't stop you from doing it. You do not have the right to bear arms in the sense that the government is legally required to provide a weapon to everyone who wants one. It's the same with cell phone use. The right to use a cell phone is a right, since you have the right to do anything that doesn't have a law against it. You don't have such a right to use a car though.
No keyboard's the big one. Even photoshop use is sped up dramatically with keyboard shortcuts. Vim users would die trying to do their work with a touchscreen keyboard.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but ignorance of fact is. Copying something not realizing that it's copyrighted is not willful infringement, and the damages are limited. That's why corporations are nice enough to send takedown letters instead of just suing - to inform the defendant and potentially magnify the damages.
Because she stood up for herself and didn't let the RIAA bully her? Sure, she did some bad stuff in court, but 99% of people in her position would (ok, did) just pay the RIAA's extortionate fees. Thanks to her, the RIAA's actions are much more widely known.
Just because you don't agree with her cause doesn't mean she shouldn't be commended for refusing to take a corporate beating lying down.
No, absolute knowledge is not possible. How would you even try to go about scientifically proving that there isn't an all-powerful God making every particle move according to a few dozen rules behind the scenes? What is your experiment, what are the controlled and measured variables? You can't. We will never access that level of truth. But that doesn't mean we should give up. According to science, it doesn't matter if God is pushing the particles around or Zeus or Thor. All that matters is that if you do X to particles A and B, Y will happen. But the true existence of particles is something we can't prove - we could be sitting in virtual reality. All that matters is that we have a useful model with which we can make future predictions. I also have a useful model which says that if you throw a projectile at my brain at 300 meters per second my brain will stop functioning.
54k seems excessive, but probably way less than what the RIAA lawyers would like to charge for their time.
The campaign has always been about fear, never about direct profit - the economic status of the defendants prevents the RIAA from possibly getting more than 100k anyway.
And do you take issue with those governments who happen to believe that religion is that right way to teach your children and don't allow a secular approach? Governments can't be trusted with deciding right and wrong any more than parents can.
You misunderstand the point of science. Science tells us that if you zap some electricity into one end of a transistor, it only comes out the other end if you also zap some into the third end. It doesn't care if this is happening just because it's happening or if God's making the electricity move around, which is what philosophy/theology/truth is about. Science creates useful models that predict future results, it doesn't try to find out why the models work.
Yes, owning an iPad is a choice. That's the point. The FSF is reminding everyone that the choice has serious negative consequences and we should not choose an iPad. They're not arguing for regulation, they're appealing to the individual consumer.
It's not that the government should do nothing, the government should take control of the infrastructure and let any company provide internet service over it. That would create competition, and would be better than government-mandated net neutrality and the status quo.
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Back in 2000, 64 MB was the limit. Many people wanted to edit text and rich text, many people wanted to edit images, few people wanted to edit large raw images. Very few people cared about movies stored on a computer. From that mindset, adding more MB seemed useless. Now, in 2010, the limit got pushed up, with many people editing images, many people having movies and very few people having volumetric 3D movies. Adding GB seems pointless, but if we go up to 6.4 TB, people will start storing full high-definition virtual worlds on their computers. Humanity is marked by its ingenuity, we'll always find a way to take advantage of more memory/processor power/internet speed.
Boot Camp can run anything. I have a Ubuntu install running alongside Mac OSX with Boot Camp, and some people even got OpenSolaris working (not much harder than Ubuntu or Windows, from what I've heard). It's more about Mac officially supporting Windows and providing all the necessary drivers.
You could always take the driver out of the train. It's a 1D environment where the track can be specially designed for automated vehicles. Railroads are the perfect environment for automated transit.
You do not have the right to a cell phone either. In some parts of the country you can't even get cell phone coverage (read: various rural communities).
There's a difference between two kinds of rights that you're glossing over here. You have the right to bear arms in the sense that the government can't stop you from doing it. You do not have the right to bear arms in the sense that the government is legally required to provide a weapon to everyone who wants one. It's the same with cell phone use. The right to use a cell phone is a right, since you have the right to do anything that doesn't have a law against it. You don't have such a right to use a car though.
No keyboard's the big one. Even photoshop use is sped up dramatically with keyboard shortcuts. Vim users would die trying to do their work with a touchscreen keyboard.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but ignorance of fact is. Copying something not realizing that it's copyrighted is not willful infringement, and the damages are limited. That's why corporations are nice enough to send takedown letters instead of just suing - to inform the defendant and potentially magnify the damages.
Because she stood up for herself and didn't let the RIAA bully her? Sure, she did some bad stuff in court, but 99% of people in her position would (ok, did) just pay the RIAA's extortionate fees. Thanks to her, the RIAA's actions are much more widely known.
Just because you don't agree with her cause doesn't mean she shouldn't be commended for refusing to take a corporate beating lying down.
IMO, it's fundamentally wrong to literally punish someone for doing nothing.
I think the IE management is still living in 2005 with their 95% market share and want to leave HTML5 in the dust.
No, absolute knowledge is not possible. How would you even try to go about scientifically proving that there isn't an all-powerful God making every particle move according to a few dozen rules behind the scenes? What is your experiment, what are the controlled and measured variables? You can't. We will never access that level of truth. But that doesn't mean we should give up. According to science, it doesn't matter if God is pushing the particles around or Zeus or Thor. All that matters is that if you do X to particles A and B, Y will happen. But the true existence of particles is something we can't prove - we could be sitting in virtual reality. All that matters is that we have a useful model with which we can make future predictions. I also have a useful model which says that if you throw a projectile at my brain at 300 meters per second my brain will stop functioning.
there would be no incentive for people to be honest and pay for their music.
The real world says otherwise
54k seems excessive, but probably way less than what the RIAA lawyers would like to charge for their time.
The campaign has always been about fear, never about direct profit - the economic status of the defendants prevents the RIAA from possibly getting more than 100k anyway.
And do you take issue with those governments who happen to believe that religion is that right way to teach your children and don't allow a secular approach? Governments can't be trusted with deciding right and wrong any more than parents can.
You misunderstand the point of science. Science tells us that if you zap some electricity into one end of a transistor, it only comes out the other end if you also zap some into the third end. It doesn't care if this is happening just because it's happening or if God's making the electricity move around, which is what philosophy/theology/truth is about. Science creates useful models that predict future results, it doesn't try to find out why the models work.
That is, in fact, the proper way to treat authority if you want things to get done in the real world. School seems to be doing a pretty good job.
ExceptSwiss German is quite different from Germany's German.
"Ask" does not necessarily imply a question. You can ask Slashdot to help you with something. So no, you're not going to win from the pedantic front.
I'm pretty sure Windows still doesn't have virtual desktops, so a virtual desktop setup like what the OP was asking for is impossible.
Yes, owning an iPad is a choice. That's the point. The FSF is reminding everyone that the choice has serious negative consequences and we should not choose an iPad. They're not arguing for regulation, they're appealing to the individual consumer.
It's not that the government should do nothing, the government should take control of the infrastructure and let any company provide internet service over it. That would create competition, and would be better than government-mandated net neutrality and the status quo.
sed 's/lame/awesome/g'
sudo killall Anonymous Coward
for i in Someone Something Wherever Eventually Because Somehow; do
echo "$i"
done
That's not fighting censorship, that's quite literally surrendering to it.
Which is why most programmers are, to some extent, computer scientists.
I was thinking more along the lines of Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia directly interfacing with the mind.