Seems to be popular among the folks who used to use YouTube to stream TV shows. I think that YouTube is much more aggressive in taking down copyrighted content.
I disagree, XP, to be useful with all of the fixes and service packs applied, running software that has also had fixes and service packs applied does NOT run on 11 year old machines. It needs at minimum 768MB of RAM, 1GB to be comfortable. Not many machines had that 11 years ago.
To run it on an 11 year old machine you need to either disable some functionality or upgrade the machine. You can do the same with Ubuntu....in fact there is probably more leeway to do that in Ubuntu as there are more things that can be safely disabled and still have a functional machine
I have not seen an out of the box XP SP3 system running in less than 512MB without major complaints from the user. Microsoft can claim 64MB minimum requirement still applies, but reality shows it is simply not true anymore.
It's not just MegaUpload, MegaVideo is also part of the takedown, I'm not sure how legal that was. The charges are not strictly related to piracy either. Money laundering and racketeering are also in there. I think that they had a lot more on these guys than just hosting pirated content and not taking it down when asked via DMCA takedown letters.
How about Twitter just stops arbitrarily limiting characters. Go by word count, perhaps?
I know some avid twitter users, and the majority of them apparently use the idiotic SMS message system to 'tweet' each other all throughout the day on their phones. Twitter can't abandon the 140-character limit for this reason.
I think that's a BS reason for keeping a 140 character limit on twitter. Let SMS's character limit limit only the SMS user's messages. Twitter can break up longer tweets into 140 character segments and send them as "part1" "part2" "part3"... to people receiving tweets via SMS.
I think that while that was a legitimate argument when twitter started, it's evolved into a different kind of service these days and most folks using their phone for twitter are probably using something like twitterberry as a client anyway.
People stare at me as if I'm crazy when I say I use firefox as my twitter client, just like I do for other websites.
Of course, they would not be sued if they bothered to negotiate world wide distribution instead of only negotiating "domestic" distribution Limiting who they can accept money from to a tiny fraction of their possible customers, and instead paying loads of money for technology to make that possible.
You are right that in desktop use scenario with over 1GB of RAM you will likely never use the swap.
If you run something very memory intensive like photo/video editing, VMware, etc. you may, but with today's standard RAM allotments most desktop users never touch swap in Linux.
I think that is why GP said the impact of swapping "for an average desktop linux user is almost non-existent"...because for an average desktop linux user swapping is almost non-existent.
I've run Linux machines (for short periods of time, with no more than normal desktop use loads) without any swap, and they work fine... but when you hit that wall of running out of physical RAM you'll feel it a lot more without swap than you would with a swap file/partition.
Windows on the other hand seems to want to use several hundred megs of swap whether it needs it or not.
There are plenty of channels to be had over the air (OTA) with an antenna. That is how I get my channels and then if I want something that is only available on cable (like HBO series) I just buy the season on DVD. I get a whole season on DVD with a bunch of extras for about the cost of one month of cable. Sure I have to wait till the season finishes before I can buy the DVD, but I'm patient. People don't talk much about what they are currently watching where I work so there is no spoilers for me by accidentally overhearing conversations at lunch.
$20 a year for a subscription to the channel guide is not really all that much, and in my experience the one I'm subscribed to http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ is very accurate.
I used to use the precursor (Zap2it Labs) for my hacked (to work in Canada before Tivo had Canadian support) Tivo. Back then it was free, but they had problems with people abusing the system, so they went to a very cheap subscription model.
I haven't been to the states in many years. I think it's been 17 years or so since the last time I stepped into a Walmart State-side, but back then they used to have signs all over that screamed at you in big bold letters "made in the USA" What happened?
Not sure where you live, but I bought some of these at IKEA. I have a 4 bulb vanity fixture above the bathroom mirror, I have kept one bulb as incandescent just because the CFL versions take a second to come on and I had guests flipping the switch up and down, frustrated that the light wasn't coming on instantly.
Not sure if you were trying to say Nano does more per watt than Atom or vice versa...
(I don't think you meant to say the Nano does more than the Nano.)...but the rest of your comment, about getting more done in less time therefore not having to have the screen and hard drive running eating battery is only really true if you are doing a task that utilized the CPU at 100% until it completes and then you shut the machine off when it is done. which is probably true for some folks, but for the majority of users it is the user that the machine waits for, not the other way around. most of the time that you spend reading the info on the screen the CPU is sitting mostly idle. Turning off the screen won't help that, but having a more energy efficient CPU will help.
Sharing as in playing it for you? or lending you my CD/iPod for the day? No, absolutely not. There is no law against that.
"Sharing" as in allowing someone to make a copy? Iffy, I'm not 100% on US law, but certainly I know that making the copy for them would definitely be out. Since copyright laws are kind of lagging behind technology it's kind of up to interpretation by courts I think, but it seems to me that putting files on a server to be copied is seen by most judges more as making photocopies and handing them out than as running a copy shop and not paying attention to what people are making copies of.
It boils down to intent. If you put all your files out there in the open on a P2P network the assumption is that you expect others to be copying them, as that is the point of P2P file sharing.
I seriously wonder if people here would have the same reaction if it was Microsoft instead of Apple doing this. My guess is not, and people would be up in flames
MS is ruthless, but I don't think they have a track record of setting people on fire.
At least there is the opportunity to secure the information on a laptop. I'm guessing there isn't a single utility to encrypt music files on iPods, much less the personal information embedded within.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems to be popular among the folks who used to use YouTube to stream TV shows. I think that YouTube is much more aggressive in taking down copyrighted content.
I disagree, XP, to be useful with all of the fixes and service packs applied, running software that has also had fixes and service packs applied does NOT run on 11 year old machines. It needs at minimum 768MB of RAM, 1GB to be comfortable. Not many machines had that 11 years ago.
To run it on an 11 year old machine you need to either disable some functionality or upgrade the machine. You can do the same with Ubuntu. ...in fact there is probably more leeway to do that in Ubuntu as there are more things that can be safely disabled and still have a functional machine
I have not seen an out of the box XP SP3 system running in less than 512MB without major complaints from the user. Microsoft can claim 64MB minimum requirement still applies, but reality shows it is simply not true anymore.
Most password safe programs have an export button.
The real question is why are your facebook account and e-mail account(s) using the same password?
It's not just MegaUpload, MegaVideo is also part of the takedown, I'm not sure how legal that was. The charges are not strictly related to piracy either. Money laundering and racketeering are also in there. I think that they had a lot more on these guys than just hosting pirated content and not taking it down when asked via DMCA takedown letters.
At first I thought that it was Sony's revenge on me for this: http://slashdot.org/submission/1535196/Why-doesnt-SONY-like-Canadians
Then, when I realized that no one else could log in either I relaxed a bit.
I am still concerned about whether my Credit Card is safe.
Just wait till they start enforcing the new one:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1535196/Why-doesnt-SONY-like-Canadians
How about Twitter just stops arbitrarily limiting characters. Go by word count, perhaps?
I know some avid twitter users, and the majority of them apparently use the idiotic SMS message system to 'tweet' each other all throughout the day on their phones. Twitter can't abandon the 140-character limit for this reason.
I think that's a BS reason for keeping a 140 character limit on twitter.
Let SMS's character limit limit only the SMS user's messages. Twitter can break up longer tweets into 140 character segments and send them as "part1" "part2" "part3"... to people receiving tweets via SMS.
I think that while that was a legitimate argument when twitter started, it's evolved into a different kind of service these days and most folks using their phone for twitter are probably using something like twitterberry as a client anyway.
People stare at me as if I'm crazy when I say I use firefox as my twitter client, just like I do for other websites.
Living? It could still be called Colbert and named after Stephen's great-grandfather.
Of course, they would not be sued if they bothered to negotiate world wide distribution instead of only negotiating "domestic" distribution Limiting who they can accept money from to a tiny fraction of their possible customers, and instead paying loads of money for technology to make that possible.
See that's the good thing to come out of this. Now wireless router manufacturers will have to provide those features if they want to sell in the US.
"some cops will be pissed that he didn't find any weapon, drug or libertarian literature while reading your house"
Libertarian graffiti? That's something I haven't seen yet.
You are right that in desktop use scenario with over 1GB of RAM you will likely never use the swap.
If you run something very memory intensive like photo/video editing, VMware, etc. you may, but with today's standard RAM allotments most desktop users never touch swap in Linux.
A cat won't help.
Sure it'll probably get rid of your rats, but cats like to chew cables too.
I think that is why GP said the impact of swapping "for an average desktop linux user is almost non-existent" ...because for an average desktop linux user swapping is almost non-existent.
I've run Linux machines (for short periods of time, with no more than normal desktop use loads) without any swap, and they work fine... but when you hit that wall of running out of physical RAM you'll feel it a lot more without swap than you would with a swap file/partition.
Windows on the other hand seems to want to use several hundred megs of swap whether it needs it or not.
Did Cedega disappear since I last stopped caring about PC games when I bought a PS3?
There are plenty of channels to be had over the air (OTA) with an antenna.
That is how I get my channels and then if I want something that is only available on cable (like HBO series) I just buy the season on DVD. I get a whole season on DVD with a bunch of extras for about the cost of one month of cable. Sure I have to wait till the season finishes before I can buy the DVD, but I'm patient.
People don't talk much about what they are currently watching where I work so there is no spoilers for me by accidentally overhearing conversations at lunch.
$20 a year for a subscription to the channel guide is not really all that much, and in my experience the one I'm subscribed to http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ is very accurate.
I used to use the precursor (Zap2it Labs) for my hacked (to work in Canada before Tivo had Canadian support) Tivo. Back then it was free, but they had problems with people abusing the system, so they went to a very cheap subscription model.
I haven't been to the states in many years. I think it's been 17 years or so since the last time I stepped into a Walmart State-side, but back then they used to have signs all over that screamed at you in big bold letters "made in the USA"
What happened?
Dad made it a condition of the sale that they not put the dealer sticker on it.
"but they all have the sticker, we put it on as soon as they get to the lot" said the dealer.
"You do not, you trade cars with other lots and they don't want your sticker on a car they sell" Dad said.
"But I'm not allowed to let a car leave here without it"
"Then you don't get my sale"
He got the car, and there was no sticker on it.
Not sure where you live, but I bought some of these at IKEA. I have a 4 bulb vanity fixture above the bathroom mirror, I have kept one bulb as incandescent just because the CFL versions take a second to come on and I had guests flipping the switch up and down, frustrated that the light wasn't coming on instantly.
Not sure if you were trying to say Nano does more per watt than Atom or vice versa...
(I don't think you meant to say the Nano does more than the Nano.) ...but the rest of your comment, about getting more done in less time therefore not having to have the screen and hard drive running eating battery is only really true if you are doing a task that utilized the CPU at 100% until it completes and then you shut the machine off when it is done. which is probably true for some folks, but for the majority of users it is the user that the machine waits for, not the other way around. most of the time that you spend reading the info on the screen the CPU is sitting mostly idle. Turning off the screen won't help that, but having a more energy efficient CPU will help.
The Nano is faster than the Atom, but faster != better. Atom uses less power.
For some applications faster is better, for some longer battery life is better. Your choice.
Sharing as in playing it for you? or lending you my CD/iPod for the day?
No, absolutely not. There is no law against that.
"Sharing" as in allowing someone to make a copy? Iffy, I'm not 100% on US law, but certainly I know that making the copy for them would definitely be out. Since copyright laws are kind of lagging behind technology it's kind of up to interpretation by courts I think, but it seems to me that putting files on a server to be copied is seen by most judges more as making photocopies and handing them out than as running a copy shop and not paying attention to what people are making copies of.
It boils down to intent. If you put all your files out there in the open on a P2P network the assumption is that you expect others to be copying them, as that is the point of P2P file sharing.
I seriously wonder if people here would have the same reaction if it was Microsoft instead of Apple doing this. My guess is not, and people would be up in flames
MS is ruthless, but I don't think they have a track record of setting people on fire.
At least there is the opportunity to secure the information on a laptop. I'm guessing there isn't a single utility to encrypt music files on iPods, much less the personal information embedded within.
Sure there is, it was called Fairplay.