IBM helped the Nazis with the punchcard technology used to keep track of prisoners in concentration camps during WWII:
Not IBM itself but its german daughter subsidary at the nazi germany. Parent company probably did knew what their subsidary was doing but since it was profitable for them they didn't ask unnecessary questions. Officially the machines were used in a similar manner in all over the world to count population. There was nothing suspicious about that. I mean, it was a complete surprice for the allied troops to even find out that there were such work camps in existance. Retropespectively IBM did wrong though. And its undeniable that they had a role in the big picture. But stating that IBM directly took part in the genocide by helping nazis and knew about that on top of that too is just stating too much. Where's the evidence to support that?
The beta is U.S. Only, and that's a shame. I was hoping for the world wide beta test. But I guess they had their reasons. But at least the SteamOS will be downloadable so I can build my own device. I probably won't be investing too much time or money into it. If I buy Antec ISK300-150 and make a ~400€ AMD APU powered indie game device it would probably serve its duty well (and afterwards be a nice tiny server box). You people can probably recommend something better if this idea seems bad. Or share suggestions for others to read.
Since he went and revealed to be part of the Belluzzo club of moles, it would only the fair and just if Elop was awarded title of "The Microsoft Mole". Don't you agree?
Snowden is a Hero. And Americans are stupid to believe the propaganda their TVs tout at them. And by stating this I probably will be unable to travel to USA just like those two British tourists where not able to travel there.
No games. No seriously. Microsoft doesn't have anything to show us. They don't care about gaming at all. It took them 30 minutes to even mention games and gaming on Xbox One. And even when talking about games they just talked about their intentions. Microsoft only displayed three games on stage. And two of which were not even real gameplay but a prerendered video. Remedy's next game was sneak peeked and offered at least little bit of actual gameplay from an actual game. But then again the Microsoft caused a huge disappointment, a huge disappointment, among the fans of Remedy. Remedy's core audience consists mostly if not only Windows-PC gamers. There's just no way they can make their game exclusive and get away with it. Alan Wake was released for Windows too and so will this Quantum thing. We just have to wait during which Microsoft will do their best to promote the game as Xbox exclusive title. Nobody will buy a device based on a single title.
DRM - The Game Console. There's some trick going to be involved regarding selling and buying used games. What that trick is we don't know yet. But EA dropping their online pass was probably something they did in preparation for this. Microsoft spesifically says that buying used games is possible but ther aren't "disclosing more information about this at the moment" which is very suspicious. At least Microsoft's officials confirmed that you can go to a friend's house with the game, and once you've logged in with your own account and installed the game then you guys can play the game. Microsoft is not going to ask a fee for additional installs of game unlike the various sources reported. However Microsoft didn't confirm if the accounts which are associated with the device ID of the device your game is initially registered with can also run the game without asking you to login to your account first. Technically this could mean that not all the family members can even launch the game. Microsoft also essentially admits that you cannot borrow a game from your friend. Probably the most essential aspect of the closed gaming platforms and now you just cannot do it anymore. This is going to cribble Xbox One so badly that we can essentially already make the call that Xbox One will be the loser of the upcoming generation.
Always on-line not required but for all pratical purposes it has to be always on-line. If you buy a new game from a shop, you will not be able to play it unless the first time you play it you're connected to the internet so that the game's content ID can be registered with your account ID. Game developers and publishers are given tools to enable always on-line for their games. Xbox One games don't have to be constantly on-line, but if for example the publisher decides that the game has to be always online to function, then they are able to do it. Which is pretty much line with Microsoft's alignment with region-locked content. Game developer and publisher are given choise to region-lock their game if they so want.
Xbox One is made by Americans for Americans. The TV stuff only works in the USA. The content services tied to the Xbox One only work in USA. And most of the functionality Microsoft spoke of will only work in USA. This will restrict the sales of the new Xbox dramatically.
Every game is installed into the HDD in the name of "progress". Xbox One has an HDD users cannot replace. But Microsoft offers two USB 3.0 ports which you can plug-in external HDD and at least Microsoft claims that users can use the external HDD just like the internal e.g. installing the games, profile management, etc.
Kinect is a requirement. This is not just creepy but probably a outright violation of digital rights. First of all Kinect will always be monitoring the room for "Xbox on" command. Even when it seemingly is not powered. Since we know that the device's user agreement will contain something alone the lines of "submitting audio samples to microsoft for improving the service quality" the thing stinks already. Call me
#1 The Lenovo T400 will not run the World of Warcraft or the League of Legends. It doesn't have the needed hardware to do so. Check the recommended hardware requirements for both of these games, and make sure the computer you'll give him has a decent CPU, enough RAM and, this is important, a good GPU. Your problems with World of Warcraft and WINE probably were caused by the insufficient hardware.
#2 Windows installations these days are theoretically pretty safe to use. But you still want to install anti-virus software such as F-Secure, or Microsoft Security Essentials. You can fill up the Windows with tons of free software including the browser and the necessary utils. It's important that you at least install Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. I recommend Google Chrome because it comes with it's own Flash, and is updated automatically without user interaction, and because it has way better user interface than what Firefox has.
#3 Also get a disc image tool. I know from experience that after everything has been set, it takes maybe two months and the kid might make the system go into such condition, that it will not boot up, or might require huge clean up operation. HDD cloning makes it easy to restore the system in case of a failure.
#4 Give your kid freedoms! Let him experience and experiment with all kinds of software and operating environments. Make him understand that nothing he does, will break the system. It's also important to teach that if the system breaks down, he has to be able to restore it by himself. And don't let him use the HDD image. Make him do it the complete Windows installation process.
#5 To fight against Blizzard account hacking, make sure your kids use Blizzard authenticator.
I try to keep this short...
#1 The Lenovo T400 will not run the World of Warcraft or the League of Legends. It doesn't have the needed hardware to do so. Check the recommended hardware requirements for both of these games, and make sure the computer you'll give him has a decent CPU, enough RAM and, this is important, a good GPU. Your problems with World of Warcraft and WINE probably were caused by the insufficient hardware.
#2 Windows installations these days are theoretically pretty safe to use. But you still want to install anti-virus software such as F-Secure, or Microsoft Security Essentials. You can fill up the Windows with tons of free software including the browser and the necessary utils. It's important that you at least install Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. I recommend Google Chrome because it comes with it's own Flash, and is updated automatically without user interaction, and because it has way better user interface than what Firefox has.
#3 Also get a disc image tool. I know from experience that after everything has been set, it takes maybe two months and the kid might make the system go into such condition, that it will not boot up, or might require huge clean up operation. HDD cloning makes it easy to restore the system in case of a failure.
#4 Give your kid freedoms! Let him experience and experiment with all kinds of software and operating environments. Make him understand that nothing he does, will break the system. It's also important to teach that if the system breaks down, he has to be able to restore it by himself. And don't let him use the HDD image. Make him do it the complete Windows installation process.
#5 To fight against Blizzard account hacking, make sure your kids use Blizzard authenticator.
Nokia N9 is what you need. Doing stuff on it is simple (everything can be accessed throught built-in bash shell) and it gets the job done unless you need bazillion of apps outside of the usual Twitter/Email/Facebook/etc. scenario. -- Sent from my Nokia N9
I've been using Atlassian JIRA for all my personal projects for a short while now and it's awesome. Before it I tried Trac and Redmine but they didn't quite cut it. Besides JIRA is also used in my workplace so I'm pretty familiar with it (after using it for more than a year at workplace). It's also pretty cheap for personal use ($10) and cost free if you're doing FOSS development.
I personally think that the Torvalds didn't know what he was talking about. NVIDIA drivers on Linux might be closed and they do cause kernel developers problems but for the consumers the NVIDIA on GNU/Linux is the only reliable, good quality, way to 3D acceleration and their support is top class.
Other than that I'd like to point out that the girl was complaining how the absolutely latest NVIDIA Optimus chips two years ago had (and probably still have) pretty terrible Linux support. It's hard to make Intel's integrated graphics card to play nice with NVIDIA's graphics card with Optimus in GNU/Linux. The Point in this conversation wasn't the NVIDIA's general 3D Linux drivers but what kind of support NVIDIA offers for their technologies. And Torvalds answered that it is *terrible*. However I find that hard to believe. As I stated above. The Only reliable good quality 3d accelerated rendering hardware and software stack to GNU/Linux comes from the NVIDIA.
Some how this reminds me the glorious 90s, when music was great, anime looked the best, and Hotmail became my first web email account I had ever used...
Well, PS3 works fine as a server here. I haven't downgraded it with firmware 3.21 and I'm still running 3.15. It's general PC device no matter how you look at it. But now that they don't ship new units with it any more it would be ideal for somebody to make a court case in EU against SCE.
And not just PSN (access to multiplayer, stuff you might have paid for, drm protected content, etc.) or ability to play newer games. You cannot also watch newer Blu-Ray movies and cannot just access to all DRM protected material from other computers you might have in your house.
It was and still is acronym called "PC" which stands for "Personal Computer". Everybody however misuse it when they mean combination of IBM-PC/Intel specific hardware and Microsoft software platforms such as MS-DOS and Windows. I am having hard time with people whom use "This software is available for PC/Linux/Mac" tagline. First of all PC is general computer type, something which all Macintosh branded personal computers are, something what all Commodore Amiga branded personal computers are, and so on. IBM didn't invent "PC". Next thing is that "Linux" is just a name of kernel (when written with a capital "L"). Mac is short version of Macintosh which is a brand of personal computers company called Apple manufactures. Why can't we just refer all platform by their respective software platforms. Why do we need to include branding of the hardware? It's totally unnecessary and confusing. World would be much better place if that same tag would be "Windows; GNU/Linux; Mac OS X" (or something like that). Only things I would miss are stupid Mr. PC versus Mr. Amiga/Linux/Mac/Nerd/Gamer/etc. videos where people compare various hardware, software, toy, etc. things even if they aren't comparable.
Of course use of "App" instead of a "Application" is unfortunate but I don't really mind it unless somebody starts mixing up facts. For example Apple's "App Store" is _application store_. I hate when people refer to it with "app store called "App Store"". That's just grammatically bad language.
On my own behalf I feel that "applications" are more finer and simplier packages which are generally more suitable for main stream audiences. "Programs" are some what older like, cruder, more hacker stylish, not necessarily generally suitable for main stream audiences. But that's just like my opinion. I think that United States english tends to refer to "applications" while British english tends to refer to "programs".
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"It was an inside job, Like it always is, Chalk it up, To business as usual..." -- Don Henley
"Xtend"... Obviously... Duh...
IBM helped the Nazis with the punchcard technology used to keep track of prisoners in concentration camps during WWII:
Not IBM itself but its german daughter subsidary at the nazi germany. Parent company probably did knew what their subsidary was doing but since it was profitable for them they didn't ask unnecessary questions. Officially the machines were used in a similar manner in all over the world to count population. There was nothing suspicious about that. I mean, it was a complete surprice for the allied troops to even find out that there were such work camps in existance. Retropespectively IBM did wrong though. And its undeniable that they had a role in the big picture. But stating that IBM directly took part in the genocide by helping nazis and knew about that on top of that too is just stating too much. Where's the evidence to support that?
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I hear it's best viewed in Internet Explorer.
Don't forget that you also need Windows 8 and Surface RT for the optimal reading experience.
The beta is U.S. Only, and that's a shame. I was hoping for the world wide beta test. But I guess they had their reasons. But at least the SteamOS will be downloadable so I can build my own device. I probably won't be investing too much time or money into it. If I buy Antec ISK300-150 and make a ~400€ AMD APU powered indie game device it would probably serve its duty well (and afterwards be a nice tiny server box). You people can probably recommend something better if this idea seems bad. Or share suggestions for others to read.
Since he went and revealed to be part of the Belluzzo club of moles, it would only the fair and just if Elop was awarded title of "The Microsoft Mole". Don't you agree?
How about... the IBM? Man, that would be funny.
Snowden is a Hero. And Americans are stupid to believe the propaganda their TVs tout at them. And by stating this I probably will be unable to travel to USA just like those two British tourists where not able to travel there.
Xbox One / 10 will fail because...
No games. No seriously. Microsoft doesn't have anything to show us. They don't care about gaming at all. It took them 30 minutes to even mention games and gaming on Xbox One. And even when talking about games they just talked about their intentions. Microsoft only displayed three games on stage. And two of which were not even real gameplay but a prerendered video. Remedy's next game was sneak peeked and offered at least little bit of actual gameplay from an actual game. But then again the Microsoft caused a huge disappointment, a huge disappointment, among the fans of Remedy. Remedy's core audience consists mostly if not only Windows-PC gamers. There's just no way they can make their game exclusive and get away with it. Alan Wake was released for Windows too and so will this Quantum thing. We just have to wait during which Microsoft will do their best to promote the game as Xbox exclusive title. Nobody will buy a device based on a single title.
DRM - The Game Console. There's some trick going to be involved regarding selling and buying used games. What that trick is we don't know yet. But EA dropping their online pass was probably something they did in preparation for this. Microsoft spesifically says that buying used games is possible but ther aren't "disclosing more information about this at the moment" which is very suspicious. At least Microsoft's officials confirmed that you can go to a friend's house with the game, and once you've logged in with your own account and installed the game then you guys can play the game. Microsoft is not going to ask a fee for additional installs of game unlike the various sources reported. However Microsoft didn't confirm if the accounts which are associated with the device ID of the device your game is initially registered with can also run the game without asking you to login to your account first. Technically this could mean that not all the family members can even launch the game. Microsoft also essentially admits that you cannot borrow a game from your friend. Probably the most essential aspect of the closed gaming platforms and now you just cannot do it anymore. This is going to cribble Xbox One so badly that we can essentially already make the call that Xbox One will be the loser of the upcoming generation.
Always on-line not required but for all pratical purposes it has to be always on-line. If you buy a new game from a shop, you will not be able to play it unless the first time you play it you're connected to the internet so that the game's content ID can be registered with your account ID. Game developers and publishers are given tools to enable always on-line for their games. Xbox One games don't have to be constantly on-line, but if for example the publisher decides that the game has to be always online to function, then they are able to do it. Which is pretty much line with Microsoft's alignment with region-locked content. Game developer and publisher are given choise to region-lock their game if they so want.
Xbox One is made by Americans for Americans. The TV stuff only works in the USA. The content services tied to the Xbox One only work in USA. And most of the functionality Microsoft spoke of will only work in USA. This will restrict the sales of the new Xbox dramatically.
Every game is installed into the HDD in the name of "progress". Xbox One has an HDD users cannot replace. But Microsoft offers two USB 3.0 ports which you can plug-in external HDD and at least Microsoft claims that users can use the external HDD just like the internal e.g. installing the games, profile management, etc.
Kinect is a requirement. This is not just creepy but probably a outright violation of digital rights. First of all Kinect will always be monitoring the room for "Xbox on" command. Even when it seemingly is not powered. Since we know that the device's user agreement will contain something alone the lines of "submitting audio samples to microsoft for improving the service quality" the thing stinks already. Call me
I try to keep this short...
#1 The Lenovo T400 will not run the World of Warcraft or the League of Legends. It doesn't have the needed hardware to do so. Check the recommended hardware requirements for both of these games, and make sure the computer you'll give him has a decent CPU, enough RAM and, this is important, a good GPU. Your problems with World of Warcraft and WINE probably were caused by the insufficient hardware.
#2 Windows installations these days are theoretically pretty safe to use. But you still want to install anti-virus software such as F-Secure, or Microsoft Security Essentials. You can fill up the Windows with tons of free software including the browser and the necessary utils. It's important that you at least install Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. I recommend Google Chrome because it comes with it's own Flash, and is updated automatically without user interaction, and because it has way better user interface than what Firefox has.
#3 Also get a disc image tool. I know from experience that after everything has been set, it takes maybe two months and the kid might make the system go into such condition, that it will not boot up, or might require huge clean up operation. HDD cloning makes it easy to restore the system in case of a failure.
#4 Give your kid freedoms! Let him experience and experiment with all kinds of software and operating environments. Make him understand that nothing he does, will break the system. It's also important to teach that if the system breaks down, he has to be able to restore it by himself. And don't let him use the HDD image. Make him do it the complete Windows installation process.
#5 To fight against Blizzard account hacking, make sure your kids use Blizzard authenticator.
I try to keep this short... #1 The Lenovo T400 will not run the World of Warcraft or the League of Legends. It doesn't have the needed hardware to do so. Check the recommended hardware requirements for both of these games, and make sure the computer you'll give him has a decent CPU, enough RAM and, this is important, a good GPU. Your problems with World of Warcraft and WINE probably were caused by the insufficient hardware. #2 Windows installations these days are theoretically pretty safe to use. But you still want to install anti-virus software such as F-Secure, or Microsoft Security Essentials. You can fill up the Windows with tons of free software including the browser and the necessary utils. It's important that you at least install Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. I recommend Google Chrome because it comes with it's own Flash, and is updated automatically without user interaction, and because it has way better user interface than what Firefox has. #3 Also get a disc image tool. I know from experience that after everything has been set, it takes maybe two months and the kid might make the system go into such condition, that it will not boot up, or might require huge clean up operation. HDD cloning makes it easy to restore the system in case of a failure. #4 Give your kid freedoms! Let him experience and experiment with all kinds of software and operating environments. Make him understand that nothing he does, will break the system. It's also important to teach that if the system breaks down, he has to be able to restore it by himself. And don't let him use the HDD image. Make him do it the complete Windows installation process. #5 To fight against Blizzard account hacking, make sure your kids use Blizzard authenticator.
Nokia N9 is what you need. Doing stuff on it is simple (everything can be accessed throught built-in bash shell) and it gets the job done unless you need bazillion of apps outside of the usual Twitter/Email/Facebook/etc. scenario. -- Sent from my Nokia N9
I've been using Atlassian JIRA for all my personal projects for a short while now and it's awesome. Before it I tried Trac and Redmine but they didn't quite cut it. Besides JIRA is also used in my workplace so I'm pretty familiar with it (after using it for more than a year at workplace). It's also pretty cheap for personal use ($10) and cost free if you're doing FOSS development.
I personally think that the Torvalds didn't know what he was talking about. NVIDIA drivers on Linux might be closed and they do cause kernel developers problems but for the consumers the NVIDIA on GNU/Linux is the only reliable, good quality, way to 3D acceleration and their support is top class.
Other than that I'd like to point out that the girl was complaining how the absolutely latest NVIDIA Optimus chips two years ago had (and probably still have) pretty terrible Linux support. It's hard to make Intel's integrated graphics card to play nice with NVIDIA's graphics card with Optimus in GNU/Linux. The Point in this conversation wasn't the NVIDIA's general 3D Linux drivers but what kind of support NVIDIA offers for their technologies. And Torvalds answered that it is *terrible*. However I find that hard to believe. As I stated above. The Only reliable good quality 3d accelerated rendering hardware and software stack to GNU/Linux comes from the NVIDIA.
Some how this reminds me the glorious 90s, when music was great, anime looked the best, and Hotmail became my first web email account I had ever used...
You can already buy next-gen pong. It's called "Reflec Beat" and is available from Konami.
Well, PS3 works fine as a server here. I haven't downgraded it with firmware 3.21 and I'm still running 3.15. It's general PC device no matter how you look at it. But now that they don't ship new units with it any more it would be ideal for somebody to make a court case in EU against SCE.
...Games
With exception that Windows NT was not based on VMS but the OS/2.
And not just PSN (access to multiplayer, stuff you might have paid for, drm protected content, etc.) or ability to play newer games. You cannot also watch newer Blu-Ray movies and cannot just access to all DRM protected material from other computers you might have in your house.
It was and still is acronym called "PC" which stands for "Personal Computer". Everybody however misuse it when they mean combination of IBM-PC/Intel specific hardware and Microsoft software platforms such as MS-DOS and Windows. I am having hard time with people whom use "This software is available for PC/Linux/Mac" tagline. First of all PC is general computer type, something which all Macintosh branded personal computers are, something what all Commodore Amiga branded personal computers are, and so on. IBM didn't invent "PC". Next thing is that "Linux" is just a name of kernel (when written with a capital "L"). Mac is short version of Macintosh which is a brand of personal computers company called Apple manufactures. Why can't we just refer all platform by their respective software platforms. Why do we need to include branding of the hardware? It's totally unnecessary and confusing. World would be much better place if that same tag would be "Windows; GNU/Linux; Mac OS X" (or something like that). Only things I would miss are stupid Mr. PC versus Mr. Amiga/Linux/Mac/Nerd/Gamer/etc. videos where people compare various hardware, software, toy, etc. things even if they aren't comparable.
Of course use of "App" instead of a "Application" is unfortunate but I don't really mind it unless somebody starts mixing up facts. For example Apple's "App Store" is _application store_. I hate when people refer to it with "app store called "App Store"". That's just grammatically bad language.
On my own behalf I feel that "applications" are more finer and simplier packages which are generally more suitable for main stream audiences. "Programs" are some what older like, cruder, more hacker stylish, not necessarily generally suitable for main stream audiences. But that's just like my opinion. I think that United States english tends to refer to "applications" while British english tends to refer to "programs".
Behold! The ultimate browser test between Safari(WebKit nightly build) and Chrome (Chromium)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZR_m8pBYcU
Yo dawg! We heard you like linux and browsers. So we put linux inside your browser so that you can browse linux while on linux browser...
hahaha, fags sure got told!