Last I checked with a 1gz processor and 512megs of ram you can indeed run Vista.
You can also run XP with 128 megabytes of ram, but it's not something anyone would want to do.
WGA doesn't apply to me or most of corporate America as all updates are performed through SMS and not Windows Updates. Same goes with Product Activation since everything is volume license.
Red herring. Windows doesn't push WGA and product activation on corporate customers because they simply will not put up with the bullshit involved with activating operating systems and applications after a reinstall, or having their worstations shut down because WGA rears it's ugly head. There's a different DRM for businesses: the Business Software Alliance and multimillion dollar lawsuits. This doesn't change what I said: Microsoft has been pushing DRM for years with or without the backing/insistance of the RIAA.
Also, last I checked Play for Sure was an attempt to legitimize downloading content online and so the AAs were indeed involved in it's creation since MS saw a huge potential liability.
Microsoft would have pushed Plays for Sure (though it Sure Doesn't on Zunes...) with or without the RIAA, because Microsoft thought the way to make money on online music was to control the formats. Then along came a little device called the iPod...
So expanding federal, and particularly executive, power by leaps and bounds, using his four terms in office to stack the Supreme Court in his favor, and the like were all signs of a "stellar presidency?"
Yes, absolutely. This country was facing the worst economic crisis in its history, and the worst war in history. Neither crisis could have been handled WITHOUT a strong federal government. Hoover tried the "hands off" approach and it failed. "Staying the course" could have left the U.S. a third world country and three continents and five billion people under the control of the Axis powers.
Many of the things we decry Bush for were first accomplished by Franklin Roosevelt, and often to greater effect.
Like what. You talk about Supreme Court justices, but if you check the Constitution, you'll find no number specified. IIRC there have been as few as 7 and as many as 15 justices. Asking Congress to approve more justices was a perfectly legal move for FDR to make.
The problem isn't that Bush wanted more government power to combat terrorism, the problem is that he is raping the foundations of this country (checks & balances, habeas corpus, Bill of Rights) and yet is so fucking incompetent that he doesn't even know when an Arab company is going to take control of the largest ports in the United States.
If his presidency was so stellar, why the rush to propose and ratify the Twenty-Second Amendment so soon after his death?
Because Republicans had control of Congress and wanted to prevent another 4 term Democratic president. Notice how much they regretted their actions when Reagan's second term was expiring.
Yes, and we know that GW Bush was the first President to ever engaging in spying without warrants
Yes, everyone knows that Bush wasn't the first to order warrantless spying, but so far I've heard a whole lot of talk and not a whole lot of proof.
In any case, I doubt any other modern presidents have done anything like Bush's varied shenanigans, for two reasons. The first is Richard Nixon. The second is Plausible Deniability. And Bush is almost certinally the first to president to order it on such a massive scale.
The clipper chip was part of a larger initiative which did involve outlawing private research into cryptography, which the NSA deemed to be their sole domain. Go read "The Electronic Privacy Papers" it is quite and interesting collection of position papers and declassified government documents.
Yes, the clipper chip was a fantastically horrible idea on many fronts, but it was still a far cry from making privacy "illegal", as you first stated. And this administration has gone waaaay beyond the Clipper with their secret prisons, torture, warrantless spying, no trials for prisoners, etc etc. We haven't seen civil rights violations from the Executive Branch this grotesque since Executive Order 9066.
If you want to give the GUI an extreme bitchslap, and can open a terminal, find the process number for 'loginwindow' and kill it. Timeouts on network shares can be a real bitch though, especially over wireless connections.
It's too bad Apple doesn't backport their bugfixes. They have to convince me to spend $129 on a minor version upgrade somehow, though.
One of the other nice things about Tiger is that the unix userland tools can now handle metadata - for a lot of us that feature alone made the upgrade price worth it.
Randy Weaver is an interesting case. And just like Waco, their guns ultimately didn't save them. However, their guns provided enough light on the government activities to show how far our country has fallen.
I think the coverage of abusive law enformcement had more to do with it than how many guns they had.
The reason most people don't give a rats ass about either of these today, is because these people were viewed as "wackos" (right-wing, religious). Had these people been left-wing hippies I'm sure the results would have been much different.
You mean like this guy? No national coverage or congressional hearings for him.
Randy Weaver's wife was unarmed holding a child when she was shot. Where was Al Sharpton protesting? Yet when street thugs are shot by police he is all over it.
By "street thug" do you mean "man who panicked when he saw someone pull a gun"?
Oh, and the reason the ATF was going after Randy Weaver was because of his guns. That is the best evidence I have that gun laws are screwed.
They went after him after Weaver after they entraped him and sent him a notice to appear in court with the wrong date on it.
That too, but after I made that post it occurred to me that the ACLU's bread and butter is people who can't defend themselves, and by now they may have a vested interest in perpetuating their own clientele... akin to how unions have become more about perpetuating union income rather than defending workers' rights.
Sorry, but those arguments, like the "why doesn't the ACLU do gun cases", don't stand up to much scrutiny. The ACLU wants to perpetuate their clientele? Why, because taking pro bono cases for people who don't have money to pay for an attorney is such a gravy train? As for unions, to protect workers rights they need to do lobbying and recruitment efforts - activities that require...money.
Given the ACLU's history of turning down cases not because of merit, but because they think the case is unwinnable, I don't have a great deal of faith in their internal motivations.
The ACLU has limited resources. Why should they waste them on a case they don't think they can win? Especially when it might create a bad precident?
Absurd but true. Even after the launch date, Nintendo still dictated when stores could sell their Wiis they have in stock. One store here (Futureshop) sold some wiis on the wednesday before black friday (no black friday in canada but during that week) and they got bitched at by nintendo hq.
And not because kids want notoriety, but do to this simple formula: a kid is bullied and ostracized until he or she decides that life is simply not worth living anymore, and before they go, they might as well take the fucking assholes with them that are responsible for making them feel that way.
If the summary is correct about the lawyers claiming the letter from AOL confirmed that this woman had download copyrighted audio, then you have a different definition of "lying" than the rest of us do.
Furthermore, you have absolutely NO idea what is motivating the driver behind you...there could be a medical emergency involved, and your prissy ass might be impeding their progress to a hospital.
This happened to my aunt once. She had cataract surgery, and one of her retinas became detatched after she got home. Her brother was driving her to the hospital, and some jackass wouldn't let him pass - the guy kept driving the same speed as the car in the right lane.
In the 20th century, everyone knew that before Columbus, people thought the world was flat.
Oh, the irony.
I blame it on bad videos shown to students in school. The real irony is that Columbus was wrong, and his critics were right. They weren't saying that the world was flat, they were saying it was impossible to sail from Europe across the Atlantic to Asia. And they were right - the crew was just about starving by the time they got to the Caribbean, there's no way they would have made it to Asia.
Maybe you are dyslexic and your brain translated the word economics into "climatology". And as for statistics - BFD. Knowing statistics means you can...make statistics, not be an expert on anything that uses them.
The treatment Bjorn Lomborg received reminds me of Galileo before the inquisition.
Galileo wasn't a poser. Lomberg's degrees are science...political science. He also skipped the peer review process, which further disqualifies him as a "serious" skeptic.
I don't understand what your problem is with uniforms. When you go to a school either you or your parents sign an agreement stating that you will abide by the school rules. You signed it (or your parents who know better for you signed it) so you agree with it.
An "agreement" made under duress is no agreement at all. Unless he had his choice of non-uniform using high schools, neither he nor his parents really had a choice. Yes there is homeschooling, but in todays families that need two incomes that is rarely feasible. I also find it a bit odd that you have the "suck it up and take it" attiude with school uniforms and yet complain about not having had fashionable jeans.
Most of the world uses school uniforms.
They still suck. Kids are just as capable of making trouble and being assholes in uniform as they are out of uniform.
How did you pull that one off? Not even the classic MacOS 7.x would run with anything less than 16 MBytes of RAM on PowerPC hardware... for MacOS X running with 4 MBytes you must have come up with some hardcore optimisations.
Sorry. Four megs of VIDEO memory.:) They came with 32 megs of system memory and I had that one expanded to 320.
That doesn't make any sense. The more bells and whistles you throw in, the more power you will need to run the OS - by definition.
Consider how Apple does it: they keep adding features that work just fine on older hardware. I was able run Panther and use Expose just fine on my 1997 iMac with four megs of memory, for example. The only feature that requires a graphics card made in the last few years is Core Image, used for accelerating large images in programs like Aperture.
Before they sold out to Microsoft, that is. They gutted multiplayer from Oni and turned Halo from a cross platform game with brilliant graphics into a console hobbled shadow of what it could have been.
If you look elsewhere, you will find that Valve is doing the Good Idea (except for the have-to-hope-Steam-won't-shut-down factor, which I still dislike).
Good Idea? I don't think so. What Valve is doing is exactly the sort of Bad Idea the parent was talking about - they're breaking up what would ordinarily be an expansion pack and selling it for new game prices.
That's an interesting view of reality you have there. You believe Microsoft invented the hardware restrictions that the MPAA and RIAA are trying to force down our throats?
Hmm. Palladium. Product activation. Windows Genuine Advantage. Plays for Sure. Microsoft has been pushing DRM (weren't they the ones who came up with the term?) with or without the backing of the AA's for years.
Backwards compatibility is not a feature, if you're going to complain about it then let's have a discussion about computers unable to run SUSE 10.1. Why can't I run it on my 386? or my 486?
Because that's a dumb comparison. No one wants to run a new operating system on a 20 year old processor. However, plenty of people will want to be able to run new operating systems on three to four year old hardware - hardware that was new during Longhorn's/Vista's development. What's so unreasonable about that?
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Last I checked with a 1gz processor and 512megs of ram you can indeed run Vista.
You can also run XP with 128 megabytes of ram, but it's not something anyone would want to do.
WGA doesn't apply to me or most of corporate America as all updates are performed through SMS and not Windows Updates. Same goes with Product Activation since everything is volume license.
Red herring. Windows doesn't push WGA and product activation on corporate customers because they simply will not put up with the bullshit involved with activating operating systems and applications after a reinstall, or having their worstations shut down because WGA rears it's ugly head. There's a different DRM for businesses: the Business Software Alliance and multimillion dollar lawsuits. This doesn't change what I said: Microsoft has been pushing DRM for years with or without the backing/insistance of the RIAA.
Also, last I checked Play for Sure was an attempt to legitimize downloading content online and so the AAs were indeed involved in it's creation since MS saw a huge potential liability.
Microsoft would have pushed Plays for Sure (though it Sure Doesn't on Zunes...) with or without the RIAA, because Microsoft thought the way to make money on online music was to control the formats. Then along came a little device called the iPod...
So expanding federal, and particularly executive, power by leaps and bounds, using his four terms in office to stack the Supreme Court in his favor, and the like were all signs of a "stellar presidency?"
Yes, absolutely. This country was facing the worst economic crisis in its history, and the worst war in history. Neither crisis could have been handled WITHOUT a strong federal government. Hoover tried the "hands off" approach and it failed. "Staying the course" could have left the U.S. a third world country and three continents and five billion people under the control of the Axis powers.
Many of the things we decry Bush for were first accomplished by Franklin Roosevelt, and often to greater effect.
Like what. You talk about Supreme Court justices, but if you check the Constitution, you'll find no number specified. IIRC there have been as few as 7 and as many as 15 justices. Asking Congress to approve more justices was a perfectly legal move for FDR to make.
The problem isn't that Bush wanted more government power to combat terrorism, the problem is that he is raping the foundations of this country (checks & balances, habeas corpus, Bill of Rights) and yet is so fucking incompetent that he doesn't even know when an Arab company is going to take control of the largest ports in the United States.
If his presidency was so stellar, why the rush to propose and ratify the Twenty-Second Amendment so soon after his death?
Because Republicans had control of Congress and wanted to prevent another 4 term Democratic president. Notice how much they regretted their actions when Reagan's second term was expiring.
Yes, and we know that GW Bush was the first President to ever engaging in spying without warrants
Yes, everyone knows that Bush wasn't the first to order warrantless spying, but so far I've heard a whole lot of talk and not a whole lot of proof.
In any case, I doubt any other modern presidents have done anything like Bush's varied shenanigans, for two reasons. The first is Richard Nixon. The second is Plausible Deniability. And Bush is almost certinally the first to president to order it on such a massive scale.
The clipper chip was part of a larger initiative which did involve outlawing private research into cryptography, which the NSA deemed to be their sole domain. Go read "The Electronic Privacy Papers" it is quite and interesting collection of position papers and declassified government documents.
Yes, the clipper chip was a fantastically horrible idea on many fronts, but it was still a far cry from making privacy "illegal", as you first stated. And this administration has gone waaaay beyond the Clipper with their secret prisons, torture, warrantless spying, no trials for prisoners, etc etc. We haven't seen civil rights violations from the Executive Branch this grotesque since Executive Order 9066.
If you want to give the GUI an extreme bitchslap, and can open a terminal, find the process number for 'loginwindow' and kill it. Timeouts on network shares can be a real bitch though, especially over wireless connections.
It's too bad Apple doesn't backport their bugfixes. They have to convince me to spend $129 on a minor version upgrade somehow, though.
One of the other nice things about Tiger is that the unix userland tools can now handle metadata - for a lot of us that feature alone made the upgrade price worth it.
Randy Weaver is an interesting case. And just like Waco, their guns ultimately didn't save them. However, their guns provided enough light on the government activities to show how far our country has fallen.
I think the coverage of abusive law enformcement had more to do with it than how many guns they had.
The reason most people don't give a rats ass about either of these today, is because these people were viewed as "wackos" (right-wing, religious). Had these people been left-wing hippies I'm sure the results would have been much different.
You mean like this guy? No national coverage or congressional hearings for him.
Randy Weaver's wife was unarmed holding a child when she was shot. Where was Al Sharpton protesting? Yet when street thugs are shot by police he is all over it.
By "street thug" do you mean "man who panicked when he saw someone pull a gun"?
Oh, and the reason the ATF was going after Randy Weaver was because of his guns. That is the best evidence I have that gun laws are screwed.
They went after him after Weaver after they entraped him and sent him a notice to appear in court with the wrong date on it.
That too, but after I made that post it occurred to me that the ACLU's bread and butter is people who can't defend themselves, and by now they may have a vested interest in perpetuating their own clientele... akin to how unions have become more about perpetuating union income rather than defending workers' rights.
Sorry, but those arguments, like the "why doesn't the ACLU do gun cases", don't stand up to much scrutiny. The ACLU wants to perpetuate their clientele? Why, because taking pro bono cases for people who don't have money to pay for an attorney is such a gravy train? As for unions, to protect workers rights they need to do lobbying and recruitment efforts - activities that require...money.
Given the ACLU's history of turning down cases not because of merit, but because they think the case is unwinnable, I don't have a great deal of faith in their internal motivations.
The ACLU has limited resources. Why should they waste them on a case they don't think they can win? Especially when it might create a bad precident?
Absurd but true. Even after the launch date, Nintendo still dictated when stores could sell their Wiis they have in stock. One store here (Futureshop) sold some wiis on the wednesday before black friday (no black friday in canada but during that week) and they got bitched at by nintendo hq.
Coordinated release != lack of supply problems.
So do you work for Sony or are you such a cell phone geek that you knew that off the top of your head? :)
And not because kids want notoriety, but do to this simple formula: a kid is bullied and ostracized until he or she decides that life is simply not worth living anymore, and before they go, they might as well take the fucking assholes with them that are responsible for making them feel that way.
But it doesn't mean they lied about anything.
If the summary is correct about the lawyers claiming the letter from AOL confirmed that this woman had download copyrighted audio, then you have a different definition of "lying" than the rest of us do.
"$725,000 to cover the state's attorneys' fees" that's just insane!
Only the U.S. do you find a good chunk of the population preffering that money remain in the hands of criminals than (gasp!) laywers.
Furthermore, you have absolutely NO idea what is motivating the driver behind you...there could be a medical emergency involved, and your prissy ass might be impeding their progress to a hospital.
This happened to my aunt once. She had cataract surgery, and one of her retinas became detatched after she got home. Her brother was driving her to the hospital, and some jackass wouldn't let him pass - the guy kept driving the same speed as the car in the right lane.
In the 20th century, everyone knew that before Columbus, people thought the world was flat.
Oh, the irony.
I blame it on bad videos shown to students in school. The real irony is that Columbus was wrong, and his critics were right. They weren't saying that the world was flat, they were saying it was impossible to sail from Europe across the Atlantic to Asia. And they were right - the crew was just about starving by the time they got to the Caribbean, there's no way they would have made it to Asia.
Maybe you are dyslexic and your brain translated the word economics into "climatology". And as for statistics - BFD. Knowing statistics means you can...make statistics, not be an expert on anything that uses them.
Then Al Gore forced us to buy low flow toilettes to save fresh water, but opened a Damn so he could take a canoe trip.
I don't know about the rest of your post but this is definitely a lie, Mr. Pot.
Depends on if the environmentalist opened his study for peer review by climatologists. Somehow I doubt coal and gas companies do this...
The treatment Bjorn Lomborg received reminds me of Galileo before the inquisition.
Galileo wasn't a poser. Lomberg's degrees are science...political science. He also skipped the peer review process, which further disqualifies him as a "serious" skeptic.
I don't understand what your problem is with uniforms. When you go to a school either you or your parents sign an agreement stating that you will abide by the school rules. You signed it (or your parents who know better for you signed it) so you agree with it.
An "agreement" made under duress is no agreement at all. Unless he had his choice of non-uniform using high schools, neither he nor his parents really had a choice. Yes there is homeschooling, but in todays families that need two incomes that is rarely feasible. I also find it a bit odd that you have the "suck it up and take it" attiude with school uniforms and yet complain about not having had fashionable jeans.
Most of the world uses school uniforms.
They still suck. Kids are just as capable of making trouble and being assholes in uniform as they are out of uniform.
How did you pull that one off? Not even the classic MacOS 7.x would run with anything less than 16 MBytes of RAM on PowerPC hardware... for MacOS X running with 4 MBytes you must have come up with some hardcore optimisations.
:) They came with 32 megs of system memory and I had that one expanded to 320.
Sorry. Four megs of VIDEO memory.
That doesn't make any sense. The more bells and whistles you throw in, the more power you will need to run the OS - by definition.
Consider how Apple does it: they keep adding features that work just fine on older hardware. I was able run Panther and use Expose just fine on my 1997 iMac with four megs of memory, for example. The only feature that requires a graphics card made in the last few years is Core Image, used for accelerating large images in programs like Aperture.
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Before they sold out to Microsoft, that is. They gutted multiplayer from Oni and turned Halo from a cross platform game with brilliant graphics into a console hobbled shadow of what it could have been.
If you look elsewhere, you will find that Valve is doing the Good Idea (except for the have-to-hope-Steam-won't-shut-down factor, which I still dislike).
Good Idea? I don't think so. What Valve is doing is exactly the sort of Bad Idea the parent was talking about - they're breaking up what would ordinarily be an expansion pack and selling it for new game prices.
I've personally made it a goal to never buy another EA game, no matter how much I've been looking forward to it.
That's what torrents are for.
That's an interesting view of reality you have there. You believe Microsoft invented the hardware restrictions that the MPAA and RIAA are trying to force down our throats?
Hmm. Palladium. Product activation. Windows Genuine Advantage. Plays for Sure. Microsoft has been pushing DRM (weren't they the ones who came up with the term?) with or without the backing of the AA's for years.
Backwards compatibility is not a feature, if you're going to complain about it then let's have a discussion about computers unable to run SUSE 10.1. Why can't I run it on my 386? or my 486?
Because that's a dumb comparison. No one wants to run a new operating system on a 20 year old processor. However, plenty of people will want to be able to run new operating systems on three to four year old hardware - hardware that was new during Longhorn's/Vista's development. What's so unreasonable about that?