The latest CD from "Enigma" includes so called "honour" copy protection. The CD contains no evil tricks, but the booklet says "Please don't give copies of this music away."
I honestly believe that would actually be more effective than corrupting your CD...
Back when Acorn still existed, one of the Acorn World shows in London, UK featured the "letterbox game". This consisted of, using nothing but a mallet and chisel, trying to fit a PC through a letterbox in a short as time as possible.
It would be easier today, back then, PC cases were mostly made of metal and were tough!
The fact that the keyboard isn't removable is interesting. I have the old model 1GHz 15" PowerBook, and I've always wondered whether someone would make replacement keyboards for it, perhaps silver, or backlit.
I have used an Apple Pro Keyboard plugged into a Windows XP PC for a long time. It works just fine. Microsoft themselves make a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so I'm fairly sure the new Apple ones would work on a PC too.
Okay, this isn't the same laptop I was thinking of. It actually works by sending a different image to the left and right of the screen. Mod parent down please.:P
This can't be very good for the viewing angle though, can it? You'd have to be sitting right in front of it.
Microsoft already does this. In Windows XP file sharing by default is off to everywhere, not just the internet, and you have to jump through hoops to turn it on. Even then it refuses to share it out across the internet unless you really force it to.
If that were true, people wouldn't buy Macs. I don't think being identical to Windows is necessary at all. You can be easy to use, and still be different.
Just as you would expect for a business system, Mandrake Light includes an abundance of office tools and productivity software. OpenOffice.org and KOffice were there in entirety. The choice of spreadsheets included my personal favorite, gnumeric. There were also amusements like Frozen Bubble, a raft of browsers and email clients, and several IM clients.
Non-geek PC users don't need two office suites, a collection of spreadsheets and a "raft of browsers". They need one of each, and they want that one to "just work".
Linux needs to move away from it's "shovelware" tendancies.
As far as I am aware, if they do not re-distribute the changes they make in binary form, they are under no obligation to re-distribute changes in the source either.
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Commericals are those things we don't get on BBC television.
Sometimes, I think the license fee is a great thing...
The latest CD from "Enigma" includes so called "honour" copy protection. The CD contains no evil tricks, but the booklet says "Please don't give copies of this music away."
I honestly believe that would actually be more effective than corrupting your CD...
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Sometimes bad people can do good things.
Back when Acorn still existed, one of the Acorn World shows in London, UK featured the "letterbox game". This consisted of, using nothing but a mallet and chisel, trying to fit a PC through a letterbox in a short as time as possible.
It would be easier today, back then, PC cases were mostly made of metal and were tough!
I'm guessing my home ISP, and yours too, have applied a DNS patch to knock SiteFinder out of action.
I guess not, now.
Even if I was in the market for a game console, I definitely wouldn't buy from a spammer.
email address is listed correctly above, but make sure your SMTP server has the same domain name as what follows your @ or is a subdomain thereof
Wow, that's the most anal SMTP server I've ever seen. You must not get much mail.
Yeah I know, -1, off-topic.
I have used an Apple Pro Keyboard plugged into a Windows XP PC for a long time. It works just fine. Microsoft themselves make a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so I'm fairly sure the new Apple ones would work on a PC too.
Google seems to manage.
Tap tap tap 18, 19, 20, go!
This can't be very good for the viewing angle though, can it? You'd have to be sitting right in front of it.
The front screen can make pixels transparent, which show the rear screen, allowing depth to be shown.
Can't be very good for thin-ness...
I've always preferred trackballs, moving a mouse around seems to be hard on my wrist.
Europe's using a heck of a lot of nuclear power. Probably ten times what the US is using. What do they do with it?
We use it again.
You'd have to spend about that much at a traditional music store too.
Are you suggesting that Linux is more usable than Windows? I scoff.
The most usable computer system on the market right now is almost certainly the Macintosh.
Microsoft already does this. In Windows XP file sharing by default is off to everywhere, not just the internet, and you have to jump through hoops to turn it on. Even then it refuses to share it out across the internet unless you really force it to.
and yes users do care about usability, otherwise they wouldnt run windows.
Users care about price, not usability. If they really cared about usability, they most certainly would not be running Windows.
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Ah, humour.
If that were true, people wouldn't buy Macs. I don't think being identical to Windows is necessary at all. You can be easy to use, and still be different.
Non-geek PC users don't need two office suites, a collection of spreadsheets and a "raft of browsers". They need one of each, and they want that one to "just work".
Linux needs to move away from it's "shovelware" tendancies.
As far as I am aware, if they do not re-distribute the changes they make in binary form, they are under no obligation to re-distribute changes in the source either.
Everything on the CD is an advert for something else. You can't even get to the main menu without watching a video of a car advert.
My sig admittedly isn't very clear. I want the stories from Google's tech section, combined with a SlashDot-style comments system.