We've got a law that allows 'dangerous people' to be arrested and held indefinitely without being charged or brought to trial. If that doesn't sound like it has potential to be abuse, I don't know what does.
This latest one will be another with enormous potential for abuse. It'll censor unfairly many sites that don't have child pornography on them. It would also be possible for someone saying something that isn't liked to be put on it 'accidentally.'
But, I'm probably just paranoid, there's no reason not to trust the gov't. They are here to protect us.
I recently did an experiment. Like many things, I did it because I had two choices: 1) Wait for the family computer's dead harddrive to come back from RMA and listen to whining and complaining about not being able to download MP3s and pr0n and high speed 2) Try out the cd image of DemoLinux a while back and see how it works.
Having been born without a patience gland, I chose the latter. After all, what could go wrong? I booted it up, hit enter a few times on simple and intuitive menus, and was looking at a X11 GUI login. A few minutes later KDE1 and Netscape 4.7 were up and running with a Java version of AIM running as well.
Next, I rebooted it, wrote down step by step instructions to start it up and setup the network. Only seven steps were needed and three could be done by most anyone.
"Pick your language:", etc.
Even my ancient new technology hating parents were able to start it up and surf away.
The point is, that an old version of KDE+Netscape was user friendly enough for dumb people to use it. KDE3 and newer software associated with recent Linux distro releases like Mandrake 8.2 are even easier. If it was preinstalled on corporate desktops, it couldn't get much easier for people to pick up.
Why don't companies load up Linux on some of their desktops that don't require specific proprietary software? I've seen people doing office work, there isn't much to it Linux can't handle.
If the geeks of the world can restrain themselves from buying their sattelite radio garbage Sirius will go backrupt. I personally just find it amusing that yet another tentacle of the entertainment industry is holding back progress.
Someone could also carry on a pack of matches and some nonmetal baloons fitted to his or her body filled with gasoline. There are limitless ways bad people can do bad things. It isn't naive so much as stupid if we expect highschool flunkies to make it safe to fly.
I think I'll stick to the train when I have to travel. Slower, but cheaper and I like it. No anal probes are needed either.
To break Windows legacy apps completely to enable IA64 emulation on their.NET platform! I wonder if I'll be able to access my Passport Account to buy stuff using Hailstorm with this new OS!?!?
There's not much amazing about this. IDE, LAN, and sound are all on a standard Southbridge chip (like the ones by VIA), and video is integrated in cheapy Northbridge chips.
Just not putting on PCI slots makes a motherboard this size.
But you might consider saving up some cash and getting one of these. They start at $950, and you can get a very well equipped one for only about $1300. That's not a small amount of money, but it is certainly a excellent price/performance ratio.
It'll be interesting to see what they release on GBA. Most of the FF games have already been rereleased on PSX this past year. I couldn't imagine them rereleasing any earlier than FFIV. Chronotrigger on GBA would be kick ass though too.
If they just repealed the absurdity that is the DMCA, and the Government stays the fsck out of regulating technology? I'm sorry if this offends your fragile sensitivities, but the US Federal Government fscks up every last thing it touches.
I've got a Soyo K7V DRAGON+ and I'm using Windows2000/XP (I've installed back and forth between them trying to decide which I like better) and Linux-Mandrake 8.1.
My Cmedia 8738, GeForce 3 Ti 200, Via (Rhine) Ethernet, and three USB controller hubs are all on IRQ7. All the devices work great in both Windows and Linux.
As I somehow doubt the Dragon+ was purchased as a Server board, why not just use Linux which works properly?
You could run FreeBSD in VMWare if you really can't do without it.
Wouldn't a newly made distributed system either be sued out of existence by people in power, or controlled from its inception by them? I can't picture it working beyond a Distributed.net/SETI kind of thing.
The financial aspect of it is quite interesting though, information and media could be "virtually free" because of your essentially leased out idle computing resources.
No one forces people to use GPL'ed software, so if they choose to then they are bound by the license. If Microsoft says you can only use their software on one PC per license, then you can either agree to that or not use it. The GPL is more acceptable an agreement, in that you probably didn't even pay for the software it governs.
I'm not sure it really bothers me that they were using a proprietary network protocol on Morpheus. Having used both Morpheus and Limewire I found Morpheus was significantly faster.
I'm not some Anti-Java Troll either, I believe the difference was in the network protocol and search efficiency.
This isn't to say Limewire was bad though, and with the Sun JVM 1.4 the mousewheel works right on Win32 systems (at last). So farewell Morpheus, I guess?
I've seen their technology in use, and it is quite impressive. It is also very expensive though as you mention.
What I'd suggest is either since you are already using Windows get a Windows Terminal Server and use RDP. Just this week I used a RDP client for Linux, and it worked flawlessly (www.rdpdesktop.org), so client OS won't really matter all that much with a Terminal Server.
Alternately, you could get a nice Linux/UNIX server and run remote X sessions.
Either solution requires a competent Administrator, and a beefy server, but both are probably cheaper than Citrix's Metaframe (or whatever it was called) software.
Content providers tell us that we need the Federal Government to mandate copy protection on all hardware and software that can process information to control copyrighted materials, so then movies can be sold and distributed online, which will cause an explosion in demand for broadband internet, which will increase demand for new PC hardware.
The little problem with this claim, is that movies are available all over the Internet now for free. So, free movies available should cause an explosion in the demand for broadband, and PC hardware sales should be booming, not shrinking.
The logical conclusion is that a higher price will increase demand for a product?
Yours is an idiotic biologically deterministic view of human development. 99% of people regardless of an inherent defect of some kind don't do anything amazing. Are they to be deprived of existence too for lacking a "wonder gene"?
Preventing pregnacy using birth control isn't even related to the topic at hand. Stupid.
The whole point, which seems well beyond your meager comprehension, is that there are people with genetic defects who have made significant contributions to society. Those people would not have been born if they were screened as embyros and flushed down a toilet. Many people are born with or acquire disabilities and live happy lives, and would rather live with a disability that to have never lived at all.
Pull your head out of your ass, drop your elitist attitude, and realize that you don't know what is best for everyone else. The only thing that surprises me is that you could find (or pay someone enough) to have sex with you.
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We've got a law that allows 'dangerous people' to be arrested and held indefinitely without being charged or brought to trial. If that doesn't sound like it has potential to be abuse, I don't know what does.
This latest one will be another with enormous potential for abuse. It'll censor unfairly many sites that don't have child pornography on them. It would also be possible for someone saying something that isn't liked to be put on it 'accidentally.'
But, I'm probably just paranoid, there's no reason not to trust the gov't. They are here to protect us.
(I live in PA, btw)
I did 1 1/2 years ago, and I'm planning on fulfilling that threat in about 18 1/2 (bail time, baby!)
I recently did an experiment. Like many things, I did it because I had two choices:
1) Wait for the family computer's dead harddrive to come back from RMA and listen to whining and complaining about not being able to download MP3s and pr0n and high speed
2) Try out the cd image of DemoLinux a while back and see how it works.
Having been born without a patience gland, I chose the latter. After all, what could go wrong? I booted it up, hit enter a few times on simple and intuitive menus, and was looking at a X11 GUI login. A few minutes later KDE1 and Netscape 4.7 were up and running with a Java version of AIM running as well.
Next, I rebooted it, wrote down step by step instructions to start it up and setup the network. Only seven steps were needed and three could be done by most anyone.
"Pick your language:", etc.
Even my ancient new technology hating parents were able to start it up and surf away.
The point is, that an old version of KDE+Netscape was user friendly enough for dumb people to use it. KDE3 and newer software associated with recent Linux distro releases like Mandrake 8.2 are even easier. If it was preinstalled on corporate desktops, it couldn't get much easier for people to pick up.
Why don't companies load up Linux on some of their desktops that don't require specific proprietary software? I've seen people doing office work, there isn't much to it Linux can't handle.
There's no mention on it's details webpage about the release... anyone know?
"at the lowest compression rates"? Afterall, ripping a CD at 320kbps is a LOWER rate of compression than at 128kbps as it results in a larger file.
People that like fuzzy sounding 64kbps mp3 can get lots on a 128MB flash card =)
If the geeks of the world can restrain themselves from buying their sattelite radio garbage Sirius will go backrupt. I personally just find it amusing that yet another tentacle of the entertainment industry is holding back progress.
Someone could also carry on a pack of matches and some nonmetal baloons fitted to his or her body filled with gasoline. There are limitless ways bad people can do bad things. It isn't naive so much as stupid if we expect highschool flunkies to make it safe to fly.
I think I'll stick to the train when I have to travel. Slower, but cheaper and I like it. No anal probes are needed either.
Installshield that is. MS has the "Windows Installer." Installshield is a separate entity.
To break Windows legacy apps completely to enable IA64 emulation on their .NET platform! I wonder if I'll be able to access my Passport Account to buy stuff using Hailstorm with this new OS!?!?
:)
/note sarcasm
There's not much amazing about this. IDE, LAN, and sound are all on a standard Southbridge chip (like the ones by VIA), and video is integrated in cheapy Northbridge chips.
Just not putting on PCI slots makes a motherboard this size.
The folks at apple or the folks at lucasfilms? Those morons blocked any referral to the link from /.
But you might consider saving up some cash and getting one of these. They start at $950, and you can get a very well equipped one for only about $1300. That's not a small amount of money, but it is certainly a excellent price/performance ratio.
It'll be interesting to see what they release on GBA. Most of the FF games have already been rereleased on PSX this past year. I couldn't imagine them rereleasing any earlier than FFIV. Chronotrigger on GBA would be kick ass though too.
They sued when Java was included in Windows 98, and now they are suing that it isn't included in Windows XP?
They want to have their cake and eat it too?
If they just repealed the absurdity that is the DMCA, and the Government stays the fsck out of regulating technology? I'm sorry if this offends your fragile sensitivities, but the US Federal Government fscks up every last thing it touches.
I've got a Soyo K7V DRAGON+ and I'm using Windows2000/XP (I've installed back and forth between them trying to decide which I like better) and Linux-Mandrake 8.1.
My Cmedia 8738, GeForce 3 Ti 200, Via (Rhine) Ethernet, and three USB controller hubs are all on IRQ7. All the devices work great in both Windows and Linux.
As I somehow doubt the Dragon+ was purchased as a Server board, why not just use Linux which works properly?
You could run FreeBSD in VMWare if you really can't do without it.
Were they too numerous to count or something?
I really didn't understand that at all. Nuclear bubbles?
Wouldn't a newly made distributed system either be sued out of existence by people in power, or controlled from its inception by them? I can't picture it working beyond a Distributed.net/SETI kind of thing.
The financial aspect of it is quite interesting though, information and media could be "virtually free" because of your essentially leased out idle computing resources.
No one forces people to use GPL'ed software, so if they choose to then they are bound by the license. If Microsoft says you can only use their software on one PC per license, then you can either agree to that or not use it. The GPL is more acceptable an agreement, in that you probably didn't even pay for the software it governs.
:-P
Don't bitch about a free lunch
"AOL-Time Warner, bringing you such goodies as the DMCA and SSSCA to brighten your day!"
I'll take MS as a narrow monopoly; I don't have to use their products.
AOL-TW wants to control everything electronic, and there will be no legal way to avoid them if they get their way.
One competes unfairly, and one wants to deprive you of your Freedom of Choice, which is worse?
I'm not sure it really bothers me that they were using a proprietary network protocol on Morpheus. Having used both Morpheus and Limewire I found Morpheus was significantly faster.
I'm not some Anti-Java Troll either, I believe the difference was in the network protocol and search efficiency.
This isn't to say Limewire was bad though, and with the Sun JVM 1.4 the mousewheel works right on Win32 systems (at last). So farewell Morpheus, I guess?
I've seen their technology in use, and it is quite impressive. It is also very expensive though as you mention.
What I'd suggest is either since you are already using Windows get a Windows Terminal Server and use RDP. Just this week I used a RDP client for Linux, and it worked flawlessly (www.rdpdesktop.org), so client OS won't really matter all that much with a Terminal Server.
Alternately, you could get a nice Linux/UNIX server and run remote X sessions.
Either solution requires a competent Administrator, and a beefy server, but both are probably cheaper than Citrix's Metaframe (or whatever it was called) software.
Content providers tell us that we need the Federal Government to mandate copy protection on all hardware and software that can process information to control copyrighted materials, so then movies can be sold and distributed online, which will cause an explosion in demand for broadband internet, which will increase demand for new PC hardware.
The little problem with this claim, is that movies are available all over the Internet now for free. So, free movies available should cause an explosion in the demand for broadband, and PC hardware sales should be booming, not shrinking.
The logical conclusion is that a higher price will increase demand for a product?
Yours is an idiotic biologically deterministic view of human development. 99% of people regardless of an inherent defect of some kind don't do anything amazing. Are they to be deprived of existence too for lacking a "wonder gene"?
Preventing pregnacy using birth control isn't even related to the topic at hand. Stupid.
The whole point, which seems well beyond your meager comprehension, is that there are people with genetic defects who have made significant contributions to society. Those people would not have been born if they were screened as embyros and flushed down a toilet. Many people are born with or acquire disabilities and live happy lives, and would rather live with a disability that to have never lived at all.
Pull your head out of your ass, drop your elitist attitude, and realize that you don't know what is best for everyone else. The only thing that surprises me is that you could find (or pay someone enough) to have sex with you.