This isnt some attempt to read your mind to see if your reading porn. All this machine does is look for "signs" from the elecromagnetic radiation from your brain that your under certain conditions.
Its like a Cop pulling someone from a crowd because there general movements/actions seem out of place. A person thats about to do something wrong tend to show signs based on there actions/behaviour.
This is the same thing that has been done for decades, just in a more advanced form.
Microsoft in its wisdom feels it has the best product out there and 99% of the people that purchase a computer are going to use there product.
Since this is a FACT in there eyes, They can not understand the legality of anyone purchasing a system without a OS.. As soon as there lawers see a tally stating that 10% of the computers sold where sold using the NO OS option, They begin to think..
We are the best? We are on 99% of the computers out there right? That means only 1% can be non-windows right? So where do the other 9% get there copy of windows that they must be using by our math?
OF COURSE.. Those 9% are pirating our software... If we don't allow them to sell NO OS products we reduce pirating...
Example.. The cops having the right to search my car is one thing... But giving the cops the right to not only search my car any time they want but to "Upgrade" My seat covers because they dont like them anymore WITHOUT MY APPROVAL is another..
I am all for protecting the rights of artists and copyrights but not at the Expense of my own freedom to setup my machine how I choose...
Heres a good example..
A year from now Microsoft releases Windows Media 99x and Announces that its totally incompatible with any other media player, So they AUTO UPGRADE YOUR MACHINE MY REMOVING ALL OTHER MEDIA PLAYERS BUT THERES...
Now while this example may seem beyond realistic at this point in time.. THIS IS THE POWER THAT THERE EULA GRANTS THEM..
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The issue you microsoft loving moron is the EULA does not say that by turning off the Auto updates they wont do anything to your system..
The EULA gives them TOTAL power of your computer no matter what you do short of taking away any connection between you and them..
This means its within there power to say, Hey look hes got a pirated version of "Austin Powers The Spy Who couldnt come up with a second Orginal Movie and had to use the same old jokes over and over" and WIPE your system TOTALLY.
Its not the Ability to Auto Update.. ITS THE BROAD power there poorly worded EULA gives them.
I had to put some other database in there, Guess I should of used MSSQL but then a true geek would never use that...... maybe DB2?
Which DB is better!! THe world will never know
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Its the endless battle..
Its worse then sitting in a room full of RedNecks fighting over which car is better.. Ford Or Chevy, with some silly idiot trying to throw in a Toyota once in a while..
Rephrase for slashdot
Its worse then sitting in a room full of SysAdmins fighting over which DB is better, Mysql Or Postgres, with some silly geek trying to throw in a Oracle once in a while..
Lets try this again.. 1. Check out motherboard combos for discounts 2. Topic was based on being used as a server.. servers do not need a DVD-ROM drive and a GF2MX
3. The price could be even cheaper if you get a integrated mb/video/network card
733/64MEG RAM 10 Gig Drive XBOX $180 at the cheapest
Pricewatch Total for a Althon 1.2 chip/Motherboard 128 Megs Ram 20 Gig HD Case Cdrom Network Card $220
Come on people... Spend $40 more get at get real.. The time/money you save not having to MOD/Play to get linux installed plus the extra power makings using a XboX as a serverfarm just plain stupid
Intel 733 processor with only 128k Cache Only 64 Megs of ram 5400 RPM Drives With only 10 gigs active No Standard VGA Port for a monitor
So all in all this would make one SHITTY server, not worth the time and effort for most people..
You would be better off going to walmart and picking up a Lindows computer and using that as a server before you bothered to touch this.
Any geek with the skilz to use this for a server could just as easy build his own system for not much more and it would perform ALOT better as a server then this would.
Why waste your time getting linux to run on a Microsuck product? Why waste time dealing with closed hardware?
If these people really wanted to do the linux community any good there time would be better spent developing a linux gaming console on everyday stock hardware.
Until fiber prices and equipment come more within the reach of the masses, there will be a demand for copper, as long as there is a demand for copper there will be someone out there trying to make it better.
Home network, you can be 99.9% sure you are just fine and don't need to spend the money on 1Gbit stuff any time soon.. By the time it is needed the prices will drop.. so why bother
1. The people that plan on using it in the manner that the companys are afraid of, to pirate stuff
2. The people that think everyone is spying on them and so they complain about any information being saved
3. The normal joe blow who this will not really affect there daily lives at all.
At some point there will need to be some convergance between protection for the consumer and protection for the bigger companys..
No matter how big they are or how much money they make.. They have the right to protect there income..
Complaining that they are going to track what you do is like complaining that the cameras in walmart are a loss a privacy. They are there for one reason.. To stop crime..
Theres a very very old saying
"Locks are not to keep the thiefs out, they are to keep the honest people honest"
The people that use these things in a manner that is illegal, they are the ones complaining because now the "doors" are being locked and they can't get in easy.
Everyone here spends there time bitching about this company doing that and that company doing this.
The point of running a company is to make money... the ones that don't "Loki" fail. Yet there is a constant bias on here against any company that does anything to make money.. Its just plan crazy
Ok, the patent office must be full of idiots like you..
Your stated contract is invalid and as stupid as the patents coming out of the office these days..
You can not have a valid contract that forces a person to do something harmfull, or illegal.. A contract stating a person can't wear pants would be such..
You could state then have to wear slacks.. But so say they can't where pants all together wouldnt hold up in court..
Just like these software patents shouldnt hold up in court
Day in and day out people bitch about spyware this and trojan that..
Did you pay for the software? No You didnt.
Is there any harm in a company trying to profit off software they provide? Give me a break. This is nothing but Seti with a P2P attached.
Did you fully read the TOS that came with the software? If you didn't you have no right to complain..
Your all suck as much log as the people who complain about the president.. But never vote..
And sometimes I think some of you would complain if a person gave you a wrinkled $100 bill... "No its wrinkled I want a new one damn it or I will refuse to take it at all!!"
Source is USELESS you can't use it.. Or risk making your own code "dirty" by just looking at it..
If Microsoft can prove I looked at that source, and a year down the rode they don't like me they can try to claim some idea or something I did was done purely on what I learned from that source...
Forget if it was a idea of my own if they can tie that idea to something in that source im screwed.. I can't afford to fight them..
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This isnt some attempt to read your mind to see if your reading porn. All this machine does is look for "signs" from the elecromagnetic radiation from your brain that your under certain conditions.
Its like a Cop pulling someone from a crowd because there general movements/actions seem out of place. A person thats about to do something wrong tend to show signs based on there actions/behaviour.
This is the same thing that has been done for decades, just in a more advanced form.
Can you give us some recipes that are
,we use it to raise our monitor up a few more inches )
1. Cheap ( half the geeks in the world are unemployeed since the bubble burst )
2. Fast to cook ( We aint got time to spend on some fancy meal, we got programming to do )
3. Easy to make ( Give us a manual on C no problem, give most of us a cook book
Microsoft in its wisdom feels it has the best product out there and 99% of the people that purchase a computer are going to use there product.
Since this is a FACT in there eyes, They can not understand the legality of anyone purchasing a system without a OS.. As soon as there lawers see a tally stating that 10% of the computers sold where sold using the NO OS option, They begin to think..
We are the best? We are on 99% of the computers out there right? That means only 1% can be non-windows right? So where do the other 9% get there copy of windows that they must be using by our math?
OF COURSE.. Those 9% are pirating our software... If we don't allow them to sell NO OS products we reduce pirating...
That is wrong..
Example.. The cops having the right to search my car is one thing... But giving the cops the right to not only search my car any time they want but to "Upgrade" My seat covers because they dont like them anymore WITHOUT MY APPROVAL is another..
I am all for protecting the rights of artists and copyrights but not at the Expense of my own freedom to setup my machine how I choose...
Heres a good example..
A year from now Microsoft releases Windows Media 99x and Announces that its totally incompatible with any other media player, So they AUTO UPGRADE YOUR MACHINE MY REMOVING ALL OTHER MEDIA PLAYERS BUT THERES...
Now while this example may seem beyond realistic at this point in time.. THIS IS THE POWER THAT THERE EULA GRANTS THEM..
The issue you microsoft loving moron is the EULA does not say that by turning off the Auto updates they wont do anything to your system..
The EULA gives them TOTAL power of your computer no matter what you do short of taking away any connection between you and them..
This means its within there power to say, Hey look hes got a pirated version of "Austin Powers The Spy Who couldnt come up with a second Orginal Movie and had to use the same old jokes over and over" and WIPE your system TOTALLY.
Its not the Ability to Auto Update.. ITS THE BROAD power there poorly worded EULA gives them.
I had to put some other database in there, Guess I should of used MSSQL but then a true geek would never use that...... maybe DB2?
Its the endless battle..
Its worse then sitting in a room full of RedNecks fighting over which car is better.. Ford Or Chevy, with some silly idiot trying to throw in a Toyota once in a while..
Rephrase for slashdot
Its worse then sitting in a room full of SysAdmins fighting over which DB is better, Mysql Or Postgres, with some silly geek trying to throw in a Oracle once in a while..
Server /.'ed in morse code
You know why your dad wore short pants?
So when his ship sank he could walk to shore!!
Yea yea
Lets try this again..
1. Check out motherboard combos for discounts
2. Topic was based on being used as a server.. servers do not need a DVD-ROM drive and a GF2MX
3. The price could be even cheaper if you get a integrated mb/video/network card
Again I would like to point out that my price comparision was based on the box being used as a server..
Geforce 3 in a server not needed
More then 64 megs ram is needed
DVD player not needed
Besides there are so many other projects out there that need help, Why promote the purchase of a microsoft product?
Umm hello MORON.. Read my comment fully... Its talking about the use of this box in a SERVER FARM
DVD-ROM and set-top boxes dont apply here.. DOH
733/64MEG RAM 10 Gig Drive XBOX $180 at the cheapest
Pricewatch Total for a
Althon 1.2 chip/Motherboard
128 Megs Ram
20 Gig HD
Case
Cdrom
Network Card
$220
Come on people... Spend $40 more get at get real.. The time/money you save not having to MOD/Play to get linux installed plus the extra power makings using a XboX as a serverfarm just plain stupid
These boxes would make shitty servers..
Intel 733 processor with only 128k Cache
Only 64 Megs of ram
5400 RPM Drives With only 10 gigs active
No Standard VGA Port for a monitor
So all in all this would make one SHITTY server, not worth the time and effort for most people..
You would be better off going to walmart and picking up a Lindows computer and using that as a server before you bothered to touch this.
Any geek with the skilz to use this for a server could just as easy build his own system for not much more and it would perform ALOT better as a server then this would.
My only question is Why?
Why waste your time getting linux to run on a Microsuck product?
Why waste time dealing with closed hardware?
If these people really wanted to do the linux community any good there time would be better spent developing a linux gaming console on everyday stock hardware.
I mean really lets think about this..
Do I want to
1. Run a webserver on a Xbox?
2. Run games on a linux box?
Which one makes more sense?
Until fiber prices and equipment come more within the reach of the masses, there will be a demand for copper, as long as there is a demand for copper there will be someone out there trying to make it better.
Home network, you can be 99.9% sure you are just fine and don't need to spend the money on 1Gbit stuff any time soon.. By the time it is needed the prices will drop.. so why bother
More powerfull then a any hacker /.
Faster then a speeding DoS Attack
Able to quelch tall servers with a single post
Its a bird its a plane no its
1. The people that plan on using it in the manner that the companys are afraid of, to pirate stuff
2. The people that think everyone is spying on them and so they complain about any information being saved
3. The normal joe blow who this will not really affect there daily lives at all.
At some point there will need to be some convergance between protection for the consumer and protection for the bigger companys..
No matter how big they are or how much money they make.. They have the right to protect there income..
Complaining that they are going to track what you do is like complaining that the cameras in walmart are a loss a privacy. They are there for one reason.. To stop crime..
Theres a very very old saying
"Locks are not to keep the thiefs out, they are to keep the honest people honest"
The people that use these things in a manner that is illegal, they are the ones complaining because now the "doors" are being locked and they can't get in easy.
Everyone here spends there time bitching about this company doing that and that company doing this.
The point of running a company is to make money... the ones that don't "Loki" fail. Yet there is a constant bias on here against any company that does anything to make money.. Its just plan crazy
You have to read my message in full context Anonymous moron..
If I where to show up in my underwear I could be put in jail..
If its 0 below outside I could be hurt
Ok, the patent office must be full of idiots like you..
Your stated contract is invalid and as stupid as the patents coming out of the office these days..
You can not have a valid contract that forces a person to do something harmfull, or illegal.. A contract stating a person can't wear pants would be such..
You could state then have to wear slacks.. But so say they can't where pants all together wouldnt hold up in court..
Just like these software patents shouldnt hold up in court
Day in and day out people bitch about spyware this and trojan that..
Did you pay for the software? No You didnt.
Is there any harm in a company trying to profit off software they provide? Give me a break. This is nothing but Seti with a P2P attached.
Did you fully read the TOS that came with the software? If you didn't you have no right to complain..
Your all suck as much log as the people who complain about the president.. But never vote..
And sometimes I think some of you would complain if a person gave you a wrinkled $100 bill...
"No its wrinkled I want a new one damn it or I will refuse to take it at all!!"
There is a BIG diffrence in this case.. Not being able to sell Coke or Pepsi will never destroy a place..
Until the last couple years being told You can't sell Windows on your computers.. That would destroy almost any computer company.
Source is USELESS you can't use it.. Or risk making your own code "dirty" by just looking at it..
If Microsoft can prove I looked at that source, and a year down the rode they don't like me they can try to claim some idea or something I did was done purely on what I learned from that source...
Forget if it was a idea of my own if they can tie that idea to something in that source im screwed.. I can't afford to fight them..