"I was selling various pieces of crap, er... 'Fine Wares' and I got negative feedback from one of the sucke... er, 'buyers', and he's lying to destroy my image! SUE! SUE! SUE!"
C'mon, you idiot. Not everyone is going to be pleased with your business, and eBay can't say "Only say positive things about the buyer, even if they screwed you over!" People have opinions, and eBay allows you to voice them on the buyer. eBay isn't going to change their policy now over something that has made them sucessful. Deal with it; not everyone's going to distrust you if you manage to keep your positive feedback up.
So someone went, did an Open-Source BIOS to replace the main functions of a gaming console expecting to make a General-Purpose PC all because it runs on the x86 arch with a modified GF3? Feh:
"Yeah! Check this out! I'm uber-l33t because I hax0r3d my X-Box just like my Dreamcast -- Oh hold on a sec... *nervous laughter* uh, that wasn't Halo you saw; that was uh... ah... The Torque Engine! Yeah! I'm working on a FPS for my Linux-enhaned X-Box that I modded. Oh the Dreamcast? I ended up putting NetBSD on it, but it's been slashdotted ever since I put the URL in my sig."
Can't even point out where the US is on a world map.
The educational system needs stronger standards. It also has to let students fail and repeat. I went through school (in a "smart" state, Wisconsin) unchallenged and graduated with minimal effort because it was too easy. The sad part is I graduated a 3.0 cummulative GPA, and I was a slacker!
This shit shouldn't happen. I know of some people in my class that should of never passed.
You're overpaid and you don't need the money! After all, you work in computers, right?? You might be a Linux programmer but you work in computers and that's more than good enough so you must answer why Windoze XP doesn't act the way they want it to.
And it's not going to stop unless the exchange rates start to change -- why work for 50000 CDN for example if someone in the US is paying 65000 USD? *shrugs* That's mostly, if not all of the problem. It's very very common in the medical field and certainly isn't suprising that CS and IT are getting hit badly as well.
So apparently, it's ok for Americans to break Russian law if they're in the U.S., but not ok for Russians to break U.S. law, even while in Russia.
Well... isn't everyone in the world an American and speaks English too instead of that hard-to-understand Mexican? I mean, Russia's our partner in the War Against Terror!
I figure I'll download it in about two weeks, and that just may be enough for the slashdot effect from completely knocking the living crap out of the mirrors.
But anyway, I digress. Read this post if you're too damn lazy to read the article and want to whine. AMD is not the one that should be flamed/beaten/death threatened -- they needed this so they can continue to support versions of Windows. This doesn't buh-bye Linux and OSS, and it doesn't mean we're all going to be the *AA's bitches. No, AMD is taking an opt-in, pro-consumer stance here. It's there, but it doesn't mean that it has to be used.
Another stage in Microsoft's five-year plan to control our PCs and the Internet will kick off early next year with the launch of Advanced Micro Devices' latest chip, Opteron, aimed at business uses.
The new microprocessor, which will run both existing 32-bit applications and specially recompiled 64-bit programs, will support "Palladium", a set of security and privacy features Microsoft is building into its products. Both AMD and Microsoft are members of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), a cabal of 170 product makers developing a uniform approach to security and copyright protection. AMD has been working on the "trusted client" approach with Wave Systems Corp for two years.
AMD's chips will increase the security of those accessing programs and the Internet, says company marketer Patrick Moorhead. But it will also refuse to play certain content if it is not digitally signed by Microsoft or an authorised party.
For the end-to-end security features to work as envisioned by the TCPA, all parties along the network chain must build in complementary security features. Chips from the likes of AMD and Intel will only decode information, such as audio and video, if it comes with an unlocking key. Hard-drive makers will make drives that won't record certain types of information, and so on.
It is envisaged that once the TCPA system is fully functioning, our PCs would quietly report to authorities any unauthorised content on our machines. PCs and other devices would also refuse to play content, such as a music CD, tied to another device, and may be instructed by a remote server to delete information from the owner's hard drive.
Moorhead, AMD's vice-president of consumer advocacy, dismisses consumer complaints that the ever-tightening noose designed to stop online piracy, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM), will erode existing rights.
But he says AMD believes that these technologies should be "opt-in" - that the user should control it - not government mandates.
Hollywood and the music industry are lobbying hard to make DRM mandatory in all new devices, and existing laws here and in the US make it a crime to switch it off.
Moorhead says the end user has been "unfairly branded" as a thief, and he believes most people would buy content online if it was available but it is being held back by a skittish film and recording industry.
But Dan Bricklin, computing pioneer and co-developer of the world's first popular spreadsheet, VisiCalc, says attempts to copy-protect works are a "simple fix" to preserve out-dated business models.
Further, he wrote, using legislation to bolster technological methods would be "bad for society", hobbling technology.
"Copy protection, like poor environment and chemical instability before it for books and works of art, looks to be a major impediment to preserving our cultural heritage."
But that doesn't mean it can't be useful later. A great example of this is the logarithm. Always nice now that it's used in seismology and understanding computer performance, huh? Yet all it was useful for until the 20th century was slide rules.
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And yes, I'm proud to have him for a senator too.
C'mon, you idiot. Not everyone is going to be pleased with your business, and eBay can't say "Only say positive things about the buyer, even if they screwed you over!" People have opinions, and eBay allows you to voice them on the buyer. eBay isn't going to change their policy now over something that has made them sucessful. Deal with it; not everyone's going to distrust you if you manage to keep your positive feedback up.
Mark this down on the calanders everyone...
The educational system needs stronger standards. It also has to let students fail and repeat. I went through school (in a "smart" state, Wisconsin) unchallenged and graduated with minimal effort because it was too easy. The sad part is I graduated a 3.0 cummulative GPA, and I was a slacker!
This shit shouldn't happen. I know of some people in my class that should of never passed.
RPM or DEB? vi or emacs? Which distro is it? Do we have to smack them for having a newbie distro? Do they have the latest patches?
The distingushed people of Mass. with the slack-jawed yokles of W.Va. deciding to continue the lawsuit against M$. Indeed, the apocolypse is coming...
Hell, if I can get it through the GPL and I can have it be from a woman... :-D
LINE Is Not an Emmulator or LINux Emmulator.
You're overpaid and you don't need the money! After all, you work in computers, right?? You might be a Linux programmer but you work in computers and that's more than good enough so you must answer why Windoze XP doesn't act the way they want it to.
Don't bother with email; most won't even look at it. Send a fax; jam their fax machines up with swarms of requests if you want to get their attention.
Or an x86...
And it's not going to stop unless the exchange rates start to change -- why work for 50000 CDN for example if someone in the US is paying 65000 USD? *shrugs* That's mostly, if not all of the problem. It's very very common in the medical field and certainly isn't suprising that CS and IT are getting hit badly as well.
More like "Say do you want to sign a treaty with us giving us soverignty, eh?" -- much like most Canadian historical acts...
Well... isn't everyone in the world an American and speaks English too instead of that hard-to-understand Mexican? I mean, Russia's our partner in the War Against Terror!
Megacorp gets sued by a smaller company for infringement... ROFL
I figure I'll download it in about two weeks, and that just may be enough for the slashdot effect from completely knocking the living crap out of the mirrors.
But anyway, I digress. Read this post if you're too damn lazy to read the article and want to whine. AMD is not the one that should be flamed/beaten/death threatened -- they needed this so they can continue to support versions of Windows. This doesn't buh-bye Linux and OSS, and it doesn't mean we're all going to be the *AA's bitches. No, AMD is taking an opt-in, pro-consumer stance here. It's there, but it doesn't mean that it has to be used.
This with the 320 GB drives means more better looking pr0n than ever!
I can get this obvious article proven scientifically.
You take the red pill!
I would rather see a native port instead of emmulation, but beggars can't be choosers unfortuately. :-/
Transitive has some x86 emmulation software to be coupled with TG's WineX. And why not, other than a native port would be too sweet?
But that doesn't mean it can't be useful later. A great example of this is the logarithm. Always nice now that it's used in seismology and understanding computer performance, huh? Yet all it was useful for until the 20th century was slide rules.