He's trollin'. If you're using a reasonably usability-oriented distro (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint), you'll have virtually no issues.
True. Debian runs on mine like a champ from the get-go, wireless and all. The only thing that troubles me is Intel's video driver. They just can't or won't write decent drivers for Linux, so performance takes a hit.
I think he was referring to patenting the spending of a few years in prison. And it's brilliant. Think about it: there'd be tons of infringers - and these people are already convicted, which means they probably have shitty legal representation. Easy money!
True. But the USD is still 1/~1.57 BRL from 1/3.5 a few years ago and 1/2 a few months ago. So if the BRL is undergoing inflation, then the USD is even more so.
Android's openness was never for us consumers. The idea was (is) that by pooling every other phone maker in the planet, they could catch up with iOS and eliminate the vast library of apps as an advantage by evading fragmentation, since no single vendor could contend with the iPhone's massive success. It worked perfectly. But Motorola deciding that they need to ship more fragmented, buggier, crappier phones seems, if not logical, at least very much predictable. This is, after all, the company that sold the V3. And the V3r. And the V3re. And the V3e, V3i, V3x and a whole bunch of others. And didn't bother telling anyone which was which. And cycled through them like... uh... professional cyclists or something. So I threw the mystical motodices of fate and got a V3re, for what I could gather from countless forums. Featuring a complete inability to transfer files to and from your PC, probably in order to "solve" its crippled storage capacity (4Mb!!!). Really, it was impossible to estabilish a connection with the phone, unless you had Motorola's horrible, horrible Windows-only studio-like software. Then it became only a Herculean task. Plus my phone would sometimes lie to me about callers. I've answered at least three times only to be surprised by who was at the other "end of the line". The right person would be listed on the phone records, though. Maybe the idea was to fool me into thinking I was becoming crazy.
Well, no need to go to such lengths. Just looking at the device and thinking that I bought it was enough. And it was my second Motorola, too. The first was actually funny, as it could only fit six characters on its screen at a time. This was 2006, not 1995, BTW. Think about it for a second. Six characters at a time. Including spaces. I'll only tell you that reading text messages was everything but delightful. So I'm done with Motorola. In fact, I've moved from them to a cheap chinese dumbphone knockoff of the iPhone with a pathetic resistive touchscreen and I considered it an improvement.
Does that mean they really think that, were it not for LimeWire, each and every person on Earth would buy 625 albuns more than they currently have, at about 20 bucks each? It amounts to about 75 trillion.
Mozilla? Really? Look at the high, freshly registered UID and the weird way he got to praising products that aren't really related to the discussion at all.
And I hope Mozilla makes the next version as secure as IE9 with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Microsoft has build on Windows 7.
See divxo et al for more info. Still, it's good that the shills are learning. They are at least trying to emulate what they perceive to be a typical slashdotter's speech. Not that it's working just yet, but they are making some efforts. There are a lot of inconsistencies that they must iron out, though, so they should lurk moar. That's mostly for 4chan, not/., if you're taking notes (which I recommend you do).
also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights!
Whle there are some weird people out there, most people who are averse to corporations and patents refrain from phrasing their opinions as if they were five-year-olds. "Evil H.264" just don't cut it as believable material. But it's ok, at least it's an effort. I must point out, though, that if you're against the "big guys", you probably won't gratuitously draw attention to their product being so superior.
the succesful look that Opera has and made Firefox look as good as Opera
This was an understandable mistake. But most of us, if we really care enough to keep voicing our opinions about browsers, will pick one or two. I'm yet to see someone describing with such (poorly worded) passion all browsers. If Chrome, Opera, Firefox and IE9 are all so cool and good, I'd expect a "meh, all browsers are pretty competent nowadays", not "hey, Firefox is great, it's now as great as Opera is great, and Google rules because it defies "bad the big guys" and IE9 is so secure WOW so glad to b here guys!". To get a little more believable, how about choosing one browser to focus on as a favorite? Tell us why you use it etc. Make up some stories. It's cool, a lot of people here are doing it right now. Some are even becoming lawyers or war veterans, so retroactively using a software for a couple of days seems comparatively easy.
I really wish for the shills to get better. They can still defend a product to their employer's heart's content, but doing so believably would be better for al of us. Not that quality is always necessary to blend in, since the standards aren't that high, but avoiding glaring oversights is, otherwise they'll only blend in with the trolls.
A person (and that includes faux persons like corporations) has no more right to discriminate against you because of your choice of bedmate(s) as they do because of your choice of cheese, or beer.
Well, it's at least a grey area if you're going to share a cottage. Or, of course, if you are made of gruyere. Plus there's a lot of religious fanatics that despise someone who is simply not into cheeses. Ok, ok, I know the rules. Three puns. I'm out.
Good joke and all, but not pertinent. I'm guessing you haven't read the summary.
Improviso requires two players, a Lead Actor and Director, who pretend to shoot a low-budget science fiction movie about a government cover-up of aliens at Area 51
Frankly, though, I'd rather have terminators genociding the hell out of us than getting stuck with an endless swarm of moviebots making Friedberg-Seltzer-like torture devices 24/7.
The article has to be trolling. Are we supposed to point out that many novels, books, paintings etc. were also products of an industry? Plus who cares what is or isn't art, anyway?
Not always. Allow me to demonstrate:
Shaq Fu. It's not very good.
Sword of Sodan. It's not very good.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It's not very good.
Well, RMS has been in the game for quite some time. It's understandable how, seeing Microsoft's antics, the failure that Android was as a FOSS mobile operating system, Sony's crap and a bunch of other examples for years and years might induce a us v. them mentality. I know I have my extremist moments when a stupid airline or bank won't work on anything but IE.
Fair enough. The point I badly attempted to make was that Zimmerman had nothing to do with the Soviet Union, therefore it misses the crux of the question: the role of international politics on freedom of expression. I'd think a better example would be the american japanese interment camps in WW2. After all that's what the asians represented to them: an unmonitorable, potentially spy-laden network.
"Can you imagine what would've happened if someone funded by the Soviet Union tried to set up communications networks in the US that the Government couldn't monitor?"
I can.
Phil Zimmerman [...] And he wasn't even funded by the Soviets or anybody else.
An American working for a covert U.S. program in Cuba was sentenced Saturday to 15 years in prison...
Alan Gross, 61, worked as a contractor for a USAID program that secretly provided technology like computers and communications equipment to encourage democratic reforms...
...says the Cuban government may now use Mr. Gross as a bargaining chip to gain the release of five accused Cuban spies who were convicted in 2005 of espionage in the U.S.
So, as usual, the summary is misleading. It should say "US and Cuba continue with their old feud... and the words "computer" and "internet" were mentioned on the article somewhere, so it belongs in Slashdot".
If you go against a TV network, suddenly all the press worldwide starts badmouthing you for being against free speech. Even if said TV network is a fear-mongering slanderous bastard. I've read a funny article, once, that said Obama was censoring the press. What actually happened was a White House spokesperson had said something about some networks being slanderous and that opinions are different than lies. I'm no fan of Obama, by any means, but if you watch even a tiny bit Glenn Beck's show, you can't really help but think that some reprisal would be par for the course. Still it's not done. For a more blatant example, see Chavez and the 2002 coup d'état. Pretty much all networks aided the failed coup and, if memory serves, only one has been shut down, and about six years later. If you're the government, it's very hard to mess with a class of people who happen to have a lot of money and arguably the only/most effective mean of communication to the people whose support you depend on.
Yes, but you could be sneaky about it. Say you provide the source code for the DRM-laden GPLd program and allows everyone to freely modify and distribute it, so people are free to take out the DRM and recompile. But you actually distribute it as a part of a locked device, running from a ROM chip. Nothing short of a hard mod would, then, allow you to bypass the DRM protection on that particular device. Still the code itself is perfectly free.
As long as you're not a total troll or cow and make it clear that you're serious about that statement, and the guys not gay ofc, theres a 90% chance you'll get a yes out of that. The other 10% are impotent or unconscious.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely try that, since my GMA 4500 MHD is currently getting its ass handed to it by a GeForce FX 5200.
He's trollin'. If you're using a reasonably usability-oriented distro (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint), you'll have virtually no issues.
True. Debian runs on mine like a champ from the get-go, wireless and all. The only thing that troubles me is Intel's video driver. They just can't or won't write decent drivers for Linux, so performance takes a hit.
I think he was referring to patenting the spending of a few years in prison. And it's brilliant. Think about it: there'd be tons of infringers - and these people are already convicted, which means they probably have shitty legal representation. Easy money!
True. But the USD is still 1/~1.57 BRL from 1/3.5 a few years ago and 1/2 a few months ago. So if the BRL is undergoing inflation, then the USD is even more so.
Android's openness was never for us consumers. The idea was (is) that by pooling every other phone maker in the planet, they could catch up with iOS and eliminate the vast library of apps as an advantage by evading fragmentation, since no single vendor could contend with the iPhone's massive success. It worked perfectly. But Motorola deciding that they need to ship more fragmented, buggier, crappier phones seems, if not logical, at least very much predictable. This is, after all, the company that sold the V3. And the V3r. And the V3re. And the V3e, V3i, V3x and a whole bunch of others. And didn't bother telling anyone which was which. And cycled through them like... uh... professional cyclists or something. So I threw the mystical motodices of fate and got a V3re, for what I could gather from countless forums. Featuring a complete inability to transfer files to and from your PC, probably in order to "solve" its crippled storage capacity (4Mb!!!). Really, it was impossible to estabilish a connection with the phone, unless you had Motorola's horrible, horrible Windows-only studio-like software. Then it became only a Herculean task. Plus my phone would sometimes lie to me about callers. I've answered at least three times only to be surprised by who was at the other "end of the line". The right person would be listed on the phone records, though. Maybe the idea was to fool me into thinking I was becoming crazy.
Well, no need to go to such lengths. Just looking at the device and thinking that I bought it was enough. And it was my second Motorola, too. The first was actually funny, as it could only fit six characters on its screen at a time. This was 2006, not 1995, BTW. Think about it for a second. Six characters at a time. Including spaces. I'll only tell you that reading text messages was everything but delightful. So I'm done with Motorola. In fact, I've moved from them to a cheap chinese dumbphone knockoff of the iPhone with a pathetic resistive touchscreen and I considered it an improvement.
Does that mean they really think that, were it not for LimeWire, each and every person on Earth would buy 625 albuns more than they currently have, at about 20 bucks each? It amounts to about 75 trillion.
Do you use Linux? In the Windows version there's now a single Firefox button instead of a Menu bar by default, now, exactly like Opera 10+. In case you haven't seen it: http://gadgetsteria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/firefox-4-theme-windows.jpg
And I hope Mozilla makes the next version as secure as IE9 with its sandboxing and all the extra security features Microsoft has build on Windows 7.
See divxo et al for more info. Still, it's good that the shills are learning. They are at least trying to emulate what they perceive to be a typical slashdotter's speech. Not that it's working just yet, but they are making some efforts. There are a lot of inconsistencies that they must iron out, though, so they should lurk moar. That's mostly for 4chan, not /., if you're taking notes (which I recommend you do).
also the only browser with Chrome to fight bad the big guys and doesn't support the evil H.264 - someones have to fight for our rights!
Whle there are some weird people out there, most people who are averse to corporations and patents refrain from phrasing their opinions as if they were five-year-olds. "Evil H.264" just don't cut it as believable material. But it's ok, at least it's an effort. I must point out, though, that if you're against the "big guys", you probably won't gratuitously draw attention to their product being so superior.
the succesful look that Opera has and made Firefox look as good as Opera
This was an understandable mistake. But most of us, if we really care enough to keep voicing our opinions about browsers, will pick one or two. I'm yet to see someone describing with such (poorly worded) passion all browsers. If Chrome, Opera, Firefox and IE9 are all so cool and good, I'd expect a "meh, all browsers are pretty competent nowadays", not "hey, Firefox is great, it's now as great as Opera is great, and Google rules because it defies "bad the big guys" and IE9 is so secure WOW so glad to b here guys!". To get a little more believable, how about choosing one browser to focus on as a favorite? Tell us why you use it etc. Make up some stories. It's cool, a lot of people here are doing it right now. Some are even becoming lawyers or war veterans, so retroactively using a software for a couple of days seems comparatively easy. I really wish for the shills to get better. They can still defend a product to their employer's heart's content, but doing so believably would be better for al of us. Not that quality is always necessary to blend in, since the standards aren't that high, but avoiding glaring oversights is, otherwise they'll only blend in with the trolls.
It doesn't matter how safe they are, the forces of extreme environmentalists and Luddites will say No! No! No!
What? Why? They must be high, man. We should try to make them go to rehab or something.
Dude please, Chinese motorbikes are awesome. They just keep going and going..
True. The brakes do nothing.
A person (and that includes faux persons like corporations) has no more right to discriminate against you because of your choice of bedmate(s) as they do because of your choice of cheese, or beer.
Well, it's at least a grey area if you're going to share a cottage. Or, of course, if you are made of gruyere. Plus there's a lot of religious fanatics that despise someone who is simply not into cheeses. Ok, ok, I know the rules. Three puns. I'm out.
Improviso requires two players, a Lead Actor and Director, who pretend to shoot a low-budget science fiction movie about a government cover-up of aliens at Area 51
Frankly, though, I'd rather have terminators genociding the hell out of us than getting stuck with an endless swarm of moviebots making Friedberg-Seltzer-like torture devices 24/7.
The article has to be trolling. Are we supposed to point out that many novels, books, paintings etc. were also products of an industry? Plus who cares what is or isn't art, anyway?
Because, of course, billions make you right.
To a lot of people and in a lot of courts, yes, it does.
Not always. Allow me to demonstrate: Shaq Fu. It's not very good. Sword of Sodan. It's not very good. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It's not very good.
Well, RMS has been in the game for quite some time. It's understandable how, seeing Microsoft's antics, the failure that Android was as a FOSS mobile operating system, Sony's crap and a bunch of other examples for years and years might induce a us v. them mentality. I know I have my extremist moments when a stupid airline or bank won't work on anything but IE.
Fair enough. The point I badly attempted to make was that Zimmerman had nothing to do with the Soviet Union, therefore it misses the crux of the question: the role of international politics on freedom of expression. I'd think a better example would be the american japanese interment camps in WW2. After all that's what the asians represented to them: an unmonitorable, potentially spy-laden network.
"Can you imagine what would've happened if someone funded by the Soviet Union tried to set up communications networks in the US that the Government couldn't monitor?"
I can. Phil Zimmerman [...] And he wasn't even funded by the Soviets or anybody else.
So you mean you can't?
An American working for a covert U.S. program in Cuba was sentenced Saturday to 15 years in prison...
Alan Gross, 61, worked as a contractor for a USAID program that secretly provided technology like computers and communications equipment to encourage democratic reforms...
...says the Cuban government may now use Mr. Gross as a bargaining chip to gain the release of five accused Cuban spies who were convicted in 2005 of espionage in the U.S.
So, as usual, the summary is misleading. It should say "US and Cuba continue with their old feud... and the words "computer" and "internet" were mentioned on the article somewhere, so it belongs in Slashdot".
If you go against a TV network, suddenly all the press worldwide starts badmouthing you for being against free speech. Even if said TV network is a fear-mongering slanderous bastard. I've read a funny article, once, that said Obama was censoring the press. What actually happened was a White House spokesperson had said something about some networks being slanderous and that opinions are different than lies. I'm no fan of Obama, by any means, but if you watch even a tiny bit Glenn Beck's show, you can't really help but think that some reprisal would be par for the course. Still it's not done. For a more blatant example, see Chavez and the 2002 coup d'état. Pretty much all networks aided the failed coup and, if memory serves, only one has been shut down, and about six years later. If you're the government, it's very hard to mess with a class of people who happen to have a lot of money and arguably the only/most effective mean of communication to the people whose support you depend on.
Yes, but you could be sneaky about it. Say you provide the source code for the DRM-laden GPLd program and allows everyone to freely modify and distribute it, so people are free to take out the DRM and recompile. But you actually distribute it as a part of a locked device, running from a ROM chip. Nothing short of a hard mod would, then, allow you to bypass the DRM protection on that particular device. Still the code itself is perfectly free.
Yes, that's one of the endless paralels between dating and soccer team recruiting.
That's interesting. I wonder what new religions think about sex. Any Scientologists out there?
Yes. Way, way out there.
Were somebody to try that on me, I'd start looking for the first convenient excuse to get away as quickly as possible, or just plain run like hell.
That's because I'd start wondering, why would somebody do that?
Dude, she told you already. "Nice shoes". You know women dig that.
As long as you're not a total troll or cow and make it clear that you're serious about that statement, and the guys not gay ofc, theres a 90% chance you'll get a yes out of that. The other 10% are impotent or unconscious.
FTFY.