If they were all 13 year olds firing up Low Orbit Ion Cannon to DDOS some randomly selected website (by trips get of course), then yeah, Anonymous exists there en masse.
The latest SVN snapshots do support compilation using the XDK (and the usual places still offer recent SVN snapshot builds), which I have been able to power my Xbox as a useful media center et. al. for some time with. Granted, the poor old thing struggles with high profile options of most codecs because of its limited CPU power and memory (by today's standards, anyway).
Plus you'll surely brick your 360 for xbox live use. I suppose if you've already accomplished this, it'd be worth experimenting. It still greatly diminishes the gains from being able to get better multimedia functionality out of your 360.
Microsoft, would you kindly ask for our review without using mindtricks and making me question my true origin, as I did check out the plugin after reading that line?
They make things more workable until people start MacGyvering new ideas, throwing them into the public half done and start calling them the new standard.
As cool as Haiku may be, and as much as I hope it succeeds, it really isn't for anyone but an experienced user who is willing to learn how to moonwalk around all the bugs, and lacking features, such as an easy way to install software (last I heard they had finished drafting a design for one, wonder if they started working on it...).
And my god, the driver problems! I didn't expect it to support my ATI graphics card or my wireless adapter, but it didn't even support my NIC (at the time it was based an integrated SiS 900 chipset, but still, Linux supports it) properly...it maintained an Internet connection for somewhere in the rounds of a minute, and stopped reporting any status/working.
It comes with all the conveniences of Ubuntu, including updates, except it still has Gnome 2.xx as the default interface, the DVD edition comes with all the video and audio codecs you will surely ever need, the default theme isn't as hard on the eyes as the default Ubuntu one, and it even has a layout that is similar to that of the Windows explorer layout that should ease the transition (i.e. all the system settings are enumerated on one menu as they are on Windows, and the two taskbars are combined into one on the bottom of the screen).
I wouldn't have her use Fedora 15 or Ubuntu 11.04. Gnome 3 and Unity are glitchy and in my experience, not very intuitive without a touchscreen.
Way to dump 20+ years of standard GUI development simply to replace it with some hipster, gimmicky GUI that makes my PC look and feel only as useful as my phone. And, for fucks sake, why do I need TWO desktops? If I really wanted to use web-enabled applications, I'd use a web browser. I'd use widgets. If I really wanted all that cool touchscreen functionality, I would get a phone, or a table with a phone OS installed.
I really wish Microsoft would just leave well enough alone. Windows is Windows, and I use Windows for that old Windows experience. Not to convert my PC into a smartphone.
I only use distros that make stable releases, like Debian and CentOS. It may mean I'll be far behind the pack in about three years, might have to upgrade a few things manually here and there on occasion, but that's the price you pay for stability. If you live in the bleeding edge, expect to suffer the consequences of living on the bleeding edge.
That would be nice to see PS2 backwards compatibility. Unfortunately that would require them to throw all that PS2 hardware back into the console, make it bigger (again), and jack the price up.
PS2 emulation just wouldn't cut it. My PC has some pretty beefy hardware to be sure, and it *barely* manages to make a handful of games run smoothly with PCSX2. I could only imagine how that would work out on the PS3. (The Xbox 360 can do Xbox hardware emulation okay, but Xbox hardware wasn't nearly as complex, was 32-bit, and used the typical x86 architecture, making it more reasonable to emulate).
Personally, I'd like to just see them never let this happen again. I'd be happy enough if they could manage that much.
Well I considered that at first, but the reason I consider it a moot point is simply because the average user (a) never makes an account on these sites, usually just uploading it for an undescribed group of people to view and access, and (b) by virtue of the first point, shouldn't expect any reasonable privacy from the service.
Hell, flags should be raised to an average user when you consider how many of them probably also use these rapidshare/megaupload/mediafire/et. al. search engines to dig up content from the muck and the mud at the same time. The warnings are there, and really it just comes down to common sense after that. I still see this as a non-story.
That link I posted to a rar full of my favorite pr0n pics on/b/ is easy pickings to thousands of other online users? No wai!
I mean, I had no idea most people who used quick upload services like imgur, rapidshare, and mediafire uploaded most of their files with any implied expectancy of privacy. But boy was I wrong!
Not actually having Windows XP to test this, I believe it could be one of two things stopping it: the Windows validation system (you have to be running "Genuine" Windows to actually download it), or just how its packaged. Otherwise I can't see why it wouldn't work on XP.
CATS: How are you gentlemen!
CATS: All your base are belong to us!
CATS: We decide GIVE BACK.
CAPTAIN: What you say?
CATS: IMPERIAL UNITS GIVE ANEURYSM.
I have to agree to the parent for this one. Although I'm American (so yes, this may come off as biased), I use Imperial and Metric units both quite often, but not necessarily for the same types of things.
I like Imperial units when I simply need to make a quick approximation of something, or I don't have any more precise tools on hand to make a measurement. For example, if I need to get a measurement of something in inches, my thumb is, give or take, about an inch long from the tip to the joint. If I need to approximate something in feet, my foot is, give or take, about a foot (ironic). Imperial units seem to just match closer to 1:1 to things in nature than metric units.
However, for anything technical where I need exacting or flexible units to work with (building a shed, working inside my car for anything more complex than replacing spark plug, etc.), metric is just better, even if it means I need to convert some things from Imperial to metric beforehand.
It just feels better for this sort of thing to me, really.
"To create the biggest collaborative encyclopedia of Internet it is estimated that it took around 100 million hours of intellectual work, which is the equivalent of the time the citizens of the United States spend watching advertising on TV in a single weekend," Spadaro wrote.
I doubt Microsoft was really aware they were banning an autistic child from their service at the time. Quite honestly, I'd imagine if you take that factor out of the equation this sort of thing happens all the time.
Unless, of course, the kid had "AUTISTIC" marked on his account.
The new theme is a welcomed refresh to the site, but I can't say that it impresses or aggravates me in any way. The fixed position stuff doesn't really bother me, either. Thought it might be an issue on my laptop, but it wasn't.
It also performs quite well on my single-core PC running Ubuntu 10.10 using both Chrome and Firefox 3.6. Now, if the site was strewn with embedded flash objects, then I would probably be in rage mode. So long as that doesn't happen, I'm happy.
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>He thinks 4chan is home turf for "Anonymous."
If they were all 13 year olds firing up Low Orbit Ion Cannon to DDOS some randomly selected website (by trips get of course), then yeah, Anonymous exists there en masse.
The latest SVN snapshots do support compilation using the XDK (and the usual places still offer recent SVN snapshot builds), which I have been able to power my Xbox as a useful media center et. al. for some time with. Granted, the poor old thing struggles with high profile options of most codecs because of its limited CPU power and memory (by today's standards, anyway).
Plus you'll surely brick your 360 for xbox live use. I suppose if you've already accomplished this, it'd be worth experimenting. It still greatly diminishes the gains from being able to get better multimedia functionality out of your 360.
>Would you kindly?
Microsoft, would you kindly ask for our review without using mindtricks and making me question my true origin, as I did check out the plugin after reading that line?
They make things more workable until people start MacGyvering new ideas, throwing them into the public half done and start calling them the new standard.
As cool as Haiku may be, and as much as I hope it succeeds, it really isn't for anyone but an experienced user who is willing to learn how to moonwalk around all the bugs, and lacking features, such as an easy way to install software (last I heard they had finished drafting a design for one, wonder if they started working on it...).
And my god, the driver problems! I didn't expect it to support my ATI graphics card or my wireless adapter, but it didn't even support my NIC (at the time it was based an integrated SiS 900 chipset, but still, Linux supports it) properly...it maintained an Internet connection for somewhere in the rounds of a minute, and stopped reporting any status/working.
Maybe later, but not now.
It comes with all the conveniences of Ubuntu, including updates, except it still has Gnome 2.xx as the default interface, the DVD edition comes with all the video and audio codecs you will surely ever need, the default theme isn't as hard on the eyes as the default Ubuntu one, and it even has a layout that is similar to that of the Windows explorer layout that should ease the transition (i.e. all the system settings are enumerated on one menu as they are on Windows, and the two taskbars are combined into one on the bottom of the screen).
I wouldn't have her use Fedora 15 or Ubuntu 11.04. Gnome 3 and Unity are glitchy and in my experience, not very intuitive without a touchscreen.
A table? I mean't tablet.
Way to dump 20+ years of standard GUI development simply to replace it with some hipster, gimmicky GUI that makes my PC look and feel only as useful as my phone. And, for fucks sake, why do I need TWO desktops? If I really wanted to use web-enabled applications, I'd use a web browser. I'd use widgets. If I really wanted all that cool touchscreen functionality, I would get a phone, or a table with a phone OS installed.
I really wish Microsoft would just leave well enough alone. Windows is Windows, and I use Windows for that old Windows experience. Not to convert my PC into a smartphone.
I only use distros that make stable releases, like Debian and CentOS. It may mean I'll be far behind the pack in about three years, might have to upgrade a few things manually here and there on occasion, but that's the price you pay for stability. If you live in the bleeding edge, expect to suffer the consequences of living on the bleeding edge.
That would be nice to see PS2 backwards compatibility. Unfortunately that would require them to throw all that PS2 hardware back into the console, make it bigger (again), and jack the price up.
PS2 emulation just wouldn't cut it. My PC has some pretty beefy hardware to be sure, and it *barely* manages to make a handful of games run smoothly with PCSX2. I could only imagine how that would work out on the PS3. (The Xbox 360 can do Xbox hardware emulation okay, but Xbox hardware wasn't nearly as complex, was 32-bit, and used the typical x86 architecture, making it more reasonable to emulate).
Personally, I'd like to just see them never let this happen again. I'd be happy enough if they could manage that much.
Well I considered that at first, but the reason I consider it a moot point is simply because the average user (a) never makes an account on these sites, usually just uploading it for an undescribed group of people to view and access, and (b) by virtue of the first point, shouldn't expect any reasonable privacy from the service.
Hell, flags should be raised to an average user when you consider how many of them probably also use these rapidshare/megaupload/mediafire/et. al. search engines to dig up content from the muck and the mud at the same time. The warnings are there, and really it just comes down to common sense after that. I still see this as a non-story.
That link I posted to a rar full of my favorite pr0n pics on /b/ is easy pickings to thousands of other online users? No wai!
I mean, I had no idea most people who used quick upload services like imgur, rapidshare, and mediafire uploaded most of their files with any implied expectancy of privacy. But boy was I wrong!
They're having problems re-sorting all their credit card data stored on the admin's desktop by penis again. They must not have taken a screenshot.
This could take ages.
Not actually having Windows XP to test this, I believe it could be one of two things stopping it: the Windows validation system (you have to be running "Genuine" Windows to actually download it), or just how its packaged. Otherwise I can't see why it wouldn't work on XP.
Seeing how gadgets are just zip files with a few HTML files and javascript inside, it sure does.
CATS: How are you gentlemen!
CATS: All your base are belong to us!
CATS: We decide GIVE BACK.
CAPTAIN: What you say?
CATS: IMPERIAL UNITS GIVE ANEURYSM.
I have to agree to the parent for this one. Although I'm American (so yes, this may come off as biased), I use Imperial and Metric units both quite often, but not necessarily for the same types of things.
I like Imperial units when I simply need to make a quick approximation of something, or I don't have any more precise tools on hand to make a measurement. For example, if I need to get a measurement of something in inches, my thumb is, give or take, about an inch long from the tip to the joint. If I need to approximate something in feet, my foot is, give or take, about a foot (ironic). Imperial units seem to just match closer to 1:1 to things in nature than metric units.
However, for anything technical where I need exacting or flexible units to work with (building a shed, working inside my car for anything more complex than replacing spark plug, etc.), metric is just better, even if it means I need to convert some things from Imperial to metric beforehand.
It just feels better for this sort of thing to me, really.
Now that I've woken up, it makes sense.
FTFA
"To create the biggest collaborative encyclopedia of Internet it is estimated that it took around 100 million hours of intellectual work, which is the equivalent of the time the citizens of the United States spend watching advertising on TV in a single weekend," Spadaro wrote.
Dude, what?
It even has Do Not Finish in its name.
Wait, what?
Does that include the WTFPL?
Nobody took a hint when he moved to FOX news?
If it truely did have such capacity, I'm pretty sure it'd burn a hole in the atmosphere. It barely has the intensity of one.
I doubt Microsoft was really aware they were banning an autistic child from their service at the time. Quite honestly, I'd imagine if you take that factor out of the equation this sort of thing happens all the time.
Unless, of course, the kid had "AUTISTIC" marked on his account.
The new theme is a welcomed refresh to the site, but I can't say that it impresses or aggravates me in any way. The fixed position stuff doesn't really bother me, either. Thought it might be an issue on my laptop, but it wasn't.
It also performs quite well on my single-core PC running Ubuntu 10.10 using both Chrome and Firefox 3.6. Now, if the site was strewn with embedded flash objects, then I would probably be in rage mode. So long as that doesn't happen, I'm happy.