Have fun product-activating your XP license 5 years from now when MSFT decides it is no longer supporting XP, just like they stopped supporting DOS and Win95.
No, I don't know that they will, but it's likely that the product lifetime will end at some point.
Maybe by that time there will be OSes out that are so much better that you won't care. On the other hand, maybe Redmond will get hit by an asteroid tomorrow and that'll be the end of your product activation days.
I still wouldn't buy XP even if it was only $1. DRM + product activation BS + all the undocumented insecurity bugs that I can only rely on them to patch and announce if they find it convenient... Nope, Windows isn't worth a dollar to me.
People with kids already have to fish cookies and peanut butter sandwiches out of their drive slots... this "clever" case enclosure can only invite more of the same.
They probably just built a device that scans your brain and extracts your name and address, while simultaneously implanting the desire to buy little remote controlled cars.
If the site were serving scanned images of advertizing flyers, they might be in violation of copyright law, but if they're just reporting pricing facts, how can it be a violation?
The advertising copy from some flyer containing a blurb-type phrase might be copyrightable, but the fact that some store at some address is selling some item for some price is not copyrightable.
But what about the growing perspective that Linux is free, and thus, is somehow "cheap"? If this and other third-world countries like South Africa continue to embrace Linux, will it lose points in the corporate boardroom?
Well now that all depends. If foreign based companies and governments start kicking ass with it, I'd think that would give US corporations pause.
Imagine if some debt-ridden 3rd world country is able to pay off its national debt because they don't have to re-buy software every 18 months. I think that'd turn some heads.
Besides, India's not really a 3rd world country anyway. They have nuclear capability. Sure, there standard of living there is different and many over there are unimaginably poor, but they are highly advanced in sciences and technology -- particularly mathematics and computer science.
You own the XBox, but they own the network you're connecting to with it, and they control the services.
Frankly, I think it's lame to ban modders, too. But here's the beauty of it -- if they piss off enough of their own customers, they'll lose marketshare. Maybe in their own minds they'll be losing undesirable customers and not care... until they end up all walking away and either moving on to a different platform or else using their modded XBoxen to build an underground, alternative gaming network. Now that'd be a hack!
Even if they can compute as many instructions per second as the human brain is capable of, it won't matter unless they have a good enough understanding of AI to come up with software that can mimic human types of intelligence -- things like intuition, insight, creativity.
Otherwise it'll just be a very expensive, very fast data processor.
Email shouldn't die. If mailserver admins do their jobs right, it should be possible to block out loads of spam.
For instance, look at www.myrealbox.com -- I've had accounts with them for over a year and never received ONE spam in them. Ever! I don't give my address out publicly or to untrusted sources. They do a damn good job of blocking spam.
That's what the anandtech review said. The tomshardware review said its fan was audible over the CPU and PSU fans. Anandtech said that the card downclocks when not being pushed hard, which enables to make the fan go slower, and THAT'S what makes it quiet. When pushing frames for a modern 3dFPS game for any length of time, I'll go out on a limb and say it's not whisper quiet anymore.
And it still takes up two slots on the back of your case, which could be annoying if you have a lot of PCI cards.
And now it has one. With the noise that card's air cooler is sure to generate, perhaps this is the card that will spur DIY types to implement water cooling and make it commonplace. Once it's commonplace, it should become cheaper (one would hope anyway)...
Tell the 11 year old that he's absolutely, expressly forbidden to install Linux on your computer. If you're not fully migrated by the time he's 13, consider searching under his bed for a hidden Linux box...
XBox still doesn't stand a chance if this is what we can expect from Nintendo. I saw a commercial for Metroid: Prime yesterday, and it actually made me want to do something I haven't done since the SNES came out -- buy a console.
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Have fun product-activating your XP license 5 years from now when MSFT decides it is no longer supporting XP, just like they stopped supporting DOS and Win95.
No, I don't know that they will, but it's likely that the product lifetime will end at some point.
Maybe by that time there will be OSes out that are so much better that you won't care. On the other hand, maybe Redmond will get hit by an asteroid tomorrow and that'll be the end of your product activation days.
I still wouldn't buy XP even if it was only $1. DRM + product activation BS + all the undocumented insecurity bugs that I can only rely on them to patch and announce if they find it convenient... Nope, Windows isn't worth a dollar to me.
Build a monolithic dome and cover it with sod. Should work just as well. Monolithic domes are cool.
People with kids already have to fish cookies and peanut butter sandwiches out of their drive slots... this "clever" case enclosure can only invite more of the same.
Yes, I believe so. What's more, Tolkien had names and complete family histories for every single one, too.
Those superflat bubble buttons sound interesting... but do they come in powder blue?
They probably just built a device that scans your brain and extracts your name and address, while simultaneously implanting the desire to buy little remote controlled cars.
I hope that Visa gets e-visa-rated in the ensuing lawsuits.
Yeah, but what part of the law are they invoking in order to do this?
If the site were serving scanned images of advertizing flyers, they might be in violation of copyright law, but if they're just reporting pricing facts, how can it be a violation?
The advertising copy from some flyer containing a blurb-type phrase might be copyrightable, but the fact that some store at some address is selling some item for some price is not copyrightable.
Well now that all depends. If foreign based companies and governments start kicking ass with it, I'd think that would give US corporations pause.
Imagine if some debt-ridden 3rd world country is able to pay off its national debt because they don't have to re-buy software every 18 months. I think that'd turn some heads.
Besides, India's not really a 3rd world country anyway. They have nuclear capability. Sure, there standard of living there is different and many over there are unimaginably poor, but they are highly advanced in sciences and technology -- particularly mathematics and computer science.
You own the XBox, but they own the network you're connecting to with it, and they control the services.
Frankly, I think it's lame to ban modders, too. But here's the beauty of it -- if they piss off enough of their own customers, they'll lose marketshare. Maybe in their own minds they'll be losing undesirable customers and not care... until they end up all walking away and either moving on to a different platform or else using their modded XBoxen to build an underground, alternative gaming network. Now that'd be a hack!
Even if they can compute as many instructions per second as the human brain is capable of, it won't matter unless they have a good enough understanding of AI to come up with software that can mimic human types of intelligence -- things like intuition, insight, creativity.
Otherwise it'll just be a very expensive, very fast data processor.
Email shouldn't die. If mailserver admins do their jobs right, it should be possible to block out loads of spam.
For instance, look at www.myrealbox.com -- I've had accounts with them for over a year and never received ONE spam in them. Ever! I don't give my address out publicly or to untrusted sources. They do a damn good job of blocking spam.
All I gotta say is: Tanks a lot to all the MAME developers for all the hard work!
*ducks* *runs*
That's what the anandtech review said. The tomshardware review said its fan was audible over the CPU and PSU fans. Anandtech said that the card downclocks when not being pushed hard, which enables to make the fan go slower, and THAT'S what makes it quiet. When pushing frames for a modern 3dFPS game for any length of time, I'll go out on a limb and say it's not whisper quiet anymore.
And it still takes up two slots on the back of your case, which could be annoying if you have a lot of PCI cards.
So? Microsoft took an existing OS (DOS) and bought it... then took another existing OS (Mac OS) and copied it's interface, rather ineptly.
And now it has one. With the noise that card's air cooler is sure to generate, perhaps this is the card that will spur DIY types to implement water cooling and make it commonplace. Once it's commonplace, it should become cheaper (one would hope anyway)...
Tell the 11 year old that he's absolutely, expressly forbidden to install Linux on your computer. If you're not fully migrated by the time he's 13, consider searching under his bed for a hidden Linux box...
Mod parent up! Excellent question.
XBox still doesn't stand a chance if this is what we can expect from Nintendo. I saw a commercial for Metroid: Prime yesterday, and it actually made me want to do something I haven't done since the SNES came out -- buy a console.
Well if I knew that counted, I'd have said 10^3.
1. Charge people money.
2. ????
3. Profit!
I had sex 10^2 times. Sadly, I missed the domino rally.
You don't need to decrypt something in order to make a copy of it.
Do you need to decode this in order to copy it?
Hint: No.
If you get raided, you can say "I don't know what the F is on these disks. I'm using them as coasters!"