the name alone will kill it.. who the fuck thought of "ouya"? at least in australia, holden had enough sense to rebadge the new Monaro as a Pontiac GTO in the states
any software license without copyright laws isn't worth a pinch of shit
although even with copyright laws, someone in somalia could still take a piece of gpl sotware an sell it as their own without gpl acknowledgement since somalia isn't a signatory to the berne convention
all the gpl does is give you certain freedoms under copyright, otherwsie gpl software would be copyright by default and you wouldn't be able to use it
rythmbox isn't all that bad, but even if you don't like its interface or code base or whatever at least you're free to improve it, or you can just whinge
...just make a copy of the file in the same directory... anything else "on site" can't really be much better than this
having said that, i was stupid enough to by a netgear rnd4000 nas with a usb drive plugged into the backup port on the front panel with backup schedules at 12am every day
the backup usb drive sits on top of the nas, and the nas sits beside my workstation
if i were smart i would get another usb backup drive and rotate them with one kept offsite at work or something, but nas covers hard disk failure, the usb backup covers acidental file deletion (losing only a day's work at most)... if there was a fire that would be bad, but so many problems in the world are only resolved after a major catastrophe forces the hand of those responsible, so who am i to buck the trend:)
i think the point that apple, sopa, pipa, whatev-a are all missing is that regardless of how cheap you make downloads, free downloads will always be cheaper.
if i went to the supermarket and they had nachos for a dollar, and then they also had a special sample day for nachos where they gave away some packets for free, who on earth in their right mind would pay the dollar if they can get exactly the same thing for free at the same store?
yeah i know usually illegal torrents are apparently crappy quality (believe it or not i've never actually used a torrent program before due to all the hype about tracking) but how much better quality could a legally downloaded movie be, given that the operating word there is still "downloaded"? unless you're going to wait for an 8gb full dual layer dvd quality download, which you can only use for 24 hours, a smaller download (with a drop in quality that would be barely noticeable on most consumer screens) in most cases would suffice, and if you don't feel like watching it in the next 24 hours, you can always watch it whenever you like.
i'm not saying movie piracy is good (obviously its not), but film and music studios aren't either and they have brought the problem of piracy on themselves after years of rediculously high prices CDs and DVDs.
apple is just a middle man scraping their relatively small slice of profit as the product slides through their hands, so in this case i wouldn't really see it as "the" bad guy, but since they are filthy rich from their brainwashing and taking advantage of the ignorant and impressionable youth of the world (and their irresponsible parents)... so yeah, FUCK APPLE!!!!...and while i'm at it... FUCK MICROSOFT and FUCK GOOGLE, and FUCK JUSTIN BIEBER!!!! just for good measure (this is slashdot after all)
you're right... bob has provided geeks with a basis for many an entertaining icebreaker joke for years
geek: "hi sweety... how about that microsoft bob huh... gosh that was an epic pos"
hot blonde dumb chick: "ooooh you're bashing microsoft bob.... i soooo want to sleep with you tonight"
if google applied for the patent back in 2009 it can't be for a network operating system because i remember using netware in high school in the 90s and surely the us patent office can't be that ignorant to not know of netware
be sure not to violate patents for fuel, kill switches, killing fuel, killing switches, and killing existence... you may find yourself in apple's position
smack you for suggesting that hackers could possibly be anything other than cool sunglasses wearing superhumans who always take the red pill... actually i think seeing sandra bullock in "The Net" was enough to put me off hacking for the rest of my life
maybe its really training to make potential hackers more stupid
ps. i couldn't figure out how they get 687 million possibilities for a 2 character password with only alphanumeric characters either, and i'm supposed to be an engineer (though i'll admit to anyone that i need a calculator to add numbers together). actually i'm not even sure of what is meant by combinations and possibilities. i haven't done combinatorics for a long time, but i thought combinations=possibilities (think of cracking a safe combination lock, which is usually like a 4 numeral password). maybe we're both THIS bad at math... look out anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in a building that i've been involved in the design of.
maybe then a new wave of "hackers" will come along and drop sea mines on undersea fibre cables and launch antisat missiles at geostationaries over the US to isolate these fresh waves of script-kiddies
US politicians just like blowing up other countries because they hope that other countries being fucked up will make the US not look so fucked up... relatively
at the end of the day that's all they can do... trying to reverse the years of fucking up is now pointless
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the name alone will kill it.. who the fuck thought of "ouya"? at least in australia, holden had enough sense to rebadge the new Monaro as a Pontiac GTO in the states
lucky i don't need a control pad to play angry birds then :)
for any other game that's actually worth paying any money for, i'll need a pc
i eat vitabrits cereal and vitawheat biscuits. sony should sue those bastard food companies for every penny
no i'm Alexander Peter Kowalski, and so is my wife
any software license without copyright laws isn't worth a pinch of shit
although even with copyright laws, someone in somalia could still take a piece of gpl sotware an sell it as their own without gpl acknowledgement since somalia isn't a signatory to the berne convention
all the gpl does is give you certain freedoms under copyright, otherwsie gpl software would be copyright by default and you wouldn't be able to use it
rythmbox isn't all that bad, but even if you don't like its interface or code base or whatever at least you're free to improve it, or you can just whinge
...just make a copy of the file in the same directory... anything else "on site" can't really be much better than this
:)
having said that, i was stupid enough to by a netgear rnd4000 nas with a usb drive plugged into the backup port on the front panel with backup schedules at 12am every day
the backup usb drive sits on top of the nas, and the nas sits beside my workstation
if i were smart i would get another usb backup drive and rotate them with one kept offsite at work or something, but nas covers hard disk failure, the usb backup covers acidental file deletion (losing only a day's work at most)... if there was a fire that would be bad, but so many problems in the world are only resolved after a major catastrophe forces the hand of those responsible, so who am i to buck the trend
they also aren't laws either
make Linux suck less
itunes doesn't run on linux, which means linux already sucks less
ios and windows can keep their garbage bloatware
i think the point that apple, sopa, pipa, whatev-a are all missing is that regardless of how cheap you make downloads, free downloads will always be cheaper.
...and while i'm at it... FUCK MICROSOFT and FUCK GOOGLE, and FUCK JUSTIN BIEBER!!!! just for good measure (this is slashdot after all)
if i went to the supermarket and they had nachos for a dollar, and then they also had a special sample day for nachos where they gave away some packets for free, who on earth in their right mind would pay the dollar if they can get exactly the same thing for free at the same store?
yeah i know usually illegal torrents are apparently crappy quality (believe it or not i've never actually used a torrent program before due to all the hype about tracking) but how much better quality could a legally downloaded movie be, given that the operating word there is still "downloaded"? unless you're going to wait for an 8gb full dual layer dvd quality download, which you can only use for 24 hours, a smaller download (with a drop in quality that would be barely noticeable on most consumer screens) in most cases would suffice, and if you don't feel like watching it in the next 24 hours, you can always watch it whenever you like.
i'm not saying movie piracy is good (obviously its not), but film and music studios aren't either and they have brought the problem of piracy on themselves after years of rediculously high prices CDs and DVDs.
apple is just a middle man scraping their relatively small slice of profit as the product slides through their hands, so in this case i wouldn't really see it as "the" bad guy, but since they are filthy rich from their brainwashing and taking advantage of the ignorant and impressionable youth of the world (and their irresponsible parents)... so yeah, FUCK APPLE!!!!
you're right... bob has provided geeks with a basis for many an entertaining icebreaker joke for years
geek: "hi sweety... how about that microsoft bob huh... gosh that was an epic pos"
hot blonde dumb chick: "ooooh you're bashing microsoft bob.... i soooo want to sleep with you tonight"
but they aren't "non-gyroscopic"
if google applied for the patent back in 2009 it can't be for a network operating system because i remember using netware in high school in the 90s and surely the us patent office can't be that ignorant to not know of netware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare
"NetWare is a computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc"
"Initial release 1983"
be sure not to violate patents for fuel, kill switches, killing fuel, killing switches, and killing existence... you may find yourself in apple's position
how does a non-gyroscopic gimbal for detecting attitude work?
any craft named "Michael Bay" would be assumed to be missing every second component, just like michael bay films are missing every second frame
at least if they name it "agent smith" they'll get plenty of chances to get it right
probably still cheaper than hollywood special effects
the last one to hack the system would surely change everyone else's grade to an F and his own to an A, so that he is the only one to pass
You deserve to have your testicles ripped off and fed to your mother.
P.S. => maybe you should take his testicles out of your mouth before you do that
smack you for suggesting that hackers could possibly be anything other than cool sunglasses wearing superhumans who always take the red pill... actually i think seeing sandra bullock in "The Net" was enough to put me off hacking for the rest of my life
ps. mindstorms is awesome
maybe its really training to make potential hackers more stupid
ps. i couldn't figure out how they get 687 million possibilities for a 2 character password with only alphanumeric characters either, and i'm supposed to be an engineer (though i'll admit to anyone that i need a calculator to add numbers together). actually i'm not even sure of what is meant by combinations and possibilities. i haven't done combinatorics for a long time, but i thought combinations=possibilities (think of cracking a safe combination lock, which is usually like a 4 numeral password). maybe we're both THIS bad at math... look out anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in a building that i've been involved in the design of.
maybe then a new wave of "hackers" will come along and drop sea mines on undersea fibre cables and launch antisat missiles at geostationaries over the US to isolate these fresh waves of script-kiddies
its funny how you assume yourself to be one of the good guys
yes they can, because the US is pretty fucked
US politicians just like blowing up other countries because they hope that other countries being fucked up will make the US not look so fucked up... relatively
at the end of the day that's all they can do... trying to reverse the years of fucking up is now pointless