Likewise if a law is introduced that says you cannot modify your games console to allow it to play illegal games then your argument is incorrect
Fortunately that law doesn't exist! While I do have a modded XBox (original) it's only used for the excellent XBMC. Such a law wouldn't just 'hurt' pirates, it would also hurt actual legitimate enthusiasts (XBMC is coming out for Linux soon though soon, so it will be time to retire it!:)
The recent demos of the Android and the announcement of the HTC Touch Pro are really livening up the smart phone market at the moment. I just can't decide on which one to get:o
The new iphone is basically available now, where as the others aren't, which is a massive advantage, but having a nice keyboard like the Touch Pro has will make being on call a lot more pleasant! Android are yet to announce a phone though, although they have made an announcement that they will be announcing an Android phone at the end of the year...
I've dealt with a lot of people who think IM makes them productive, and I tend to disagree.
I think it completely depends on the person. Where I work, the easiest to communicate with all use IM. Those that don't use IM really hinder my productivity at times, when I have to wait however long for them to reply to an email, or at worst trek around the area and physically find them.
When all you need is a quick yes/no answer when you're in the middle of some work, having to drop everything and move on to another project or leave your desk to physically find the person is a real pain.
And I'm not even going to go in to the usefulness IRC can be for tech support, where often you can get a straight line to the developers of whatever you're implementing!
Haven't really noticed any reduced quality ..
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From the article:
What do you think about X Server 1.4.1, X.Org 7.4, and the X.Org release quality in general? Are these delayed and much drawn out release cycles a barrier to the greater adoption of Linux?
I've been using Ubuntu for 4 years now and it's pretty much shielded me from any lack of quality in the releases. Probably if I spent more (unnecessary) time under the hood it would expose issues but I've been living in a very blind 'trust Ubuntu' atmosphere where things pretty much just work (ok, lets not mention the recent key generation problem:)
In short, I guess the only people that might find the quality lacking are the developers and maintainers, and anyone specifically in the graphics industry? Not your average desktop user..? Or am I being naive?
I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?
It's just a giant life force sucking treadmill.
Well, the 8/9 hours a day I, and many others, spend at work aren't nearly as emotionally rewarding as enjoying a good game or other distraction. You must have got some kind of enjoyment out of it during that time?
Wait, does the PS3 have two main processing cores? Or are you counting the same core twice: once inside the VM, and once outside?
According to this the Playstation 3 has 1 3.2Ghz power pc core that manages 8 of the vector processors. Apparently only 7 of the vector processors are used, the 8th is redundant in case one fails?
Then they'd better make sure none of the material from St. Anger makes it into the game.
I used to really hate St. Anger when it was first released, but now time has passed I really quite like a few of the tracks, namely Frantic and Some Kind Of Monster. I thoroughly suggest you go back and give it another spin! Sure it's not And Justice For All... but it's not that bad:)
Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS comes with just the core engine and very basic support. This is a very different experience from all the other distributions where they bundle more than necessary applications (OpenOffice on a server distribution? Really?).
For a long time most distros have had some kind of 'server' install to avoid this, infact I think it's always been that way.. the entire piece is just rubbish fluff.
We catch about 12,000 spam emails daily for our customers using just spamassassin, it took a bit of setting up but works fine and it's as accurate as my gmail account
The free community support is on par, if not better than many of the other free distros, not commercially backed. Just because they offer commercial support, it is no reflection on the distro itself, and just because they offer products like Landscape it again doesn't really mean much.
It's not like Suse or Redhat that have (or had) significant differences between the free and commercial versions of their products.
If you never talk to Canonical, or give them a penny, you will still have a completely open, free Linux distribution. The services they charge for is just the icing on the cake that among other things help enterprises feel better about using Ubuntu and the products they promote can be written by anyone with an itch to scratch and released under the GPL.
Let's say you're going on a business trip into hostile territory and want to be able to access data from HQ... all of your company could set up a darknet and keep all the sensitive data on it -- then when you're accessing it via your soon-to-be competitor's LAN, their sysadmin can's snoop in on the data you're accessing.
Or I don't know, you could use ssh/scp/vpn? Something fast that doesn't suck? The only extra freenet adds is that the hostiles wouldn't know which servers you were talking to I guess.
That reads (to me) as "people who were given DRM-free audio books were happier with them and didn't feel the need to pirate them".
Or the DRM release was available way before the DRM-free release and pirated first by a piracy group looking to sell it on in China or release it for some 'scene kudos'.
Isn't this all based on something we try to teach children? If you give someone trust then they will do the right thing, but if you're instantly distrustful then they're never going to do the right thing.
From the blurb
It encoded those audio books with a digital watermark and monitored online file sharing networks, only to find that pirated copies of its audio books had been made from physical CDs or DRM-encoded digital downloads whose anticopying protections were overridden.
People are going to pirate whether their is DRM or not, which is pretty much what their study found.. the DRM did not stop piracy, so why pay extra for a mechanism that doesn't work and inconveniences legitimate purchasers?
IE 7 is incompatible with the Web site I use every day to post articles to WinInfo. So I had to figure out a way to post articles, preferably from within Vista. My main machine dual boots between XP and Vista, but it's a pain to reboot just to post an article or two. So I decided the best thing to do would be to use one of the XP-based VHDs I had and post the articles using IE 6 from within a virtual machine.
For one site that he can't use IE7 on he's decided the best course of action is to run WinXP in a VM so he can use IE6. Do Firefox and Opera not run on Vista? Or are they also unable to post to WinInfo?
This guy, his favourite OS and the sites he is affiliated with are poster childs for stupidity.
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Space suit of the past more like!
Seriously, come back when we have sexy space suits!
--Free Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii
Fortunately that law doesn't exist! While I do have a modded XBox (original) it's only used for the excellent XBMC. Such a law wouldn't just 'hurt' pirates, it would also hurt actual legitimate enthusiasts (XBMC is coming out for Linux soon though soon, so it will be time to retire it! :)
--Order free Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii
The recent demos of the Android and the announcement of the HTC Touch Pro are really livening up the smart phone market at the moment. I just can't decide on which one to get :o
The new iphone is basically available now, where as the others aren't, which is a massive advantage, but having a nice keyboard like the Touch Pro has will make being on call a lot more pleasant! Android are yet to announce a phone though, although they have made an announcement that they will be announcing an Android phone at the end of the year...
Free Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft XBox 360I think it completely depends on the person. Where I work, the easiest to communicate with all use IM. Those that don't use IM really hinder my productivity at times, when I have to wait however long for them to reply to an email, or at worst trek around the area and physically find them.
When all you need is a quick yes/no answer when you're in the middle of some work, having to drop everything and move on to another project or leave your desk to physically find the person is a real pain.
And I'm not even going to go in to the usefulness IRC can be for tech support, where often you can get a straight line to the developers of whatever you're implementing!
Free Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and XBox 360From the article:
I've been using Ubuntu for 4 years now and it's pretty much shielded me from any lack of quality in the releases. Probably if I spent more (unnecessary) time under the hood it would expose issues but I've been living in a very blind 'trust Ubuntu' atmosphere where things pretty much just work (ok, lets not mention the recent key generation problem :)
In short, I guess the only people that might find the quality lacking are the developers and maintainers, and anyone specifically in the graphics industry? Not your average desktop user..? Or am I being naive?
Free Playstation 3, Wii and XBox 360Well, the 8/9 hours a day I, and many others, spend at work aren't nearly as emotionally rewarding as enjoying a good game or other distraction. You must have got some kind of enjoyment out of it during that time?
-- Free Playstation 3, Wii and XBox 360According to this the Playstation 3 has 1 3.2Ghz power pc core that manages 8 of the vector processors. Apparently only 7 of the vector processors are used, the 8th is redundant in case one fails?
Free Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii
I used to really hate St. Anger when it was first released, but now time has passed I really quite like a few of the tracks, namely Frantic and Some Kind Of Monster. I thoroughly suggest you go back and give it another spin! Sure it's not And Justice For All ... but it's not that bad :)
Free Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii
For a long time most distros have had some kind of 'server' install to avoid this, infact I think it's always been that way.. the entire piece is just rubbish fluff.
We catch about 12,000 spam emails daily for our customers using just spamassassin, it took a bit of setting up but works fine and it's as accurate as my gmail account
Yeah, that guy's spelling sucks!
The free community support is on par, if not better than many of the other free distros, not commercially backed. Just because they offer commercial support, it is no reflection on the distro itself, and just because they offer products like Landscape it again doesn't really mean much.
It's not like Suse or Redhat that have (or had) significant differences between the free and commercial versions of their products.
If you never talk to Canonical, or give them a penny, you will still have a completely open, free Linux distribution. The services they charge for is just the icing on the cake that among other things help enterprises feel better about using Ubuntu and the products they promote can be written by anyone with an itch to scratch and released under the GPL.
Or I don't know, you could use ssh/scp/vpn? Something fast that doesn't suck? The only extra freenet adds is that the hostiles wouldn't know which servers you were talking to I guess.
Google Summer of Code?
aliens!
what the fuck is cable card?
i mean seriously, its not like i dont pay attention to trends, but what the fuck is this pretend technologoy?
The w960i actually does come with a touch screen, way to read the article!
They day I have an AAC track on my computer, is the day I die. -V2 --vbr-new all the way baby!
What do women know about computers? Someone tell her to go play Barbie.
Funny, that's exactly what I say to the Americans I meet that have moved to the UK.
Are Defcon likely to put up MP3s of the presentations?
For one site that he can't use IE7 on he's decided the best course of action is to run WinXP in a VM so he can use IE6. Do Firefox and Opera not run on Vista? Or are they also unable to post to WinInfo?
This guy, his favourite OS and the sites he is affiliated with are poster childs for stupidity.
Tricks of the Livejournal Cutters, and it was very eye opening.