DRM is ONLY a pain in the ass on Windows. That's because only windows and apple software actually pays attention to the DRM. Linux software just ignores it. If you run gentoo and turn on all the USE flags "+real +quicktime +mp3", etc. You can play any video or audio file ever with mplayer. I've never found one it couldn't handle.
This will be extra awesome since people wont have to wait in lines to play demos if they have their own DSes. It might even be faster to buy a new DS than to wait in line giving Nintendo a few sales.
I'm going to the Nintendo store opening tomorrow, hopefully they'll have something like this there too. As soon as I get within range I'm going to hit that download play button. I also fully expect all four picto chat rooms to be full and populated with representations of male genitalia.
What I meant to say is that as much as this system protect small children from playing with pedophiles it also prevents kiddies from playing in games with you or me. Gone will be the days of trying 20 CS servers until there are decent people to play with. Everytime you login there will be some quality gaming action. Unless you're a loser who can't make friends in real life or the internet. But then again, if you're such a loser like that why are you buying a game console which is primarily designed for mutilplayer social gaming? Go get yourself a PlayStation and play those single player RPGs as you cry yourself to sleep at night.
Don't be so narrow minded. A feature like this wont be all bad and only for kids. Think of it this way, you'll have a whitelist of people you are willing to play with. And only if both parties communicate with each other in some way can they play games with each other. As long as the whitelist is unlimited in size, this would be awesome.
No more problems of people dropping out of games. No more problems of accidentally getting team killers on your side. I know tons of people who have only one argument about Counter Strike, that argument is the sterotype of the CS player. A system like this solves that problem flawlessly.
And you can bet within a day that there will be people sharing info all over the internet so that they can find strangers to play with. There is simply no way Nintendo can prevent that, in fact I think they would encourage it.
Nintendo prides itself on making things very polished, very simple, and flawless by design. I believe that this move is true as it perfectly fits in with the Nintendo philosophy. However, there better be more to the revolution than just this or it will be more of a quickly routed rebellion.
That's what you WOULD think, but the environment is completely different. The original crash was because in those days the game market was very specialized. Games were either children's toys or for the people who played space invaders in the arcade for hours. These are the same people who own every system and every quality game today. Nowadays gaming is no longer a niche and everyone plays games. So it's profitable to make tons of crap games because tons of crap people will buy them. The movie industry hasn't collapsed by selling crap movies in large quantity and neither has the music industry. It just took two tries with the game industry because it was a new medium and had to get a good start that would be accepted by the populous.
We've had this discussion before. Video games are now something everyone enjoys. And just like movies and music there is a divide between blockbuster crap that makes a shitton of money and real quality stuff that is only for the people who care.
Art house movie theatres, local garage bands, independently published books. That is where the quality is. And now that all the vast consumer sheep buy video games the real money is in selling crap games like this to them. The hardcore gamers who actually give two shits will be playing the independent games and the rare gems like katamari.
This is the kind of market for entertainment that our economic system fosters. Capitalism and IP law encourage the most profitable art, not the highest quality art. Get over it or do something about it.
The only thing copyright/patent law should say is that you must give credit where credit is due. It will be against the law to say that the song Stairway to Heaven is by someone other than Led Zeppelin. However performing, copying, mixing or doing anything else you want with the work is fair game.
People will keep making art even if there is no possibility of getting fabulously wealthy. Even better than that, popular culture will evolve into something that doesn't suck. Much unlike the corporate controlled consumer culture of today.
I have a theory. Hillary Rosen at one time was the evil record executive we all love to hate. However, after being debated and berated by copyfighters she saw the light. However, she was still on the RIAA payroll and couldn't openly express her true opinions. I'm making an optimisted educated guess when I say she quit because she didn't agree with the position her employment forced her to take. Remember when she almost walked out the wrong door at that debate?
It seems rather likely considering that everything she said while she was in charge was evil and everything she has said since her resignation is singificantly more sane.
AFAIK you can't sue the US government without its permission. At least not in US federal court. They do give their permission often however. But if they really wanted to they could violate GPLs and EULAs left and right and just not let anyone sue them for it.
I don't think it's anything to worry about though. The real worry is the government wasting taxpayer money on proprietary software and also using closed formats in an "open" government.
Take that giant server and put it in a back room under lock and key. The only things that should plug into it are a single power cable and network. Put a single KVM in your rack to access all the servers in it.
Now buy 30 thin clients. Each one gets a KVM and a network card. Good. Now plug in the power on all the thin clients and plug their network cables into a switch. To remove clutter if you want you can use 802.11 and all the thin clients will only need power.
People take the path of least resistance. They just really don't care. No normal dumb comptuer users will go through the effort to use something different unless there are hoardes of advantages tha t make it worth it. Firefox just had so many advantages over IE and enough marketing and ease to install that a few people switched. IE still has the vast majority of the market.
Also, most people don't pay for Office in the first place, it comes with their computers. OpenOffice while free, doesn't have huge advantages over MS Office. That's mainly because MS Office isn't lacking the feature and moderness that IE was lacking. In many ways OO is still behind MSOffice in terms of functionality and interface. The few companies who know about it and consider it many decide against it for various reasons.
But mostly, the vast majority of people just don't know about it. These days price and quality don't matter anymore. All that matters is what you can put into peoples minds with marketing and advertising. Only two things that matter are whether people know about your product and how they perceive it. The reality doesn't matter to people who aren't smart. And most people don't even know about OpenOffice let alone perceieve it as good.
Myself, I'm an abiword/gnumeric man. Who needs more than a word processor and a spreadsheet? Not me, and I barely use the spreadsheet.
The reason that you can't get a board that meets your needs is because your needs are unmeetable. IIRC the Athlon 64 FX can't be paired in a dual processor configuration. That's what the Opterons are for.
However, if you come up with requirements for a motherboard that are possible and you want to have one made, good luck. There are many companies that can do it for you for an extremely large pile of money.
there is more to it than just losing data. Have you noticed that most of the trojans and viruses that have really hit hard i.e: blaster have never so much as destroyed any data? That's not what most attackers want to do. What they usually want to do is appropriate your processing power for their own purposes, like sending spam. If you run in a non-root account you eliminate or fortify against a myriad of vectors which malicious attackers can use to gain control of your system.
Given my example above, let's say you ran the ls program in/tmp as root and it made a backdoor, and started sending spam and installed a rootkit so that nobody would know it was running. If the ls ran as a normal user it is likely that the backdoor might open, but spam probably wouldn't be sent because a normal user can't run a service on port 25. And a rootkit couldn't be installed because a normal user doesn't have access to those directories. Other malicious attacks like ones that re-write configuration files would also fail. The extra step of forcing the attacker to have to get root before they can execute their attack is a huge and often, but not always, insurmountable hurdle.
If its only losing data you care about, backups are the solution. Running as any given user puts the data belonging to that user at risk. So by that logic you should run as a user who owns no important data or it wont matter which user you run as. But I guess if all you care about is your data being lost or not, just store it on removable storage media. Be happy with your slowed down IRC bot spam machine.
So every user on a system usually can make files in/tmp. Let's say that a malicious user of the system goes into/tmp and makes an executable file named ls. That executable file contains the code which opens up a backdoor onto the system via netcat. If you were running as a normal user and ran ls in/tmp then you would not open up any backdoor. In fact, you might realize what's going on and be able to fix it. If you were root however, the backdoor would open wide and let the whole world have a root shell on your machine. This particular problem can be averted by removing . from $PATH of all users including root. But does Linspire do this? I don't know for sure, but I doubt it.
Linspire, Linux dumbed down for dummies by dummies.
Ok, let's say that I make an HTML document with a gpl font. So that HTML document would have in it somewhere a tag that says . Guess what, the font isn't actually included in this html document, the font itself is a separate file that is not included in this HTML document. The document only includes the name of the font. I don't see how including the name of a gpl font in a document makes that document gpl. That would mean that a program that contains the word Linux in its source code must be GPL.
Now, let us say that I modified this GPL font or the font itself was embedded within a document file for distribution. Or that I wrote a program which utilizes this font. Then you could make a case.
No, but you can buy a GBA, SP or DS and the re-released version of Super Mario Brothers. Duck Hunt however is another story.
I always thought that Nintendo and other old game companies should just make an emulator, and give it away for free. Then sell ROM downloads for like 50 cents each. They would make a killing and their claims against pirates like these would actually have some more meaning. This is yet anothe reason we need IP reform. If you aren't currently making money from that IP you shouldn't be able to claim damages if someone else does. That will provide the most benefit to society by legally providing a supply of goods which are in demand. As it stands there is a demand for goods that IP holders refuse to produce, that is not good for people.
I had this problem too. The trick is to make sure to configure your printer to print in "greyscale" rather than "black and white". Some of the elements on the sheet are greyish or dithered and if you leave a "black + white" configuration they wont show.
AFAIK Acrobat Reader 6 was never released for Linux. Because of this Linux users had to either use the deplorable acroread (Reader 5) or other open source pdf viewers like xpdf, gpdf, etc. All of which were far from perfect. Most of which were painful to use. And none of which supported all the features of newer pdf files like editing forms and such.
This Acrobat Reader 7 is significant because its the first quality and full featured Linux pdf viewer. It also shows that Adobe aknowledges the existence and importance of Linux and that the demands and complaints made against them about the situation did not go unanswered.
If you don't use windows you can disable the USB. You can also cut the usb connections on the motherboards to physically disable the ports. You might also be able to do it in the BIOS and set a BIOS password.
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DRM is ONLY a pain in the ass on Windows. That's because only windows and apple software actually pays attention to the DRM. Linux software just ignores it. If you run gentoo and turn on all the USE flags "+real +quicktime +mp3", etc. You can play any video or audio file ever with mplayer. I've never found one it couldn't handle.
This will be extra awesome since people wont have to wait in lines to play demos if they have their own DSes. It might even be faster to buy a new DS than to wait in line giving Nintendo a few sales.
I'm going to the Nintendo store opening tomorrow, hopefully they'll have something like this there too. As soon as I get within range I'm going to hit that download play button. I also fully expect all four picto chat rooms to be full and populated with representations of male genitalia.
What I meant to say is that as much as this system protect small children from playing with pedophiles it also prevents kiddies from playing in games with you or me. Gone will be the days of trying 20 CS servers until there are decent people to play with. Everytime you login there will be some quality gaming action. Unless you're a loser who can't make friends in real life or the internet. But then again, if you're such a loser like that why are you buying a game console which is primarily designed for mutilplayer social gaming? Go get yourself a PlayStation and play those single player RPGs as you cry yourself to sleep at night.
Don't be so narrow minded. A feature like this wont be all bad and only for kids. Think of it this way, you'll have a whitelist of people you are willing to play with. And only if both parties communicate with each other in some way can they play games with each other. As long as the whitelist is unlimited in size, this would be awesome.
No more problems of people dropping out of games. No more problems of accidentally getting team killers on your side. I know tons of people who have only one argument about Counter Strike, that argument is the sterotype of the CS player. A system like this solves that problem flawlessly.
And you can bet within a day that there will be people sharing info all over the internet so that they can find strangers to play with. There is simply no way Nintendo can prevent that, in fact I think they would encourage it.
Nintendo prides itself on making things very polished, very simple, and flawless by design. I believe that this move is true as it perfectly fits in with the Nintendo philosophy. However, there better be more to the revolution than just this or it will be more of a quickly routed rebellion.
That's what you WOULD think, but the environment is completely different. The original crash was because in those days the game market was very specialized. Games were either children's toys or for the people who played space invaders in the arcade for hours. These are the same people who own every system and every quality game today. Nowadays gaming is no longer a niche and everyone plays games. So it's profitable to make tons of crap games because tons of crap people will buy them. The movie industry hasn't collapsed by selling crap movies in large quantity and neither has the music industry. It just took two tries with the game industry because it was a new medium and had to get a good start that would be accepted by the populous.
We've had this discussion before. Video games are now something everyone enjoys. And just like movies and music there is a divide between blockbuster crap that makes a shitton of money and real quality stuff that is only for the people who care.
Art house movie theatres, local garage bands, independently published books. That is where the quality is. And now that all the vast consumer sheep buy video games the real money is in selling crap games like this to them. The hardcore gamers who actually give two shits will be playing the independent games and the rare gems like katamari.
This is the kind of market for entertainment that our economic system fosters. Capitalism and IP law encourage the most profitable art, not the highest quality art. Get over it or do something about it.
The only thing copyright/patent law should say is that you must give credit where credit is due. It will be against the law to say that the song Stairway to Heaven is by someone other than Led Zeppelin. However performing, copying, mixing or doing anything else you want with the work is fair game.
People will keep making art even if there is no possibility of getting fabulously wealthy. Even better than that, popular culture will evolve into something that doesn't suck. Much unlike the corporate controlled consumer culture of today.
I have an optimistic crackpot theory. I'll write it in PHP because that's what I'm using mostly as of late.
if( in_array( 'Darth Vader', $movie ) ){
return awesome;
}else{
return poop;
}
I have a theory. Hillary Rosen at one time was the evil record executive we all love to hate. However, after being debated and berated by copyfighters she saw the light. However, she was still on the RIAA payroll and couldn't openly express her true opinions. I'm making an optimisted educated guess when I say she quit because she didn't agree with the position her employment forced her to take. Remember when she almost walked out the wrong door at that debate?
It seems rather likely considering that everything she said while she was in charge was evil and everything she has said since her resignation is singificantly more sane.
AFAIK you can't sue the US government without its permission. At least not in US federal court. They do give their permission often however. But if they really wanted to they could violate GPLs and EULAs left and right and just not let anyone sue them for it.
I don't think it's anything to worry about though. The real worry is the government wasting taxpayer money on proprietary software and also using closed formats in an "open" government.
No intelligent designer or engineer would put a waste pipe across a recreation area.
Take that giant server and put it in a back room under lock and key. The only things that should plug into it are a single power cable and network. Put a single KVM in your rack to access all the servers in it.
Now buy 30 thin clients. Each one gets a KVM and a network card. Good. Now plug in the power on all the thin clients and plug their network cables into a switch. To remove clutter if you want you can use 802.11 and all the thin clients will only need power.
Ta-da! Welcome to intelligence.
People take the path of least resistance. They just really don't care. No normal dumb comptuer users will go through the effort to use something different unless there are hoardes of advantages tha t make it worth it. Firefox just had so many advantages over IE and enough marketing and ease to install that a few people switched. IE still has the vast majority of the market.
Also, most people don't pay for Office in the first place, it comes with their computers. OpenOffice while free, doesn't have huge advantages over MS Office. That's mainly because MS Office isn't lacking the feature and moderness that IE was lacking. In many ways OO is still behind MSOffice in terms of functionality and interface. The few companies who know about it and consider it many decide against it for various reasons.
But mostly, the vast majority of people just don't know about it. These days price and quality don't matter anymore. All that matters is what you can put into peoples minds with marketing and advertising. Only two things that matter are whether people know about your product and how they perceive it. The reality doesn't matter to people who aren't smart. And most people don't even know about OpenOffice let alone perceieve it as good.
Myself, I'm an abiword/gnumeric man. Who needs more than a word processor and a spreadsheet? Not me, and I barely use the spreadsheet.
The reason that you can't get a board that meets your needs is because your needs are unmeetable. IIRC the Athlon 64 FX can't be paired in a dual processor configuration. That's what the Opterons are for.
However, if you come up with requirements for a motherboard that are possible and you want to have one made, good luck. There are many companies that can do it for you for an extremely large pile of money.
there is more to it than just losing data. Have you noticed that most of the trojans and viruses that have really hit hard i.e: blaster have never so much as destroyed any data? That's not what most attackers want to do. What they usually want to do is appropriate your processing power for their own purposes, like sending spam. If you run in a non-root account you eliminate or fortify against a myriad of vectors which malicious attackers can use to gain control of your system.
/tmp as root and it made a backdoor, and started sending spam and installed a rootkit so that nobody would know it was running. If the ls ran as a normal user it is likely that the backdoor might open, but spam probably wouldn't be sent because a normal user can't run a service on port 25. And a rootkit couldn't be installed because a normal user doesn't have access to those directories. Other malicious attacks like ones that re-write configuration files would also fail. The extra step of forcing the attacker to have to get root before they can execute their attack is a huge and often, but not always, insurmountable hurdle.
Given my example above, let's say you ran the ls program in
If its only losing data you care about, backups are the solution. Running as any given user puts the data belonging to that user at risk. So by that logic you should run as a user who owns no important data or it wont matter which user you run as. But I guess if all you care about is your data being lost or not, just store it on removable storage media. Be happy with your slowed down IRC bot spam machine.
So every user on a system usually can make files in /tmp. Let's say that a malicious user of the system goes into /tmp and makes an executable file named ls. That executable file contains the code which opens up a backdoor onto the system via netcat. If you were running as a normal user and ran ls in /tmp then you would not open up any backdoor. In fact, you might realize what's going on and be able to fix it. If you were root however, the backdoor would open wide and let the whole world have a root shell on your machine. This particular problem can be averted by removing . from $PATH of all users including root. But does Linspire do this? I don't know for sure, but I doubt it.
Linspire, Linux dumbed down for dummies by dummies.
pac-pix for the DS. The game isn't original, we've seen pac-man eat ghosts before. But the gamePLAY is original, and that's what counts.
Ok, let's say that I make an HTML document with a gpl font. So that HTML document would have in it somewhere a tag that says . Guess what, the font isn't actually included in this html document, the font itself is a separate file that is not included in this HTML document. The document only includes the name of the font. I don't see how including the name of a gpl font in a document makes that document gpl. That would mean that a program that contains the word Linux in its source code must be GPL.
Now, let us say that I modified this GPL font or the font itself was embedded within a document file for distribution. Or that I wrote a program which utilizes this font. Then you could make a case.
I can't be certain if this is a hoax or not. But there was a hoax earlier about controlling an Aibo with a PSP.
hoax
Puzzle:Tetris
Fighting:Street Fighter 2 (championship edition if you want)
Platform:Mega Man 2
FPS:Half-Life
RTS:Warcraft 2
Space:TIE Fighter
and I don't know the genre, but Civilizaition 2
Cheap broadband is as unamerican as freedom.
No, but you can buy a GBA, SP or DS and the re-released version of Super Mario Brothers. Duck Hunt however is another story.
I always thought that Nintendo and other old game companies should just make an emulator, and give it away for free. Then sell ROM downloads for like 50 cents each. They would make a killing and their claims against pirates like these would actually have some more meaning. This is yet anothe reason we need IP reform. If you aren't currently making money from that IP you shouldn't be able to claim damages if someone else does. That will provide the most benefit to society by legally providing a supply of goods which are in demand. As it stands there is a demand for goods that IP holders refuse to produce, that is not good for people.
I had this problem too. The trick is to make sure to configure your printer to print in "greyscale" rather than "black and white". Some of the elements on the sheet are greyish or dithered and if you leave a "black + white" configuration they wont show.
AFAIK Acrobat Reader 6 was never released for Linux. Because of this Linux users had to either use the deplorable acroread (Reader 5) or other open source pdf viewers like xpdf, gpdf, etc. All of which were far from perfect. Most of which were painful to use. And none of which supported all the features of newer pdf files like editing forms and such.
This Acrobat Reader 7 is significant because its the first quality and full featured Linux pdf viewer. It also shows that Adobe aknowledges the existence and importance of Linux and that the demands and complaints made against them about the situation did not go unanswered.
If you don't use windows you can disable the USB. You can also cut the usb connections on the motherboards to physically disable the ports. You might also be able to do it in the BIOS and set a BIOS password.