take the line out/speaker out from your computer, run a cable, and presto! you can defeat any drm package
Not quite. You wouldn't get around watermarks.
I worry about the day the MacroVisions of the world develop a decent watermarking technology. It's not really feasible for CDs since they're pressed (of course that could change), but they could easily put a unique watermark into every legally downloaded song. If they find your number in a song on Kazaa you're screwed.
Anyways, the only way I can see the ability to run Windows and Linux simultaneously actually making Linux significantly more popular is in the workplace where the admins want to switch everybody over to Linux, but there's that one critical app that only runs on Windows...
Right, and that's a hell of a lot more common than the reverse. And until Linux eclipses Windows in popularity, anything that facilitates running multiple OSes can only help Linux.
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I downloaded [iTunes] the first day it came out, and so far liked it, but come on, there's nothing super-duper-extra-spectacular about it.
Hello? Apple makes it.
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Are you saying your dad bought a Penis Patch? It distubs me that you know this.
I thought there were a few models out there with GPS capability. If not, it'd be almost trivial for them to make one.
Better yet, you ask them to locate it via the GPS guts your phone has. Or is that too 1984-ish for you guys?
DigitalConvergence? Man, you really know how to hold a grudge.
"Hell Froze Over"
That's the best laugh I've [had] in a long time
Poor guy, you need to quit listening to Prairie Home Companion and watch a Seinfeld rerun.
They tried - it was Itanium, and nobody bit.
Later you'd get actual translations of the messages. Who could predict the value of alien wisdom and folly?
You just know it's going to be an intergalactic version of goatse.cx.
Furthermore, Moore's Law isn't even a law, it's an observation. And an incorrect one at that.
How do you know you were successful in wiping it?
You're right about CDs purchased with cash, but A LOT of people don't use cash. Besides, good luck downloading a song from Apple with cash.
take the line out/speaker out from your computer, run a cable, and presto! you can defeat any drm package
Not quite. You wouldn't get around watermarks.
I worry about the day the MacroVisions of the world develop a decent watermarking technology. It's not really feasible for CDs since they're pressed (of course that could change), but they could easily put a unique watermark into every legally downloaded song. If they find your number in a song on Kazaa you're screwed.
Anyways, the only way I can see the ability to run Windows and Linux simultaneously actually making Linux significantly more popular is in the workplace where the admins want to switch everybody over to Linux, but there's that one critical app that only runs on Windows...
Right, and that's a hell of a lot more common than the reverse. And until Linux eclipses Windows in popularity, anything that facilitates running multiple OSes can only help Linux.
Why am I being affected by all this crap, I dont fileshare, I dont rip CDs for friend, I dont steal cable.
Because we do, silly.
Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species.
Pfft - too bad I hold the record for first documented case of homosexual necrophilia with the mallard duck species.
Uh, none of those programs are inherently tied to Linux. Linux is the kernel, NOT the OS.
How else would I know when to begin the rabid orgy of drinking, sex, and general debauchery?
You've got it all wrong. The orgy has begun for me, I just need to know when to begin the emergency repentance.
What you say intrigues me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Now however, I have come to the conclusion that this IS an SDK, and not the full source of their engine.
Err, I take that back. Its the engine. Just found the occlusion system and the node management.
What is your address? I am sending you a keyboard with a "Backspace" key for Christmas.
If your actually having to reboot your linux box more than once a month your either playing with too many kernels or have a serious hardware problem.
Uh - or you turn your computer off when you're done with it. Is your computer really doing essential functions 24 hours a day?
No, you are both mistaken. SCO jokes stopped being funny about a week after the story broke.
Are you a robot or do you just have trouble forming coherent responses?
MS threatens me with audits to check my license compliance, can I audit them to check that no open source code is in their products?
It depends. Did you get them to agree to a EULA that authorized you to audit them? Well, they got you to agree to one.
I don't get it. Was that a joke or what?
Around my house we don't call it "the Internet" anymore. We refer to it as "the source of all Truth and Knowledge."
Interesting - we are your neighbors and refer to your house as "the Dwelling of Eternal Dorkitude".