Keep in mid that credit companies are more tightly regulated than bitcoin exchanges are currently and that if the most popular ones chose to boycott a particular customer you would be in largely the same situation.
Really how would a exchanges boycotting a group like Wikileaks stop you donation? With bitcoin the money is simply signed over to wikileaks and it is now theirs no one can stop it, it belongs to them no service needed. Next Wikileaks signs over the money to their server hosting company and again no one can stop it. What is a exchange going to do?
What if the police start launching sting operations against sneakernet pirates? The problem with the sneakernet is that there's no anonymity.
What are they going to do shake me down on the street and demand the password to my external harddrive so they can check that there is no contraband... Oh wait they already do that at the boarder.
And since the TSA can violate you... I mean the TSA can violate your constitutionally protected right up what was it 100 miles from the boarder (http://rt.com/usa/court-upholds-laptop-border-searches-041/) and oceans and airports count as boarders so where isn't within the 100 miles of a boarder ocean or airport, they could legally search your electronic anywhere, to keep us safe from kiddy porn wielding terrorists illegally immigrating with drugs hidden in their bum of course.
You're right. When I look for Photoshop to start it, it makes no sense for it to be under 'Adobe', with InDesign and Premiere. They should all just be scattered at random in a big scrolling mass of tiles.
You can put Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere under a column called 'Adobe' with the Start Screen...
With the start screen I have to where it should have been put in the first place With a start menu it is already where it belongs.
advertisers can be sued for false advertising and are held accountable for not fullfing their promises politicians can say whatever the hell they want including lying and are not forced to fallow through with their promises.
Once Xbox came to be, they filled the void once occupied by Nintendo. There isn't room for a 3rd player in the home console field - or at least I don't think Nintendo could even make a dent versus Xbox and Playstation.
OK but if I wanted to save Nintendo.. (hang on, I have to look up what a WiiU is - omg it looks like total shit)
I'd go back to the roots. Create games reminiscent of what worked in the 80s and early 90s, but with a little more flashiness and multiplayer. Not everybody wants 3D (personally I was over it after I played super mario 64)
Nah there has always been a tri force, if you will, of consoles;
Atari Sega Nintendo Nintendo Sega Playstation Nintendo Playstation Xbox
Unfortunately for Nintendo being the lowest profiting of the three and having no other markets to support them unlike Microsoft and Sony and having mobile gaming from android and ios, smart tvs and apple and google tv boxes as competition as well as from the me Steam box, Nintendo looks like it is about to lose its place of dominance.
We can see that the former consoles manufactures have shrunk to but a former shell of what they used to be Atari is facing bankruptcy, Sega turns out the occasional game for the other three consoles and farms out sonic the hedgehog to pay the bills. Nintendo does not want to turn into Sega and most definitely does not want to become atari. So as I see it they have to option at this point
Sell out or Buy out.
They could sell them selves to apple google amazon or microsoft for the ip and maybe they will keep the devs and writters, or they could merge with or buy out valve and support pc gaming.
As I said in another post higher up
A Microsoft buyout would bad but at least the game might someday see a official pc port. A merger with Valve could be interesting to see and shake everything up for the gaming industry, as long as they kept the game development team separate have Nintendo focus on family gaming and peripherals and Valve on PC and hardcore gaming and co operate together on consoles. A Google buyout would be great for mobile and give Google TV some teeth in the gaming market and could quiet possible see a release nintindo apps for other platforms such as windows 8 and iOS like they have for other core customer facing services Then there is the Apple buyout where hardware would probably cost more and merge with apple tv and iP(a||o)d for console and mobile gaming respectively, the have similar styling but other than that I don't see it being a great match for costumers & fans especially. If they have to sell or merge I would hope for either google or valve buy/merge.
They apparently have a burning platform, this sounds like a job for an Elop!
But in all seriousness, we need Elop installed CEO of Microsoft to help ensure their rapid demise.
Nah Nintendo can wait a few years at least to hire the former head of xbox that just left a few months ago to torpedo I mean run Zynga. At least then they will have someone form their field put them down and drag them back to the feet of Microsoft.
I think that would be the worst possible option for everyone (except Sony of course). A Microsoft buyout would be almost as bad but at least the game might someday see a official pc port. A merger with Valve could be interesting to see and shake everything up for the gaming industry, as long as they kept the game development team separate have Nintendo focus on family gaming and peripherals and Valve on PC and hardcore gaming and co operate together on consoles. A Google buyout would be great for mobile and give Google TV some teeth in the gaming market and could quiet possible see a release nintindo apps for other platforms such as windows 8 and ios like they have for other core customer facing services Then there is the Apple buyout where hardware would probably cost more and merge with apple tv and iP(a||o)d for console and mobile gaming respectively, the have similar styling but other than that I don't see it being a great match for costumers & fans especially. If they have to sell or merge I would hope for either google or valve buy/merge.
By using an unconventional method to exploit Windows, the hackers unwittingly forced Microsoft to show a hand few knew it had: The ability to remotely remove progams en masse from peopleâ(TM)s computers, without them even knowing it.
Maybe the next virus needs to remove Windows from all of those machines.
hmm how hard would it be to write virus capable using windows update to install linux bsd etc on all of those unpatched xp machines
That owed almost entirely to his relationship with Bill gates. Everyone else at the company needs to actually know something.
Then would you care to explain;
microsoft bob, windows me, windows vista, metro on the desktop, metro on the server, brown zunes, the windows azure song with the line "The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis." fallowed in parentheses "or vagina" xbox 360 red ring of death, xbox power cords starting on fire windows phone 7 debacle, xboxs proven to scratch own discs after claiming publicly that they were not, bing, ie, mixing bing ads with local search results, the ribbon, etc, etc, etc,...
There are many many more lets just say microsoft has more than it share of failure and incompetency.
If I am supposed to type give me a terminal, if I am supposed to use a mouse give a WIMPI (window icon menu pointer interface) desktop, if I am supposed to use a touchscreen give me a touch optimized interface, don't put metro on my server, desktop or laptop.
No I would use it to do whatever I am trying to do more quickly. Have you ever have to wait for a program to compile, a video to transcode, a archive compress, or something as simple as wait for a document to render. For example there was a bug a while back in open/libre office that caused.rtf documents to take a long time to render. Worst part was the time to render grew exponentially with the length of the document, my first encounter with it was when I opened a ebook saved that format it took over ten minutes to render! it did not matter how powerful the hardware was it was rendering it still took to long because the code was bad and no increase in hardware would fix that. Would I have donated that cpu time to charity as you suggest? No but it was still a problem because it wasted not my computers time but because it wasted my time which is infinitely more valuable.
lets look at that, will more computers make a mcaffy or norten security suits run appreciably faster? No because they are badly written programs that are resource hogs the eat processing power and can pull a workstation to a crawl. A faster more effencent and less resource hogging code would be better in this case then throwing hardawre at it. For many problems throwing hardware at a problem is just like throw money at a problem you are ignoring the root issue and will eventually run out of resources to throw.
Would you rather that your CPU and memory were always underutilized by software, going to waste?
yes more efficient and fast code would be much better
Then you should be using a 20 years old computer, with its lean software and scarce resources. Why buy more powerful hardware if you have no use for its inward capabilities? The rest of us will keep using hardware that allow possibilities that were unheard a few years ago.
To quote an old adage What Moore's law giveth Gates Taketh away
I would prefer to use lean software on powerful hardware so as to actually gain the advantages of said hardware rather than bad code and bloat roll back the advantages new hardware has given.
Well, here's a new section for my "beating down democracy" book.
Suppose you want to discredit crypto-currencies, or at least dilute their effect. What can you do?
You can start a raft of new currencies with sketchy names and origins. Currencies based on celebrities, currencies based on businesses, sports (such as Nascar commemorative plates - good as gold in many US locations), and even personal currencies!
"We can't stop people from using BitCoin! What can we do?"
"Let's generate alternatives - so many that people won't know which ones to use."
"You mean like software standards?"
"Yes - exactly like software standards."
"Heh. They'll never see that coming..."
i think at this point they are to late and the network effect will stop most most of the truly pointless "new" cryptocurrencies which are really just new block chains, i think there is still room for a truly new cryptocurrency as long as it actually brings something new to the table better algorithm, new features, integration with other existing blockchains, stronger cryptography, better anonymity, new paradigm.
I would like see for example a currency that uses more that just a double sha2 or just scrypt in case they it get broken like md5 did, so use like scrypt, sha2 and sha3 on the same block.
you say that as if you think that green papers with pictures of dead people and masonic imagery on them are inherently worth anything. as for the math problems not be worth anything they secure and process the transactions so are of great value to currency.
Except the helping with they spying as you call it is about securing there network infrastructer not about helping them spy. For it to be treason he has to provide aid and comfort to the enemy, as we still call Germany one of our allies and he is not helping them to attack us then he has still done nothing wrong and is not a traitor nor would he have committed treason.
Really I was playing portal and team fortress 2 yesterday on a linux laptop yesterday and watching netflix just fine with x. Android not using x is because they are using an entirely different stack than desktop Linux not just the display server the tool chain is different the utilities are different the only thing the same is the kernel and that has been tweaked. Hell most android apps arn't even interfacing with the unixy bit underneath just the java based vm. Androids success has nothing to do with not having x. It has to do with being pushed by the largest internet company on the planet, being open, using the most popular language, and giving an alternative to IOS. its not about lack of x that happens to just be a side issue.
Oddly enough I regularly see far more people saying that they need network transparency that x provides then I see people telling them they are a rare edge case. hell I Use apps on my home server admin'ed from my laptop or school account in the linux lab all of the time. Many of the linux people I know IRL use it. Has anyone seen actual polls on this?
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Keep in mid that credit companies are more tightly regulated than bitcoin exchanges are currently and that if the most popular ones chose to boycott a particular customer you would be in largely the same situation.
Really how would a exchanges boycotting a group like Wikileaks stop you donation? With bitcoin the money is simply signed over to wikileaks and it is now theirs no one can stop it, it belongs to them no service needed. Next Wikileaks signs over the money to their server hosting company and again no one can stop it. What is a exchange going to do?
I think the government is doing good enough of a job of lowering its value that we won't need to kill they will first.
What if the police start launching sting operations against sneakernet pirates? The problem with the sneakernet is that there's no anonymity.
What are they going to do shake me down on the street and demand the password to my external harddrive so they can check that there is no contraband... Oh wait they already do that at the boarder.
And since the TSA can violate you... I mean the TSA can violate your constitutionally protected right up what was it 100 miles from the boarder (http://rt.com/usa/court-upholds-laptop-border-searches-041/) and oceans and airports count as boarders so where isn't within the 100 miles of a boarder ocean or airport, they could legally search your electronic anywhere, to keep us safe from kiddy porn wielding terrorists illegally immigrating with drugs hidden in their bum of course.
All the music I listen to is 100% free to download.
You are a thief unless the artist or band released their music for free downloading / streaming.
No he would be a infringing copyright which is not theft it is under a entirely different section of the law.
Well, from the linked resource, you can download the whole thing as a PDF. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
archive.org has several different formats as well.
https://archive.org/details/Th...
You're right. When I look for Photoshop to start it, it makes no sense for it to be under 'Adobe', with InDesign and Premiere. They should all just be scattered at random in a big scrolling mass of tiles.
You can put Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere under a column called 'Adobe' with the Start Screen...
With the start screen I have to where it should have been put in the first place
With a start menu it is already where it belongs.
advertising or politics.
There's a difference?
advertisers can be sued for false advertising and are held accountable for not fullfing their promises
politicians can say whatever the hell they want including lying and are not forced to fallow through with their promises.
Once Xbox came to be, they filled the void once occupied by Nintendo. There isn't room for a 3rd player in the home console field - or at least I don't think Nintendo could even make a dent versus Xbox and Playstation.
OK but if I wanted to save Nintendo.. (hang on, I have to look up what a WiiU is - omg it looks like total shit)
I'd go back to the roots. Create games reminiscent of what worked in the 80s and early 90s, but with a little more flashiness and multiplayer. Not everybody wants 3D (personally I was over it after I played super mario 64)
Nah there has always been a tri force, if you will, of consoles;
Atari Sega Nintendo
Nintendo Sega Playstation
Nintendo Playstation Xbox
Unfortunately for Nintendo being the lowest profiting of the three and having no other markets to support them unlike Microsoft and Sony and having mobile gaming from android and ios, smart tvs and apple and google tv boxes as competition as well as from the me Steam box, Nintendo looks like it is about to lose its place of dominance.
We can see that the former consoles manufactures have shrunk to but a former shell of what they used to be Atari is facing bankruptcy, Sega turns out the occasional game for the other three consoles and farms out sonic the hedgehog to pay the bills. Nintendo does not want to turn into Sega and most definitely does not want to become atari. So as I see it they have to option at this point
Sell out or Buy out.
They could sell them selves to apple google amazon or microsoft for the ip and maybe they will keep the devs and writters, or they could merge with or buy out valve and support pc gaming.
As I said in another post higher up
A Microsoft buyout would bad but at least the game might someday see a official pc port.
A merger with Valve could be interesting to see and shake everything up for the gaming industry, as long as they kept the game development team separate have Nintendo focus on family gaming and peripherals and Valve on PC and hardcore gaming and co operate together on consoles.
A Google buyout would be great for mobile and give Google TV some teeth in the gaming market and could quiet possible see a release nintindo apps for other platforms such as windows 8 and iOS like they have for other core customer facing services
Then there is the Apple buyout where hardware would probably cost more and merge with apple tv and iP(a||o)d for console and mobile gaming respectively, the have similar styling but other than that I don't see it being a great match for costumers & fans especially.
If they have to sell or merge I would hope for either google or valve buy/merge.
They apparently have a burning platform, this sounds like a job for an Elop!
But in all seriousness, we need Elop installed CEO of Microsoft to help ensure their rapid demise.
Nah Nintendo can wait a few years at least to hire the former head of xbox that just left a few months ago to torpedo I mean run Zynga. At least then they will have someone form their field put them down and drag them back to the feet of Microsoft.
Sony buyout in 3.. 2.. 1..
I think that would be the worst possible option for everyone (except Sony of course).
A Microsoft buyout would be almost as bad but at least the game might someday see a official pc port.
A merger with Valve could be interesting to see and shake everything up for the gaming industry, as long as they kept the game development team separate have Nintendo focus on family gaming and peripherals and Valve on PC and hardcore gaming and co operate together on consoles.
A Google buyout would be great for mobile and give Google TV some teeth in the gaming market and could quiet possible see a release nintindo apps for other platforms such as windows 8 and ios like they have for other core customer facing services
Then there is the Apple buyout where hardware would probably cost more and merge with apple tv and iP(a||o)d for console and mobile gaming respectively, the have similar styling but other than that I don't see it being a great match for costumers & fans especially.
If they have to sell or merge I would hope for either google or valve buy/merge.
Republican state? wasn't Iowa the swing state that won Obama an Democrate the 2012 election?
By using an unconventional method to exploit Windows, the hackers unwittingly forced Microsoft to show a hand few knew it had: The ability to remotely remove progams en masse from peopleâ(TM)s computers, without them even knowing it.
Maybe the next virus needs to remove Windows from all of those machines.
hmm how hard would it be to write virus capable using windows update to install linux bsd etc on all of those unpatched xp machines
That owed almost entirely to his relationship with Bill gates. Everyone else at the company needs to actually know something.
Then would you care to explain;
microsoft bob, windows me, windows vista, metro on the desktop, metro on the server, brown zunes,
the windows azure song with the line "The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis." fallowed in parentheses "or vagina"
xbox 360 red ring of death, xbox power cords starting on fire windows phone 7 debacle, xboxs proven to scratch own discs after claiming publicly that they were not, bing, ie, mixing bing ads with local search results, the ribbon, etc, etc, etc,...
There are many many more lets just say microsoft has more than it share of failure and incompetency.
It's $200 cheaper than an i3 4330? That's pretty impressive given that the i3 is $130, are AMD going to refund me $70 for buying their CPU?
if so i think i am going to buy me enough cpu's to retire early.
If I am supposed to type give me a terminal, if I am supposed to use a mouse give a WIMPI (window icon menu pointer interface) desktop, if I am supposed to use a touchscreen give me a touch optimized interface, don't put metro on my server, desktop or laptop.
No I would use it to do whatever I am trying to do more quickly. Have you ever have to wait for a program to compile, a video to transcode, a archive compress, or something as simple as wait for a document to render. For example there was a bug a while back in open/libre office that caused .rtf documents to take a long time to render. Worst part was the time to render grew exponentially with the length of the document, my first encounter with it was when I opened a ebook saved that format it took over ten minutes to render! it did not matter how powerful the hardware was it was rendering it still took to long because the code was bad and no increase in hardware would fix that. Would I have donated that cpu time to charity as you suggest? No but it was still a problem because it wasted not my computers time but because it wasted my time which is infinitely more valuable.
lets look at that, will more computers make a mcaffy or norten security suits run appreciably faster? No because they are badly written programs that are resource hogs the eat processing power and can pull a workstation to a crawl. A faster more effencent and less resource hogging code would be better in this case then throwing hardawre at it. For many problems throwing hardware at a problem is just like throw money at a problem you are ignoring the root issue and will eventually run out of resources to throw.
Would you rather that your CPU and memory were always underutilized by software, going to waste?
yes more efficient and fast code would be much better
Then you should be using a 20 years old computer, with its lean software and scarce resources. Why buy more powerful hardware if you have no use for its inward capabilities? The rest of us will keep using hardware that allow possibilities that were unheard a few years ago.
To quote an old adage What Moore's law giveth Gates Taketh away
I would prefer to use lean software on powerful hardware so as to actually gain the advantages of said hardware rather than bad code and bloat roll back the advantages new hardware has given.
Would you rather that your CPU and memory were always underutilized by software, going to waste?
yes more efficient and fast code would be much better
Well, here's a new section for my "beating down democracy" book.
Suppose you want to discredit crypto-currencies, or at least dilute their effect. What can you do?
You can start a raft of new currencies with sketchy names and origins. Currencies based on celebrities, currencies based on businesses, sports (such as Nascar commemorative plates - good as gold in many US locations), and even personal currencies!
"We can't stop people from using BitCoin! What can we do?"
"Let's generate alternatives - so many that people won't know which ones to use."
"You mean like software standards?"
"Yes - exactly like software standards."
"Heh. They'll never see that coming..."
i think at this point they are to late and the network effect will stop most most of the truly pointless "new" cryptocurrencies which are really just new block chains, i think there is still room for a truly new cryptocurrency as long as it actually brings something new to the table better algorithm, new features, integration with other existing blockchains, stronger cryptography, better anonymity, new paradigm.
I would like see for example a currency that uses more that just a double sha2 or just scrypt in case they it get broken like md5 did, so use like scrypt, sha2 and sha3 on the same block.
you say that as if you think that green papers with pictures of dead people and masonic imagery on them are inherently worth anything. as for the math problems not be worth anything they secure and process the transactions so are of great value to currency.
"Red Hat Lutherans ... Ubuntu baptists ... Android is like the Mormons ..."
OK. ... so whom are the snake handlers?
[Stephen pops a bag of corn and sits happily back to watch the debate ...]
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Except the helping with they spying as you call it is about securing there network infrastructer not about helping them spy. For it to be treason he has to provide aid and comfort to the enemy, as we still call Germany one of our allies and he is not helping them to attack us then he has still done nothing wrong and is not a traitor nor would he have committed treason.
Really I was playing portal and team fortress 2 yesterday on a linux laptop yesterday and watching netflix just fine with x. Android not using x is because they are using an entirely different stack than desktop Linux not just the display server the tool chain is different the utilities are different the only thing the same is the kernel and that has been tweaked. Hell most android apps arn't even interfacing with the unixy bit underneath just the java based vm. Androids success has nothing to do with not having x. It has to do with being pushed by the largest internet company on the planet, being open, using the most popular language, and giving an alternative to IOS. its not about lack of x that happens to just be a side issue.
Oddly enough I regularly see far more people saying that they need network transparency that x provides then I see people telling them they are a rare edge case. hell I Use apps on my home server admin'ed from my laptop or school account in the linux lab all of the time. Many of the linux people I know IRL use it. Has anyone seen actual polls on this?