yes it only loads signed executable until its jailbroken, as i recall their was a hacker a while back breaking each iOS update for each device, where to break it you just had to go to his page in the iphone browser. and apple in the end hired him to make him stop. drm don't work. just look at playstation they try to lock you out and a hacker just breaks it, Sony knows they cant stop him from doing it technological so they litigate him to death
yes after 10 years of bug fixes xp looks great it didn't when it first came out. as for seven its is much better but much of that is from coming off of the disaster that was vista and needing a real 64 bit desktop (i know there was XP 64 bit pro but it had little hardware support) and standing next to the brainf#ck that is windows 8. as for the server edition how long do you wait before you transition your servers over to the new OS? sp1? R2?
the zunes hardware problem was not technical in nature it was purely aesthetic, in that it is commonly cited as looking like a turd. the other problem it had is one of the same ones that is now plaguing Mickysoft they are/were very late to market are/were over priced and look like "me too!" products
its not innovative its crap. its supposed to be between a tablet and a netbook but it lacks any of the advantages of either and contains all of the problems of both. It has a lower battery life than either a netbook or tablet it costs more then a tablet or laptop it is less powerful then a notebook, it does not come with a keyboard you have to pay extra for that yet is supposed to repalce the netbooks? it has less mobile software then any other platform, it runs office but who wants to run office on a touch screen oh and it eat a significant portion of the on board storage. i know people say "oh well you can just use a micro sd card if you need more space." but if this this is supposed to replace you netbook ask your self would you ever settle for using an sd as a primary storage device on a netbook?
How does one blow the whistle on the government as john q public when they don't have the access to classified data that deserves to be shown to the the people so that the government/military can be held responsible. Only someone with access can leak it and be a whistle blower.
judging by the average newspapers site i think not. Most are 90% adds poorly laid out content that often don't render well(overlaping) and try to direct you to dead tree versions. i am surprised that they can set up a lamp server in most cases.
that will stop them until one of the smart enough to be dangerous students pops out a live usb/cd and changes himself to administrator, then tells his friends how to do it, and that is assuming they had separate user admin accounts, when i was in high school they had a bunch of old xp laptops in the chemistry/genetics room they had one account each where the user was admin they were allowed on the network with no restrictions.(so they all had itunes Chrome Firefox Opera and a dozen different tool bars for each as well as free!!! font/emoticons and no updates since they were baught(I cleaned several of the laptops to a useable state so I could get work done eventually I caved and just used linux+qemu on a thumb drive). even the "locked down" computers in the library and computer lab allowed arbitrary code execution but that generally didn't matter as they had deep freeze.
Yet those laws made everyone's life better and increased the buying power.
it did so temporarily, now we are going to loose it all because there aren't/won't be any jobs left here
Who are you going to sell your goods if no one has enough money to buy fancy stuff?
You have it backwards. They have stolen all of the US's manufacturing and are stealing our intellectual jobs, so no jobs for us in the US. In the mean time we bought all of their crap and none of our own supplying them with all of our money. So we have no source of income and we continue to lose money because we are sending it all to China and India. Our economy is now collapsing, they have all of the money manufacturing, as well as a market that dwarfs ours by a order of magnitude that own practically squat and want stuff. Those same people in China and India are now getting money from the manufacturing jobs they have taken from us so they will start being able to buy the stuff they are making their economy will be self-supporting.
They have sucked our economy dry and will now simply sell to their own people. They will do just fine without us. As for us in the US what will happen? Lets take a look at Detroit now stretch that across the country. The worst part is there is not much we can do about it, or let me correct that... there is not much we are willing to do about it. We can't declare war they have more people and make all of our equipment, we cant cease all foreign imports because of free trade agreements and treaties. We could apply tax's and tariffs on all foreign goods but much of that is baned by those trade treaties anyway and we don't have the facilities to supply the demand and it would cost us a whole hell of alot more. We could try breaking unions and lower the pay for pretty much all jobs essentially do exactly what china has done to us but the unions have lots and lots of money which they ca pay the people in power to keep form happening. So we are pretty much screwed
we are a group mostly anonymous people who happen to share a common intrest in science, technology, computers, gameing, hacking, and scifi fantacy games books and movies. where facebook is you annoyin aunt that you cant unfreind without pissing off your family memebers, the girl you met once at a party you coworkers and anyone else you may have thought you met. facebooks iq level is just slightly higher than 4chans iq on april 20th.
iirc any one in a group though can add anyone else to said group so do to the wonder of six degrees of separation a group of a few friends will end up including everyone on facebook in short order making your grouping pointless
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hmm lets way out the pro's and cons here;
con - she likes pennies.
pros - sex, sex, sex, oh and sex.
she gets to stay
considering the obesity rate maybe the lose of 1cent candy is for the best though. :-P
(hey dice now that you own slashdot can you fix the Unicode support to i can use a cent symbol or maybe let it accept ¢ html entity for it)
that why you use a player that ignores regions and bypasses css like vlc with libdvdcss
yes it only loads signed executable until its jailbroken, as i recall their was a hacker a while back breaking each iOS update for each device, where to break it you just had to go to his page in the iphone browser. and apple in the end hired him to make him stop. drm don't work. just look at playstation they try to lock you out and a hacker just breaks it, Sony knows they cant stop him from doing it technological so they litigate him to death
at the same time though everyone else's batteries would last a week or more
yes after 10 years of bug fixes xp looks great it didn't when it first came out. as for seven its is much better but much of that is from coming off of the disaster that was vista and needing a real 64 bit desktop (i know there was XP 64 bit pro but it had little hardware support) and standing next to the brainf#ck that is windows 8. as for the server edition how long do you wait before you transition your servers over to the new OS? sp1? R2?
the zunes hardware problem was not technical in nature it was purely aesthetic, in that it is commonly cited as looking like a turd.
the other problem it had is one of the same ones that is now plaguing Mickysoft they are/were very late to market are/were over priced and look like "me too!" products
its not innovative its crap. its supposed to be between a tablet and a netbook but it lacks any of the advantages of either and contains all of the problems of both.
It has a lower battery life than either a netbook or tablet
it costs more then a tablet or laptop
it is less powerful then a notebook,
it does not come with a keyboard you have to pay extra for that yet is supposed to repalce the netbooks?
it has less mobile software then any other platform,
it runs office but who wants to run office on a touch screen oh and it eat a significant portion of the on board storage. i know people say "oh well you can just use a micro sd card if you need more space." but if this this is supposed to replace you netbook ask your self would you ever settle for using an sd as a primary storage device on a netbook?
i would but i cant afford the bandwidth.
yes and all of that same stuff can be traded o the open internet securely via ssl ssh pgp and other encryption schemes.
How does one blow the whistle on the government as john q public when they don't have the access to classified data that deserves to be shown to the the people so that the government/military can be held responsible. Only someone with access can leak it and be a whistle blower.
BIOS lock is easy to bypass with a simple removal of the batteries and shorting of a capacitor.
not easy to be zen when in a sand box full of paranoid psychotic killers
not so much lack of thinking as lack of knowledge
judging by the average newspapers site i think not. Most are 90% adds poorly laid out content that often don't render well(overlaping) and try to direct you to dead tree versions. i am surprised that they can set up a lamp server in most cases.
i had a portable avast install on a usb drive that worked great back b4 i switched over to ubuntu several years ago
really? vmware player is closed source and not in the distros repos and it seems to have a high usage on linux
for a minute i thought the my clean pc guy was back
that will stop them until one of the smart enough to be dangerous students pops out a live usb/cd and changes himself to administrator, then tells his friends how to do it, and that is assuming they had separate user admin accounts, when i was in high school they had a bunch of old xp laptops in the chemistry/genetics room they had one account each where the user was admin they were allowed on the network with no restrictions.(so they all had itunes Chrome Firefox Opera and a dozen different tool bars for each as well as free!!! font/emoticons and no updates since they were baught(I cleaned several of the laptops to a useable state so I could get work done eventually I caved and just used linux+qemu on a thumb drive). even the "locked down" computers in the library and computer lab allowed arbitrary code execution but that generally didn't matter as they had deep freeze.
Yet those laws made everyone's life better and increased the buying power.
it did so temporarily, now we are going to loose it all because there aren't/won't be any jobs left here
Who are you going to sell your goods if no one has enough money to buy fancy stuff?
You have it backwards. They have stolen all of the US's manufacturing and are stealing our intellectual jobs, so no jobs for us in the US. In the mean time we bought all of their crap and none of our own supplying them with all of our money. So we have no source of income and we continue to lose money because we are sending it all to China and India. Our economy is now collapsing, they have all of the money manufacturing, as well as a market that dwarfs ours by a order of magnitude that own practically squat and want stuff. Those same people in China and India are now getting money from the manufacturing jobs they have taken from us so they will start being able to buy the stuff they are making their economy will be self-supporting.
They have sucked our economy dry and will now simply sell to their own people. They will do just fine without us.
As for us in the US what will happen? Lets take a look at Detroit now stretch that across the country. The worst part is there is not much we can do about it, or let me correct that... there is not much we are willing to do about it. We can't declare war they have more people and make all of our equipment, we cant cease all foreign imports because of free trade agreements and treaties. We could apply tax's and tariffs on all foreign goods but much of that is baned by those trade treaties anyway and we don't have the facilities to supply the demand and it would cost us a whole hell of alot more. We could try breaking unions and lower the pay for pretty much all jobs essentially do exactly what china has done to us but the unions have lots and lots of money which they ca pay the people in power to keep form happening. So we are pretty much screwed
What do they eat?!
copious amounts of caffeine frozen burritos and TopRaman (and in the case of stallmen toe cheese)
yes linux puts out more versions more often but it has a very different user base, development method, and motivation.
we are a group mostly anonymous people who happen to share a common intrest in science, technology, computers, gameing, hacking, and scifi fantacy games books and movies. where facebook is you annoyin aunt that you cant unfreind without pissing off your family memebers, the girl you met once at a party you coworkers and anyone else you may have thought you met. facebooks iq level is just slightly higher than 4chans iq on april 20th.
iirc any one in a group though can add anyone else to said group so do to the wonder of six degrees of separation a group of a few friends will end up including everyone on facebook in short order making your grouping pointless
not everyone lives in the US. and some people may even have friends who happen to live in other countries than they themselves do.