But doesn't luke show some of the same signs (not being pure) that the young anakin did (before III)...? I always thought, that if VII, VII, IX were made, it would have Luke follow in Anakin's footsteps
Personally, I prefer IE (ya ya... whatever), but do have Firefox installed for when I do some web dev. stuff.
Most people (average joe schmoe) probably could careless if a browser, or any other application is open source or not (and for those who do care if it's open source or not, how many of them can actually do anything with it?), but what matters is price.
One of the reasons why IE dominated Netscape in the early years (when you had to actually pay for IE. and Netscape was free), is because they ended up giving it away to ISPs and off of their website for free (and yes, they later ended up bundling it).
The reason why I don't use Opera, is because it costs money, which usually I don't have a problem with paying, but when there's so many other options out there, why would I want to pay, when something like IE or FF works (almost) just as well?
But how many people are getting sued by the RIAA only downloaded one albums worth of music? Take that "small fine" and a "few days in jail" that you speak of, and multiply it by how many albums worth of music these people have, who have been sued (there are probably some exception, like the 80 year old grandmother).
I've said this before and I'll say it again... like it or not, if it's against the law, it's against the law (unless you're Canadian eh!).
Yes things should change with the times, and the consumers seem to be advancing faster than the industry, but until the day that the RIAA changes their ways, it's still illegal to "steal" (aka: download copyrighted) music.
I remember reading something on/. about a year ago, regarding some linux conference.... anyways some guy from Suse said "Just because an OS holds 90% of the market doesn't mean it's superior. Remember 90% of all animals are insects."
I'm not sure if you can qualify insects as animals, but you get the picture.
Here's the pic from the article
While I don't see any problem with tracking sex offenders and other criminals with GPS systems, I do find a problem with the system itself. #1 There's a reason why they need to be tracked, because they can't be trusted. If they can't be trusted, why are they out on the streets? #2 I believe, that being a sex offender/child molester/rapist etc... is a sickness. And for anyone who would like to argue this, answer this first, what "normal", "sane" person would do these things? Now, if it is some sort of "sickness", what is longer jail times going to do? These people need a) help, and b) lose their balls, either by chemical or surgical castration.
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#1 Not everyone can get Tivo, let alone DirectTivo #2 A cable company's PVR/DVR is limited in what in can do, and what you can do with it, such as weather, emulators, mp3s or whatever format you use, RSS feeds, harddrive space, networking....
What I don't understand, is why cripple the OS? 1. They're selling the original XP, that has been downgraded. It's not like they originally made the crippled XP and sold it for x dollars, then later made an upgraded XP for 4 times x dollars. 2. Wouldn't the crippled XP make them look worse than they are now ("... disabled support for multiple user accounts; networked printers; the ability to personalize desktops with multiple looks and feels for different users; and support for screen resolutions above 800 X 600 DPI (dots per inch). Starter Edition also prevents users from launching more than three applications simultaneously...")
It's not like M$ is hurting for money, so why spend the extra time to cripple it? Why not just sell the regular versios at a lower cost? They would gain more from it than the crippled version. Look at places like china, where you can buy "pirated" versions for 1/10 of the price.
I thought IBM was providing the chops for all of the next gen consoles (PS, Nintendo, and XBox)? If IBM is providing the chips to M$, then of course M$ is going to have a say with the chip design.
Actually, we do. I have a few that are 50th anniversary coins. http://www.answers.com/topic/50-cent-piece And the one I have, is a bit older, I think it's dated 1967
This has to be a record, 20 stories in 2 hours. It look like the/. crowd can't keep up (or is getting sick of all the april fool's stories), because the 2nd story had no posts when the newest story appeared. Heck, as I write this, there's a new (blank) article on the page
When I first read this, I though for sure it was a April fool's joke... who would have thunk that Gmail would ever allow rich formatting?
Also, another thing I noticed this morning, after someone told me that they had 1399MBs of space, is that I was at 1400MBs, and now seems to be going up about 1MB per minute.
Now if only Gmail supported a normal list view of all emails, along with grouping conversations.
Coming from a state with a population that is 75%+ mormon, this doesn't surprise me one bit. This is the same state that wanted to ban alcohol (or was it alcohol ads) at the winter olympics.
I totally agree with your comment, but my comment was regarding the title of the article on here ( which was misleading), and what was really happening. No one broke the DRM, they just by passed it by not going through iTunes, which makes my comment informative because I (tried to at least) made it clear what was going. Also, as a side note, I don't see the point in this "hack", other than the challenge. Anyone who is knowledgeable to know about this program, is smart enough to just go an download the sans DRM mp3s without buying them. If you're going to "break the law" by by-passing iTunes, why not just break the law and download the mp3s from some p2p app?
After going to the article, it clearly says in the title "'DVD Jon' reopens iTunes back door", and doesn't say anything about breaking the DRM.
Also, I love how they use linux as an excuse to doing this. I thought Windows had all the thieves (according to some research that was done a while back)?
If I remember correctly, he never did break the DRM, instead he captured the audio file before it went through the iTunes software, which puts the DRM into the audio file... therefore there is no DRM to break. And no, I didn't RTFA
Now i do agree this probably isn't the best way to deal with it, by sending a cease and desist letter, Hasbro does have the right. I'm pretty sure that it's clearly marked on the box, and in the instruction manual that scarbble, it's name and idea are owned by hasboro.
It's not like they just patented the game, and now are on a manhunt to raise revenue by suing people who have created anything similar to their game.
If another game company created a game that is pretty much the same thing, and used "scrabble" in the name, would they not be fair game also? If so, then why is the internet and software any different?
And to top it all off, I'm sure with 100,000+ users, he has to be making a few dollars off of it, which gives hasboro even more reason to go after him.
But like it says in the summary, Hasboro should have offered him some sort of a deal, I'm sure there's more to gain from it.
I'm sure I read something, a long long time ago, that mentioned that Celerons were "faulty" versions of the Pentiums (and a comparison was made that the Durons were made as Durons, and weren't chips that were taken out of the garbage bins)
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But doesn't luke show some of the same signs (not being pure) that the young anakin did (before III)...?
I always thought, that if VII, VII, IX were made, it would have Luke follow in Anakin's footsteps
Whatever happened to Be's OS (not BeOS) that Palm bought a few years ago for $5 mill?
Personally, I prefer IE (ya ya ... whatever), but do have Firefox installed for when I do some web dev. stuff.
Most people (average joe schmoe) probably could careless if a browser, or any other application is open source or not (and for those who do care if it's open source or not, how many of them can actually do anything with it?), but what matters is price.
One of the reasons why IE dominated Netscape in the early years (when you had to actually pay for IE. and Netscape was free), is because they ended up giving it away to ISPs and off of their website for free (and yes, they later ended up bundling it).
The reason why I don't use Opera, is because it costs money, which usually I don't have a problem with paying, but when there's so many other options out there, why would I want to pay, when something like IE or FF works (almost) just as well?
But how many people are getting sued by the RIAA only downloaded one albums worth of music?
... like it or not, if it's against the law, it's against the law (unless you're Canadian eh!).
Take that "small fine" and a "few days in jail" that you speak of, and multiply it by how many albums worth of music these people have, who have been sued (there are probably some exception, like the 80 year old grandmother).
I've said this before and I'll say it again
Yes things should change with the times, and the consumers seem to be advancing faster than the industry, but until the day that the RIAA changes their ways, it's still illegal to "steal" (aka: download copyrighted) music.
would you believe me if I told you that it was a fraudulent slip?
I remember reading something on /. about a year ago, regarding some linux conference .... anyways some guy from Suse said "Just because an OS holds 90% of the market doesn't mean it's superior. Remember 90% of all animals are insects."
I'm not sure if you can qualify insects as animals, but you get the picture.
Here's the pic from the article
While I don't see any problem with tracking sex offenders and other criminals with GPS systems, I do find a problem with the system itself. ... is a sickness. And for anyone who would like to argue this, answer this first, what "normal", "sane" person would do these things? Now, if it is some sort of "sickness", what is longer jail times going to do? These people need a) help, and b) lose their balls, either by chemical or surgical castration.
#1 There's a reason why they need to be tracked, because they can't be trusted. If they can't be trusted, why are they out on the streets?
#2 I believe, that being a sex offender/child molester/rapist etc
#1 Not everyone can get Tivo, let alone DirectTivo ....
#2 A cable company's PVR/DVR is limited in what in can do, and what you can do with it, such as weather, emulators, mp3s or whatever format you use, RSS feeds, harddrive space, networking
And what about companies such as "Tiger Gaming", which allows someone to play poker online?
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There was a 64 bit version of NT, for the Alpha chip, when it first reached 500Mhz (around '95)
Personally, I think X-Files went downhill fast, when they left vancouver to go south.
What I don't understand, is why cripple the OS?
1. They're selling the original XP, that has been downgraded. It's not like they originally made the crippled XP and sold it for x dollars, then later made an upgraded XP for 4 times x dollars.
2. Wouldn't the crippled XP make them look worse than they are now ("... disabled support for multiple user accounts; networked printers; the ability to personalize desktops with multiple looks and feels for different users; and support for screen resolutions above 800 X 600 DPI (dots per inch). Starter Edition also prevents users from launching more than three applications simultaneously...")
It's not like M$ is hurting for money, so why spend the extra time to cripple it? Why not just sell the regular versios at a lower cost? They would gain more from it than the crippled version. Look at places like china, where you can buy "pirated" versions for 1/10 of the price.
I thought IBM was providing the chops for all of the next gen consoles (PS, Nintendo, and XBox)?
If IBM is providing the chips to M$, then of course M$ is going to have a say with the chip design.
Actually, we do.e
I have a few that are 50th anniversary coins.
http://www.answers.com/topic/50-cent-piec
And the one I have, is a bit older, I think it's dated 1967
I thought for a patent to be granted, you had to be able to demonstrate it also?
From TFA, "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us".
No wonder the patent offices are all screwed up, with all of these patents that "someday" might work.
All Mail still has "conversations".
This has to be a record, 20 stories in 2 hours. /. crowd can't keep up (or is getting sick of all the april fool's stories), because the 2nd story had no posts when the newest story appeared. Heck, as I write this, there's a new (blank) article on the page
It look like the
When I first read this, I though for sure it was a April fool's joke ... who would have thunk that Gmail would ever allow rich formatting?
Also, another thing I noticed this morning, after someone told me that they had 1399MBs of space, is that I was at 1400MBs, and now seems to be going up about 1MB per minute.
Now if only Gmail supported a normal list view of all emails, along with grouping conversations.
Coming from a state with a population that is 75%+ mormon, this doesn't surprise me one bit. This is the same state that wanted to ban alcohol (or was it alcohol ads) at the winter olympics.
I totally agree with your comment, but my comment was regarding the title of the article on here ( which was misleading), and what was really happening.
No one broke the DRM, they just by passed it by not going through iTunes, which makes my comment informative because I (tried to at least) made it clear what was going.
Also, as a side note, I don't see the point in this "hack", other than the challenge.
Anyone who is knowledgeable to know about this program, is smart enough to just go an download the sans DRM mp3s without buying them.
If you're going to "break the law" by by-passing iTunes, why not just break the law and download the mp3s from some p2p app?
After going to the article, it clearly says in the title "'DVD Jon' reopens iTunes back door", and doesn't say anything about breaking the DRM.
Also, I love how they use linux as an excuse to doing this. I thought Windows had all the thieves (according to some research that was done a while back)?
If I remember correctly, he never did break the DRM, instead he captured the audio file before it went through the iTunes software, which puts the DRM into the audio file ... therefore there is no DRM to break.
And no, I didn't RTFA
Now i do agree this probably isn't the best way to deal with it, by sending a cease and desist letter, Hasbro does have the right. I'm pretty sure that it's clearly marked on the box, and in the instruction manual that scarbble, it's name and idea are owned by hasboro.
It's not like they just patented the game, and now are on a manhunt to raise revenue by suing people who have created anything similar to their game.
If another game company created a game that is pretty much the same thing, and used "scrabble" in the name, would they not be fair game also? If so, then why is the internet and software any different?
And to top it all off, I'm sure with 100,000+ users, he has to be making a few dollars off of it, which gives hasboro even more reason to go after him.
But like it says in the summary, Hasboro should have offered him some sort of a deal, I'm sure there's more to gain from it.
I'm sure I read something, a long long time ago, that mentioned that Celerons were "faulty" versions of the Pentiums (and a comparison was made that the Durons were made as Durons, and weren't chips that were taken out of the garbage bins)