A bad movie is a bad movie, no matter how many gimmicks you throw at it.
The heart of a good movie is a good screenplay, that is a good, consistent, plot.
Most people that have watched 3D films so far agree that 3D adds precious little to what makes a film good or bad, 3D is mostly a gimmick aimed at children first (or child like minded people) and at piracy second, which is why you will see several efforts in the next couple of years to translate the 3D experience to TV screens: they will want to replicate the experience when you buy a DVD.
Macs and Linux have tons of software that do pretty much anything you need to do.
Come on, tell what is not doable on those machines, and you will see that the point your are making is not really such.
Just from an economical point of view, I can't recommend to anybody to use Windows in good conscience (the amount of money you have to spend to secure it is not trivial), putting aside the morality of recommending a company that is quite unethical in my view.
All your "solutions" are a waste of time. People are clearly recommending to switch to something else because we are seeing that it just works, so I will give the miss to the masochistic path you are suggesting, thank you very much.
... is that the only reason somebody would have to meet family and friends is to fix their broken computers.
Look, if I want to see my family I just arrange to meet them and that is it, I love them, so I see no reason why I should burden them with a broken computing experience if I know there are better ways to work (i.e. ditch Windows).
So moving to a better, more secure, operating system, seems to be the right answer to the problem.
My 70 year old mum had the same problem, and since I put Ubuntu instead of Windows on her computer she has been very happy ( I just told her I will install a different kind of computer, think of it as changing you microwave, I told her).
Plug the base to your sound system, move around your home as needed, the wife will not even know you are listetning to your favourite music, unless she wants to talk to you, but you can now ignore her as usual having a perfectly acceptable excuse over your ears.
The companies that make a living out of hoarding copyrights have lobbied intensely to make sure copyrights last more than one hundred years (with people living longer, copyrights can easily last 150 or 160 years).
That is abusive, but the defenders of this indefensible situation go very easy on the companies that have created this situation, but quite heavy on the people that pirate a few games (or DVDs, or CDs, whatever).
Criticism of copyright infringers should always come paired with the contextual information in which copyright infringement is happening.
As for the information wants to be free "excuse" as you put it, humanity progressed by sharing information, by communicating, copyright is an abomination that arised only by chance, given that it was expensive to disseminate it when it was too much of it and had to travel long distances.
Now that we have instantaneous communication of gargantuan amounts of information, the original restrictions that gave raise to copyright are no longer valid. Companies and governments are desperately trying to keep artificial scarcity pretty much against the laws of physics (and economics).
Most people are not lawyers and could not care squat about copyright issues, but I think many understand, perhaps at a subconscious level, that it is simply not fair that copyright lasts for more than one hundred years (at least for now, before the "IP" conglomerates try to drive up the current tersm one or two decades more, I am in no doubt that their aim is to recognize copyright as a perpetual benefit).
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Every time a Drupal discussion comes in /. several people claim this.
It is getting really tiring, so I would like to see some proof of this.
It is surprising how Luddite some old timers are.
Social networks, as their name implies (duh!) allow you to use relationships between people to improve the service you provide.
If you don't want to pay taxes, you have several options: leave or a fiscal paradise, or produce your own sustenance in the middle of nowhere.
If you live in an organized society taxes ensure that everybody gets a wide package of services that ensure you can attain civilized living.
If you were in Spain once the legislation is passed, the slowest connection you would have is 1 mb
Sorry, but I fail to see why anybody should have access to a substantial amount of records at the same time.
This smacks to me as lack of security.
How is it possible for anybody to have access to all that information?
Only processes should be able to access records of people in volume, no manual query should be able to gather that information.
A bad movie is a bad movie, no matter how many gimmicks you throw at it.
The heart of a good movie is a good screenplay, that is a good, consistent, plot.
Most people that have watched 3D films so far agree that 3D adds precious little to what makes a film good or bad, 3D is mostly a gimmick aimed at children first (or child like minded people) and at piracy second, which is why you will see several efforts in the next couple of years to translate the 3D experience to TV screens: they will want to replicate the experience when you buy a DVD.
.... all Engineering students had to study Ethics as part of their Engineering studies.
It is what is expected from entities living in an organized society.
Nothing awesome about it.
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.... they think 3 months is a long term vision. Look at all the years before Steve Jobs.
Microsoft injected cash on Apple before the iPod.
When were you born? Yesterday?
I suppose we should interpret all multiple fines Microsoft has received all around the world as Prizes to Technical Excellence.
Macs and Linux have tons of software that do pretty much anything you need to do.
Come on, tell what is not doable on those machines, and you will see that the point your are making is not really such.
Just from an economical point of view, I can't recommend to anybody to use Windows in good conscience (the amount of money you have to spend to secure it is not trivial), putting aside the morality of recommending a company that is quite unethical in my view.
All your "solutions" are a waste of time. People are clearly recommending to switch to something else because we are seeing that it just works, so I will give the miss to the masochistic path you are suggesting, thank you very much.
... is that the only reason somebody would have to meet family and friends is to fix their broken computers.
Look, if I want to see my family I just arrange to meet them and that is it, I love them, so I see no reason why I should burden them with a broken computing experience if I know there are better ways to work (i.e. ditch Windows).
I will not accept the experience of anybody that has installed Linux once as valid.
I have installed almost a hundred computers for friends, family and colleagues and the more installations I do, the easier it gets.
Put a supported one.
Are you sure you are really that good at computers?
There does not seem to be a lock down issue.
So moving to a better, more secure, operating system, seems to be the right answer to the problem.
My 70 year old mum had the same problem, and since I put Ubuntu instead of Windows on her computer she has been very happy ( I just told her I will install a different kind of computer, think of it as changing you microwave, I told her).
You should really read carefully the licenses of open source software before the foam in your mouth asphyxiates you.
One had cpio and dumpfs which worked fine as far as I can tell.
When you bought Sun back then the last thing you were worrying about was if tar worked or not ....
Support of older applications has a great pedigree in the IT industry.
You will find much more interesting problems from a technical point of view doing that, because you will be basically on your own.
People just don't know about the innovation that has being going on in the storage arena by Sun.
It is funny, but I think what let Sun down was their marketing, not their Engineering.
You can currently get storage devices that run those diagnostics at the click of a mouse.
How regrettable that this wonderful technology may be shelved. Tragic really.
Or buy one of their Solaris/ZFS/Dtrace based storage devices, you can do what you ask with a few clicks of the mouse...
Plug the base to your sound system, move around your home as needed, the wife will not even know you are listetning to your favourite music, unless she wants to talk to you, but you can now ignore her as usual having a perfectly acceptable excuse over your ears.
If you sneak in you are trespassing, so forget about any copyright related issues right there, you are comparing apples and oranges already.
But what about making a photograph of the exhibits? Or what about memorizing the exhibits and then reproducing them?
Why should that be forbidden? It is knowledge, it is art, it is how humans became humans.
The companies that make a living out of hoarding copyrights have lobbied intensely to make sure copyrights last more than one hundred years (with people living longer, copyrights can easily last 150 or 160 years).
That is abusive, but the defenders of this indefensible situation go very easy on the companies that have created this situation, but quite heavy on the people that pirate a few games (or DVDs, or CDs, whatever).
Criticism of copyright infringers should always come paired with the contextual information in which copyright infringement is happening.
As for the information wants to be free "excuse" as you put it, humanity progressed by sharing information, by communicating, copyright is an abomination that arised only by chance, given that it was expensive to disseminate it when it was too much of it and had to travel long distances.
Now that we have instantaneous communication of gargantuan amounts of information, the original restrictions that gave raise to copyright are no longer valid. Companies and governments are desperately trying to keep artificial scarcity pretty much against the laws of physics (and economics).
... if copyright were remotely rational.
Most people are not lawyers and could not care squat about copyright issues, but I think many understand, perhaps at a subconscious level, that it is simply not fair that copyright lasts for more than one hundred years (at least for now, before the "IP" conglomerates try to drive up the current tersm one or two decades more, I am in no doubt that their aim is to recognize copyright as a perpetual benefit).