Bah, just a pup. When i was your age, i had to walk to the data center twenty miles in the snow, up hills both ways, carrying a pot belly stove on my back so i could keep warm. And when i got there, i used a computer with a whole 128 bits of memory, none of this fancy byte stuff, either.
Don't even get me started on how hard it is to get arroused with punch card pr0n. Now we got these kids running around with their fancy line printer pr0n, they don't know how good they got it.
HOWEVER if it doesn't, does this mean that there will be random strips on my m-board that will glow from fiberoptic cables passing data back and forth.... I might have to build a clear case if something like that happens!
Probably not. At that speed, they'll probably black out the optical streams so you don't get any sort of interference, as that would be very bad for system stability.
Looks like people are going to have to just move to an unDoSable solution. Darn. The RIAA is always going to be a couple steps behind the piracy war until they realize that one of the real reasons that people pirate is that they can't justify spending upwards of $20 for a CD.
Note to those who will say that I'm a dirty rotten no good pirate: I don't pirate music. I simply buy from indie labels. At least then, I'm sure that the artist gets most of my money.
Problem is, there appears to be no Ximian support for MY operating system
Perhaps you didn't look hard enough? I mean the answer is as clear as the nose on my face Yeah you need to compile it right now, but its still beta, give it a couple months.
I looked into that software. It's really hard to find a stable version for my operating system, it's more expensive than my word processor, and it was just extremely bloated. Plus I've heard that one of the owners has a criminal record.
I'd say that you're probably going to have to wait a while to get professional level sound card (multiple analog inputs, ADAT, etc) available under Linux. Even with entry level pro sound boards, such as the Lexicon Core2, drivers are still non-existant. Linux may have good support for doing electronica, etc, but if you're doing "live" music, you've still got enough hoops you've got to jump through that it's just not worth it for the time being.
This isn't meant as a flame, or a troll, it's just the truth. It's time to start turning the screws on the big vendors to start making their high-end sound drivers available for Linux, even if they are simply binary drivers only.
No more than mixing your chocolate and peanut butter deprives Hershey of money. Hmm, Maybe that's illegal too.
Of course it is. It violates the Don't Mix Chocolate Act (DMCA). Circumventing Hershey's valuable intellectual property by creating your own confectionary devices deprives them of precious money. Hershey engineers spent many years creating their blends and you want to do it yourself?! What kind of commie pinko are you?
No, killthiskid is right. The bill passed 97-1. Those three senators supported Feingold's ammendments, but when it came down to brass tacks, they voted for the bill, even with the severe privacy concerns. Can't look weak on terrorism in this political climate, now can we?
This rocks. Dreamcast with the web browser means that if you want to, you can surf the internet, even check your email, from anywhere with a TV and a phone jack. Pretty convenient, if you ask me. Add Java to that, and you not only can play some of the interesting Java-based games on the internet, but with VNC, you can use your home desktop for pretty much anything. This just makes a cool platform even better.
5 cases of fire out of 1.4 million units, and none of them were really all that bad. So don't worry about the fire too much.
Do you really want to be number 6? If there is an increased risk of the thing spontaneously combusting, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Plus, if the thing catches on fire and burns down your house, Compaq is much less responsible because it was a known problem which they fixed.
Actually, a balloon first stage is incorporated into a number of fairly credible amateur rocket designs. By using a balloon to bypass the heaviest 15-20 miles of the atmosphere, you're cutting down not only on drag, but distance. This means you have to carry considerably less fuel, leading to a smaller, cheaper, and possibly more reliable design. It probably won't be used for getting large multi-ton objects into space, but for a small one-two man capsule, or a small satelite, a balloon launch makes a good deal of sense.
I think you're missing the poster's point. Instead of having the entire balloon structure being sent into orbit, they're talking about using the balloon as the first stage. Once you get up to about 80,000 feet, or so, you release the balloons, light the rockets, and leave this miserable rock behind. Having a nice slow zeppelin circling the earth is silly, but using one to bypass most of the heavy part of the atmosphere is pretty smart
Actually, if you choose the default install of SuSE, it's no more bloated than any of the other distros. It's just that if you want a different program than what is the "default", chances are that it's in the collection somewhere. If you don't want a feature, you don't have to install it. Believe me, it's quite useful having those numerous CDs (or one 1337 DVD) to install software; you just have to pop in the CD as opposed to waiting for the software to download from the internet.
Plus, SuSE, once they finish their english translations, are usually quite good at documentation, in some cases better than redhat, etc.
I have 100's of papers written in WP8 and for me to switch over would require filters for that. Anyone know anything about that?
I know of nothing, and lord knows I've looked. Bout the only solution I can give you is to save each paper individually in a different format, like MSWord.doc and opening it up in your new word processor. Or you can try seeing if WPOffice 2k will work for you, if you like Word Perfect
That begs the question. How do you make money developing drivers for windows? You can have closed source linux drivers - my video card requirew one. So closed/open source is not the issue here, if you have NDAs, etc in your hardware.
Well, doing a quick grep through the driver sources shows that he's got credits through both agencies. Looks like I should have done my homework a bit more.
If there is a backdoor in the NSA code, you'll never find it, Open Source or not. Read this article by Ken Thompson:
No, you probably will find it. The NSA's set of patches, etc don't make a whole distro, only bits and pieces of one. You still need GCC, which is made outside the triple fence, in order to compile it. If you're truly paranoid about an act which could compromise your system, you compile GCC from a different compiler, so that any chance of a Thompson'esque back door is minimal. One of the beautiful things about an open and decentralized standard, such as C, is that you can use someone else's work in order to verify that there are no backdoors in your product. Thompson was able to put in such a backdoor because he controlled both the login program and the compiler. Such a thing is not possible today
Hmm.. wasnt the book Lolita banned in the USA, as I remember it? Or am I thinking of the (second) movie?
Actually, the US was one of the few countries not to ban the book back when it first came out - France, New Zealand, England, etc all banned the book when it first came out. So, you were probably thinking of the second movie in that regard.
And all things considered, the US is no worse and no better than any other country when it comes to banning things which are "undesirable". It's just there isn't a 1:1 correlation wrt what is objectionable from culture to culture.
This is the authors way of retaining a certain amount of right's to their property.
But what about the owners of the data in those protected files? Don't they have any rights in your mind? I've lost files because the format they were in was password protected. I've had to use password crackers in order to recover my property from being lost forever.
You're also ignoring the oft repeated fact that what he was doing in Russia was perfectly legal. In fact, Adobe was breaking the law in providing their reader software to Russia without a provision for creating a backup.
He was fiddlin where he wasn't supposed to be. I didn't need his programs to do my job.
How about the person down the street? Perhaps they do need this sort of program in order to do their job. Perhaps they went blind in an accident and are trying to get on with their life. Perhaps the hard drive on their computer crashed - the money they just spent on that e-book just went down the tubes because they can't make a backup copy. It's perfectly legal to copy a book to use and keep the original in a secure location - why should duplication for backup purposes be illegal just because the book is now digital?
It's been cracked, however MS is really snapping the whip on sites which have the code cracking program. Though I doubt even this action will be successful for very long; sone cracker out there is probably working on making the cracking code as javascript - if that happens, suddenly even google could be considered a "warez" stash.
Though the corporate edition is probably going to be the edition that makes the rounds on the underground simply because it'll be easier than a code cracker.
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National Guard? Nah...more like the Keystone Kops.
Don't even get me started on how hard it is to get arroused with punch card pr0n. Now we got these kids running around with their fancy line printer pr0n, they don't know how good they got it.
I know you're being silly, but the truth is stranger than fiction. It may not be paperclips and plaster, but its still open source.
Probably not. At that speed, they'll probably black out the optical streams so you don't get any sort of interference, as that would be very bad for system stability.
Note to those who will say that I'm a dirty rotten no good pirate: I don't pirate music. I simply buy from indie labels. At least then, I'm sure that the artist gets most of my money.
Perhaps you didn't look hard enough? I mean the answer is as clear as the nose on my face Yeah you need to compile it right now, but its still beta, give it a couple months.
criminal record.
Naw, I prefer the alternatives.
This isn't meant as a flame, or a troll, it's just the truth. It's time to start turning the screws on the big vendors to start making their high-end sound drivers available for Linux, even if they are simply binary drivers only.
Of course it is. It violates the Don't Mix Chocolate Act (DMCA). Circumventing Hershey's valuable intellectual property by creating your own confectionary devices deprives them of precious money. Hershey engineers spent many years creating their blends and you want to do it yourself?! What kind of commie pinko are you?
No, killthiskid is right. The bill passed 97-1. Those three senators supported Feingold's ammendments, but when it came down to brass tacks, they voted for the bill, even with the severe privacy concerns. Can't look weak on terrorism in this political climate, now can we?
This rocks. Dreamcast with the web browser means that if you want to, you can surf the internet, even check your email, from anywhere with a TV and a phone jack. Pretty convenient, if you ask me. Add Java to that, and you not only can play some of the interesting Java-based games on the internet, but with VNC, you can use your home desktop for pretty much anything. This just makes a cool platform even better.
Do you really want to be number 6? If there is an increased risk of the thing spontaneously combusting, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Plus, if the thing catches on fire and burns down your house, Compaq is much less responsible because it was a known problem which they fixed.
Actually, a balloon first stage is incorporated into a number of fairly credible amateur rocket designs. By using a balloon to bypass the heaviest 15-20 miles of the atmosphere, you're cutting down not only on drag, but distance. This means you have to carry considerably less fuel, leading to a smaller, cheaper, and possibly more reliable design. It probably won't be used for getting large multi-ton objects into space, but for a small one-two man capsule, or a small satelite, a balloon launch makes a good deal of sense.
I think you're missing the poster's point. Instead of having the entire balloon structure being sent into orbit, they're talking about using the balloon as the first stage. Once you get up to about 80,000 feet, or so, you release the balloons, light the rockets, and leave this miserable rock behind. Having a nice slow zeppelin circling the earth is silly, but using one to bypass most of the heavy part of the atmosphere is pretty smart
Plus, SuSE, once they finish their english translations, are usually quite good at documentation, in some cases better than redhat, etc.
You mean I don't need Alex Chiu's immortality rings if I buy copy and return?
I know you meant immoral, but still, I had to do this. You may fire when ready.
I know of nothing, and lord knows I've looked. Bout the only solution I can give you is to save each paper individually in a different format, like MSWord .doc and opening it up in your new word processor. Or you can try seeing if WPOffice 2k will work for you, if you like Word Perfect
That begs the question. How do you make money developing drivers for windows? You can have closed source linux drivers - my video card requirew one. So closed/open source is not the issue here, if you have NDAs, etc in your hardware.
A closed mouth gathers no foot, I guess.
No, you probably will find it. The NSA's set of patches, etc don't make a whole distro, only bits and pieces of one. You still need GCC, which is made outside the triple fence, in order to compile it. If you're truly paranoid about an act which could compromise your system, you compile GCC from a different compiler, so that any chance of a Thompson'esque back door is minimal. One of the beautiful things about an open and decentralized standard, such as C, is that you can use someone else's work in order to verify that there are no backdoors in your product. Thompson was able to put in such a backdoor because he controlled both the login program and the compiler. Such a thing is not possible today
Wrong government entity. Mr Becker's network drivers are copyright NASA, not NSA.
Actually, the US was one of the few countries not to ban the book back when it first came out - France, New Zealand, England, etc all banned the book when it first came out. So, you were probably thinking of the second movie in that regard.
And all things considered, the US is no worse and no better than any other country when it comes to banning things which are "undesirable". It's just there isn't a 1:1 correlation wrt what is objectionable from culture to culture.
But what about the owners of the data in those protected files? Don't they have any rights in your mind? I've lost files because the format they were in was password protected. I've had to use password crackers in order to recover my property from being lost forever.
You're also ignoring the oft repeated fact that what he was doing in Russia was perfectly legal. In fact, Adobe was breaking the law in providing their reader software to Russia without a provision for creating a backup.
How about the person down the street? Perhaps they do need this sort of program in order to do their job. Perhaps they went blind in an accident and are trying to get on with their life. Perhaps the hard drive on their computer crashed - the money they just spent on that e-book just went down the tubes because they can't make a backup copy. It's perfectly legal to copy a book to use and keep the original in a secure location - why should duplication for backup purposes be illegal just because the book is now digital?
Though the corporate edition is probably going to be the edition that makes the rounds on the underground simply because it'll be easier than a code cracker.
Damn sleazyspace must have took it off the server. Sorry 'bout that. 'f you still need it, I can email it to you.