For that to do any good, you'd have to threaten a whole lot of people (millions, if you wanted to swing a presidential election). You can't track that many votes, and at least one person will get you in trouble for it.
Not necessarily. Half of people are, by definition, dumber than the median, but it's possible that a few really stupid people could weight the mean (average) down far enough to leave more than half above average.
to switch to a Mac (which just assumes he has the extra money to run out and buy one)
He says he was using Avid Xpress. It retails for $1700. A low-end PowerMac also retails for $1700. As much as I like Linux, you're correct when you say it doesn't have the software for this. In any case, I guarentee you Final Cut Pro/Express will beat the crap out of Main Actor. If this guy can afford Avid Xpress, he can afford a Mac.
Because 802.11x is overkill for radio, about 1000 times too weak to work from a satellite, and their proprietary codec probably sounds better than Ogg (Ogg is good, but it's not the Ultimate Codec).
IE supports just as much transparency for PNG as it does for GIF. It's just that it was designed for GIF's, which only use one level of transparency, so it can't handle PNG's extra levels. It's quite easy, however, to create a PNG with one-bit transparency, and such a PNG would be superior to a similar GIF in every way.
Using Unix doesn't necessarily mean recompiling Apache. And, if you really felt the urge, there's probably some GUI program out there that will automatically run./configure && make && make install for you. If there isn't, it'd be trivial to write one. The command line is an important and useful part of Unix, but it's certainly not a necessary one.
they charge $99 for a subscription to their software distribution service (apt-get). It doesn't bother me they are selling a subscription service at all, the thing that gets to me is they are using the public Debian servers and not providing their own.
I'm fairly sure they use their own servers. After all, programs like Staroffice and Tuxracer Deluxe aren't in the Debian archives.
$10-$50 billion - let's average that and say it'll cost $30 billion. Let's say there are 200 million taxpayers in the US. That's $150 apiece, or $20 per year between now and 2010. That's not gonna buy you much of a home theatre.
Besides, there are things that can be learned from manned spaceflight - many technologies developed for the moon missions are used for civilian purposes today. There are also many benefits of cheap, fast flight (which the nuclear drive would hopefully facilitate) - read any sci-fi novel for examples.
You think AMD and Intel don't have about a trillion offsite backups of their chip designs? Sure, you could cripple the manufacturing, but that can be replaced relatively quickly if needed.
A heavily modified BSD is the kernel. The rest of it is Apple's GUI, APIs, and other system components (stuff like NetInfo). Look at Linux and compare the size of codebase for the kernel + GNU tools to the size of the codebase for X + GNOME2 or X + KDE3. You'll find that the kernel is a relatively small part of the OS.
Well, there is the open source MMORPG Arianne. It's still in development, and not quite there yet, but it's quite actively developed. It doesn't use p2p, though, AFAIK.
Has anyone ever pirated a GC game? I'm curious. I know Xbox (with modchip) and PS2 can be convinced to play copied games, which are easy to make because they use DVDs. Since the GC uses its own media, and hasn't been hacked, can GC games currently be pirated?
And you think MS will let you hack their watch to do that? Sure MS may have bad security, but nobody's cracked the Xbox yet (not counting modchips, cause you're not gonna put one in your watch).
They used the cores of the BSD and Mach kernels to design their own kernel. The rest of the system (except for the BSD/GNU shell tools) is completely theirs. Probably 95% of OS X code was written by Apple.
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For that to do any good, you'd have to threaten a whole lot of people (millions, if you wanted to swing a presidential election). You can't track that many votes, and at least one person will get you in trouble for it.
Not necessarily. Half of people are, by definition, dumber than the median, but it's possible that a few really stupid people could weight the mean (average) down far enough to leave more than half above average.
He could sell it. Or go back to using it - it's a pretty good program, and far better than the Linux choices.
He says he was using Avid Xpress. It retails for $1700. A low-end PowerMac also retails for $1700. As much as I like Linux, you're correct when you say it doesn't have the software for this. In any case, I guarentee you Final Cut Pro/Express will beat the crap out of Main Actor. If this guy can afford Avid Xpress, he can afford a Mac.
Because 802.11x is overkill for radio, about 1000 times too weak to work from a satellite, and their proprietary codec probably sounds better than Ogg (Ogg is good, but it's not the Ultimate Codec).
IE supports just as much transparency for PNG as it does for GIF. It's just that it was designed for GIF's, which only use one level of transparency, so it can't handle PNG's extra levels. It's quite easy, however, to create a PNG with one-bit transparency, and such a PNG would be superior to a similar GIF in every way.
Using Unix doesn't necessarily mean recompiling Apache. And, if you really felt the urge, there's probably some GUI program out there that will automatically run ./configure && make && make install for you. If there isn't, it'd be trivial to write one. The command line is an important and useful part of Unix, but it's certainly not a necessary one.
I'm fairly sure they use their own servers. After all, programs like Staroffice and Tuxracer Deluxe aren't in the Debian archives.
I don't know where I got $10-$50 billion from - the article actually says $45. Oh well. It's still not very much money per person.
Besides, there are things that can be learned from manned spaceflight - many technologies developed for the moon missions are used for civilian purposes today. There are also many benefits of cheap, fast flight (which the nuclear drive would hopefully facilitate) - read any sci-fi novel for examples.
K5 uses Scoop, which, while probably the nicest weblog engine in existance, is not known for its performance and scalability.
How would anyone here know? We don't work for theKompany.
Really? Their first documented release was around 1996, five years after Linux. Am I missing something?
Just because something's never been found legal doesn't mean it's illegal.
There is Speex, but it's still in beta. Perhaps when it stablizes more people will start using it.
You think AMD and Intel don't have about a trillion offsite backups of their chip designs? Sure, you could cripple the manufacturing, but that can be replaced relatively quickly if needed.
Current releases of Mozilla use GTK, IIRC.
Why would you consider Redhat's desktop castrated?
A heavily modified BSD is the kernel. The rest of it is Apple's GUI, APIs, and other system components (stuff like NetInfo). Look at Linux and compare the size of codebase for the kernel + GNU tools to the size of the codebase for X + GNOME2 or X + KDE3. You'll find that the kernel is a relatively small part of the OS.
Well, there is the open source MMORPG Arianne. It's still in development, and not quite there yet, but it's quite actively developed. It doesn't use p2p, though, AFAIK.
Unless you're using Hurd or Windows 3.1, there's almost definately both Quickime and Windows Media for your platform. Stop whining.
Has anyone ever pirated a GC game? I'm curious. I know Xbox (with modchip) and PS2 can be convinced to play copied games, which are easy to make because they use DVDs. Since the GC uses its own media, and hasn't been hacked, can GC games currently be pirated?
And you think MS will let you hack their watch to do that? Sure MS may have bad security, but nobody's cracked the Xbox yet (not counting modchips, cause you're not gonna put one in your watch).
They used the cores of the BSD and Mach kernels to design their own kernel. The rest of the system (except for the BSD/GNU shell tools) is completely theirs. Probably 95% of OS X code was written by Apple.
One.