Where do you think Star Office came from? It didn't just spring fully formed from the head of Zeus; it was built from scratch as well (though not by Sun).
True, but you can add all that stuff and still come in under the cost of the alternatives. At least it's possible to buy a solar power supply for these; good luck finding a socket in a remote village to power your Alienware box.
The village doesn't have to afford it. If a first-world charity or aid agency has $1000 to spend on computers (which is quite plausible), they can buy ten of these instead of two standard $500 desktops.
That depends on the speed and conditions. It's quite possible to survive an SUV/SUV head-on collision. I think it'd be almost impossible to survive a head-on with anything in one of these.
Yeah, xine and mplayer can do it, but it's not native. They load the windows codecs from MS's dll files, which is a) probably illegal, b) slow, and c) only works on x86 processors. This new open-source implementation should work with all architectures.
Not necessarily. The cube root of 42 is ~3.476, but that's not a factor of 42. There's occasionally overlap between roots and factors, but they're different (though related) concepts.
That's not entirely true. What's the process for proving a theorem? There isn't really one. It requires a certain amount of creativity and skill to come up with the right steps to go through.
In any case, going through the process is really easy to screw up unless you understand the underlying concept. That understanding (like what exactly does an integral mean?) is what can be hard for some people.
A company like Valve has to try and keep their product from being blatently stolen
They could find a lot of better ways. Pirated versions exist (or will exist) that bypass Steam entirely. These tactics delay widespread piracy by a few days; they don't prevent it. One way to stop people from stealing your product is to stop screwing your customers.
Really, all they can say is "your printer did". That doesn't tie it to the person.
Actually, I dunno if they could tie it to the printer either. It's probably possible to use a non-compromised color laser to reproduce one of these serial numbers, so I don't know if they establish enough proof for a court of law.
This is one of the biggest concepts that Windows users can't get their heads around when trying out Linux.
If I write software, all I should release is the source code. Let the distributions package it for their architecture.
I understand the concept perfectly, thank you. I just think it's wrong. It's unrealistic to expect distros to package every conceivable piece of software a user might want, and a whole lot of wasted effort if each distro packages its own version. There's no reason that a binary that runs on one distro shouldn't run on a different distro or even another version of the same distro.
I do wish I could simply download a package from debian.org and run it on my (Fedora/Mandrake/SuSE/Slack/Gentoo) machine. Unfortunately, due to distro incompatibilities, that doesn't usually work (even using alien). Packages from different versions of Debian are incompatible with each other. In comparison, I can take Wordperfect 6.1, a decade old, install it on Windows Server 2003 and it runs fine.
When Linux package management works, it works great. But it's almost impossible to distribute a binary that will just "work with Linux", no matter what distro. You either have to distribute source and expect the user to compile it or get every distro to package their own version.
An iPod could handle a slashdotting given enough bandwidth, as long as it was serving static pages. Dynamically generated content (such as ASP) is what burns most slashdotted servers.
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So? A distributor buys them and resells them at $115. It's still much cheaper than anything else (except maybe modded Gamecubes).
Where do you think Star Office came from? It didn't just spring fully formed from the head of Zeus; it was built from scratch as well (though not by Sun).
True, but you can add all that stuff and still come in under the cost of the alternatives. At least it's possible to buy a solar power supply for these; good luck finding a socket in a remote village to power your Alienware box.
The village doesn't have to afford it. If a first-world charity or aid agency has $1000 to spend on computers (which is quite plausible), they can buy ten of these instead of two standard $500 desktops.
Even single-checking it would be a good start. :-)
That depends on the speed and conditions. It's quite possible to survive an SUV/SUV head-on collision. I think it'd be almost impossible to survive a head-on with anything in one of these.
Yeah, xine and mplayer can do it, but it's not native. They load the windows codecs from MS's dll files, which is a) probably illegal, b) slow, and c) only works on x86 processors. This new open-source implementation should work with all architectures.
Not necessarily. The cube root of 42 is ~3.476, but that's not a factor of 42. There's occasionally overlap between roots and factors, but they're different (though related) concepts.
Your current bong will be fine; you just need a lot of pot and a lot of time.
It's easier for me to do that as 1000+999-1=1999-1=1998.
Just another way to look at it.
In any case, going through the process is really easy to screw up unless you understand the underlying concept. That understanding (like what exactly does an integral mean?) is what can be hard for some people.
30 seconds? The expression is x^(1/n). Why does that take so long?
A tiny cube-shaped PC with TV-out for $99? Where do you live that your local PC store sells such a machine?
Roots != factors. Finding a 13th root has nothing to do with RSA; a calculator can do it in a couple seconds.
Q: Who are the fastest readers in the world?
A: WTC office workers. Some of them go through 110 stories in 5 seconds.
Of course! Just look at all the progress the first mass-pot-smoking generation has made.
The idea was to point out stuff that was for non-home use, because that's the stuff CRN is considering. The iMac is irrelevent.
They could find a lot of better ways. Pirated versions exist (or will exist) that bypass Steam entirely. These tactics delay widespread piracy by a few days; they don't prevent it. One way to stop people from stealing your product is to stop screwing your customers.
And he only owns two PS2 games, which he doesn't even know the names of?
Actually, I dunno if they could tie it to the printer either. It's probably possible to use a non-compromised color laser to reproduce one of these serial numbers, so I don't know if they establish enough proof for a court of law.
That's really a pretty crappy analogy. Chickens don't unionize or seek out their preferred owner.
If I write software, all I should release is the source code. Let the distributions package it for their architecture.
I understand the concept perfectly, thank you. I just think it's wrong. It's unrealistic to expect distros to package every conceivable piece of software a user might want, and a whole lot of wasted effort if each distro packages its own version. There's no reason that a binary that runs on one distro shouldn't run on a different distro or even another version of the same distro.
Umm.. The parent already mentioned cinepaint. Did you even read the comment you responded to?
When Linux package management works, it works great. But it's almost impossible to distribute a binary that will just "work with Linux", no matter what distro. You either have to distribute source and expect the user to compile it or get every distro to package their own version.
An iPod could handle a slashdotting given enough bandwidth, as long as it was serving static pages. Dynamically generated content (such as ASP) is what burns most slashdotted servers.