That domain was hijacked on May 14, apparently. Would you go through every month and personally test every single link to make sure that none had been converted to porn sites? A Senator should have much better things to do with their time (although, admittedly, the world would be a better place if Orrin Hatch spent more time checking links and less time doing everything else).
For 99% of the work a non-professional would need to do, it is just as good as Photoshop. If you're a professional and you need those extra features, then you can afford Photoshop.
Sometimes. It's of course possible to reformat the harddrive. In some cases, it's possible to screw up the BIOS to the point where the computer won't boot. In rarer cases, it's possible to change BIOS settings to run components out of spec (overclock the proc and disabling the fans, for example) enough to actually damage the hardware. Of course, this would only work in some rare cases when the user was running with full Administrator privledges, and it'd be hard to write a single tool that would fuck up a diverse set of computers. In any case, if the RIAA did create such a tool, the antivirus companies would probably be all over it.
Why would it destroy his career? Someone bought a domain formerly containing a Utah search engine and made a porn site, and his link to it hasn't been updated. That's slight negligence on the part of his webmaster, for not hand-checking all of the links from the web site every few weeks. It's not like it's Hatch's responsibility to personally police his web site.
Under his plan, if someone downloads copyrighted material on your computer without your knowledge, you'd still be fucked. It's the same way here - his webmaster violated a license agreement without his knowledge, and we all still blame him.
On the other hand, the age old question is that if Windows emulation works SO well on Linux, then will there ever be a commercial market for native Linux apps?
Win16 emulation works SO well on Windows 95, will there ever be a commercial merket for native Win32 apps?
True. But making an account is a one-time process, while climbing stairs is something that happens all the time. I agree that we should accomodate disabld people to the greatest extent possible, but I think making blind people take 30 seconds extra to make their account is a lesser evil than allowing spambots to make infinite accounts (although there are better solutions - one new account per IP per day, maybe).
You can get (assuming no quantum computers are involved) unbreakable crypto with a 512-byte key. There's no technological reason to expect PCI-Express devices to have any more or less DRM than PCI.
I think the only major game to use much of that in the last three or four years was the recent Enter the Matrix.
Most games use at least some real video. For example, WarCraft III renders most cutscenes with it's 3D engine, but the ones at the beginning and end of each campaign are done in real CG and compressed with DivX.
Yes, it was advertised as Apple hardware in a plain case, but it wasn't advertised as being made by Apple. That's like advertising Coke in cans, but not saying it's the real made-by-Coca-Cola thing.
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The problem is that a non-Apple board won't run OSX natively.
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They heavily modified the kernel (which is Mach, not FreeBSD), merged it with a heavily modified FreeBSD subsystem, and developed a GUI lightyears ahead of what KDE, GNOME, or Windows has managed. And yet, I think OSX is still the cheapest real commercial OS (excluding Linux, because the Linux companies don't have to pay to actually write the OS). They're selling the best OS around (95% of which they wrote themselves for the cheapest price. I wouldn't call that gouging.
So you're saying that it's impossible for a business to create quality apps that don't cost anything?
Yes. Businesses don't have a huge team of open-source volunteers coding at their every whim. In any case, the open-source movement has never managed to come up with an OS as good as OSX (for desktop use) or apps fufilling the function of iMovie, iDVD, iTMS, etc.
Apple has enough $$$ that they can afford to make the apps and STILL not overcharge
And where do you think they got the $$$? By charging what they do.
I doubt it's possibly to unbalance a CD and leave it playable. Even if someone did, all you'd have to do was rip at 1x or 2x. It's less convenient, but it only has to be done once.
The thing about bittorrent is that, even though the bandwidth is shared among all the downloaders, the site hosting the file (also known as the "tracker) still has to keep track of all the downloads going on. While most bittorrent sites don't need too much bandwidth, they often run out of CPU power at high loads (such as right after/. links to them). That's probably what you're seeing here. Wait a while and try again.
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Especially at Apple's RAM prices.
That domain was hijacked on May 14, apparently. Would you go through every month and personally test every single link to make sure that none had been converted to porn sites? A Senator should have much better things to do with their time (although, admittedly, the world would be a better place if Orrin Hatch spent more time checking links and less time doing everything else).
Why not just use a good free zipping program?
Why didn't you just use gzip or its algorithm? It's better and it's Free.
PNG transparency in IE is supported every bit as well as GIF transparency.
For 99% of the work a non-professional would need to do, it is just as good as Photoshop. If you're a professional and you need those extra features, then you can afford Photoshop.
Sometimes. It's of course possible to reformat the harddrive. In some cases, it's possible to screw up the BIOS to the point where the computer won't boot. In rarer cases, it's possible to change BIOS settings to run components out of spec (overclock the proc and disabling the fans, for example) enough to actually damage the hardware. Of course, this would only work in some rare cases when the user was running with full Administrator privledges, and it'd be hard to write a single tool that would fuck up a diverse set of computers. In any case, if the RIAA did create such a tool, the antivirus companies would probably be all over it.
Why would it destroy his career? Someone bought a domain formerly containing a Utah search engine and made a porn site, and his link to it hasn't been updated. That's slight negligence on the part of his webmaster, for not hand-checking all of the links from the web site every few weeks. It's not like it's Hatch's responsibility to personally police his web site.
Under his plan, if someone downloads copyrighted material on your computer without your knowledge, you'd still be fucked. It's the same way here - his webmaster violated a license agreement without his knowledge, and we all still blame him.
Microsoft has taken over the Internet? Really? Don't tell these people.
Win16 emulation works SO well on Windows 95, will there ever be a commercial merket for native Win32 apps?
True. But making an account is a one-time process, while climbing stairs is something that happens all the time. I agree that we should accomodate disabld people to the greatest extent possible, but I think making blind people take 30 seconds extra to make their account is a lesser evil than allowing spambots to make infinite accounts (although there are better solutions - one new account per IP per day, maybe).
You can get (assuming no quantum computers are involved) unbreakable crypto with a 512-byte key. There's no technological reason to expect PCI-Express devices to have any more or less DRM than PCI.
Most games use at least some real video. For example, WarCraft III renders most cutscenes with it's 3D engine, but the ones at the beginning and end of each campaign are done in real CG and compressed with DivX.
Most blind people. know at least one sighted person that could help them create their account.
Yes, it was advertised as Apple hardware in a plain case, but it wasn't advertised as being made by Apple. That's like advertising Coke in cans, but not saying it's the real made-by-Coca-Cola thing.
The iBox wasn't advertised as a real Mac.
The problem is that a non-Apple board won't run OSX natively.
They heavily modified the kernel (which is Mach, not FreeBSD), merged it with a heavily modified FreeBSD subsystem, and developed a GUI lightyears ahead of what KDE, GNOME, or Windows has managed. And yet, I think OSX is still the cheapest real commercial OS (excluding Linux, because the Linux companies don't have to pay to actually write the OS). They're selling the best OS around (95% of which they wrote themselves for the cheapest price. I wouldn't call that gouging.
Evidently these guys have been doing it for quite some time.
Yes. Businesses don't have a huge team of open-source volunteers coding at their every whim. In any case, the open-source movement has never managed to come up with an OS as good as OSX (for desktop use) or apps fufilling the function of iMovie, iDVD, iTMS, etc.
Apple has enough $$$ that they can afford to make the apps and STILL not overcharge
And where do you think they got the $$$? By charging what they do.
I doubt it's possibly to unbalance a CD and leave it playable. Even if someone did, all you'd have to do was rip at 1x or 2x. It's less convenient, but it only has to be done once.
If they DOS you, you sue them. If they sue, you show them the GPL and tell them to fuck off.
The thing about bittorrent is that, even though the bandwidth is shared among all the downloaders, the site hosting the file (also known as the "tracker) still has to keep track of all the downloads going on. While most bittorrent sites don't need too much bandwidth, they often run out of CPU power at high loads (such as right after /. links to them). That's probably what you're seeing here. Wait a while and try again.
Well, WinXP graphic effects (after you turn off the Luna shit) are undeniably nicer than 3.1's.