it's yet one more type of specialized cable they have to keep track of instead of a relatively cheap standard short HDMI cable. And it's a PITA and stupid and one more way Apple tries to nickle and dime you, imho.
Ha... *if only* they were nickles and dimes. Try $50 for about $0.50 worth of components. That's one hell of a profit margin. Monster cables are a bargain by comparison -- at least the copper is worth something.
And how does that protect against a trojan, exactly? Depending on the app, there may be nothing at all suspicious about its request for elevated privileges.
I'm not sure how this idea of free (as in beer) got attached to free (as in speech), but Open Source wasn't envisaged as a necessarily gratis environment like freeware. In fact, the genesis of OSS was the idea that anyone paying for software should receive the source code along with it.
There's nothing wrong with turning a profit on OSS, and the ecosystem as a whole would probably benefit from something akin to the App Store, where companies and individuals can market their applications. Keep 10% of the profits and return 90% to the developers. That would be my suggestion for Open.org.
id doesn't release its engines until they're essentially obsolete. Good for educational value, but not necessarily pushing the envelope of OSS design. Next?
I think it's more accurate to say that Friday night is one of the most popular nights to go out. Still, I'd wager heavily that the number of people going out is dwarfed by the number of people who don't. It only seems like *everyone* is going out when your circle of friends is single.
Show me the FOSS attempts that beat -- or even match -- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash Pro (not the client), Sony Vegas, MS Visual Studio, MS Excel, MS Project, WinRAR, QuickBooks, TurboTax, Google Search, GMail, Picasa, Facebook, etc. And let's not get started on entire categories where FOSS efforts are minimal or entirely absent: games, navigation, business software (point-of-sale, processing, inventory management, banking, medical, legal, industrial), and let's throw in AI software like Watson while we're at it, if only because it comes from IBM, one of the biggest commercial OSS advocates ever.
Those are just off the top of my head.
Now granted, the technologies behind some of those products may be FOSS, but that's not really the point. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of drivers compiled with gcc, but that doesn't inherently make them any more useful, or any higher quality. Also, Chrome itself is not open source.
I always assumed chokolo was a pseudonym, but regardless, reputations benefit both sides in "the scene": Obviously it benefits the person or people behind the name through ego and pride, but it also benefits the people who use their products, because they trust the source. Anonymous distribution would make it easy for someone like Sony (since we're on that subject) to anonymously release "custom" firmware that bricks any console it's installed on.
2) People seem to be forgetting Mr. Chokobo's threat against Sony when they first sued geohot. Threatening reprisal against someone who uses the legal system is never a good idea. In fact, it's unambiguously criminal, unlike DMCA violations.
This is me exactly, except 6 months is being far too generous. Six days is about my limit, and that's just for the abstract of what transpired, not the details. It's not that I have no recollection of the experiences whatsoever (although that's sometimes the case), but rather that I can't recall them at will, and I usually end up retracing my steps. I may remember that A lead to B, and I'll investigate B, only to rediscover that B was a dead end and I had to explore C.
While the site and sales pitch are sleazy, it appears what you're really paying for are the video tutorials which, unless I'm mistaken, were produced by the guy running the site.
TBH, it looks more like someone's trying to drum up faux controversy to get their site linked from the front page of Slashdot.
Exactly. I don't touch Linux for day-to-day tasks (web browsing, multimedia, or "Office" type work), but it's invaluable for compiling with custom toolchains, performing pen tests, and other more specialized activities. Linux also runs our web server, and I wouldn't think of trying to replace that with Win Server & IIS. Yes, either OS can technically perform all of the above functions, but it's all about using the best tool for the job.
I'd rather have as much daylight as possible in the wee early hours of the morning... so I can sleep through it. Then make it dark as early as possible so I can enjoy the evening without the harsh glare of that cancer-maker in the sky.
I can't wait till our planet is covered with solar panels in orbit and this "daylight" thing is a story we tell our grandchildren.
You poor fellow. My connection at work is a T1 -- a symmetric 1.5Mbit connection shared by no less than 30 people, not to mention two externally accessible websites which are hosted on the same connection. And yes, it's absolutely the best connection available at that location. For anything over ~400MB in size, it's literally faster for me to remote into my home setup, start a download, drive home to pick it up, and drive back to work. And for what it's worth, this is less than 2 miles outside the border of a major metropolitan city (in the same state).
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Ha... *if only* they were nickles and dimes. Try $50 for about $0.50 worth of components. That's one hell of a profit margin. Monster cables are a bargain by comparison -- at least the copper is worth something.
And how does that protect against a trojan, exactly? Depending on the app, there may be nothing at all suspicious about its request for elevated privileges.
iOS.
I'm not sure how this idea of free (as in beer) got attached to free (as in speech), but Open Source wasn't envisaged as a necessarily gratis environment like freeware. In fact, the genesis of OSS was the idea that anyone paying for software should receive the source code along with it.
There's nothing wrong with turning a profit on OSS, and the ecosystem as a whole would probably benefit from something akin to the App Store, where companies and individuals can market their applications. Keep 10% of the profits and return 90% to the developers. That would be my suggestion for Open.org.
I usually my hard drive then its safer.
Krita.. you are funny. And when's the last time you created a set of RARs with 7-Zip? Hint: Never.
id doesn't release its engines until they're essentially obsolete. Good for educational value, but not necessarily pushing the envelope of OSS design. Next?
I think it's more accurate to say that Friday night is one of the most popular nights to go out. Still, I'd wager heavily that the number of people going out is dwarfed by the number of people who don't. It only seems like *everyone* is going out when your circle of friends is single.
You should stop worrying about what other people should buy.
Ah yes, because the head-in-the-sand approach works so well in every other domain, right?
There are two major concentrations of power in modern society -- government, and corporations -- and to ignore either is to be complicit.
Show me the FOSS attempts that beat -- or even match -- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash Pro (not the client), Sony Vegas, MS Visual Studio, MS Excel, MS Project, WinRAR, QuickBooks, TurboTax, Google Search, GMail, Picasa, Facebook, etc. And let's not get started on entire categories where FOSS efforts are minimal or entirely absent: games, navigation, business software (point-of-sale, processing, inventory management, banking, medical, legal, industrial), and let's throw in AI software like Watson while we're at it, if only because it comes from IBM, one of the biggest commercial OSS advocates ever.
Those are just off the top of my head.
Now granted, the technologies behind some of those products may be FOSS, but that's not really the point. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of drivers compiled with gcc, but that doesn't inherently make them any more useful, or any higher quality. Also, Chrome itself is not open source.
I always assumed chokolo was a pseudonym, but regardless, reputations benefit both sides in "the scene": Obviously it benefits the person or people behind the name through ego and pride, but it also benefits the people who use their products, because they trust the source. Anonymous distribution would make it easy for someone like Sony (since we're on that subject) to anonymously release "custom" firmware that bricks any console it's installed on.
1) This happened in Germany, not the US.
2) People seem to be forgetting Mr. Chokobo's threat against Sony when they first sued geohot. Threatening reprisal against someone who uses the legal system is never a good idea. In fact, it's unambiguously criminal, unlike DMCA violations.
This is me exactly, except 6 months is being far too generous. Six days is about my limit, and that's just for the abstract of what transpired, not the details. It's not that I have no recollection of the experiences whatsoever (although that's sometimes the case), but rather that I can't recall them at will, and I usually end up retracing my steps. I may remember that A lead to B, and I'll investigate B, only to rediscover that B was a dead end and I had to explore C.
We call those BCTs.
Their telescope so old they built a moat around it? I wonder if there are crocodiles.
Right, right, I was joking. ;)
Free with purchase != free.
Ah, right, I like to "help out" my friends' wives too when their husbands just aren't up for it.
Her: How do I fix this dirty bit?
Me: Well, you gotta get root and fsck it.
Her: Ohh, that sounds hard!
Me: Yeah, girl, it is. REAL hard. Lemme just remote into your box real quick...
Kudos, sir, on the ultimate troll.
While the site and sales pitch are sleazy, it appears what you're really paying for are the video tutorials which, unless I'm mistaken, were produced by the guy running the site.
TBH, it looks more like someone's trying to drum up faux controversy to get their site linked from the front page of Slashdot.
Taking a cue from Greenland, they obviously should've referred to the moon as Cheeseland.
Exactly. I don't touch Linux for day-to-day tasks (web browsing, multimedia, or "Office" type work), but it's invaluable for compiling with custom toolchains, performing pen tests, and other more specialized activities. Linux also runs our web server, and I wouldn't think of trying to replace that with Win Server & IIS. Yes, either OS can technically perform all of the above functions, but it's all about using the best tool for the job.
What if I want to donate more than I feel comfortable sending through PayPal? ... gmail
I'm excited! Email me, we'll figure it out.
geohot
http://geohot.com/
(Tried to post anon, but it's only been 56 minutes since I last posted a comment...)
I'd rather have as much daylight as possible in the wee early hours of the morning... so I can sleep through it. Then make it dark as early as possible so I can enjoy the evening without the harsh glare of that cancer-maker in the sky.
I can't wait till our planet is covered with solar panels in orbit and this "daylight" thing is a story we tell our grandchildren.
You poor fellow. My connection at work is a T1 -- a symmetric 1.5Mbit connection shared by no less than 30 people, not to mention two externally accessible websites which are hosted on the same connection. And yes, it's absolutely the best connection available at that location. For anything over ~400MB in size, it's literally faster for me to remote into my home setup, start a download, drive home to pick it up, and drive back to work. And for what it's worth, this is less than 2 miles outside the border of a major metropolitan city (in the same state).