Obsolete, maybe, but if he can still use it to play GTA3 in 10 years rather than having a melted wad of silicon on an equally melted motherboard, it's better.
Oh yes, because people obviously will stop doing things because they're illegal. Yeah, just look at how there hasn't been any drug abuse since it was made illegal, and murders? Oh, I guess those have never happened becuase murder was illegal since fucking forever.
Get a clue. It doesn't matter to the murderer that guns are illegal. If some assclown wants to kill somebody with a gun, they're going to a) get a gun through whatever means it may take them, and b) kill the person.
The only difference gun banning laws will make is that people who would otherwise legitimately use a gun to defend themself from being shot will no longer have that option. Oh yeah, sounds peachy to me!
No, no, Sony's fine. they have Linux officially on their system, remember? The fact that they own more of the console gaming world than all of their competitors combined does not warrant hatred since they're not Micro"dollar sign"oft.
Now, you manage to find one instance of a child accidentally killed by Israeli troops in the middle of a gun battle with armed gunmen.
I didn't read the article, but is this the child in the famous Palestine propaganda picture, that was killed by allegedly Israeli gunfire, who is pictured huddled behind a trash can with his father?
If so, then It wasn't actually the Israeli troops that shot him. See, the Israelis were behind the wall that the kid and his father were huddled up against, and they were firing at Palestinians from behind the kid. The shot that killed him came from in front of him, and went into his head going towards the Israeli troops. Now, unless Israel was using magic bullets that could change their trajectory in mid-flight, it is simply not possible for them to have killed this child.
I'm running Windows XP. I am on my 23rd day of uptime, and the only reason it's that small is because 22 days and a few hours ago, Quicktime froze. Since I restarted, I have been using a bunch of software (including: GTA3, Word, Excel, IE, Outlook Express, Kazaa, Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, and some minor non-system-heavy stuff), and it has managed to stay up without a bit of performance loss.
I've also been using quicktime, but I'm being careful with it. The best way I've found to ensure that Quicktime doesn't crash is to only close your browser window (for embedded video in the browser) after the video has finished playing completely, and to not use the standalone player at all.
Fine then, two computers. Total cost: $2000 tops. Canadian. Unless you want to play UT2k3 on it with a 60" plasma TV and GeForce4 or something that you wouldn't use a server to do.
I'm not a cryptography expert, which is why that statement makes me laugh. It's hard for a casual observer to take jargon seriously when it brings to mind such amusing imagery. I find it akin to someone saying something very technical-sounding, except with several nouns replaced by the word "booger"
a HACKER is not a criminal but a software and hardware genius...
A CRACKER tries to break into systems or bypass security.
That's true, but would you be more scared of a guy waving his axe around hacking things, or a salty biscuit that you crush up and put into your chicken soup?
Kazaa Lite is a spyware-free Kazaa, but alas it also is a bandwidth hog. WinMX is a pretty great tool, now that it has caught up to Kazaa-style tools in terms of features, and it uses OpenNap servers as well as (I think) a semi-proprietary protocol of its own. It's also completely spyware-free.
It would be nice from a purely "would be nice" point of view, but in effect you would get charged less for using more bandwidth, which wouldn't fly with anyone who provides bandwidth.
Then MS decided it would be cool to include PPP in 95. Sales dropped, people got laid off.
My graphic design teacher had a similar example. As recently as 20 years ago, there were these things called "Typesetting shops" wherein you would pay megabucks to set type on a page. Somewhere around $60 CDN per page. Then along comes Apple and makes a computer that can do all that typesetting stuff in the comfort of your own home, and output it to a laser printer for relatively free.
Guess what happened to the typesetting shops.
That's what happens to people who make a business doing something that can easily be done better once someone has the idea to implement it.
Sure about that, sport? Most Linux/BSD apps are written for x86 systems, and Apple hardware can't readily run stuff designed for x86 without some heavy emulation.
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Obsolete, maybe, but if he can still use it to play GTA3 in 10 years rather than having a melted wad of silicon on an equally melted motherboard, it's better.
Oh yes, because people obviously will stop doing things because they're illegal. Yeah, just look at how there hasn't been any drug abuse since it was made illegal, and murders? Oh, I guess those have never happened becuase murder was illegal since fucking forever.
Get a clue. It doesn't matter to the murderer that guns are illegal. If some assclown wants to kill somebody with a gun, they're going to a) get a gun through whatever means it may take them, and b) kill the person.
The only difference gun banning laws will make is that people who would otherwise legitimately use a gun to defend themself from being shot will no longer have that option. Oh yeah, sounds peachy to me!
No, no, Sony's fine. they have Linux officially on their system, remember? The fact that they own more of the console gaming world than all of their competitors combined does not warrant hatred since they're not Micro"dollar sign"oft.
Now, you manage to find one instance of a child accidentally killed by Israeli troops in the middle of a gun battle with armed gunmen.
I didn't read the article, but is this the child in the famous Palestine propaganda picture, that was killed by allegedly Israeli gunfire, who is pictured huddled behind a trash can with his father?
If so, then It wasn't actually the Israeli troops that shot him. See, the Israelis were behind the wall that the kid and his father were huddled up against, and they were firing at Palestinians from behind the kid. The shot that killed him came from in front of him, and went into his head going towards the Israeli troops. Now, unless Israel was using magic bullets that could change their trajectory in mid-flight, it is simply not possible for them to have killed this child.
...And then browse Nested at -1.
I'm running Windows XP. I am on my 23rd day of uptime, and the only reason it's that small is because 22 days and a few hours ago, Quicktime froze. Since I restarted, I have been using a bunch of software (including: GTA3, Word, Excel, IE, Outlook Express, Kazaa, Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, and some minor non-system-heavy stuff), and it has managed to stay up without a bit of performance loss.
I've also been using quicktime, but I'm being careful with it. The best way I've found to ensure that Quicktime doesn't crash is to only close your browser window (for embedded video in the browser) after the video has finished playing completely, and to not use the standalone player at all.
Drop the soldering iron and mod this guy up.
Thankfully I don't have personal experience, but common sense tells me this isn't a very good idea.
Legend has it that it was called that because it's waterproof, like a duck.. or something.
As well as songs by your favourite artists so you don't have to pay 'em for a cd.
...Baaahhhhhh*click*EXPLODE!
No, it would have the approximate computing power of Hot Grits.
If you're going for slashdotisms, you might as well include more than two.
She lost a chance at a $65,000 contract job at the Discovery channel because of this.
I'm sure that they would have been glad to welcome her to the team when they read a "This email address has been suspended" auto-message.
That would be PhysicsGenius. PhysicsScholar is someone else.
Alright, you owe me one display of eating packaging and a legit copy of WinXP.
Fine then, two computers. Total cost: $2000 tops. Canadian. Unless you want to play UT2k3 on it with a 60" plasma TV and GeForce4 or something that you wouldn't use a server to do.
that took about two days before it was cracked
Shows how much we've advanced. Something like that today is cracked a week before its release..
...encrypt your salt...
I'm not a cryptography expert, which is why that statement makes me laugh. It's hard for a casual observer to take jargon seriously when it brings to mind such amusing imagery. I find it akin to someone saying something very technical-sounding, except with several nouns replaced by the word "booger"
a HACKER is not a criminal but a software and hardware genius...
A CRACKER tries to break into systems or bypass security.
That's true, but would you be more scared of a guy waving his axe around hacking things, or a salty biscuit that you crush up and put into your chicken soup?
That's why mainstream media says "hacker"
That is the least funny combination of Star Wars and the Simpsons that has ever existed.
"To bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
I forget who said it.
Kazaa Lite is a spyware-free Kazaa, but alas it also is a bandwidth hog. WinMX is a pretty great tool, now that it has caught up to Kazaa-style tools in terms of features, and it uses OpenNap servers as well as (I think) a semi-proprietary protocol of its own. It's also completely spyware-free.
I think they meant the Article
It would be nice from a purely "would be nice" point of view, but in effect you would get charged less for using more bandwidth, which wouldn't fly with anyone who provides bandwidth.
Then MS decided it would be cool to include PPP in 95. Sales dropped, people got laid off.
My graphic design teacher had a similar example. As recently as 20 years ago, there were these things called "Typesetting shops" wherein you would pay megabucks to set type on a page. Somewhere around $60 CDN per page. Then along comes Apple and makes a computer that can do all that typesetting stuff in the comfort of your own home, and output it to a laser printer for relatively free.
Guess what happened to the typesetting shops.
That's what happens to people who make a business doing something that can easily be done better once someone has the idea to implement it.
the ability to run every app linux/bsd does
Sure about that, sport? Most Linux/BSD apps are written for x86 systems, and Apple hardware can't readily run stuff designed for x86 without some heavy emulation.