Come on, given the nature of the site (or more spicifically its user base) where the story was posted. This has gotta be the most redundant comment I have ever seen.
I don't know about you but when I shell out money for a piece of software I consider it to be mine to do with as I please. I pay to own, not to rent. EULA's be damned.
...they want to "word process"....they want to listen to music....they want to browser the web.
And those are the exact reasons why I want to own a word processor, own a media player, and own a web browser. When I want to fufill a need I seek to aquire that which will let me fufill my need with the intent to own that which lets me fufill my need. If I don't own it, I might as well not have it.
*Owning* software is out of fashion. It simply doesn't make sense. It is an obselete idea in a digital world.
You missed one small fact. Nothing is to complicated for a bunch of volunteers to cobbel together on there own. Its just a matter of how determined said volunteeres are.
You will be hard pressed to find a Taiwanese citizen anywhere who claims to be Chinese. Not a few, in fact, will take great umbrage to being called Chinese.
umbrage Pronunciation Key (mbrj)
n. 1. Offense; resentment: took umbrage at their rudeness. 2. a. Something that affords shade. b. Shadow or shade. See Synonyms at shade. 3. A vague or indistinct indication; a hint.
It's not an issue of heritage or ancestry, but of political and national identity.
So as I understand it, they can't stand being refered to as being Chinese nor do they want to be associated with the Chinese government. Yet they still support said government........right.
Except our government doesn't mind when we seek alternative political points of view, there's does, in fact they kill people over it. Thats the difference. As for a major dissent movment, the simple fact that we live in a democracy means that any such movement can simply be expressed on election day. See here and here for examples. As for forien news sources, this one is quite popular. And although this one isn't forien, its quite un biased compaired to the other major news outlets.
The key that you get from MS is generated from a key that is generated by WinXP setup based on your hardware, obviously there will only be so many keys for one hardware configuration. So of course it would spit out the key that you got legally. That's what it's supposed to. The fact that it did proves that it is able to emulate both the process by which setup generates a "first key" and the process by which MS generates a "final key". IE: The fact that it spat out the key you got legally proves that the keygen works perfectly.
If you don't like ext2 then use something else, its not like linux only supports 1 good file system like some other os's. *cough*windows*ntfs*cough* Take RiserFS for example, it has excelent performance and is journalizing.
However what if the infrastructure was put in place and such a service was to move to say......Russia? There is no way Corporate America could get to that unless a) sabotage was an option or b) the U.S. Government was to issue sanctions against such a country.
My twin 75gig 75GXP's (in RAID 0) have been working fine for about 6 months now. Although I still put big coolers on them and treat them gently just in case.
It only takes one microscopic piece of dust floating in the air to get caught under the plastic and kill the whole drive. Unless you have a clean room it is impossible to totally prevent this. You can meerly reduce the chance of it happening.
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I was replying to Kintanon's post not yours. Your post was actually very well thought out and I would have medded it up had I had mod points.
Come on, given the nature of the site (or more spicifically its user base) where the story was posted. This has gotta be the most redundant comment I have ever seen.
I don't know about you but when I shell out money for a piece of software I consider it to be mine to do with as I please. I pay to own, not to rent. EULA's be damned.
...they want to "word process". ...they want to listen to music. ...they want to browser the web.
....*restrains himself*....
And those are the exact reasons why I want to own a word processor, own a media player, and own a web browser. When I want to fufill a need I seek to aquire that which will let me fufill my need with the intent to own that which lets me fufill my need. If I don't own it, I might as well not have it.
*Owning* software is out of fashion. It simply doesn't make sense. It is an obselete idea in a digital world.
You missed one small fact. Nothing is to complicated for a bunch of volunteers to cobbel together on there own. Its just a matter of how determined said volunteeres are.
Although we can't "prove" it persay, this is our best guess.
Its better than firing real bullets and sending in tanks and draging people away to forced labor camps for the rest of there lives.
Most Chinese in Taiwan support mainland China.
.......right.
You will be hard pressed to find a Taiwanese citizen anywhere who claims to be Chinese. Not a few, in fact, will take great umbrage to being called Chinese.
umbrage Pronunciation Key (mbrj) n.
1. Offense; resentment: took umbrage at their rudeness.
2. a. Something that affords shade. b. Shadow or shade. See Synonyms at shade.
3. A vague or indistinct indication; a hint.
It's not an issue of heritage or ancestry, but of political and national identity.
So as I understand it, they can't stand being refered to as being Chinese nor do they want to be associated with the Chinese government. Yet they still support said government.
...of assembly...
So what did you think of the tiananmen square massacare?
Except our government doesn't mind when we seek alternative political points of view, there's does, in fact they kill people over it. Thats the difference. As for a major dissent movment, the simple fact that we live in a democracy means that any such movement can simply be expressed on election day. See here and here for examples. As for forien news sources, this one is quite popular. And although this one isn't forien, its quite un biased compaired to the other major news outlets.
Note: This post is illegal in China.
If you want to see it in (near) perfect digital quality just buy it on DVD and play it on your computer. Nuf said.
The key that you get from MS is generated from a key that is generated by WinXP setup based on your hardware, obviously there will only be so many keys for one hardware configuration. So of course it would spit out the key that you got legally. That's what it's supposed to. The fact that it did proves that it is able to emulate both the process by which setup generates a "first key" and the process by which MS generates a "final key". IE: The fact that it spat out the key you got legally proves that the keygen works perfectly.
Even if he didn't patent the concept back then it would still blow BT's case wide open due to prior art.
The "Uber Patch" is available for download here.
A very small fraction of the time it would take you to compile it.
Unless of course said code was considered to be evidence and therefore part of the public record.
It does do something useful, it demonstrates the superiority of linux. duh.
If you don't like ext2 then use something else, its not like linux only supports 1 good file system like some other os's. *cough*windows*ntfs*cough* Take RiserFS for example, it has excelent performance and is journalizing.
However what if the infrastructure was put in place and such a service was to move to say... ...Russia? There is no way Corporate America could get to that unless a) sabotage was an option or b) the U.S. Government was to issue sanctions against such a country.
See freenet.
Sorry dude but that returns 3 results. None of which are shashdot.
Holy crap! That actually works.... I'm amazed...
Something like this perhaps?
Ooooo.... look at it spin... it spins so fast it's like it's standing still! Aaahhhh... I could watch this all... of 5 seconds.
Back to work.
Crap! My harddrive crashed, now I can't get back to work.
My twin 75gig 75GXP's (in RAID 0) have been working fine for about 6 months now. Although I still put big coolers on them and treat them gently just in case.
...nothing falls into the drive...
It only takes one microscopic piece of dust floating in the air to get caught under the plastic and kill the whole drive. Unless you have a clean room it is impossible to totally prevent this. You can meerly reduce the chance of it happening.
Clear monitors!
Now thats a mod that would take balls. I mean, how much charge does a CRT store even when its off?