(dont get me started, my biggest annoyance with "linux" is that everybody follows their own "standard" for how to configure the system.) Thats why some of us use Fbsd. Its at least consistent. Nor do you have to worry about your 'favorite linux distro' going up in flames someday due to lack of interest.
It would be nice if you were to use the accurate statement of 'sharing of copyrighted material with out permission'. Just saying 'copyrighted material' only marginalizes those that do allow it, and those that don't believe in IP as it is defined today. ( which is part of what the *AA's want to do, muddy the water and eliminate artists that don't play by the their rules )
I can point you to 1000's of example where the copyright holder specifically requests that that you share. ( be it music, video, software, textual documents )
( and that should tell you where my value system stands:) )
I have seen a duplicate from the same manufacturer, on totally different models ( even generation ) of boards. Really made for a head scratcher on the network. By then NICs were cheap so i just broke it and tossed the 2nd one in the trash. But it was still weird. ( i think it was SMC )
Besides, you can change the MAC on most current NICs, or just emulate a different one using a VM. ( this gets around serialized motherboards, or CPUs even )
Now, embedded serials in your TPM chip, that might be harder to get around.
Ummm everything is technically copyrighted. ( at least in the US )
The debate is if unauthorized sharing of content is wrong, not about copyrighted materials in general. ( which is a RIAA tactic to confuse the issue. )
Oh, and i don't agree with your statement that its 'evil'. it might ( or might not ) be legal, but its not 'evil'.
I don't see a problem with it since you *chose* to be there to learn, however, if it doesn't cause disruption to anyone else, who cares if you are ignoring the lesson and fail the test later?
*snip* The idea makes me a bit nervous, though, because it points to a model of computer use very, very similar to today's cellphone model. Cheap hardware, low upfront cost; but continual, tightly controlled, nickel and diming throughout the life of the product. Unfortunately, for all the progress they have achieved, cellphones are a really miserable lesson in why the openness of the PC world is so vital. Lets take that one step further, where the software companies ( and telcos ) subsidize these new 'data terminals' ( plus universal wireless connections ) to the point where they are cost free to the end user.
You just wander around and pick up a 'pad' and login to get your stuff that you subscribe to. No login, the pad is useless to you. Nothing is stored on the device, so they become more like a pack of sticky notes to be left laying around anywhere.
Perhaps even extend it to 'always on' pads, where their processing power is shared across the network. One huge processing cluster you tap into when needed from anywhere ( if you have a paid up subscription that is ).
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Don't screw with your customers packets.
Problem solved.
(dont get me started, my biggest annoyance with "linux" is that everybody follows their own "standard" for how to configure the system.) Thats why some of us use Fbsd. Its at least consistent. Nor do you have to worry about your 'favorite linux distro' going up in flames someday due to lack of interest.
I remember a story about 'printing' cells and making organs out of them.
Same idea as a good ole steak.
For Crossover on BSD. yea!
Now if we could just get VMWare for it..
The answer is to send it all to me.
Yuck. What a waste of resources.
Since they are basically dumb terminals with wifi and a LCD screen, i bet pretty cheap.
Since our end ISP's are throttling us now, i don't see things 'expanding' for most of us.
It still does more then what 95% of the public needs. Its cheap, and does the job.
Though i saw the latest version the other day and it looks pretty hokey with all the wizards..
Need i say more?
It would be nice if you were to use the accurate statement of 'sharing of copyrighted material with out permission'. Just saying 'copyrighted material' only marginalizes those that do allow it, and those that don't believe in IP as it is defined today. ( which is part of what the *AA's want to do, muddy the water and eliminate artists that don't play by the their rules )
:) )
I can point you to 1000's of example where the copyright holder specifically requests that that you share. ( be it music, video, software, textual documents )
( and that should tell you where my value system stands
I have seen a duplicate from the same manufacturer, on totally different models ( even generation ) of boards. Really made for a head scratcher on the network. By then NICs were cheap so i just broke it and tossed the 2nd one in the trash. But it was still weird. ( i think it was SMC )
Besides, you can change the MAC on most current NICs, or just emulate a different one using a VM. ( this gets around serialized motherboards, or CPUs even )
Now, embedded serials in your TPM chip, that might be harder to get around.
Is anyone else worried?
Ummm everything is technically copyrighted. ( at least in the US )
The debate is if unauthorized sharing of content is wrong, not about copyrighted materials in general. ( which is a RIAA tactic to confuse the issue. )
Oh, and i don't agree with your statement that its 'evil'. it might ( or might not ) be legal, but its not 'evil'.
Well, thats sort of elitist and hypocritical. Just another set of people to ignore as far as i'm concerned.
No Apple didn't use pre-orders for development, they used pre-orders to get the capital to go buy the parts. Development was already done.
I do remember the Altair add-on scam... that was pretty funny.
It isn't fraud if somewhere in the fine print they state the product isn't done, and you are 'pre ordering'...
I don't see a problem with it since you *chose* to be there to learn, however, if it doesn't cause disruption to anyone else, who cares if you are ignoring the lesson and fail the test later?
The idea makes me a bit nervous, though, because it points to a model of computer use very, very similar to today's cellphone model. Cheap hardware, low upfront cost; but continual, tightly controlled, nickel and diming throughout the life of the product. Unfortunately, for all the progress they have achieved, cellphones are a really miserable lesson in why the openness of the PC world is so vital. Lets take that one step further, where the software companies ( and telcos ) subsidize these new 'data terminals' ( plus universal wireless connections ) to the point where they are cost free to the end user.
You just wander around and pick up a 'pad' and login to get your stuff that you subscribe to. No login, the pad is useless to you. Nothing is stored on the device, so they become more like a pack of sticky notes to be left laying around anywhere.
Perhaps even extend it to 'always on' pads, where their processing power is shared across the network. One huge processing cluster you tap into when needed from anywhere ( if you have a paid up subscription that is ).
Soooo, they weren't so evil after-all.
It isn't much difference to what they ( and other companies, just to be fair ) do to enterprise customers already.
Is already owned by the company, so i dont see a big deal there.
But for you private citizens, its time to encrypt everything. Even 'can you get a case of beer on your way home' type of messages. Make it universal.
When privacy is gone, demcoracy has failed.
That's one way to get the common man to give up many of his rights willingly, 'its for the children'.
By the time he realizes it was a scam, its too late.
Idiot.
And don't forget Netbeans.. Oh, and SPARC..