Couldn't the same be said about Sony with the Playstation
No. The ps1 was not gigantic, and it was not widely hated. That's what the poster was saying, that the Xbox was hated and ridiculed. People were obsessing over the PS1 for a long time before it came out.
You can't 'remap' the physical locations of they buttons. The Yopy's keyboard has 6 columns and 6 rows. A qwerty keyboard has 3 rows and at least 9 columns. There is absolutly no way that you could 'remap' the keys to be qwerty.
That's not to say you couldn't do something more efficiant, but in no way could you emulate a full qwerty keyboard with just 6 rows!
Perhaps a half keyboard type layout, but not a full thing.
As a matter of principle, I'm not going to register,
Then "as a matter of principle" don't read the fucking story! You're too principled to fill out a web-form with some fake information, but you're willing to use a back door to get in and 'steal' it?
It takes 10 seconds to fill out that form, and you never have to do it again (if you've got cookies enabled)
Engine gets major saftey overhaul. Engine blowes the fuck up 3 minutes of active use afterwards. If there was a major overhaul of the engine, i'd bet on sabotage, to be honest.
fortunetly, from what I've heard it was just a spot-check yesterday.
From a fairness point of view, I don't think government funded security is a good idea becuase people who do not fly should not pay for the security of those who do.
Tell that to the families who lost people in the WTC...
let those citizens with concealed carry permits carry their defense with them onto any airplane....Or don't you trust "ordinary Americans?" And if you do not trust them, why?
Do you think Mohammed Atta couldn't have gotten a Concealed Carry permit before sept 11th? What about Tim McVeigh before OK city?
Or for a simpler question. Do you really think firing a gun with normal ammo inside an airplane won't cause it to depressurizes. Wont cause the fuel tanks to explode if you hit them?
Then why are we attacking Afghanistan, when most of the al-Quadians (that might be correct...) are Saudis?
BECAUSE THEY ARE IN AFGHANISTAN! I mean, wtf? Do you suppose we should attack their homeland? A nation that has thoroughly denounced Bin Laden and wants to execute him? That would be like Nuking Italy to get at the Mafia, like attacking Germany to stop neo-Nazism, Attacking Columbia to stop street dealers... oh wait... But you get the picture. Al-Queda members (the correct term) are in Afghanistan. They are supported by the Taliban which we claim as an enemy.
To be honest, I don't give two shits about Al-Queda or whatever, but I've wanted to see the Taliban go straight to hell since long before sept11th. And now that they are, I couldn't be happier.
They kill more people in public executions each year then we ever will.
Donald Rumsfeld said that we're unlikely to catch Bin Laden.
Bin Laden doesn't matter that much, what matters is that Al Queda is destroyed. Bin Laden will probably be killed, an if not his ability to function will be severely restricted and he will no longer have a friendly national government to protect him.
Many members of the Taliban are no longer in the Taliban and will never be caught
We are only at war with the Taliban in so much that they are Helping Bin Laden. Individual Taliban solders didn't have anything to do with the bombing of NYC. If they defect from the Taliban then they are no longer protecting Bin Laden. So who cares? What matters is that we destroy the ablity of Al Queda to harm the US. Not kill everyone we don't like.
Neither Bin Laden nor the Taliban are Afghani.
The Taliban are pashtoon(sp?) Pashtoon is a large ethnic group in Afghanistan. Many people in Afghanistan identify themselves by their ethnic group. The Taliban was mostly educated in Madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, but came originally in from Afghanistan.
We are bombing innocent civilians who happened to have the misfortune of being invaded by people who attacked the US as well
It is unfortunate that civilians are being killed, but so far there have only been forty eight confirmed dead civilians. The vast, vast majority of individuals killed in Afghanistan have been members of the Taliban.
Hundreds of thousands, even millions of Afghanis died in the years of strife. The civilian toll caused by our actions are far less then the 'status quo'. Remember, the Taliban kills people for shit like using a computer or adultery. If the taliban is overthrown, there is a possibility that the number of people killed could be made up for in a year or two.
Even if you define success as the destruction of terrorists, the numbers are against you: for every terrorist you kill, at least one new terrorist will be recruited.
That is a ridiculous argument. There is no factual evidence to base it on. If you killed every human on earth, there could be no more terrorists.
It is also possible, even probable that other actions could be taken that would not result in an equal number of people becoming terrorists.
I don't think that would work to well. Normally you need to get your eyes adjusted to low light in order to see a lot of meteors. I don't think staring at a laptop screen would help with that...
That's an interesting scenario, but I believe the content needs to be protected by the creator, not a user. So, if I perchance some MP3s, and someone hacked my account to grab them, That hack wouldn't be considered illegal under the DMCA.
File permissions are really more for privacy then they are for IP control. And remember, judges are supposed to go by the spirit of the law, not necessarily the letter. Just because you could theoretically rig something up to be a content control mechanism, doesn't mean that the courts would look on them as such.
And also, I don't believe that you can be convicted for circumventing your own technology, any more then you could be sued for violating the GPL on software you wrote (and own the copyright on).
How on earth could Linux security information be a violation of the DMCA? Linux is not a 'content protection system'. The DMCA dosn't say you can't hack, it only says you can't hack content protection.
Does anyone remember the original Power Glove for the NES? I'd guess you would.
Now, does anyone know what happened to it? Most people don't. But Mattel got sued for patent violation. Turns out they used the same technology in their $75 PowerGlove that the makers of the $10,000 DataGlove owned.
A lot of people have been wiring these things up for use with General PCs for regular use
There's a sourceforge project to write some Linux drivers, but they are in the 'planning' phase. There are some other drivers here (readme). Scroll down until you get to 'powerglove.tgz'
What you're saying about windows is like saying that Linux 2.4 and the origional UNIX are the same because they use the same 'archetecture' While various versions of windows are 'the same' because they do the same things. But they all use diffrent codebases, and the fact that windows is single-user focused does not make it crash prone which is what you were claming.
So I'll forgive your ignorance, but having worked with windows since 2.0 from a programming perspective, I do have a fscking clue
Gee a whole version number ahead of me! You're so smart, I'm so glad you've in your graciousness decided to forgive me. I Never would have been able to live with myself if you haddn't.
AMD has apparently found a way to reverse the third law of thermo-dynamics. Their CPUs literally 'consume heat' That must be why they've been beating Intel, and now they let it slip
Contrast that with Apple's recent resolution of their iTunes 2 bug. They released the new version (a *free* download) on a Friday night..... Later Saturday night, within 24 hours of the original version post, they had posted a fixed version.
Now, you're really comparing apples to oranges here. Apple's bug was huge, and didn't just affect the software you were installing. I mean, it isn't like iTunes wouldn't play MP3s on certain hardware, or even created coasters or something.
The iTunes installer DELETED ENTIRE PARTIONS! Apple deserves all the shit they get for it. I can't believe apple fanboys are falling all over themselves to laud apple for fixing the bug! I mean it literally rm -rf *'d them! It's a totally inexcusable (and actually quite easy to fix as well, just add two quote marks, apple websites had already figured it out before apple released their patch)
Its possible that this M$ bug is caused by a lot more then a few misplaced quote marks, and could be buried deep in the code, rather then in a simple shell script.
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Couldn't the same be said about Sony with the Playstation
No. The ps1 was not gigantic, and it was not widely hated. That's what the poster was saying, that the Xbox was hated and ridiculed. People were obsessing over the PS1 for a long time before it came out.
Metroid was released in one of the last years of SNES supermacy. Hardly a 'launch' title.
You can't 'remap' the physical locations of they buttons. The Yopy's keyboard has 6 columns and 6 rows. A qwerty keyboard has 3 rows and at least 9 columns. There is absolutly no way that you could 'remap' the keys to be qwerty.
That's not to say you couldn't do something more efficiant, but in no way could you emulate a full qwerty keyboard with just 6 rows!
Perhaps a half keyboard type layout, but not a full thing.
As a matter of principle, I'm not going to register,
Then "as a matter of principle" don't read the fucking story! You're too principled to fill out a web-form with some fake information, but you're willing to use a back door to get in and 'steal' it?
It takes 10 seconds to fill out that form, and you never have to do it again (if you've got cookies enabled)
And those tests weren't performed with 6 year old tubes, either. There are so many unknowns here it isn't funny.
What the fuck could happen to a stationary glass tube in pure watter in 6 years?
Engine gets major saftey overhaul. Engine blowes the fuck up 3 minutes of active use afterwards. If there was a major overhaul of the engine, i'd bet on sabotage, to be honest.
fortunetly, from what I've heard it was just a spot-check yesterday.
From a fairness point of view, I don't think government funded security is a good idea becuase people who do not fly should not pay for the security of those who do.
Tell that to the families who lost people in the WTC...
let those citizens with concealed carry permits carry their defense with them onto any airplane....Or don't you trust "ordinary Americans?" And if you do not trust them, why?
Do you think Mohammed Atta couldn't have gotten a Concealed Carry permit before sept 11th? What about Tim McVeigh before OK city?
Or for a simpler question. Do you really think firing a gun with normal ammo inside an airplane won't cause it to depressurizes. Wont cause the fuel tanks to explode if you hit them?
attack their spelling.
You're pointing out of my spelling error has thoroughly routed my argument. Congratulations, clearly you have won, and displayed a superior intellect.
Then why are we attacking Afghanistan, when most of the al-Quadians (that might be correct...) are Saudis?
BECAUSE THEY ARE IN AFGHANISTAN! I mean, wtf? Do you suppose we should attack their homeland? A nation that has thoroughly denounced Bin Laden and wants to execute him? That would be like Nuking Italy to get at the Mafia, like attacking Germany to stop neo-Nazism, Attacking Columbia to stop street dealers... oh wait... But you get the picture. Al-Queda members (the correct term) are in Afghanistan. They are supported by the Taliban which we claim as an enemy.
To be honest, I don't give two shits about Al-Queda or whatever, but I've wanted to see the Taliban go straight to hell since long before sept11th. And now that they are, I couldn't be happier.
They kill more people in public executions each year then we ever will.
and increasing the available pool of terrorists.
They already have a large enough pool.
Besides, they need a lot more then people to wage a war.
It's full of factual errors.
Donald Rumsfeld said that we're unlikely to catch Bin Laden.
Bin Laden doesn't matter that much, what matters is that Al Queda is destroyed. Bin Laden will probably be killed, an if not his ability to function will be severely restricted and he will no longer have a friendly national government to protect him.
Many members of the Taliban are no longer in the Taliban and will never be caught
We are only at war with the Taliban in so much that they are Helping Bin Laden. Individual Taliban solders didn't have anything to do with the bombing of NYC. If they defect from the Taliban then they are no longer protecting Bin Laden. So who cares? What matters is that we destroy the ablity of Al Queda to harm the US. Not kill everyone we don't like.
Neither Bin Laden nor the Taliban are Afghani.
The Taliban are pashtoon(sp?) Pashtoon is a large ethnic group in Afghanistan. Many people in Afghanistan identify themselves by their ethnic group. The Taliban was mostly educated in Madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, but came originally in from Afghanistan.
We are bombing innocent civilians who happened to have the misfortune of being invaded by people who attacked the US as well
It is unfortunate that civilians are being killed, but so far there have only been forty eight confirmed dead civilians. The vast, vast majority of individuals killed in Afghanistan have been members of the Taliban.
Hundreds of thousands, even millions of Afghanis died in the years of strife. The civilian toll caused by our actions are far less then the 'status quo'. Remember, the Taliban kills people for shit like using a computer or adultery. If the taliban is overthrown, there is a possibility that the number of people killed could be made up for in a year or two.
Even if you define success as the destruction of terrorists, the numbers are against you: for every terrorist you kill, at least one new terrorist will be recruited.
That is a ridiculous argument. There is no factual evidence to base it on. If you killed every human on earth, there could be no more terrorists.
It is also possible, even probable that other actions could be taken that would not result in an equal number of people becoming terrorists.
Well, if the engine fell out of the plane, it was probably an accident. Not for sure, of course, but i don't see how Hijackers could do that.
It might have been sabotage though...
I mean the creator of the system. As in, Alan Cox or one of the other Linux kernel coders would have to press charges
I don't think that would work to well. Normally you need to get your eyes adjusted to low light in order to see a lot of meteors. I don't think staring at a laptop screen would help with that...
That's an interesting scenario, but I believe the content needs to be protected by the creator, not a user. So, if I perchance some MP3s, and someone hacked my account to grab them, That hack wouldn't be considered illegal under the DMCA.
File permissions are really more for privacy then they are for IP control. And remember, judges are supposed to go by the spirit of the law, not necessarily the letter. Just because you could theoretically rig something up to be a content control mechanism, doesn't mean that the courts would look on them as such.
And also, I don't believe that you can be convicted for circumventing your own technology, any more then you could be sued for violating the GPL on software you wrote (and own the copyright on).
There needs to be a plaintiff after all.
How on earth could Linux security information be a violation of the DMCA? Linux is not a 'content protection system'. The DMCA dosn't say you can't hack, it only says you can't hack content protection.
The sourceforge project is in 'planning' stages. You can get real drivers here (readme)
Does anyone remember the original Power Glove for the NES? I'd guess you would.
Now, does anyone know what happened to it? Most people don't. But Mattel got sued for patent violation. Turns out they used the same technology in their $75 PowerGlove that the makers of the $10,000 DataGlove owned.
A lot of people have been wiring these things up for use with General PCs for regular use
There's a sourceforge project to write some Linux drivers, but they are in the 'planning' phase. There are some other drivers here (readme). Scroll down until you get to 'powerglove.tgz'
What you're saying about windows is like saying that Linux 2.4 and the origional UNIX are the same because they use the same 'archetecture' While various versions of windows are 'the same' because they do the same things. But they all use diffrent codebases, and the fact that windows is single-user focused does not make it crash prone which is what you were claming.
So I'll forgive your ignorance, but having worked with windows since 2.0 from a programming perspective, I do have a fscking clue
Gee a whole version number ahead of me! You're so smart, I'm so glad you've in your graciousness decided to forgive me. I Never would have been able to live with myself if you haddn't.
AMD has apparently found a way to reverse the third law of thermo-dynamics. Their CPUs literally 'consume heat' That must be why they've been beating Intel, and now they let it slip
Hrm, the third paragraph is an intresting one. "Instead of a (Microsoft-Intel) duopoly, we are going to have a holy trinity," he said.
:P
I guess we know where AMD stands with regards to Linux
So, ACs arn't worthy of having secure systems or something?
Contrast that with Apple's recent resolution of their iTunes 2 bug. They released the new version (a *free* download) on a Friday night. .... Later Saturday night, within 24 hours of the original version post, they had posted a fixed version.
Now, you're really comparing apples to oranges here. Apple's bug was huge, and didn't just affect the software you were installing. I mean, it isn't like iTunes wouldn't play MP3s on certain hardware, or even created coasters or something.
The iTunes installer DELETED ENTIRE PARTIONS! Apple deserves all the shit they get for it. I can't believe apple fanboys are falling all over themselves to laud apple for fixing the bug! I mean it literally rm -rf *'d them! It's a totally inexcusable (and actually quite easy to fix as well, just add two quote marks, apple websites had already figured it out before apple released their patch)
Its possible that this M$ bug is caused by a lot more then a few misplaced quote marks, and could be buried deep in the code, rather then in a simple shell script.