After imitating nearly every software feature, we now bring you our new $LINUX_DESKTOP_DISTRIBUTION. Now even with adapted release dates! It's the same. But it's only partially implemented! Get it now!!
"Because through running behind others, you reach excellence in leadership!"
Man, I love Linux. But that disease of total global imitation must stop right now!
You haven't even found the real cause! No, cost is no cause. It's a symptom. The real cause is what you get, when you trace it all the way back, until there is no way of tracing it back any further.
I bet $100, that you will come out at the actions of the WTO. (Notoriously known for keeping levels artificially out of balance. At the profit of those, who are the most powerful in the WTO. You know who.)
Of course, in the time between searching for that cause, you can look for options that circumvent the problems at the most widest level possible. Like making it possible for the people there, to create their own, completely independent broadband net from next to no money.
That's yet another reason, why the OLPC project was such a great idea (independent of its execution). One OLPC with a proper Linux installation, and fast long-distance WLAN/WiMax per town, could suffice. Count the people in all developing nations with high bandwidth costs, divide by 1000, and you have a rough estimate for the number of computers you'd need. Then do the rest, just like every other successful charity organization. Make one of those stupid charity festivals. They might be stupid, but they raise large sums of good money in short times. And with being the single most helpful charity plan in the whole wide world (because you don't give fish, but teach how to fish), you have the chances on your side.
Oh, and if you're an engineer: Come up with a really really cheap broadband tower and system, that can basically be built out of trash and by a non-expert. If you do that, you are good with all social urges to help others, for the rest of your life. ^^
We have entered an era where music is no longer an art for all to enjoy, but rather a form of private property that must be regulated and taxed like alcohol.
No, we have NOT! It always takes two sides, for a change in rules to happen. The side who tries to enforce the new rule, and the person accepting it. Which in this case means the criminal / crazy person, trying to enforce a not-from-this-world joke kind of rule, and the total utter retard who is actually buying into that shit.
Are you telling me, that you are that retard? I don't think so. But then stop talking is that way. You are stronger than that. You can't always cave in, when someone creates a new bullshit rule against you. Or else, what is your life and word worth really? If you let others play with you in that way, you're no better than cattle. Sorry. I don't think you're cattle or a retard. Just please stop acting like one. Even if it's unintended. You are not only hurting yourself with that. You are hurting us all, by empowering that sick new rule. Which means, we have to defend us against you too. And honestly, I don't want to do you any harm.
Oh boy. Civ 1 and 2 were still fun, because it was so simple to hack them. With nearly no programming knowledge (back then), we nearly completely changed the intro and texts in Civ 1. - We made the creation of the universe a story of a guy who tripped over a stone, hit his head, and in that delirium invented the universe(TM). - All the nations were several fringe groups, with no respect to any political correctness. Nazis, Jews, Niggas (what you would now call black trash), (what you would now call) White Trash, Turks (the number one foreigners in Germany), etc, etc. (No racism here, we treated all groups equally bad. ^^) - Diplomatics consisted of tricking others into destruction. Like when you had to choose whether to start a war with someone. The two choices given, were "Yes" and "Yes *". (No, "*" does not nessecairly imply that it meant "No") - Battles were really weird, as all properties were strongly changed (ability to move over water, number of units it could transport, ability to launch nukes, number of steps to walk, etc). - We had settlers that could move halfway across the map, over water, transport 16 units, and launch nukes in foreign cities. ^^ - Etc.
With Python being the scripting language in Civ 2, and all content being available, one could go totally crazy, and create alien worlds, on the level of Douglas Adams + Monthy Pythons + H.P. Lovecraft, etc.:)
From that, I learned, how important it is, to allow very free, but also simple modifications of your games. Yes, you can expect 13 year old children to play with Python and configuration files, when they have no prior experience with such things. We knew a bit about math, and the concepts of expressions and "lists of commands" were obvious to us. So we played with it. Like with Lego. In fact there is not much difference. Just don't expect that from girls. It's simply no fun for them. (Add social functions, to offer them more fun.)
Your argument only makes sense, when you meant to be funny. Otherwise it's proven bullshit. Especially since the change of brain architecture that happened to post-1950 brains.
Besides: Games are training for reality. But they are by definition different. Else they would be reality. And every mind understands that. Even the most primitive playing animals do understand the difference. Like two kittens or puppies, "fighting" with each other in a playful way.
If someone lost this ability, his intelligence in that context fell below the level of those primitive animals, and he must be declared ill, and healed. (Or expelled from the community if he is endangering it. His choice.)
That's what I meant. I deleted a sentence after previewing, and forgot to take the "both" out.
Oh, and of course, if someone kicks in the door while you are using the system, you have to rip out the card, lock the system down, and destroy the card, to be actually secure. (The full device-to-device encryption protects against RAM and cache attacks, if it's properly done (= the RAM and cache contents always being encrypted.)
...will she install that bootloader, when there in no BIOS, but an encrypted coreboot or EFI system, that is protected against meddling with, by a TPM (chip) under YOUR control? (Something possible with the Lenovo ThinkPads for example. In which case it is a good concept, as opposed to what the media companies planned to do with it.)
Hardware security against hardware meddling. Simple as that.
Now the next level would be physically modifying the motherboard. But even against that you can protect yourself. By using the TPM to check the trustworthiness of the components, encrypting bus communication, etc. (Which the TPM platform, if I'm correct, is doing already) and using a hardware dongle key, that is itself encrypted. That you both take with you. Perhaps only working with a class 3 USB dongle (included key reader, keypad and display).
I want to see you crack that system then. ^^
Of course, in reality, they will simply give you a good old-fashioned beating (or modern waterboarding), until you tell them the password and give them the key and class 3 device. Which will only help them, if you did not destroy the key dongle beforehand. (Or had it split, and one of the parts is out of reach.) But the beating will always be yours to take. ^^
Uuum... more and more? Can you grow hunt, kill, and butcher animals, grow crops, and build your own house?
We already live in such a society for a long time.
My uncle, a owner of a company, businessman and son of a farmer, is raising his own animals, fishing his own fish, growing his own crops, and let his company build his house for that reason. He even tells his children how to skin animals and take them apart. How many people could still do it? Despite being an all-natural thing to do for a (partial) carnivore.
Many wrongdoings don't make another wrongdoing right.
The wrongdoing here is, that it's another inner platform. Which is a failure in software design. (Notice especially the "poor" in "poor replica", and the pointless slowness of yet another layer. As opposed to good abstraction.)
In the Haskell community, we nowadays even go in the opposite direction. Allowing to automatically transform a multi-layer functionality into one single efficient function (aka. "fusion").
Basically, the browser is more like a virtual machine nowadays. So why not use an actual virtual machine with full desktop integration, while retaining security?
You are so wrong, you make people feel like you're right again.
You are the only one, assuming your assumptions. Everybody else compares the iPhone to simple run-off-the-mill smartphones from Nokia, Samsung, etc. And it simply can't hold a candle to any of them. That's a cold hard fact. Maybe you have only seen, what companies like Verizon offer you. But that is not, what you can actually buy in countries with working markets. Look at Germany. Look at Japan, dammit! Our phones are technical MONSTERS with functions that the iPhone can't even begin to dream of. PLUS total freedom. Hell, Nokia's N900 smartphone even offers you Linux with full root access right from the factory! No unlocking, to tricks, nothing. And on top of all the normal features.
The simplest way to know that you have never used a recent smartphone: You think the iPhone is in any one aspect better than other smartphones.
Apple is trying to play catch-up. That's all. The rest is pure and raw hype and a whole load of monopolism from US phone companies.
I am a game designer, and I don't see any point at all to game "publishers". Everybody can rent a server for a couple of dollars, and offer his game there. People can pay with paypal. It's also really easy to offer other payment options (e.g. with web shops). Then you can pay a marketing company to do advertisements for you. Put videos on YouTube, make a nice game site, maybe some local real-world ads. And a ton of viral marketing.
What more do you need nowadays?
Sure, you can always also put it in web shops, like Amazon, eBay, Steam, etc. But only as a second thought, because it has a big price attached to it most of the time, and you have to check its profitability first. That's why I never ever go to actual game "publishers". With them, you are very unlikely to be profitable at all. Because they take giant profit margins of the actual retail price. And on top of that complete insult, they also want and assume all kinds of rights, and may actually damage your business. (e.g. Don't be surprised it they loudly think about suing you for still selling the game yourself on other channels!!)
So I call the title of TFA "game publisher FUD". Plain and simple. If you so much as think about contacting a game publisher, you already have done your first error. Don't make the second one.
With "professors" in the US honestly supporting teaching bible stories in biology, I don't think that means very much anymore... Titles are just titles. You can still be a total retard.
So you actually wished for the retards of the world to have more power? Because that's exactly what they have now. Because they now have more money. Wait for them spending it on the things you hate the most. Making TV, politics, and the whole country... just a little bit worse.
Oh thank you so very much! Because I don't have to live in your country. So now I will have an advantage over all of your country. Including you.
But hmmm... I could do even better... Hey, I have a REALLY nice spam filtering system on my servers. With graylisting, spamasassin, amavis, 3 anti-spam networks, SPF, etc. I offer it at the price of only one soul! How's that? The butt-rapings are only daily! Buy now!:P
After all, the retards of the world must be good for something. ^^
Look at it like this: The service that they offered, was natural selection. If you're too dumb to get such a primitive scam, you will have less money. Which is good for the rest of us, who still have their money. Because we will then have an advantage. Something that it all too rare, in this world of anti-selection, where the worst are the most supported.
I always looked at them doing me a free service.:) If I sell my own products and services to Nigeria, the money gets back here, and no nationwide harm is caused.
This whole movement of anti-selection is really sad. It's the one thing, prior to wars, criminality, pandemics, meteors falling from the sky, and other global catastrophes, that I think has the biggest chance of destroying all of humanity.
No. Because if they were any serious, they would be consistent in their meaning anyway, and, as it is standard in the storage industry, and as a SI unit, use TiB, if they meant TiB. And else TB. Period. No need to discuss it. Because that is all and everything.
that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data
What's the point of saying "1 trillion"? Do you honestly expect anyone on this site to not know what a terabyte is? Or what is that good for? Because, you know how the world works: When you lower your standards, and allow dumber people to use it... Then dumber people you shall have! But not just dumber people. A Gaussian curve of dumber people. Including some, that don't even get *that*. So if you then continue to sustain that endless cycle, you will soon find out, that only retards you will have left.
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After imitating nearly every software feature, we now bring you our new $LINUX_DESKTOP_DISTRIBUTION. Now even with adapted release dates! It's the same. But it's only partially implemented! Get it now!!
"Because through running behind others, you reach excellence in leadership!"
Man, I love Linux. But that disease of total global imitation must stop right now!
You haven't even found the real cause! No, cost is no cause. It's a symptom. The real cause is what you get, when you trace it all the way back, until there is no way of tracing it back any further.
I bet $100, that you will come out at the actions of the WTO. (Notoriously known for keeping levels artificially out of balance. At the profit of those, who are the most powerful in the WTO. You know who.)
Of course, in the time between searching for that cause, you can look for options that circumvent the problems at the most widest level possible. Like making it possible for the people there, to create their own, completely independent broadband net from next to no money.
That's yet another reason, why the OLPC project was such a great idea (independent of its execution). One OLPC with a proper Linux installation, and fast long-distance WLAN/WiMax per town, could suffice. Count the people in all developing nations with high bandwidth costs, divide by 1000, and you have a rough estimate for the number of computers you'd need. Then do the rest, just like every other successful charity organization. Make one of those stupid charity festivals. They might be stupid, but they raise large sums of good money in short times. And with being the single most helpful charity plan in the whole wide world (because you don't give fish, but teach how to fish), you have the chances on your side.
Oh, and if you're an engineer: Come up with a really really cheap broadband tower and system, that can basically be built out of trash and by a non-expert. If you do that, you are good with all social urges to help others, for the rest of your life. ^^
We have entered an era where music is no longer an art for all to enjoy, but rather a form of private property that must be regulated and taxed like alcohol.
No, we have NOT! It always takes two sides, for a change in rules to happen. The side who tries to enforce the new rule, and the person accepting it.
Which in this case means the criminal / crazy person, trying to enforce a not-from-this-world joke kind of rule, and the total utter retard who is actually buying into that shit.
Are you telling me, that you are that retard? I don't think so.
But then stop talking is that way. You are stronger than that. You can't always cave in, when someone creates a new bullshit rule against you. Or else, what is your life and word worth really?
If you let others play with you in that way, you're no better than cattle. Sorry. I don't think you're cattle or a retard. Just please stop acting like one. Even if it's unintended. You are not only hurting yourself with that. You are hurting us all, by empowering that sick new rule. Which means, we have to defend us against you too. And honestly, I don't want to do you any harm.
Oh boy. Civ 1 and 2 were still fun, because it was so simple to hack them. With nearly no programming knowledge (back then), we nearly completely changed the intro and texts in Civ 1.
- We made the creation of the universe a story of a guy who tripped over a stone, hit his head, and in that delirium invented the universe(TM).
- All the nations were several fringe groups, with no respect to any political correctness. Nazis, Jews, Niggas (what you would now call black trash), (what you would now call) White Trash, Turks (the number one foreigners in Germany), etc, etc. (No racism here, we treated all groups equally bad. ^^)
- Diplomatics consisted of tricking others into destruction. Like when you had to choose whether to start a war with someone. The two choices given, were "Yes" and "Yes *". (No, "*" does not nessecairly imply that it meant "No")
- Battles were really weird, as all properties were strongly changed (ability to move over water, number of units it could transport, ability to launch nukes, number of steps to walk, etc).
- We had settlers that could move halfway across the map, over water, transport 16 units, and launch nukes in foreign cities. ^^
- Etc.
With Python being the scripting language in Civ 2, and all content being available, one could go totally crazy, and create alien worlds, on the level of Douglas Adams + Monthy Pythons + H.P. Lovecraft, etc. :)
From that, I learned, how important it is, to allow very free, but also simple modifications of your games. Yes, you can expect 13 year old children to play with Python and configuration files, when they have no prior experience with such things. We knew a bit about math, and the concepts of expressions and "lists of commands" were obvious to us. So we played with it. Like with Lego. In fact there is not much difference. Just don't expect that from girls. It's simply no fun for them. (Add social functions, to offer them more fun.)
Your argument only makes sense, when you meant to be funny. Otherwise it's proven bullshit. Especially since the change of brain architecture that happened to post-1950 brains.
Besides: Games are training for reality. But they are by definition different. Else they would be reality. And every mind understands that. Even the most primitive playing animals do understand the difference. Like two kittens or puppies, "fighting" with each other in a playful way.
If someone lost this ability, his intelligence in that context fell below the level of those primitive animals, and he must be declared ill, and healed. (Or expelled from the community if he is endangering it. His choice.)
And they are just as wrong.
But retards will always be retards. The only problem is: If you start listening to them, they infect you. It's basically a mind virus.
The same person who decides what is "harming": The one with the biggest pockets.
News at 11.
Yeah right...!
More like "getting paid for nudging sentences in the 'right direction'" 'errors'.
That you [...] take with you.
That's what I meant. I deleted a sentence after previewing, and forgot to take the "both" out.
Oh, and of course, if someone kicks in the door while you are using the system, you have to rip out the card, lock the system down, and destroy the card, to be actually secure. (The full device-to-device encryption protects against RAM and cache attacks, if it's properly done (= the RAM and cache contents always being encrypted.)
...will she install that bootloader, when there in no BIOS, but an encrypted coreboot or EFI system, that is protected against meddling with, by a TPM (chip) under YOUR control? (Something possible with the Lenovo ThinkPads for example. In which case it is a good concept, as opposed to what the media companies planned to do with it.)
Hardware security against hardware meddling. Simple as that.
Now the next level would be physically modifying the motherboard. But even against that you can protect yourself. By using the TPM to check the trustworthiness of the components, encrypting bus communication, etc. (Which the TPM platform, if I'm correct, is doing already) and using a hardware dongle key, that is itself encrypted. That you both take with you. Perhaps only working with a class 3 USB dongle (included key reader, keypad and display).
I want to see you crack that system then. ^^
Of course, in reality, they will simply give you a good old-fashioned beating (or modern waterboarding), until you tell them the password and give them the key and class 3 device.
Which will only help them, if you did not destroy the key dongle beforehand. (Or had it split, and one of the parts is out of reach.) But the beating will always be yours to take. ^^
If you have enough time... sure: http://xkcd.com/505/
Uuum... more and more? Can you grow hunt, kill, and butcher animals, grow crops, and build your own house?
We already live in such a society for a long time.
My uncle, a owner of a company, businessman and son of a farmer, is raising his own animals, fishing his own fish, growing his own crops, and let his company build his house for that reason. He even tells his children how to skin animals and take them apart. How many people could still do it? Despite being an all-natural thing to do for a (partial) carnivore.
Many wrongdoings don't make another wrongdoing right.
The wrongdoing here is, that it's another inner platform. Which is a failure in software design. (Notice especially the "poor" in "poor replica", and the pointless slowness of yet another layer. As opposed to good abstraction.)
In the Haskell community, we nowadays even go in the opposite direction. Allowing to automatically transform a multi-layer functionality into one single efficient function (aka. "fusion").
Basically, the browser is more like a virtual machine nowadays. So why not use an actual virtual machine with full desktop integration, while retaining security?
Raindrop, an experiment with Open Messaging on the Open Web.
Shouldn't that be "OpenSoft Open Raindrop, an open experiment with open Open Messaging on the open Open Web of openness."?
P.S.: Not a critique against openness.
You are so wrong, you make people feel like you're right again.
You are the only one, assuming your assumptions. Everybody else compares the iPhone to simple run-off-the-mill smartphones from Nokia, Samsung, etc. And it simply can't hold a candle to any of them. That's a cold hard fact. Maybe you have only seen, what companies like Verizon offer you. But that is not, what you can actually buy in countries with working markets. Look at Germany. Look at Japan, dammit! Our phones are technical MONSTERS with functions that the iPhone can't even begin to dream of. PLUS total freedom. Hell, Nokia's N900 smartphone even offers you Linux with full root access right from the factory! No unlocking, to tricks, nothing. And on top of all the normal features.
The simplest way to know that you have never used a recent smartphone: You think the iPhone is in any one aspect better than other smartphones.
Apple is trying to play catch-up. That's all. The rest is pure and raw hype and a whole load of monopolism from US phone companies.
I am a game designer, and I don't see any point at all to game "publishers". Everybody can rent a server for a couple of dollars, and offer his game there. People can pay with paypal. It's also really easy to offer other payment options (e.g. with web shops). Then you can pay a marketing company to do advertisements for you. Put videos on YouTube, make a nice game site, maybe some local real-world ads. And a ton of viral marketing.
What more do you need nowadays?
Sure, you can always also put it in web shops, like Amazon, eBay, Steam, etc. But only as a second thought, because it has a big price attached to it most of the time, and you have to check its profitability first.
That's why I never ever go to actual game "publishers". With them, you are very unlikely to be profitable at all. Because they take giant profit margins of the actual retail price. And on top of that complete insult, they also want and assume all kinds of rights, and may actually damage your business. (e.g. Don't be surprised it they loudly think about suing you for still selling the game yourself on other channels!!)
So I call the title of TFA "game publisher FUD". Plain and simple.
If you so much as think about contacting a game publisher, you already have done your first error. Don't make the second one.
In fact they did care. As this is/was the third largest industry. And so is/was likely, to feed him and his children too.
I think you would fit in well with this group: http://www.419eater.com/ ^^
With "professors" in the US honestly supporting teaching bible stories in biology, I don't think that means very much anymore... Titles are just titles. You can still be a total retard.
So you actually wished for the retards of the world to have more power? Because that's exactly what they have now. Because they now have more money.
Wait for them spending it on the things you hate the most. Making TV, politics, and the whole country... just a little bit worse.
Oh thank you so very much!
Because I don't have to live in your country. So now I will have an advantage over all of your country. Including you.
But hmmm... I could do even better... Hey, I have a REALLY nice spam filtering system on my servers. With graylisting, spamasassin, amavis, 3 anti-spam networks, SPF, etc. I offer it at the price of only one soul! How's that? The butt-rapings are only daily! Buy now! :P
Oh boy are you in for a surprise: It's Nigeria's third most profitable industry!!
I already have one hundred trillions. But thank you. Here's your tip.
After all, the retards of the world must be good for something. ^^
Look at it like this: The service that they offered, was natural selection. If you're too dumb to get such a primitive scam, you will have less money. Which is good for the rest of us, who still have their money. Because we will then have an advantage. Something that it all too rare, in this world of anti-selection, where the worst are the most supported.
I always looked at them doing me a free service. :) If I sell my own products and services to Nigeria, the money gets back here, and no nationwide harm is caused.
This whole movement of anti-selection is really sad. It's the one thing, prior to wars, criminality, pandemics, meteors falling from the sky, and other global catastrophes, that I think has the biggest chance of destroying all of humanity.
No. Because if they were any serious, they would be consistent in their meaning anyway, and, as it is standard in the storage industry, and as a SI unit, use TiB, if they meant TiB. And else TB. Period. No need to discuss it. Because that is all and everything.
that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data
What's the point of saying "1 trillion"? Do you honestly expect anyone on this site to not know what a terabyte is? Or what is that good for?
Because, you know how the world works: When you lower your standards, and allow dumber people to use it... Then dumber people you shall have!
But not just dumber people. A Gaussian curve of dumber people. Including some, that don't even get *that*.
So if you then continue to sustain that endless cycle, you will soon find out, that only retards you will have left.