Nope, anyone using PC to refer to anything other than Personal Computer are simply removing meaning from the term. You're right that it's fairly popular to use it to refer to Windows systems, but it's still abuse of the term. IMO, a few posts are worth it to defend the true meaning.
If you want to refer to x86, say 'x86'. If Windows, say 'Windows', 'Windoze', or 'crappy OS'.
I decided to go botnet-breaking a few months ago (when someone "invited" my webserver)-- no need to sniff stuff.
Simply edit/clean the botnet script and run it. Take note of the hostnames used by all the other bots in the channel and begin scanning them for contact info. Usually SMTP or such will give a hostname and from there you just contact the admin of it.
All humans have a natural right to modify and share information. It doesn't matter who originally thought of the information or where they obtained it.
Copyright violates these natural rights and is an unjust law.
Death penalty is only appropriate when it is impossible to protect society from a criminal. This is never the case with any form of cracking-- simply don't give them access to a computer and they cannot repeat their crime. A lifelong prison sentence would be the most that would be a legit punishment.
Skype is proprietary and doesn't even use standard VoIP protocols. Google would be better off taking Psi or some other standards-compliant IM program and adding VoIP support (SIP or IAX2) from scratch.
Some features AVI cannot handle:
- Variable audio bitrate (yes, there are hacks, but the standard does not support them)
- Variable frame rate
- Subtitle streams
As long as you can legally exercise your natural rights to modify and redistribute the software, it is Free. Note that being Free does not require you being able to force your modifications on someone else.
You mean lack of a cheaper alternative for PPC hardware? Or the EULA? That's about all there was stopping people from running it on (non-existent) 'commodity' PPC hardware, IIRC.
There have been cases where my wife's 900 MHz G3 has outperformed my Athlon64 3200+ (2.2 GHz)... Now, obviously such cases are the minority, but it would certainly suggest a 2.2 GHz G5 would blow the Athlon64 away.
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Nope, anyone using PC to refer to anything other than Personal Computer are simply removing meaning from the term. You're right that it's fairly popular to use it to refer to Windows systems, but it's still abuse of the term. IMO, a few posts are worth it to defend the true meaning.
If you want to refer to x86, say 'x86'. If Windows, say 'Windows', 'Windoze', or 'crappy OS'.
I decided to go botnet-breaking a few months ago (when someone "invited" my webserver)-- no need to sniff stuff. Simply edit/clean the botnet script and run it. Take note of the hostnames used by all the other bots in the channel and begin scanning them for contact info. Usually SMTP or such will give a hostname and from there you just contact the admin of it.
Surely you know that it is IBM-compatible and not PC-compatible?
PC is not a platform, it is a use. Macs can be used as a Personal Computer quite easily, and many have been for years.
Sure you can, just like always: If your Mac is primarily for personal use, it's a PC.
All humans have a natural right to modify and share information. It doesn't matter who originally thought of the information or where they obtained it.
Copyright violates these natural rights and is an unjust law.
Couldn't you just use standard VGA drivers?
There's a difference between exercising your rights to share and modify information and plagiarism+denying others those rights.
Death penalty is only appropriate when it is impossible to protect society from a criminal. This is never the case with any form of cracking-- simply don't give them access to a computer and they cannot repeat their crime.
A lifelong prison sentence would be the most that would be a legit punishment.
Countries do not have any rights. Countries have powers granted to them by the citizens.
True, so you should also use uncompressed video as the source in a comparison.
Exercising your natural rights is not a crime.
Skype is proprietary and doesn't even use standard VoIP protocols. Google would be better off taking Psi or some other standards-compliant IM program and adding VoIP support (SIP or IAX2) from scratch.
Some features AVI cannot handle: - Variable audio bitrate (yes, there are hacks, but the standard does not support them) - Variable frame rate - Subtitle streams
Um... Even DivX is higher quality than MPEG-2... Try using the same bitrates in your comparisons sometime.
Compromising with evil is never an option.
The only Free Software Movement, which does not include everyone involved with FOSS.
FOSS != freeware
Apple can sell whatever they want so long as it is licensed Freely. Until then, they are just another enemy.
Except that the Free Software Movement is the one that matters.
As long as you can legally exercise your natural rights to modify and redistribute the software, it is Free. Note that being Free does not require you being able to force your modifications on someone else.
You mean lack of a cheaper alternative for PPC hardware? Or the EULA? That's about all there was stopping people from running it on (non-existent) 'commodity' PPC hardware, IIRC.
There have been cases where my wife's 900 MHz G3 has outperformed my Athlon64 3200+ (2.2 GHz)... Now, obviously such cases are the minority, but it would certainly suggest a 2.2 GHz G5 would blow the Athlon64 away.
Actually, PPC is what made Apple worth buying. Who cares about Apple if they're going to use the same crappy CPUs everyone else uses?
Dunno... it gets pretty cold up north...
I didn't say either scenario is easy, just that rebelling may be easier than changing.