We were able to disable much of the Iraqi air defense with a virus placed on their systems. And that's just the recent war. Makes you wonder about the other stories you hear about why Windows is soo riddled with bugs.
Let's be clear - it's not removed from Ubuntu, it's removed from the default install.
It's still a click away in the package manager.
Sounds sensible to me. I'd imagine the vast majority of Ubuntu users are unlikely to use the gimp.
As long as I can apt-get install gimp then I'm ok with this. I could always download source and compile but why? apt-get is the reason WHY I'm using Ubuntu in the first place. Yeah I know... why not debian?
When selecting my Windows XP replacement, I wanted to go with the number one desktop Linux distro according to the industry. For me that's Ubuntu:D
Pirates exist because they can get the content for free. Even if content producers agreed on reasonable terms, people would still take the content for free. It's not a social statement. That it is a social statement is an argument made to justify the actions taken, not the other way around.
That doesn't mean that content distributors aren't also to blame. If they had their way, your computer wouldn't be computer. It would be a kiosk for vending their goods. In fact, it wouldn't even be that. It would just have a card swipe on the front, and you'd mindlessly swipe your card. Notice I said distributors, since they're really the ones driving this show. The actual producers have little to do with it.
That's also not to say that they charge fairly, or that they distribute in a desirable fashion. That said, they don't really have any motivation to do so.
Wait until they get this. Their next move is a finance charge for NOT swiping your card:/
Over the last year I've changed my diet to reduce things like sugar, carbs and high fructose corn syrup. I've increased my exercise a little and have lost 40 pounds over the last year. I could have lost more but I felt it may not have been healthy to do so.
A friend did the same thing and increased his exercise a LOT more than I did. Also followed my low carb diet and lost 40 pounds in just 3 months!
Exercise is only part of the change needed. You need to adjust what you are eating. And get at least 8.5 hours sleep daily. Without all these things, you are just dieting without the benefits.
At least that's what I've seen in my life and works for me. This could of course be bad for other's but at least I found what works for me.
In another year I expect to have my weight down another 20 pounds and bulked up a little bit more in muscle mass.
Perhaps you're forgetting the fundamental law of free markets: The customer is always right. If the bulk of customers want X and you offer Y, then don't be surprised when some other vendor comes along offering X and winds up with all the customers. As the vendor, you either offer what the customer wants, at the price they want it, or you go out of business.
Ahh but then comes in Mr. Governator and Mr. Monopoly. It's good to make sure the competition sucks and you have all the toys.
Free Market suffers or fails. And we wonder why things are soo screwed up.
She has no knowledge of torrents or P2P software yet she realizes the problem of "what happens when my digital music collection gets wiped by hardware failure" and thus refuses to buy into it. Saying that these limits only affect those that know how get around them is false. Anyone who has been subjected to an inconvenience due to DRM will have a negative view of how things work regardless of it they are a pirate or not. They just might not know about the potential (illegal) solutions or they may be unwilling to break the law and also unwilling to buy music (my mother).
Even though it's less convenient, I buy the disks from second hand stores and second hand online stores. DRM is a pain and I'd rather own the physical media which is stored safely away from kids and me:-)
It would be nice to be able to purchase MP3's online and if my hardware goes crazy then I can reload them again from the online services. But since they make it more difficult than I want to put up with, I just buy disks even if I have to wait a few weeks for the music.
The best place to look is France. They regulated the market so that those who owned the lines had to allow other people to use them at a fixed rate. This lead to many new startups that offered service on those lines, fueling innovation and lowering costs. Regulation is sometimes needed to break monopolies.
J
Except here we seem to allow our monopolies to continue unabated. Microsoft is a great example of this. Concast is another. Two giant companies that continue to feed regulation to our government, and the government keeps allowing it!
What does landmass have to do with anything? I don't need a fiber connection to every square mile of the country, I want it in the middle of a f***ing city.
It's a classic excuse used to justify the horrors of you asking the telco's to perform as promised or pay the money back.
They should be sued for $200 BILLION for fraud and contractual violations.
From what I've read, the $200 Billion is a low ball estimate of the fraud they have committed. They were supposed to provide 45 meg pipes to the home over fiber. I'm still struggling with 1.5 meg DSL unless I want to go with Concast. And that will happen shortly after the sun blows up.
I don't predict a good outcome from this. Comcast will be flooded with incoming tech support calls from customers, half panicked about a virus they don't have and the other half angrily denying a virus they do have. And Comcast will discover that the cost of all those calls far outweighs any benefits they receive from the new system.
They don't care. They already have a flood of calls and don't mind. Their CSR bots are waiting to take your call now:-)
A co-worker of mine recently had his service terminated because he had exceeded 1TB of downloading in a month. I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but that seems like a really high cap. Ultimately, he called them and the solution was to upgrade to a business class connection. It ended up costing him an additional $20 (iirc) a month, but he now has a higher upstream and a static IP. He was cool with that as it seems this works out better for him anyway, but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.
Not likely since they had announced (october 2008) that their monthly cap was 250 gigs a month. If it was recently then there was a serious problem where he was breaking their TOS for nearly a year.
Now if it was turtle screensavers, the concast tech wouldn't dare remove them from the computer. After all, the slowskies are very dear to concast corp;-)
As long as they don't act upon this information I don't see any issue with it. I bet most run-of-the-mill users don't know they have the infection and could act upon it if they knew.
Sounds like a win-win for both Comcast and their customers if it's informational only.
Unfortunately past experience has shown us that concast rarely does anything that's informational only. They have demonstrated a will to act rashly and if there is a backlash they tend to change their stance, after claiming they did nothing wrong of course:D
they "claim" they called us a month before and told us to stop using it soo much. We thought it was a joke since we purchased "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee". So we called up their customer service and contacted them online as well.
Both CSR's said it must have been a joke or something as they didn't know of any bandwidth limits with their internet service.
so to this day we don't use Concast for anything. Dish is far cheaper than what we were paying for TV anyway and our internet is also cheaper. Our ISP is a local company with real people who know what the hell they are talking about when you call.
Concast is a joke and I refuse to support their efforts to expand their monopoly. I also often write to the powers that be letting them know the laws are broken as this shouldn't be legal.
The FCC and FTC are toothless. Look at this net neutrality stuff going on today. Basically you see them fighting companies like Concast to protect the people from their abusive monopolies.
Very sad since we depend on the internet for so much these days and yet we can't depend on being free to use the service as we see fit (within the limits of the law of course).
I know the feeling. To this day I won't go back to Concast. They are unethical at best IMO.
At times I've teased my kids asking if they wanted faster internet and for that we'd need to go back to Concast. They all scream heck no!
Concast screwed them over as well as me and my wife when they terminated our internet. Seems they were working on research papers for their science fairs at the time. Of course it didn't hurt to introduce them to the local library but the point is Concast needs to focus on fixing their screwed up customer service before they should branch out.
Exactly. There is no competition. You can go with a crappy company that treats you like a number and gives you faster than the other guys internet or you can go with another company that doesn't understand why you are complaining because they are the competition. Enjoy your slower speeds or go with the crappy company and don't forget to take a number.
Anyway to bring this back on topic, to the SCII team: is there any possibility of WINE support in the next three chapters of SCII in order to run the games on alternative platforms such as LInux/BSD etc?
Do you mean a bundled version of WINE that would theoretically be included with SCII? Most of us who are familiar with WINE on Linux are willing to do the little footwork necessary to get games running on our own installs of WINE, and I'm sure there will be plenty of people out there patching WINE so that SCII works out-of-the-box as much as possible.
From that standpoint, Blizzard doesn't have much incentive to do it themselves.
Still it's a good question. I'm curious if they would consider the growing linux population and add a linux client to the game? After all, considering the netbook market is pushing linux even further into the limelight. Why not?
One can infer roughly how Comcast really views their customers by observing their ads (i.e. the customer IS the turtle: slow, ignorant, stupid and docile).
Don't forget the ones were the customers are drugged zombies "singing" monotone songs about how great Comcast is.
I think they call those people employees these days;-)
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Exactly. It's already too easy so why bother???
http://www.desert-storm.com/War/
We were able to disable much of the Iraqi air defense with a virus placed on their systems. And that's just the recent war. Makes you wonder about the other stories you hear about why Windows is soo riddled with bugs.
I'm guessing they have more experience finding bugs than any other company on the planet. Comes from years of experience with writing bad code ;-)
Let's be clear - it's not removed from Ubuntu, it's removed from the default install.
It's still a click away in the package manager.
Sounds sensible to me. I'd imagine the vast majority of Ubuntu users are unlikely to use the gimp.
As long as I can apt-get install gimp then I'm ok with this. I could always download source and compile but why? apt-get is the reason WHY I'm using Ubuntu in the first place. Yeah I know... why not debian?
When selecting my Windows XP replacement, I wanted to go with the number one desktop Linux distro according to the industry. For me that's Ubuntu :D
Pirates exist because they can get the content for free. Even if content producers agreed on reasonable terms, people would still take the content for free. It's not a social statement. That it is a social statement is an argument made to justify the actions taken, not the other way around.
That doesn't mean that content distributors aren't also to blame. If they had their way, your computer wouldn't be computer. It would be a kiosk for vending their goods. In fact, it wouldn't even be that. It would just have a card swipe on the front, and you'd mindlessly swipe your card. Notice I said distributors, since they're really the ones driving this show. The actual producers have little to do with it.
That's also not to say that they charge fairly, or that they distribute in a desirable fashion. That said, they don't really have any motivation to do so.
Wait until they get this. Their next move is a finance charge for NOT swiping your card :/
Yeah what did your family ever do for you?
Perhaps provide him with guidance on what they knew he should and shouldn't do.
Just like now that he's all grown up and stuff provided them with guidance on what they should and shouldn't do.
Over the last year I've changed my diet to reduce things like sugar, carbs and high fructose corn syrup. I've increased my exercise a little and have lost 40 pounds over the last year. I could have lost more but I felt it may not have been healthy to do so.
A friend did the same thing and increased his exercise a LOT more than I did. Also followed my low carb diet and lost 40 pounds in just 3 months!
Exercise is only part of the change needed. You need to adjust what you are eating. And get at least 8.5 hours sleep daily. Without all these things, you are just dieting without the benefits.
At least that's what I've seen in my life and works for me. This could of course be bad for other's but at least I found what works for me.
In another year I expect to have my weight down another 20 pounds and bulked up a little bit more in muscle mass.
Perhaps you're forgetting the fundamental law of free markets: The customer is always right. If the bulk of customers want X and you offer Y, then don't be surprised when some other vendor comes along offering X and winds up with all the customers. As the vendor, you either offer what the customer wants, at the price they want it, or you go out of business.
Ahh but then comes in Mr. Governator and Mr. Monopoly. It's good to make sure the competition sucks and you have all the toys.
Free Market suffers or fails. And we wonder why things are soo screwed up.
And don't forget.
It's Concastic!!!
She has no knowledge of torrents or P2P software yet she realizes the problem of "what happens when my digital music collection gets wiped by hardware failure" and thus refuses to buy into it. Saying that these limits only affect those that know how get around them is false. Anyone who has been subjected to an inconvenience due to DRM will have a negative view of how things work regardless of it they are a pirate or not. They just might not know about the potential (illegal) solutions or they may be unwilling to break the law and also unwilling to buy music (my mother).
Even though it's less convenient, I buy the disks from second hand stores and second hand online stores. DRM is a pain and I'd rather own the physical media which is stored safely away from kids and me :-)
It would be nice to be able to purchase MP3's online and if my hardware goes crazy then I can reload them again from the online services. But since they make it more difficult than I want to put up with, I just buy disks even if I have to wait a few weeks for the music.
Pity. Welcome to the 21st century.
The best place to look is France. They regulated the market so that those who owned the lines had to allow other people to use them at a fixed rate. This lead to many new startups that offered service on those lines, fueling innovation and lowering costs. Regulation is sometimes needed to break monopolies.
J
Except here we seem to allow our monopolies to continue unabated. Microsoft is a great example of this. Concast is another. Two giant companies that continue to feed regulation to our government, and the government keeps allowing it!
What does landmass have to do with anything? I don't need a fiber connection to every square mile of the country, I want it in the middle of a f***ing city.
It's a classic excuse used to justify the horrors of you asking the telco's to perform as promised or pay the money back.
They should be sued for $200 BILLION for fraud and contractual violations.
From what I've read, the $200 Billion is a low ball estimate of the fraud they have committed. They were supposed to provide 45 meg pipes to the home over fiber. I'm still struggling with 1.5 meg DSL unless I want to go with Concast. And that will happen shortly after the sun blows up.
This time, presidential services made 400 unauthorized copies of a DVD when only 50 had been made by the publisher.
He will just make it retroactively legal. It's ok. Nothing to see here. Move along now...
> Comcast is launching a trial of a service that will warn customers via a
> browser pop-up...
And just how are they going to arrange for this pop-up to pop-up?
they haven't announced it yet but there is this new Concast trojan you run ..... ;-)
I don't predict a good outcome from this. Comcast will be flooded with incoming tech support calls from customers, half panicked about a virus they don't have and the other half angrily denying a virus they do have. And Comcast will discover that the cost of all those calls far outweighs any benefits they receive from the new system.
They don't care. They already have a flood of calls and don't mind. Their CSR bots are waiting to take your call now :-)
A co-worker of mine recently had his service terminated because he had exceeded 1TB of downloading in a month. I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but that seems like a really high cap. Ultimately, he called them and the solution was to upgrade to a business class connection. It ended up costing him an additional $20 (iirc) a month, but he now has a higher upstream and a static IP. He was cool with that as it seems this works out better for him anyway, but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.
Not likely since they had announced (october 2008) that their monthly cap was 250 gigs a month. If it was recently then there was a serious problem where he was breaking their TOS for nearly a year.
Now if it was turtle screensavers, the concast tech wouldn't dare remove them from the computer. After all, the slowskies are very dear to concast corp ;-)
As long as they don't act upon this information I don't see any issue with it. I bet most run-of-the-mill users don't know they have the infection and could act upon it if they knew.
Sounds like a win-win for both Comcast and their customers if it's informational only.
Unfortunately past experience has shown us that concast rarely does anything that's informational only. They have demonstrated a will to act rashly and if there is a backlash they tend to change their stance, after claiming they did nothing wrong of course :D
I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Beer good.. Fire Bad!
they "claim" they called us a month before and told us to stop using it soo much. We thought it was a joke since we purchased "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee". So we called up their customer service and contacted them online as well.
Both CSR's said it must have been a joke or something as they didn't know of any bandwidth limits with their internet service.
so to this day we don't use Concast for anything. Dish is far cheaper than what we were paying for TV anyway and our internet is also cheaper. Our ISP is a local company with real people who know what the hell they are talking about when you call.
Concast is a joke and I refuse to support their efforts to expand their monopoly. I also often write to the powers that be letting them know the laws are broken as this shouldn't be legal.
The FCC and FTC are toothless. Look at this net neutrality stuff going on today. Basically you see them fighting companies like Concast to protect the people from their abusive monopolies.
Very sad since we depend on the internet for so much these days and yet we can't depend on being free to use the service as we see fit (within the limits of the law of course).
I know the feeling. To this day I won't go back to Concast. They are unethical at best IMO.
At times I've teased my kids asking if they wanted faster internet and for that we'd need to go back to Concast. They all scream heck no!
Concast screwed them over as well as me and my wife when they terminated our internet. Seems they were working on research papers for their science fairs at the time. Of course it didn't hurt to introduce them to the local library but the point is Concast needs to focus on fixing their screwed up customer service before they should branch out.
They can't take care of what they already have!
What competition?
Exactly. There is no competition. You can go with a crappy company that treats you like a number and gives you faster than the other guys internet or you can go with another company that doesn't understand why you are complaining because they are the competition. Enjoy your slower speeds or go with the crappy company and don't forget to take a number.
Canada doesn't give two shits about what the FCC has to say about net neutrality.
But do they give one about what the FCC has to say? ;-)
Linux users never pay for anything, so it doesn't even matter.
Sweet!!
So how do you manage to get your hardware for free?
Please share ;-)
Anyway to bring this back on topic, to the SCII team: is there any possibility of WINE support in the next three chapters of SCII in order to run the games on alternative platforms such as LInux/BSD etc?
Do you mean a bundled version of WINE that would theoretically be included with SCII? Most of us who are familiar with WINE on Linux are willing to do the little footwork necessary to get games running on our own installs of WINE, and I'm sure there will be plenty of people out there patching WINE so that SCII works out-of-the-box as much as possible.
From that standpoint, Blizzard doesn't have much incentive to do it themselves.
Still it's a good question. I'm curious if they would consider the growing linux population and add a linux client to the game? After all, considering the netbook market is pushing linux even further into the limelight. Why not?
One can infer roughly how Comcast really views their customers by observing their ads (i.e. the customer IS the turtle: slow, ignorant, stupid and docile).
Don't forget the ones were the customers are drugged zombies "singing" monotone songs about how great Comcast is.
I think they call those people employees these days ;-)