Ok, so you say that Jon Katz isn't part of "our" culture, then say that he annoys you "more than RMS." If RMS is not part of the hacker culture, then I don't know who is.
I'd rather than Jon Katz than pretentious, elitist idiots like you.
Not to be picky, but this is Civ3 in name only. The real Civ3 is called Alpha Centauri, and is being developed by Sid Meier, the developer of the first two Civilizations games. Civ3 has a new development team, but they kept the same name, since the company, not Sid, has the rights to it. Anyway, both look like great games (though Alpha Centauri, being designed by Mr. Meier, resembles the first two Civilization games more).
Many of the most interesting posts have been from Anonymous Cowards. Particularly when there's news involving large corporations, insiders with lots of information tend to post as Anonymous Cowards, for obvious reasons. That alone is a good enough reason to keep AC posting around.
mp3s are not inherently pirated music. I personally have quite a few legal mp3s, mostly of unsigned artists who put their music up on the web in hopes of getting noticed. Several of them are actually quite good, and I've bought several CDs from bands I've heard of online, so the mp3 format has worked beneficially for them (CD sales) as well as for me (free music).
www.mp3.com, www.musicglobalnetwork.com, and several other sites have legal mp3s to download. goodnoise.net actually sells mp3s, thus giving me the ease of purchasing song or songs without having to go buy a CD somewhere, while still giving the artist money.
Sure, there is no such thing as a completely unbiased opinion, but at least some attempt should be made to show both sides of the story. For example, with the story on the US/UK vs. Iraq, rather than just condemning the action, and saying why others condemned it, sengan should also have mentioned why the US and the UK thought it necessary to undertake the action. Then the readers ccould have decided whose side of the story they liked better.
A one-sided presentation of news is never a good thing, and that's what this was. Sengan even mentioned that Professor Chomsky (sp?) was one of the major sources for his article. However, if he had done some research, he would have found that Professor Chomsky has long been an outspoken critic of using force against Iraq, even doing several spoken-word tracks condemning the Gulf War on a 1991 vinyl (which also contained several songs by Bad Religion on it, probably to get people who bought it for the music to as a side effect hear, and possibly be influenced with, Prof. Chomsky's speeches/rants). That said, I respect, and largely agree with Prof. Chomsky, but he's still not a good source for a news article.
Anybody have any idea what type of output this device has? If I've read it correctly, it reads MP3s from data CDs, decodes them into some sort of "normal" uncompressed audio, then outputs that audio. What type of output is this? Is it the sort of thing that I could plug earphones into (possibly with an adapter if it's not a normal earphone jack)?
I wasn't talking about intelligent people who crack systems recreationally. I was talking about "3l33t hax0rs," which yes, would imply people who "tYpE L1k3 this." VERY few of them know the first thing about programming.
An 3l33t hax0r with an IQ about 100 higher than that of the average 3l33t hax0r, of course. Most 3l33t hax0rs I've seen around couldn't write a Hello World program, much less backdoor a tcp wrapper.
If I were them, I wouldn't take it seriously either.
1) It's the OEMs who have to give back the money, not Microsoft. Microsoft already sold the OEMs the copies. It's the OEMs who sold to the users.
2) There are going to be relatively very few people actually asking for refunds. First, anybody that's booted up their computer even once is ineligible, so all those of you who switched from windows to linux aren't eligible (or even if you booted windows once just to run partition magic). Secondly, over 99% of the people who own Windows actually want it, and do not want to return it for a refund (contrary to popular belief, Linux's marketshare is still WAY under 1%.) Out of those few who don't want it, even fewer will actually bother trying to return it.
Waiting until February 15th may not be a good idea. The EULA does mention that the product should be returned promptly, so the sooner the better. If they interpret promptly as being 30 days, it will almost certainly be too late by then.
That would be troublesome, since the two compilers most likely won't produce identical binary output anyway, even if there are no trojans. Try compiling a program on gcc and then on cc, and then on egcs, and you'll get slightly different binaries.
It doesn't need eloquence and wit. I'd settle for a simple announcement that had everything spelled correctly. One that didn't erroneously call the Linux kernel a "secure network operating system" would be nice as well.
4) Linux is annoying as hell to install/configure. I had a hell of a time getting Linux and XF86 to work properly, and I'm certain the rest of my family (who are a lot less computer-knowledable than I am) would have no clue where to start.
Yeah, it's higher than the national average, but last time I checked the stats, it was still only 30-40% or so. My website, which I suppose can be considered an "average" website (since it's not computer-oriented, it shouldn't be biased towards any particular OS) has approximately 0.05% Linux users, and around 0.1% total *nix (*BSD/Linux/Irix/Solaris/etc.).
and if they are not other brands which provide the same functionality exist.
That's not the point. People are not going to go out and spend money replacing hardware just because Linux doesn't support it. If my video card doesn't work in Linux, I'm not going to buy a new one, I'll just wait until Linux supports it, or else not use Linux at all.
No I haven't tinkered (config files) with my Desktop at all since installing KDE.
So how exactly did you get Linux installed, or get a kernel compiled? Hell, XF86Setup doesn't even auto-detect my video card or monitor specs.
I have tinkered with some free programs like The Gimp that cost suckers like you hundreds of dollars in Windows land.
I've tinkered with some free programs like The GIMP on Windows too. Apparently you're new here, or you would've heard about the Win32 port of GIMP.
Umm, go back and read the article one more time. The US still allows more freedom of cryptography than France does. This bill will not ease export restrictions from France, just allow people in France to use cryptography themselves, something that we can already do in the US.
I hardly think Ion Storm is going to die anytime in the near future. Sure, Daikatana has had some problems in the development, but it's not the only Ion Storm game, just the one Romero's working on. Fellow Ion Storm co-founders (and also former id software people) are also heading development of Deus Ex and Anachronox, both of which received favorable reviews and lots of hype in last month's PC Games. they both look like they'll be good (and sell well).
Not entirely correct, AFAIK. The courts have ruled that just because it's your name is not a 100% flawless defence in all cases. For example, a guy with a last name of McDonald decided he wanted to sell hamburger's. It was his hamburger shop, so he called it "McDonald's Hamburger Shop." The *other* McDonald's was none too happy, and won in court, even though it *was* the guy's name.
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Ok, so you say that Jon Katz isn't part of "our" culture, then say that he annoys you "more than RMS." If RMS is not part of the hacker culture, then I don't know who is.
I'd rather than Jon Katz than pretentious, elitist idiots like you.
Not to be picky, but this is Civ3 in name only. The real Civ3 is called Alpha Centauri, and is being developed by Sid Meier, the developer of the first two Civilizations games. Civ3 has a new development team, but they kept the same name, since the company, not Sid, has the rights to it. Anyway, both look like great games (though Alpha Centauri, being designed by Mr. Meier, resembles the first two Civilization games more).
Many of the most interesting posts have been from Anonymous Cowards. Particularly when there's news involving large corporations, insiders with lots of information tend to post as Anonymous Cowards, for obvious reasons. That alone is a good enough reason to keep AC posting around.
mp3s are not inherently pirated music. I personally have quite a few legal mp3s, mostly of unsigned artists who put their music up on the web in hopes of getting noticed. Several of them are actually quite good, and I've bought several CDs from bands I've heard of online, so the mp3 format has worked beneficially for them (CD sales) as well as for me (free music).
www.mp3.com, www.musicglobalnetwork.com, and several other sites have legal mp3s to download. goodnoise.net actually sells mp3s, thus giving me the ease of purchasing song or songs without having to go buy a CD somewhere, while still giving the artist money.
Sure, there is no such thing as a completely unbiased opinion, but at least some attempt should be made to show both sides of the story. For example, with the story on the US/UK vs. Iraq, rather than just condemning the action, and saying why others condemned it, sengan should also have mentioned why the US and the UK thought it necessary to undertake the action. Then the readers ccould have decided whose side of the story they liked better.
A one-sided presentation of news is never a good thing, and that's what this was. Sengan even mentioned that Professor Chomsky (sp?) was one of the major sources for his article. However, if he had done some research, he would have found that Professor Chomsky has long been an outspoken critic of using force against Iraq, even doing several spoken-word tracks condemning the Gulf War on a 1991 vinyl (which also contained several songs by Bad Religion on it, probably to get people who bought it for the music to as a side effect hear, and possibly be influenced with, Prof. Chomsky's speeches/rants). That said, I respect, and largely agree with Prof. Chomsky, but he's still not a good source for a news article.
goodnoise.com looks like a great site - pay some money to the artist, get the mp3 (legally). Cuts out the record company from the mix.
Anybody have any idea what type of output this device has? If I've read it correctly, it reads MP3s from data CDs, decodes them into some sort of "normal" uncompressed audio, then outputs that audio. What type of output is this? Is it the sort of thing that I could plug earphones into (possibly with an adapter if it's not a normal earphone jack)?
I wasn't talking about intelligent people who crack systems recreationally. I was talking about "3l33t hax0rs," which yes, would imply people who "tYpE L1k3 this." VERY few of them know the first thing about programming.
An 3l33t hax0r with an IQ about 100 higher than that of the average 3l33t hax0r, of course. Most 3l33t hax0rs I've seen around couldn't write a Hello World program, much less backdoor a tcp wrapper.
If I were them, I wouldn't take it seriously either.
1) It's the OEMs who have to give back the money, not Microsoft. Microsoft already sold the OEMs the copies. It's the OEMs who sold to the users.
2) There are going to be relatively very few people actually asking for refunds. First, anybody that's booted up their computer even once is ineligible, so all those of you who switched from windows to linux aren't eligible (or even if you booted windows once just to run partition magic). Secondly, over 99% of the people who own Windows actually want it, and do not want to return it for a refund (contrary to popular belief, Linux's marketshare is still WAY under 1%.) Out of those few who don't want it, even fewer will actually bother trying to return it.
No. The CD is still copyrighted, so you could still get arrested/fined for software piracy, even if they did violate the EULA.
Waiting until February 15th may not be a good idea. The EULA does mention that the product should be returned promptly, so the sooner the better. If they interpret promptly as being 30 days, it will almost certainly be too late by then.
Umm, aren't the classics on the website already free? I just read the Ken Thompson article that the article linked to, and I have no ACM subscription.
That would be troublesome, since the two compilers most likely won't produce identical binary output anyway, even if there are no trojans. Try compiling a program on gcc and then on cc, and then on egcs, and you'll get slightly different binaries.
It doesn't need eloquence and wit. I'd settle for a simple announcement that had everything spelled correctly. One that didn't erroneously call the Linux kernel a "secure network operating system" would be nice as well.
Oh, don't work, the clueless wanna-be-techie internet hype has barely started. The Net is just the (ugly) beginning.
"He's the latest superhero with powers so profound, he can jump a dotted line in just a single bound" -Bad Religion, "Automatic Man"
Trademarks are an evil invention of Microsoft(r). Death to Microsoft(r) Windows(tm)! Long live Open Source(sm)! Go Linux(tm)!
4) Linux is annoying as hell to install/configure. I had a hell of a time getting Linux and XF86 to work properly, and I'm certain the rest of my family (who are a lot less computer-knowledable than I am) would have no clue where to start.
Yeah, it's higher than the national average, but last time I checked the stats, it was still only 30-40% or so. My website, which I suppose can be considered an "average" website (since it's not computer-oriented, it shouldn't be biased towards any particular OS) has approximately 0.05% Linux users, and around 0.1% total *nix (*BSD/Linux/Irix/Solaris/etc.).
I find this becoming an ironic, and unfortunately all too common, event on Slashdot recently - the troll who yells "troll!!!" at everything he sees.
and if they are not other brands which provide
the same functionality exist.
That's not the point. People are not going to go out and spend money replacing hardware just because Linux doesn't support it. If my video card doesn't work in Linux, I'm not going to buy a new one, I'll just wait until Linux supports it, or else not use Linux at all.
No I haven't tinkered (config files) with my Desktop at all since installing KDE.
So how exactly did you get Linux installed, or get a kernel compiled? Hell, XF86Setup doesn't even auto-detect my video card or monitor specs.
I have tinkered with some free programs like
The Gimp that cost suckers like you hundreds
of dollars in Windows land.
I've tinkered with some free programs like The GIMP on Windows too. Apparently you're new here, or you would've heard about the Win32 port of GIMP.
Hear that Uncle Sam? Pay Attention!
Umm, go back and read the article one more time. The US still allows more freedom of cryptography than France does. This bill will not ease export restrictions from France, just allow people in France to use cryptography themselves, something that we can already do in the US.
that's cypherpunk(s)
I hardly think Ion Storm is going to die anytime in the near future. Sure, Daikatana has had some problems in the development, but it's not the only Ion Storm game, just the one Romero's working on. Fellow Ion Storm co-founders (and also former id software people) are also heading development of Deus Ex and Anachronox, both of which received favorable reviews and lots of hype in last month's PC Games. they both look like they'll be good (and sell well).
Not entirely correct, AFAIK. The courts have ruled that just because it's your name is not a 100% flawless defence in all cases. For example, a guy with a last name of McDonald decided he wanted to sell hamburger's. It was his hamburger shop, so he called it "McDonald's Hamburger Shop." The *other* McDonald's was none too happy, and won in court, even though it *was* the guy's name.