than having proper permissions set up on a machine and doing a lockdown like what's built in to Gnome? Having proper permissions prevents people from installing shit and running programs that they're not supposed to. Using Gnome's lockdown feature prevents them from fucking up their DE.
We don't need another DE! We have enough flame wars as it is. What, with *box, Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, and those damn bastards who claim command line is superior.
It's a hell of a lot harder to get "free" games for your Playstation, Xbox, or Wii. With a computer, all you have to do is download an iso and a crack, then you're set.
complaints about the fact it was Windows-only the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. Yeah, if 99% of televisions were Sony.
I may be taking a leap here, but I think it would be tantamount to the BBC only releasing stuff on Beta. Oh, wait....
My favorite parts are:
An e-petition signed by more than 16,000 people led to a government statement backing the Trust's requirement for platform neutrality.
So apparently, it only takes ~16,000 people to make the BBC Trust listen. Meanwhile, I've had a petition with ~28,000 signatures for Macromedia to release a Shockwave player for Linux, and have gotten no responses from Macromedia/Adobe.
Here's my other favorite quote:
He said: "If it's a genuine move towards interoperability, consumer choice and open standards, then certainly we welcome it.
"If, however, it's a cynical ploy by the BBC's Future Media and Technology team to avoid being taken to the European Competition authorities for promoting Microsoft's abusive monopoly, then certainly we are against it."
I'm waiting for them to sue localhost
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16,548,583 songs available? And I can download them at blazing fast speeds? Those bastards are going to fear our wrath!
As the article hints, we should be expecting a wider variety of options for computers equipped with Linux in the not-so-distant future. This is mostly due to Dell working with their wireless hardware providers to release drivers to kernel.org, and also because of AMD opening up their fglrx drivers. I strongly believe that once AMD finishes opening their drivers, more game developers will code in OpenGL and OpenAL instead of just DirectX, and thus result in easier times porting games from Windows to both Linux and Macs. So, is it safe to say that Mac users will benefit from this too then?
According to your logic, then why doesn't Windows satisfy everyone's needs, and thus take over Apple's share of users? Because they have different needs. Slackware users have different needs than Gentoo users, who both have different needs than Ubuntu users.
I refuse to buy a phone that's locked in to one carrier. If it doesn't support SIM cards and let me use it wherever I go, I'm not getting it. If a carrier doesn't support GSM, then I don't support them.
Copyright and Patent laws have outlived their usefulness, anything that supports that archaic and obsolete system or its enforcement is bad.
Or it could just be that we're becoming increasingly larger freeloaders and have a harder time understanding the concept that we don't need everything now. Hell, just look at the numbers of people in credit card debt. Compare that to a generation or two ago, and you're seeing a dramatic difference in consumer habits. Personally, I think that copyright laws are not outdated. If a team I'm on creates an icon like Mickey Mouse, I wouldn't want others to use said icon without my consent. If they did, they could destroy the value of the icon. If you think that a copyright holder is acting too much in their self-interest in terms of profits, then just boycott them. Remember, just because something's out there doesn't mean you have to have it.
It doesn't change the fact that we use plastics more often than we should. Melting plastic requires significantly more energy than melting glass. Recycling plastic also requires significantly more energy than recycling glass. Additionally, plastic can only be recycled a few times. Glass, on the other hand, has a much longer life.
How about we bring back the glass bottles? We're already losing the glass beer bottles to plastic ones. I say we reverse the tide, and go back to glass Coke bottles. And wouldn't it be nice if those milk jugs were actually re-used?
I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't find better plastics. All I'm saying is that I think, in addition to researching new plastics, we take time to look at the alternatives to plastics. Sometimes the old-fashioned methods work just as well, if not better, than new methods. You havn't seen a more efficient wheel invented in the last few thousand years, have you?
Better hope we're not fighting China or one of their allies. That is, unless these things can also mirror China's weapons to said battle-field stations. But then I'd be concerned about an energy spike at the station, or that the weapon gets deflected toward some other location.
Doesn't this still result in battery life tests being null and void, for the most part? The only thing you can say is that if the battery life is just as long or longer than it was 2.5 years ago, that there have been significant improvements in efficiency. Otherwise, wouldn't the battery's storage capacity shrink over the last two and a half years have an adverse effect on battery life?
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I know this is common practice, but I'd still like to believe that this would be a non-binding contract. Especially since there's no mutual consideration. Here's an excerpt from the Michigan Law Review regarding Silence as Acceptance of an Offer:
It is generally held that an offeree has a right to make no reply to offers, and that his silence and inaction cannot be construed as an assent to the offer. This is true even though the offer states that silence will be taken as consent, for the offeror cannot prescribe conditions of rejections so as to turn silence on the part of the offeree into acceptance.
The Virginia Law Review continues to talk about when silence is binding:
Where the offeror acts to his detriment in reasonable reliance on the offeree's conduct, the offeree's inaction, will be deemed an acceptance after he has remained silent for a reasonable length of time.
The difference here, though is that Verizon isn't acting to its detriment, they're going to be getting a big fat cheque out of this from a 3rd party. So, once again, it goes back to mutual consideration.
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than having proper permissions set up on a machine and doing a lockdown like what's built in to Gnome? Having proper permissions prevents people from installing shit and running programs that they're not supposed to. Using Gnome's lockdown feature prevents them from fucking up their DE.
We don't need another DE! We have enough flame wars as it is. What, with *box, Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, and those damn bastards who claim command line is superior.
Let's start with that, since clearly Vista is in and of itself a beast completely independent of Longhorn.
How the fuck does one page have more than 2MB of content to download, excluding audio and videos?
I think they essentially declared themselves a state when Colbert featured their Shadow Congresswoman on Better Know a District
When it became nearly commonplace for a house hold to have such big TV's?
play Lemmings while running 5 other things? I have a hard enough time running 5 things within Lemmings, let alone 5 things in addition to that game!
...and instead spend your time on slashdot. What an improvement.
This seems to be something no political party can deny. Why the hell did it take so long for an act like this to get created and passed?
It's a hell of a lot harder to get "free" games for your Playstation, Xbox, or Wii. With a computer, all you have to do is download an iso and a crack, then you're set.
'Nough said
I may be taking a leap here, but I think it would be tantamount to the BBC only releasing stuff on Beta. Oh, wait....
My favorite parts are:
An e-petition signed by more than 16,000 people led to a government statement backing the Trust's requirement for platform neutrality.So apparently, it only takes ~16,000 people to make the BBC Trust listen. Meanwhile, I've had a petition with ~28,000 signatures for Macromedia to release a Shockwave player for Linux, and have gotten no responses from Macromedia/Adobe.
Here's my other favorite quote:
He said: "If it's a genuine move towards interoperability, consumer choice and open standards, then certainly we welcome it."If, however, it's a cynical ploy by the BBC's Future Media and Technology team to avoid being taken to the European Competition authorities for promoting Microsoft's abusive monopoly, then certainly we are against it."
16,548,583 songs available? And I can download them at blazing fast speeds? Those bastards are going to fear our wrath!
Honestly, how can [Cancel or Allow] anyone co[Cancel or Allow]py that m[Cancel or Allow]any files anyway?
As the article hints, we should be expecting a wider variety of options for computers equipped with Linux in the not-so-distant future. This is mostly due to Dell working with their wireless hardware providers to release drivers to kernel.org, and also because of AMD opening up their fglrx drivers. I strongly believe that once AMD finishes opening their drivers, more game developers will code in OpenGL and OpenAL instead of just DirectX, and thus result in easier times porting games from Windows to both Linux and Macs. So, is it safe to say that Mac users will benefit from this too then?
According to your logic, then why doesn't Windows satisfy everyone's needs, and thus take over Apple's share of users? Because they have different needs. Slackware users have different needs than Gentoo users, who both have different needs than Ubuntu users.
I refuse to buy a phone that's locked in to one carrier. If it doesn't support SIM cards and let me use it wherever I go, I'm not getting it. If a carrier doesn't support GSM, then I don't support them.
Don't forget to bring a twelve-year-old boy or two with.
Or it could just be that we're becoming increasingly larger freeloaders and have a harder time understanding the concept that we don't need everything now. Hell, just look at the numbers of people in credit card debt. Compare that to a generation or two ago, and you're seeing a dramatic difference in consumer habits. Personally, I think that copyright laws are not outdated. If a team I'm on creates an icon like Mickey Mouse, I wouldn't want others to use said icon without my consent. If they did, they could destroy the value of the icon. If you think that a copyright holder is acting too much in their self-interest in terms of profits, then just boycott them. Remember, just because something's out there doesn't mean you have to have it.
It doesn't change the fact that we use plastics more often than we should. Melting plastic requires significantly more energy than melting glass. Recycling plastic also requires significantly more energy than recycling glass. Additionally, plastic can only be recycled a few times. Glass, on the other hand, has a much longer life.
How about we bring back the glass bottles? We're already losing the glass beer bottles to plastic ones. I say we reverse the tide, and go back to glass Coke bottles. And wouldn't it be nice if those milk jugs were actually re-used?
I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't find better plastics. All I'm saying is that I think, in addition to researching new plastics, we take time to look at the alternatives to plastics. Sometimes the old-fashioned methods work just as well, if not better, than new methods. You havn't seen a more efficient wheel invented in the last few thousand years, have you?
for the UID? Just thought I'd ask, since that seems to be the most important part of the auction.
...And ban them from contact with any personal computer unless needed for their job and approved by the feds....But, but then they'd be forced to use Windows!
Better hope we're not fighting China or one of their allies. That is, unless these things can also mirror China's weapons to said battle-field stations. But then I'd be concerned about an energy spike at the station, or that the weapon gets deflected toward some other location.
Doesn't this still result in battery life tests being null and void, for the most part? The only thing you can say is that if the battery life is just as long or longer than it was 2.5 years ago, that there have been significant improvements in efficiency. Otherwise, wouldn't the battery's storage capacity shrink over the last two and a half years have an adverse effect on battery life?
I know this is common practice, but I'd still like to believe that this would be a non-binding contract. Especially since there's no mutual consideration. Here's an excerpt from the Michigan Law Review regarding Silence as Acceptance of an Offer:
It is generally held that an offeree has a right to make no reply to offers, and that his silence and inaction cannot be construed as an assent to the offer. This is true even though the offer states that silence will be taken as consent, for the offeror cannot prescribe conditions of rejections so as to turn silence on the part of the offeree into acceptance.The Virginia Law Review continues to talk about when silence is binding:
Where the offeror acts to his detriment in reasonable reliance on the offeree's conduct, the offeree's inaction, will be deemed an acceptance after he has remained silent for a reasonable length of time.The difference here, though is that Verizon isn't acting to its detriment, they're going to be getting a big fat cheque out of this from a 3rd party. So, once again, it goes back to mutual consideration.