WHAT! You mean I'm the only one who can watch a whole 2 minutes of porn before picking up a book some coffee and listening to music! I'm shocked and awed.
But, the real reason I think is they believe Linux/Open Software has less chance of any "back door". They don't want every desk in their department to get electronically bugged. Now, imagine the scenario when MS offers for some sort of international code review/certification saying that it is as "safe" as open source (I don't mean "secure" and "bug free" but intentional sabotage..). It would be interesting to see if they still adopt Linux.
Yeah, I've thought that myself before. But for microsoft to get a government to trust the code review they'd have to give said government all the code that has been reviewed plus the means to compile it and distribute it themselves.
Other wise it is pointless. "Here are our black boxs and here is the code it runs, honest. No, you can't open them - We've showed you what's in them, really!"
Hopefully someone will come up with a similar hack for those disposable DVDs that recently hit the market. When they are opened, Oxygen begins a chemical reaction that limits their usage to a few days. Perhaps a device could be constructed that would open the packages while submerged in a clear liquid such as epoxy. This liquid would bond to the entire surface of the disc such that when it is removed, it blocks the reaction with oxygen and allows the discs to be played for much longer.
Why not just rip the dvd and burn a copy of it then enjoy the copy?
The Microsoft stories consistantly get 2-3x the comments as the Linux stories -- unless it's something negative for Linux like the destroyed CDROMs.
Maybe this is a phenomenon we are observing because the positive things about linux speak for themselves whereas the more negative stories are a bit more alarmist or biased?
Yeah. It's all a rip-off. Kids should be told over and over again 'You'll never amount to much. You may as well take a job down at the car wash and smoke dope for fun. This is as good as it gets.'
(trying desperately to remember the quote from Ghost In The Shell)
"..a copy is just an identicle image there is the possiblity that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems, and copies do not give rise to variety and originality.
Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifce itself when neccesary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die. Obliterating an entire set of memory and information; only genes remain.
Why continuely repeat this cycle? Simply to avoid the weaknesses of an unchanging system..
It's boring to all those who weren't involved back then, and they have their own things. But if you're an Amiga zealot.. "Guru Meditation" is just so much cooler than "Blue Screen"
Yeah and there is a story behind it too, the guys that designed it were originally working on what would be one of the first 16 bit games consoles but they kept adding more features and ports onto until eventually they realised they had nearly built a decent computer.
To keep the project secret they pretended publicly to be designing joysticks, one joystick they designed was a full size surf board you tilted when standing on it.
They had it rigged up to a computer that detected movement and the goal was to sit as still as possible (to relax). When they were designing the system and it would frustratingly crash they'd be told the error to go and meditate on....
Driving regular users to Linux will not happen by matching everything that XP/OSX and the rest can do, but by giving regular users another use to their boxes that the competition doesn't have.
I agree that you need to offer more but you need to be able to offer what the competitor has plus what you offer.
All my linux using friends and people that are open minded to the idea of using another OS than windows always sigh and say
"If only I could play my games I wouldn't need windows anymore"
We could talk all day about what linux offers extra, the majority of us are intimatly familiar with that.
We have practicaly everything but major game support. I'm not saying having the games will suddenly make linux better; I'm saying that if you can play all the new games on linux thats one of the last major reasons to keep using windows gone.
The sad reality of it is that games are what drives the computing industry, without all these lovely FPS's we probably would be running machines that arn't half as fast today
The only thing that is holding linux back is games; we all know it. When all major games are released for linux we'll see some real uptake.
And to look elsewhere when you crank up a browser?
When you pull up your bookmarks?
Where else are these ads? Are there some you can't get rid of?
It's open source and you have the root password, you'll always be able to rip out the ads, it may be hard if they are entrenched everywhere though.
If they have ad's during the install and it makes those guys money then brilliant, you only need to look at it once and who really sits and watches the installing packages bar tick along anyway? We all go and do something else..
If they start putting ads all over the place then a nice group of people need only write a lovely script that rips them all out.
but it will kill some of the no-longed-needed players in the music industry
That's it exactly. Distributing audio on CD is archaic these days. Technology is making the world smaller and these guys are no longer needed and they know it. Thats why they have been fighting mp3 rather than embracing it. If mp3 or whatever codec (ogg:-) becomes the main legitimate way of distributing music they won't need 20% of the people that are currently in the industry and there won't be massive companies making obscene profits that these fat cats can own.
The main demographic for/. is people that are into high technology and understand it
It's only logical that the majority are going to hate what Microsoft is and does.
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Or maybe the handset detected a battery not made by the same manufacturer and shorted it to drain it faster.
I don't live in america but if I remember correctly all your notes are the same size, wash a 1 dollar bill and print 100 on it...
We can't do that in the UK cos 1,5 10, 20, 50... are all bigger than the lesser valued note.
Umm... Not thatI'm condoning counterfeiting or was considering it ~*shifty eyes*~
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It should be made law everywhere that [SPAM] or [ADVERTISMENT] or something like that should be included in the header/subject.
Then any spam that doesn't bare the mark should be sent to some organisation that fines the company advertised.
Chasing the spammers is hard, the people paying the spammers should be targetted instead.
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WHAT! You mean I'm the only one who can watch a whole 2 minutes of porn before picking up a book some coffee and listening to music! I'm shocked and awed.
No, I usually finish within 2 minutes aswell...
I'm so pissed off that Linus has had to waste his time on this shite just because SCO thought they might make some fast cash.
I want him working on the kernel (and I believe he wants to work on the kernel too) without all these inane distractions
A society where you have no rights to privacy when you make a mobile phone call
Do you believe you live in a society where you do have privacy?
But, the real reason I think is they believe Linux/Open Software has less chance of any "back door". They don't want every desk in their department to get electronically bugged. Now, imagine the scenario when MS offers for some sort of international code review/certification saying that it is as "safe" as open source (I don't mean "secure" and "bug free" but intentional sabotage..). It would be interesting to see if they still adopt Linux.
Yeah, I've thought that myself before. But for microsoft to get a government to trust the code review they'd have to give said government all the code that has been reviewed plus the means to compile it and distribute it themselves.
Other wise it is pointless. "Here are our black boxs and here is the code it runs, honest. No, you can't open them - We've showed you what's in them, really!"
Hopefully someone will come up with a similar hack for those disposable DVDs that recently hit the market. When they are opened, Oxygen begins a chemical reaction that limits their usage to a few days. Perhaps a device could be constructed that would open the packages while submerged in a clear liquid such as epoxy. This liquid would bond to the entire surface of the disc such that when it is removed, it blocks the reaction with oxygen and allows the discs to be played for much longer.
Why not just rip the dvd and burn a copy of it then enjoy the copy?
you should actually learn about the church and the majority of its people.
I actually wish I knew less about organised religion, the awful waste of life that it is.
The Microsoft stories consistantly get 2-3x the comments as the Linux stories -- unless it's something negative for Linux like the destroyed CDROMs.
Maybe this is a phenomenon we are observing because the positive things about linux speak for themselves whereas the more negative stories are a bit more alarmist or biased?
Or maybe it's just fun to bash those bastards...
IDE = Intelligent Drive Electronics. ATAPI = ATA Packet Interface (basically SCSI transport over IDE).
The firmware is the drives intelligent electronics, it is cheaper to do all the mechanical babysitting in the firmware.
So if the firmware is fucked up it is very plausible that the drive could harm itself.
Exactly and what code is the microcontroller running?
Can she load Linux, and then administer (use) it effectively?
Can she load Windows and then administer it/use effectively?
Yeah. It's all a rip-off. Kids should be told over and over again 'You'll never amount to much. You may as well take a job down at the car wash and smoke dope for fun. This is as good as it gets.'
At least it would be honest.
(trying desperately to remember the quote from Ghost In The Shell)
"..a copy is just an identicle image there is the possiblity that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems, and copies do not give rise to variety and originality.
Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifce itself when neccesary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die. Obliterating an entire set of memory and information; only genes remain.
Why continuely repeat this cycle? Simply to avoid the weaknesses of an unchanging system..
"Wake up in Emergency Room because the geek tried physical exertion"
for that amount of money you will find new resources of strength and endurance..
It's boring to all those who weren't involved back then, and they have their own things. But if you're an Amiga zealot.. "Guru Meditation" is just so much cooler than "Blue Screen"
Yeah and there is a story behind it too, the guys that designed it were originally working on what would be one of the first 16 bit games consoles but they kept adding more features and ports onto until eventually they realised they had nearly built a decent computer.
To keep the project secret they pretended publicly to be designing joysticks, one joystick they designed was a full size surf board you tilted when standing on it.
They had it rigged up to a computer that detected movement and the goal was to sit as still as possible (to relax). When they were designing the system and it would frustratingly crash they'd be told the error to go and meditate on....
Driving regular users to Linux will not happen by matching everything that XP/OSX and the rest can do, but by giving regular users another use to their boxes that the competition doesn't have.
I agree that you need to offer more but you need to be able to offer what the competitor has plus what you offer.
All my linux using friends and people that are open minded to the idea of using another OS than windows always sigh and say
"If only I could play my games I wouldn't need windows anymore"
We could talk all day about what linux offers extra, the majority of us are intimatly familiar with that.
We have practicaly everything but major game support. I'm not saying having the games will suddenly make linux better; I'm saying that if you can play all the new games on linux thats one of the last major reasons to keep using windows gone.
The sad reality of it is that games are what drives the computing industry, without all these lovely FPS's we probably would be running machines that arn't half as fast today
The only thing that is holding linux back is games; we all know it. When all major games are released for linux we'll see some real uptake.
Where else are these ads? Are there some you can't get rid of?
It's open source and you have the root password, you'll always be able to rip out the ads, it may be hard if they are entrenched everywhere though.
If they have ad's during the install and it makes those guys money then brilliant, you only need to look at it once and who really sits and watches the installing packages bar tick along anyway? We all go and do something else..
If they start putting ads all over the place then a nice group of people need only write a lovely script that rips them all out.
Nice people on stand-by please,,
but it will kill some of the no-longed-needed players in the music industry
That's it exactly. Distributing audio on CD is archaic these days. Technology is making the world smaller and these guys are no longer needed and they know it. Thats why they have been fighting mp3 rather than embracing it. If mp3 or whatever codec (ogg :-) becomes the main legitimate way of distributing music they won't need 20% of the people that are currently in the industry and there won't be massive companies making obscene profits that these fat cats can own.
People see the world as a reflection of themselves.
The main demographic for /. is people that are into high technology and understand it
It's only logical that the majority are going to hate what Microsoft is and does.
Or maybe the handset detected a battery not made by the same manufacturer and shorted it to drain it faster.
I thought I imagined that and went back to check, your right, the first one sounded a lot better.
If you want to avoid having to put the cd's in your drive why don't you goto
.iso
http://www.gamecopyworld.com
http://www.megagames.com
You can download a small crack to fix your installed game, a lot quicker than finding and downloading an
I don't live in america but if I remember correctly all your notes are the same size, wash a 1 dollar bill and print 100 on it... We can't do that in the UK cos 1,5 10, 20, 50... are all bigger than the lesser valued note. Umm... Not thatI'm condoning counterfeiting or was considering it ~*shifty eyes*~
Heh! Good one dude.
It should be made law everywhere that [SPAM] or [ADVERTISMENT] or something like that should be included in the header/subject.
Then any spam that doesn't bare the mark should be sent to some organisation that fines the company advertised.
Chasing the spammers is hard, the people paying the spammers should be targetted instead.