Yeah. I totally get lost in the realistic portrayal of characters in Robot Chicken and Jason and the Argonauts, or even Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Highly realistic.
Seriously... so what if there's "real" lighting on it? The small scale expansions (ginormous water droplets and the like) make a much larger chasm for suspension of disbelief to cross than a well-done CGI addition or scene.
It is controlled in the BIOS like you say. You need a password to even access the boot sectors (I think it presents a "false" boot sector to the BIOS or something to ask for the password). That's how it works on my T61 here. I don't have the model they advertise here, but hard-drive hardware encryption has been around for a while. The passwords are also sensitive to a dictionary attack, so if you get the wrong one too many times, it'll disable access to the drive.
Rather than having the gateway on the CPU end of the drive accesses, we can still use DMA accesses to read and write to the drive and it's encrypted/decrypted by a special-purpose chip rather than the CPU? Really, it's putting the encryption so there's the least data remangling happening, and freeing the CPU to do more general purpose things rather than easily ASIC'able operations.
Well, if he wants to beat his head against the wall with another distro, so be it. That's what's great about Linux.
Ubuntu is specifically designed to be accessible and automatic, yet still have all the Linux bits. I can do everything on Ubuntu that I want to, and the joyous part is that 99% of the time, I don't HAVE to unless I want to.
...are ya stupid? Because really, if you had done ANY kind of biological research on humans (our teeth aren't sharp for cutting through leaves), you'd realize that we're omnivores.
We may not kill an animal, but if one dies, it's pretty easy to scavenge. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to throw a rock at a rabbit. We do have a much more protein rich diet nowdays, but look where that's gotten us: we're healthier, stronger and live longer than ever before.
There is no "hell on earth" that animals have to face. Heck, they live NICER lives a lot of times if we're not talking about cramped feedlots. They don't have to worry about predators attacking their young, moving constantly to find food, any of the trials of actually living in the wild.
You live in a fantasy land. Please, get your head out of your ass before you post again. You're only making yourself look stupid.
P.S. - raw meat DOES taste good. Many people (like me) enjoy their steak rare, and have an affinity for sushi and such. The main reason we cook meat is because it can harbor unhealthy bacteria and such, or in the case of pork things like trichinosis.
Except that open standards are usually government mandated. Microsoft would have otherwise ignored it completely, going with the lock-in you describe since they "own" the office landscape. They submitted OOXML because they didn't want to be locked out of new gov't initiatives requiring more accessible data formats, so they forced their crap through trying to call it open, while not really being so.
Big budget movies? They make tons of money in the theaters... if the theater experience is nice, it's well worth going to a movie over watching it at home or on your laptop. So there's that stupid argument countered.
And TV? People pay for the convenience. Besides... most TV sucks. Every year they throw a bunch of shit at viewers and see what sticks, because they're too lazy or stupid to come up with something that's ACTUALLY good. There's a lot of waste in the system.
The artists don't let people into their shows for free though, do they? No other way to get the scarce resource except by paying for it.
And you don't know about it until you've heard the music first. Seems like something that costs the artist nothing to copy is a great advertising venue... unless of course they don't understand economics and would rather sit on their ass than keep working and contributing to society rather than just draining on it.
The people who abuse copyright are not the modest income types. The modest income types keep working just like the rest of us. Hell, a lot of the modest income types that do creative content LOVE that their stuff hits bittorrent sites, because it makes them more popular. They aren't the people that are causing the problems.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. Vivisected is a cool word, or something more mundane like dissected being as it wasn't really "alive" to begin with.
But hey, why let a little thing like clear communication force you to do boring things like "learning" and "reading". It's much more fun to throw random semi-related words together with meanings that aren't what you're actually trying to say.
Persistent storage, yeah. No question DVD's are ahead. What if you aren't only archiving stuff, though? Moving data from one computer to another, and back? Not to mention that optical drives take a LOT more power and noise to run than flash drives, which is quite important in laptops.
They both have their places. Hammers, screwdrivers, all that jazz.
I don't hate it that much... I just see no point in installing GTK packages that I will never use and would have to uninstall later. Why is that confusing?
You know what's funny? Printing has been easier under Linux than it is under Windows for a long time now. It takes most people MUCH less time to connect to a printer and print (even a SMB shared printer) under Linux than it does under Windows.
Yes. The problem is, your vaunted "MS or Mac" still have a closed development cycle. Those talks still happen, you just don't hear about them, and fewer people get a say. That may mean quicker decisions are made, but that doesn't mean they're the right decisions.
Besides, most of us don't work on Linux to make money with it directly. We work on Linux because it's fun and it enables us to do what we want with a machine, rather than being told where to go today.
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Calling it Phalanx is lame. It should be called Legion.
Go study some arachnids. Wolf and jumping spiders wouldn't waste webbing on wrapping someone up.
You're letting your imagination get the better of you, and you're confusing it with reality.
Looks like they did a good job on the movie.
Yeah. I totally get lost in the realistic portrayal of characters in Robot Chicken and Jason and the Argonauts, or even Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Highly realistic.
Seriously... so what if there's "real" lighting on it? The small scale expansions (ginormous water droplets and the like) make a much larger chasm for suspension of disbelief to cross than a well-done CGI addition or scene.
It is controlled in the BIOS like you say. You need a password to even access the boot sectors (I think it presents a "false" boot sector to the BIOS or something to ask for the password). That's how it works on my T61 here. I don't have the model they advertise here, but hard-drive hardware encryption has been around for a while. The passwords are also sensitive to a dictionary attack, so if you get the wrong one too many times, it'll disable access to the drive.
Overall, it's really a pretty secure design.
Rather than having the gateway on the CPU end of the drive accesses, we can still use DMA accesses to read and write to the drive and it's encrypted/decrypted by a special-purpose chip rather than the CPU? Really, it's putting the encryption so there's the least data remangling happening, and freeing the CPU to do more general purpose things rather than easily ASIC'able operations.
Well, if he wants to beat his head against the wall with another distro, so be it. That's what's great about Linux.
Ubuntu is specifically designed to be accessible and automatic, yet still have all the Linux bits. I can do everything on Ubuntu that I want to, and the joyous part is that 99% of the time, I don't HAVE to unless I want to.
If Microsoft as a company wouldn't behave as such a douche to it's customers, maybe people wouldn't be badmouthing them?
...are ya stupid? Because really, if you had done ANY kind of biological research on humans (our teeth aren't sharp for cutting through leaves), you'd realize that we're omnivores.
We may not kill an animal, but if one dies, it's pretty easy to scavenge. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to throw a rock at a rabbit. We do have a much more protein rich diet nowdays, but look where that's gotten us: we're healthier, stronger and live longer than ever before.
There is no "hell on earth" that animals have to face. Heck, they live NICER lives a lot of times if we're not talking about cramped feedlots. They don't have to worry about predators attacking their young, moving constantly to find food, any of the trials of actually living in the wild.
You live in a fantasy land. Please, get your head out of your ass before you post again. You're only making yourself look stupid.
P.S. - raw meat DOES taste good. Many people (like me) enjoy their steak rare, and have an affinity for sushi and such. The main reason we cook meat is because it can harbor unhealthy bacteria and such, or in the case of pork things like trichinosis.
Except that open standards are usually government mandated. Microsoft would have otherwise ignored it completely, going with the lock-in you describe since they "own" the office landscape. They submitted OOXML because they didn't want to be locked out of new gov't initiatives requiring more accessible data formats, so they forced their crap through trying to call it open, while not really being so.
3-4 years? Yakov Smirnoff started his comedy in the 80's... you're WAY off.
Not necessarily. I went to a school where all professors were required to teach, even those that were primarily research professors.
Teaching is a skill... it's a skill many people don't have, even if they have the requisite knowledge.
At least you still wouldn't be your own grandpa
Big budget movies? They make tons of money in the theaters... if the theater experience is nice, it's well worth going to a movie over watching it at home or on your laptop. So there's that stupid argument countered.
And TV? People pay for the convenience. Besides... most TV sucks. Every year they throw a bunch of shit at viewers and see what sticks, because they're too lazy or stupid to come up with something that's ACTUALLY good. There's a lot of waste in the system.
The artists don't let people into their shows for free though, do they? No other way to get the scarce resource except by paying for it.
And you don't know about it until you've heard the music first. Seems like something that costs the artist nothing to copy is a great advertising venue... unless of course they don't understand economics and would rather sit on their ass than keep working and contributing to society rather than just draining on it.
Food and rent is taken care of by concert tickets and selling t-shirts and albums at the shows.
Wait, you say you want to work only once in your life and then keep sitting on the copyright? Don't we all.
The people who abuse copyright are not the modest income types. The modest income types keep working just like the rest of us. Hell, a lot of the modest income types that do creative content LOVE that their stuff hits bittorrent sites, because it makes them more popular. They aren't the people that are causing the problems.
Most of us work 9-5. A matinée isn't really much of an option, so we're stuck with $9-$15 tickets. And I'll personally only pay the $15 for an Imax showing. Either that or my ticket better come with a beer.
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Yeah? Well my DM made me walk uphill to my games. Both ways. In the snow. So there.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. Vivisected is a cool word, or something more mundane like dissected being as it wasn't really "alive" to begin with.
But hey, why let a little thing like clear communication force you to do boring things like "learning" and "reading". It's much more fun to throw random semi-related words together with meanings that aren't what you're actually trying to say.
The ironing is delicious.
Persistent storage, yeah. No question DVD's are ahead. What if you aren't only archiving stuff, though? Moving data from one computer to another, and back? Not to mention that optical drives take a LOT more power and noise to run than flash drives, which is quite important in laptops.
They both have their places. Hammers, screwdrivers, all that jazz.
Managericide. Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I don't hate it that much... I just see no point in installing GTK packages that I will never use and would have to uninstall later. Why is that confusing?
You know what's funny? Printing has been easier under Linux than it is under Windows for a long time now. It takes most people MUCH less time to connect to a printer and print (even a SMB shared printer) under Linux than it does under Windows.
Yes. The problem is, your vaunted "MS or Mac" still have a closed development cycle. Those talks still happen, you just don't hear about them, and fewer people get a say. That may mean quicker decisions are made, but that doesn't mean they're the right decisions.
Besides, most of us don't work on Linux to make money with it directly. We work on Linux because it's fun and it enables us to do what we want with a machine, rather than being told where to go today.