It's because W8 platforms will come with new devices. And these new devices will require drivers. And those drivers will magically be unavailable for prior versions of Windows, and Linux - as prior versions of Windows have done less successfully. It will be some thinly veiled part of the logo requirement. Sometimes it's because when you get a new PC your printer/scanner/MFD manufacturer would just prefer you buy a new one, or has gone out of business or whatever. Sometimes it's because the drivers for the device were contracted to out a dual-blind programming subsidiary of Microsoft under terms that prohibit disclosure of the hardware interface. I first ran into this one with SoundBlaster in the 1990s, and Winmodems and Broadcom latoptop wifi chipsets come immediately to mind. It was enough to put me off of programming for Windows forever. The why of it is irrelevant however.
While they've promised W8 will work on legacy platforms in some form, they have worked quite closely with their "hardware partners" - including HP, Dell, Acer, Intel and others to ensure that a shipped W8 platform in its fully developed hardware incarnation will not and cannot fully support use of any other operating system ever. The Linux geeks will do their best to help you and reverse engineer it (for their own purposes of course, but sharing), but that will probably take three years or more - when the next generation is due - because Microsoft has learned some lessons about obfuscating hardware interfaces and filing patents along the way. The Linux geeks are really, really good. If they weren't Linux wouldn't run 91% of the top-500 supercomputers in the world. But there are limits to what they can do against determined opposition. The Windows geeks won't help you because they've long since moved on - they know which side of their bread has butter on it.
It's one thing when a rollback will deprecate some legacy thing like parallel ports or SNAP printers. It's quite another thing when even the motherboard USB ports or sound or video or network can't be enabled in XP or W7 or Linux. And that is what we're looking at.
Be forewarned that if you buy a W8 PC you're likely stuck with it on W8 because you're just not going to get it to fully work with something else. If you demand flexibility but want W8, buy a Linux PC and install W8 on it (after properly licensing W8, of course).
Here's the thing: you saying over and over again that these specific acts are illegal and criminal does not make it so. That is for the courts to decide in each individual case of specific acts, with a judge and lawyers and evidence and a jury and all the rest. And that's why SOPA and PIPA, in addition to violating free speech also violate our due process rights. Because getting a court to find that some behavior is illegal and a jury to agree on the facts and acting on that is an individual rather than a broad universal thing. It's costly, time consuming and fallible.
And you know what? We're OK with that. Throwing people in prison or stripping their civil rights should be hard. It should require all of the defenses guaranteed by the constitution.
Although I think it should not be necessary to spend lobbying money to defend the natural rights defined in the Bill of Rights, I'll agree that congress has become so corrupt that it does appear to be necessary now. It's a sad turn of events.
There are offshore VPNs that give you an IP address outside of the US. What with sneakernets, you only need one of those per local community to have access to all the latest stuff. Unless Hollywood can subvert the government of every nation in the world, they're just not going to get what they want because it becomes a global game of whack-a-mole.
It's a prior restraint on free speech. We don't do that here. In the US various forms of information, and communicating them, are legal even when they cover topics that are quite illegal. It is quite legal to own and transfer information about how to build explosives, create or find any type of narcotic or perform or advocate various antisocial acts.
These things are all felonies to do, or conspire to do. And yet noone who understands what free speech is about is calling for prior restraint of them. If you don't have free speech, you can't advocate for reason and justice either.
Permitting people to follow through and act on the information is a whole other thing.
If you're in the US this is likely in violation of the law, and the content industry will be using this information to have the members of Project Gutenberg arrested for piracy. This is not a joke.
Perhaps. But I do know how to read a graph, and your graph agrees with what I said. No significant warming has occurred since 1998. The "getting hotter" stopped, but the "increasing CO2" did not. This is becoming a little awkward.
The hockey stick has plateaued. We were told that the temperatures would continue to drastically rise as the CO2 did. But they have not continued to rise at all since 1997. How do climate scientists explain that?
I'm confident Microsoft is working really hard with their hardware partners to ensure that their innovative W8 platforms are in no way compatible with prior versions of Windows and cannot be made so. They've learned this lesson well. The locked bootloader requirement for WoA should be your first clue that they don't want people buying this stuff for unapproved uses. Avoid.
Universal and all of the major media labels have moderator privileges on Youtube. They don't have to make any claim at all - they just click the "ban this" button. They went so far as to banan advertisement for MegaUpload that was legitimate content they had no right to. Watch that video. Unless UMG has been making advertisements for MegaUpload they could not possibly own any of the content in it.
For the last million years (the age of Man) the incidence of warm periods like this one we're in averages about 12-14,000 years. We've been in this one 11,000 years: about the span of written history. And the cold periods are the remainder of the time and run about 90,000 years to complete a 100,000 year cycle. So no, for the end of the warm period to be 50,000 years from now would be quite divergent from the climatalogical pattern of the last million years, and leave us out of phase.
With enough CO2 in the atmosphere we might stave off a phase transition, and that would be a good thing since crops don't grow well on a glacier. But let's not pretend that the pattern is different than it is. An end of the warm period is a very real and present threat that would kill off the vast majority of our current 7 billion population.
Once upon a time (very long ago) the purpose of the press was to tell us what was going on in the world. Now the purpose of the press is to align us with their goals. It's a sad thing to see. Thank goodness for the Internet where we can get a vast array of biased viewpoints instead of just one.
I've had this argument on/. a thousand times. There's a reason why NetBSD isn't popular. They have a certain philosophy that security isn't something you compromise on to deliver usability or popularity. They don't implement a feature - any feature - unless it can be secured. They don't listen on ports by default. They don't auto-execute anything on mounting, and so on - because these features, while popular, compromise security. It's a religion with them. They've had some lapses but AFAIK no current NetBSD distribution has ever been proven to have a remote exploit.
And that's why NetBSD is the go-to starting point for folks who don't want to share their files with the wide Internet.
And so it goes that the cesium is absorbed by seaweed which is eaten by the mites which are eaten by the minnows that are eaten by the fish that are eaten by the tuna that is the chicken of the sea.
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It's because W8 platforms will come with new devices. And these new devices will require drivers. And those drivers will magically be unavailable for prior versions of Windows, and Linux - as prior versions of Windows have done less successfully. It will be some thinly veiled part of the logo requirement. Sometimes it's because when you get a new PC your printer/scanner/MFD manufacturer would just prefer you buy a new one, or has gone out of business or whatever. Sometimes it's because the drivers for the device were contracted to out a dual-blind programming subsidiary of Microsoft under terms that prohibit disclosure of the hardware interface. I first ran into this one with SoundBlaster in the 1990s, and Winmodems and Broadcom latoptop wifi chipsets come immediately to mind. It was enough to put me off of programming for Windows forever. The why of it is irrelevant however.
While they've promised W8 will work on legacy platforms in some form, they have worked quite closely with their "hardware partners" - including HP, Dell, Acer, Intel and others to ensure that a shipped W8 platform in its fully developed hardware incarnation will not and cannot fully support use of any other operating system ever. The Linux geeks will do their best to help you and reverse engineer it (for their own purposes of course, but sharing), but that will probably take three years or more - when the next generation is due - because Microsoft has learned some lessons about obfuscating hardware interfaces and filing patents along the way. The Linux geeks are really, really good. If they weren't Linux wouldn't run 91% of the top-500 supercomputers in the world. But there are limits to what they can do against determined opposition. The Windows geeks won't help you because they've long since moved on - they know which side of their bread has butter on it.
It's one thing when a rollback will deprecate some legacy thing like parallel ports or SNAP printers. It's quite another thing when even the motherboard USB ports or sound or video or network can't be enabled in XP or W7 or Linux. And that is what we're looking at.
Be forewarned that if you buy a W8 PC you're likely stuck with it on W8 because you're just not going to get it to fully work with something else. If you demand flexibility but want W8, buy a Linux PC and install W8 on it (after properly licensing W8, of course).
Here's the thing: you saying over and over again that these specific acts are illegal and criminal does not make it so. That is for the courts to decide in each individual case of specific acts, with a judge and lawyers and evidence and a jury and all the rest. And that's why SOPA and PIPA, in addition to violating free speech also violate our due process rights. Because getting a court to find that some behavior is illegal and a jury to agree on the facts and acting on that is an individual rather than a broad universal thing. It's costly, time consuming and fallible.
And you know what? We're OK with that. Throwing people in prison or stripping their civil rights should be hard. It should require all of the defenses guaranteed by the constitution.
The AC has a point. If the media companies want search engine censorship, why not start with them?
Although I think it should not be necessary to spend lobbying money to defend the natural rights defined in the Bill of Rights, I'll agree that congress has become so corrupt that it does appear to be necessary now. It's a sad turn of events.
There are offshore VPNs that give you an IP address outside of the US. What with sneakernets, you only need one of those per local community to have access to all the latest stuff. Unless Hollywood can subvert the government of every nation in the world, they're just not going to get what they want because it becomes a global game of whack-a-mole.
The idea that software could or should be covered by copyright is a fairly new one.
It's a prior restraint on free speech. We don't do that here. In the US various forms of information, and communicating them, are legal even when they cover topics that are quite illegal. It is quite legal to own and transfer information about how to build explosives, create or find any type of narcotic or perform or advocate various antisocial acts.
These things are all felonies to do, or conspire to do. And yet noone who understands what free speech is about is calling for prior restraint of them. If you don't have free speech, you can't advocate for reason and justice either.
Permitting people to follow through and act on the information is a whole other thing.
If you're in the US this is likely in violation of the law, and the content industry will be using this information to have the members of Project Gutenberg arrested for piracy. This is not a joke.
durr, it's a 100 ky cycle so we're due
Oddly enough, sometimes it is just that simple.
You're an ignorant moron.
Perhaps. But I do know how to read a graph, and your graph agrees with what I said. No significant warming has occurred since 1998. The "getting hotter" stopped, but the "increasing CO2" did not. This is becoming a little awkward.
The hockey stick has plateaued. We were told that the temperatures would continue to drastically rise as the CO2 did. But they have not continued to rise at all since 1997. How do climate scientists explain that?
Mod parent funny. It's what they were going for.
And the response is "until it's not."
I'm confident Microsoft is working really hard with their hardware partners to ensure that their innovative W8 platforms are in no way compatible with prior versions of Windows and cannot be made so. They've learned this lesson well. The locked bootloader requirement for WoA should be your first clue that they don't want people buying this stuff for unapproved uses. Avoid.
Universal and all of the major media labels have moderator privileges on Youtube. They don't have to make any claim at all - they just click the "ban this" button. They went so far as to ban an advertisement for MegaUpload that was legitimate content they had no right to. Watch that video. Unless UMG has been making advertisements for MegaUpload they could not possibly own any of the content in it.
For the last million years (the age of Man) the incidence of warm periods like this one we're in averages about 12-14,000 years. We've been in this one 11,000 years: about the span of written history. And the cold periods are the remainder of the time and run about 90,000 years to complete a 100,000 year cycle. So no, for the end of the warm period to be 50,000 years from now would be quite divergent from the climatalogical pattern of the last million years, and leave us out of phase.
With enough CO2 in the atmosphere we might stave off a phase transition, and that would be a good thing since crops don't grow well on a glacier. But let's not pretend that the pattern is different than it is. An end of the warm period is a very real and present threat that would kill off the vast majority of our current 7 billion population.
No.
Once upon a time (very long ago) the purpose of the press was to tell us what was going on in the world. Now the purpose of the press is to align us with their goals. It's a sad thing to see. Thank goodness for the Internet where we can get a vast array of biased viewpoints instead of just one.
The trade press is getting less and less neutral lately. That has to cost a lot of money.
Well normally I'm on the other side of this one, but hindsight is 20:20.
The statement would be more convicing with evidence they had looked for evidence.
I've had this argument on /. a thousand times. There's a reason why NetBSD isn't popular. They have a certain philosophy that security isn't something you compromise on to deliver usability or popularity. They don't implement a feature - any feature - unless it can be secured. They don't listen on ports by default. They don't auto-execute anything on mounting, and so on - because these features, while popular, compromise security. It's a religion with them. They've had some lapses but AFAIK no current NetBSD distribution has ever been proven to have a remote exploit.
And that's why NetBSD is the go-to starting point for folks who don't want to share their files with the wide Internet.
And so it goes that the cesium is absorbed by seaweed which is eaten by the mites which are eaten by the minnows that are eaten by the fish that are eaten by the tuna that is the chicken of the sea.
Steam can and does carry particulates even though the water vapor itself is benign. An exploding nuclear reactor is not a distillery.
Under normal operating conditions. If the boat sinks all bets are off.
It's a little disconcerting that so many of these "nothing to see here citizen, move along" posts are made by anonymous cowards.