People who claim that the iTMS DRM is a "good compromise" have naively bought into the impending doom propaganda.
He has a point - the DRM that comes with iTunes is already creeping up in restrictions from the point at which you first agreed to it. Perhaps you should take another look and think again if it is really worth it to you?
I remember all the comments here about how no one would buy anything with DRM attached... but then it turns out that yes, most of Slashdot indeed would buy it willingly. How very dissapointing.
Here in most of England and indeed large parts of Europe (and probably even in bits of the US) no watering at all is needed to grow a healthy lawn, even in the middle of summer.
Why do you think this country is so famous for it's cricket pitches and afternoon tea out in the garden?:) Theres probably enough surplus grass in middle England to run the whole of NY state for a week.
Sadly for ATI and Nvidia the PPC on Mac business is so small that there are no 3D drivers for the current generation. (Although the Radeon 9200 does have OSS 3D drivers.)
The hardware is beautiful. It's well thought out, well laid out, lasts forever (battery wise and durability) and *gets girls to come over to your table look at it*. The alternative, at least for laptops, is IBM... at twice the price.
Now they even have a working scroll implimentation (which was a crippling omission, my NEC had a scroll stub for ~3 years before Apple thought of something).
And yes, your brand new very pretty computer will work well with Linux just fine, so there seems to be little downside at all*.
*Apart from lack of 3D card support, and for some reason Apple use crappy propriatery 802.11g cards with no Linux drivers. Mystifying.
Well thanks for all your efforts on it (as well as everone elses) - I really hope they keep the suite alive. It's much nicer than FF for my use, and I'd be very sad if it were ever to die.
If Microsoft lose they will have a strong motivation to lobby to have the law changed.
If they win it will show them that having piles of cash is enough to beat the current IP system whilst using it to crush the small guys who cant fight in court.
You could have 'iDownload is selling your credit card information to people who want to rip you off' in 5 mile high letters created by manipulating the Northern Lights and there would still be people who downloaded and ran it just to see what all the fuss was about.
Hammers are being massivly abused to kill people. They need to be equipped with a fingerprint sensor and a homing beacon and a rubber head so they can't be abused! END THE MADNESS NOW!
...it's time for the return of my shotgun to active duty.
I tolerate text ads because something has to pay for the web, but popups and other abusive ads (like the huge flash ads in the slashdot TEXT ONLY service) just get blocked. The fuckwits deserve not to get any ad revenue for pulling stupid tricks like that.
Woke up. couldn't find any clean underpants because the lighbulb is broken. Maybe the underpants gnomes stole the lightbulb to cover up the missing pants until they made their getaway.
19/2/2005
Posted in my blog today.
18/2/2005
Man I shouldn't have eaten those beans. I had to destroy all my underpants.
...rootkits for Linux are also a bitch to find and get rid of. It's only because we have had this risk for longer that we have good tools to find, remove and otherwise manage the risk... but how many Linux users actually do this?
Probably the same five who spool logs to another sever as well as write-only tape and run everything in chroot I suspect.
it is only a matter of time before these supercomputing powers may be used by a rogue state (for) crapflooding message boards.
Look, North Korean secret agent guy, just because you have a supercomputer doesn't mean you need to go posting this ton of crap to Slashdot thanks very much.
That's almost as ludicrous as Intel's faster CPU to surf the web faster theory. The trolls on slashdot are ample proof that you need nothing more than a low end pentium and lots of time to keep the drivel flowing all day.
My list of OS X annoyances is here. I'm sure everyone has their own list, and if it's longer that the Linux list why stick with OS X and annoy yourself every time you use your computer?
...they could also add 'women' to the index so we know how to identify one. Some list of suggestions for handling procedures might be welcome too as an appendix.
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Wow, I never noticed that the room light is out, guess I have too many displays and boxes with status LEDs in here or something.
That'll teach me to do the bosses daughter outside.
If they are going to steal someones security model then they should steal one that has some benefits.
:D
What? You wanted them to steal the security model from RiscOS? I think they already tried that with Win98
We steal their good stuff (hey! it might happen!), they steal ours, everyone steals from Apple. Building on existing good ideas is called progress.
From the interview:
People who claim that the iTMS DRM is a "good compromise" have naively bought into the impending doom propaganda.
He has a point - the DRM that comes with iTunes is already creeping up in restrictions from the point at which you first agreed to it. Perhaps you should take another look and think again if it is really worth it to you?
I remember all the comments here about how no one would buy anything with DRM attached... but then it turns out that yes, most of Slashdot indeed would buy it willingly. How very dissapointing.
The whole world != America.
:) Theres probably enough surplus grass in middle England to run the whole of NY state for a week.
Here in most of England and indeed large parts of Europe (and probably even in bits of the US) no watering at all is needed to grow a healthy lawn, even in the middle of summer.
Why do you think this country is so famous for it's cricket pitches and afternoon tea out in the garden?
Sadly for ATI and Nvidia the PPC on Mac business is so small that there are no 3D drivers for the current generation. (Although the Radeon 9200 does have OSS 3D drivers.)
Forgot to mention this, a decent (but different to iScroll) implimentation of scrolling for Linux on Powerbooks.
The hardware is beautiful. It's well thought out, well laid out, lasts forever (battery wise and durability) and *gets girls to come over to your table look at it*. The alternative, at least for laptops, is IBM... at twice the price.
Now they even have a working scroll implimentation (which was a crippling omission, my NEC had a scroll stub for ~3 years before Apple thought of something).
And yes, your brand new very pretty computer will work well with Linux just fine, so there seems to be little downside at all*.
*Apart from lack of 3D card support, and for some reason Apple use crappy propriatery 802.11g cards with no Linux drivers. Mystifying.
Well thanks for all your efforts on it (as well as everone elses) - I really hope they keep the suite alive. It's much nicer than FF for my use, and I'd be very sad if it were ever to die.
Orgnisations with bucket loads of money get a decision they want. Film at 11.
The more big companies that get sued for patent infringment, the faster the law will change.
Go scum, inflict some pain!
If Microsoft lose they will have a strong motivation to lobby to have the law changed.
If they win it will show them that having piles of cash is enough to beat the current IP system whilst using it to crush the small guys who cant fight in court.
Better than they lose.
You could have 'iDownload is selling your credit card information to people who want to rip you off' in 5 mile high letters created by manipulating the Northern Lights and there would still be people who downloaded and ran it just to see what all the fuss was about.
At least that's one song who's lyrics won't offend the FCC.
Or do you think they mught just be committing quiet obscenities? Better ban it anyway just in case.
Hammers are being massivly abused to kill people. They need to be equipped with a fingerprint sensor and a homing beacon and a rubber head so they can't be abused! END THE MADNESS NOW!
...it's time for the return of my shotgun to active duty.
I tolerate text ads because something has to pay for the web, but popups and other abusive ads (like the huge flash ads in the slashdot TEXT ONLY service) just get blocked. The fuckwits deserve not to get any ad revenue for pulling stupid tricks like that.
20/2/2005
Woke up. couldn't find any clean underpants because the lighbulb is broken. Maybe the underpants gnomes stole the lightbulb to cover up the missing pants until they made their getaway.
19/2/2005
Posted in my blog today.
18/2/2005
Man I shouldn't have eaten those beans. I had to destroy all my underpants.
...rootkits for Linux are also a bitch to find and get rid of. It's only because we have had this risk for longer that we have good tools to find, remove and otherwise manage the risk... but how many Linux users actually do this?
Probably the same five who spool logs to another sever as well as write-only tape and run everything in chroot I suspect.
They are the ones who made it impossible to delete Internet Exploiter after all.
Once the execubots decision has been commited to tape and the write protect tab punched out no force known to man can save a series.
it is only a matter of time before these supercomputing powers may be used by a rogue state (for) crapflooding message boards.
Look, North Korean secret agent guy, just because you have a supercomputer doesn't mean you need to go posting this ton of crap to Slashdot thanks very much.
That's almost as ludicrous as Intel's faster CPU to surf the web faster theory. The trolls on slashdot are ample proof that you need nothing more than a low end pentium and lots of time to keep the drivel flowing all day.
My list of OS X annoyances is here. I'm sure everyone has their own list, and if it's longer that the Linux list why stick with OS X and annoy yourself every time you use your computer?
I'd be a lot more trusting of their results if they had worked it out on a processor with 100% certainty.
...when she walks out and leaves you she takes the kids, half your gold and the pet dragon, just like in real life?
...they could also add 'women' to the index so we know how to identify one. Some list of suggestions for handling procedures might be welcome too as an appendix.