So does this apply to just registered users of the site, or does it extend to I.P. addresses of people who visit the site but are not registered users? The difference is subtle but important.
In Ubuntu, Synaptic package manager is a fine way to install programs. It has a list that updates automatically, and is chocked full of apps that are all free and at your fingertips. The trouble comes when you need something thats not on the "list". Why will synaptic package manager not handle manually downloaded packages properly? I am not a Linux n00b. I am very comfortable with the command line. I understand repositories. I don't see why an application called package manager cannot consistently work with manually downloaded applications, or not work because of some obscure dependency or need of something from a particular repository. I won't get into the fact that Linux has no click and install scheme like.exe.
The article says Canonical will be providing the support. As Ubuntu comes with WINE, they will hopefully be coming up with support for many mainstream apps. Mabey these apps will see dell with Linux as a new market and eventually port there apps.
Microsoft can not do these things because they make way too much sense.
Pretty soon the company will be run by an angry bald middle aged guy who likes to throw chairs.
How well do you think that will work out for them?
Very shortly there will not be much business done in the United States. Most Americans will be absorbed into the Matrix very soon. The energy that our tubed bodies produce will be used to run the eternal server that Bill Gates consciousness has been transferred to. By that time the whole country will be painted the color of Windows 98 because Vista was not a hit and they had lots of grey and blue lying around.
has been no trouble at all. I have been running it on an older Toshiba A10-S169 laptop. It installed all drivers without the slightest problem. Out of a gig, it runs with about 350 to 400 megs of ram used by the OS. Some old software has not worked at all and some has worked flawlessly. I run it in basic due to integrated 3 year old crappy graphics. It has locked up a few times. It has not totally crashed once. It seems to come back from errors much quicker than XP ever has. It works very well for a new OS. I can not say the same for XP in it's first six months. I might start recomending it to friends and customers soon. I have yet to encounter the DRM boogyman. I am using it to type this post. If you haven't tried it yet, don't discount it because you really don't know what you are talking about. Some problems are bound to occur with some hardware this early in it's life. Thats how it is with something new. Not everything in the world will work perfectly, but many problems that people are having now will be worked out in the next year. It's probably not for everyone and thats OK. My Vista rant.
DRM - Any technology used to limit the use of software, music, movies or other digital data.
Digital Rights Management is a protection scheme implemented on order from digital content owners/creators to protect this content from unwanted copying and distribution. At some point, someone somewhere sometime had the idea for this type of protection for digital content, and said "make it so". Whether it is the company that creates the content or an ISV offering these protection schemes as products, they are applied to media that is then sold for profit or at the least distributed on media or through the 'tubes' . This content is in need of protection from unwanted uses. Users of this content want use as they wish i.e, television, computer, hand-held, what-have-you. Today, the DRM we have on different kinds of media make them clumsy objects to be used only in specific ways or on specific platforms. A couple of examples would be a PDF on Adobe Reader or a DVD by approved software or hardware. This system, and by guilt of association DRM'd content, is by nature flawed as it promotes difficulty in moving information between where it exists and points where it can be useful to someone. We need a more balanced DRM that can be used on all types of content to protect as well as allow use as the user sees fit. Mabey a small piece of code in a media file that states whether a given item is genuine or not. Not restricting use of the media but guaranteeing authenticity that the user has what they paid for. Something along these lines could go a long way to ease interoperability and promote digital media as something owned and used not the user getting used and pwned. If you could buy a movie and use it on all of your computers, consoles, and hand-held devices and it would never go away and you could get it again because there was a record of you owning particular rights to that movie in a certain format, wouldn't you be more likely to purchase this type of media?
Stop prostitution by jailing clients Stop drugs by jailing users
Because these methods have been so successful? Both of these wars were lost a long time ago.
The real solution is education. Most average computer users are hellbent on buying inexpensive mass marketed commodity machines, hooking them up to their 'fat pipes', and away they go. Mabey a quick-start guide included with these machines that explains the explicit dangers of just turning them on and goin' hog-wild. Then again most people don't read those anyway. Getting information about best online practices looked at, understood, and acted upon by users would be a first major step in the right direction.
I will also be purchasing this game later today. Evidently, everyone just seems to want to have a schism because something in their universe is 'new' and 'scary'. The truth seems to be that the built-in technology that is ad related 1.Only runs while the game is running. 2.Only sends back how long you look at any given in-game add that is in a specific location in the game. 3.I.P. address
(questionable, but ton's of programs not to mention games have been doing this for years). I was disappointed with Battlefield 2. It felt like a totally different kind of game from the other Battlefield series games. That's okay, except that i didn't like the helicopters or the airplanes in battlefield 2 and that is what brought me to the series in the first place. I will give this game a try and hope for one more good title out of the series before EA really blows it.
It is probably not the most popular subject on Slashdot, but the A+ training materials provide a decent fundamental knowledge of hardware, software, Operating Systems, and how everything works togather.
It is where I started, and i now not only know how to work on computers but i get paid for it.
Unless you are a film buff, actually like to know about films and their productions, and have possibly worked in the industry. There is not enough time for me to see all of what I want to see. There are literally tens of thousands of films to see not to mention the CARTOONS! I can't get them fast enough!
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If this is happening now, chances are that IBM has talked to Lenovo about this many times in the past. They have probably come up with some sort of "linux will work just fine on the computers we will be making" backroom agreement between both companies. I am not sure, but i do not think Lenovo would attempt to alienate IBM in the areas of laptops and PCs. Mabey non-corp linux support for these machines has become some sort of terrible burden for Lenovo.
In a WinXP class that i just got done with today the prof wanted to demonstrate windows live to us.We went to some kind of map part of it to look at satellite images.This service was a joke.It was slow.It was cumbersome.It totally turned me off of it immediately.I'm sure that many others will have the same experience
Remember that technologies improve.The flash memory we have today that can take 100,000 writes might not be the flash memory of tomorrow.My first (real) hard drive was a 10gig maxtor that cost around 70.00.Think about the technological improvements and price per gig that we have seen in just the past five years.In another five years we might see (hopefully) just that kind of improvement in flash technology.
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So does this apply to just registered users of the site, or does it extend to I.P. addresses of people who visit the site but are not registered users? The difference is subtle but important.
In Ubuntu, Synaptic package manager is a fine way to install programs. It has a list that updates automatically, and is chocked full of apps that are all free and at your fingertips. The trouble comes when you need something thats not on the "list". Why will synaptic package manager not handle manually downloaded packages properly? I am not a Linux n00b. I am very comfortable with the command line. I understand repositories. I don't see why an application called package manager cannot consistently work with manually downloaded applications, or not work because of some obscure dependency or need of something from a particular repository. I won't get into the fact that Linux has no click and install scheme like .exe.
The article says Canonical will be providing the support. As Ubuntu comes with WINE, they will hopefully be coming up with support for many mainstream apps. Mabey these apps will see dell with Linux as a new market and eventually port there apps.
Microsoft can not do these things because they make way too much sense. Pretty soon the company will be run by an angry bald middle aged guy who likes to throw chairs. How well do you think that will work out for them?
Managers always take the wuss way out. Little to no accountability is the norm.
Very shortly there will not be much business done in the United States. Most Americans will be absorbed into the Matrix very soon. The energy that our tubed bodies produce will be used to run the eternal server that Bill Gates consciousness has been transferred to. By that time the whole country will be painted the color of Windows 98 because Vista was not a hit and they had lots of grey and blue lying around.
So shall it be written, so shall it be done.
how DO they manage "realtime" data on that w/o the lag? Lasers?
If you plant ice, your gonna' harvest wind.
has been no trouble at all. I have been running it on an older Toshiba A10-S169 laptop. It installed all drivers without the slightest problem. Out of a gig, it runs with about 350 to 400 megs of ram used by the OS. Some old software has not worked at all and some has worked flawlessly. I run it in basic due to integrated 3 year old crappy graphics. It has locked up a few times. It has not totally crashed once. It seems to come back from errors much quicker than XP ever has. It works very well for a new OS. I can not say the same for XP in it's first six months. I might start recomending it to friends and customers soon. I have yet to encounter the DRM boogyman. I am using it to type this post. If you haven't tried it yet, don't discount it because you really don't know what you are talking about. Some problems are bound to occur with some hardware this early in it's life. Thats how it is with something new. Not everything in the world will work perfectly, but many problems that people are having now will be worked out in the next year. It's probably not for everyone and thats OK. My Vista rant.
Why Esmail, how mad scientist of you! Your roommate and a pork chop next you say? Excellent.
why do you want a Dell?
Big deal. I did this last week in my front yard with the old engine out of my Pathfinder.
DRM - Any technology used to limit the use of software, music, movies or other digital data.
Digital Rights Management is a protection scheme implemented on order from digital content owners/creators to protect this content from unwanted copying and distribution.
At some point, someone somewhere sometime had the idea for this type of protection for digital content, and said "make it so".
Whether it is the company that creates the content or an ISV offering these protection schemes as products, they are applied to media that is then sold for profit or at the least distributed on media or through the 'tubes' .
This content is in need of protection from unwanted uses.
Users of this content want use as they wish i.e, television, computer, hand-held, what-have-you.
Today, the DRM we have on different kinds of media make them clumsy objects to be used only in specific ways or on specific platforms.
A couple of examples would be a PDF on Adobe Reader or a DVD by approved software or hardware.
This system, and by guilt of association DRM'd content, is by nature flawed as it promotes difficulty in moving information between where it exists and points where it can be useful to someone.
We need a more balanced DRM that can be used on all types of content to protect as well as allow use as the user sees fit.
Mabey a small piece of code in a media file that states whether a given item is genuine or not.
Not restricting use of the media but guaranteeing authenticity that the user has what they paid for.
Something along these lines could go a long way to ease interoperability and promote digital media as something owned and used not the user getting used and pwned.
If you could buy a movie and use it on all of your computers, consoles, and hand-held devices and it would never go away and you could get it again because there was a record of you owning particular rights to that movie in a certain format, wouldn't you be more likely to purchase this type of media?
Stop prostitution by jailing clients
Stop drugs by jailing users
Because these methods have been so successful?
Both of these wars were lost a long time ago.
The real solution is education.
Most average computer users are hellbent on buying inexpensive mass marketed commodity machines, hooking them up to their 'fat pipes', and away they go.
Mabey a quick-start guide included with these machines that explains the explicit dangers of just turning them on and goin' hog-wild.
Then again most people don't read those anyway.
Getting information about best online practices looked at, understood, and acted upon by users would be a first major step in the right direction.
I will also be purchasing this game later today. Evidently, everyone just seems to want to have a schism because something in their universe is 'new' and 'scary'. The truth seems to be that the built-in technology that is ad related 1.Only runs while the game is running. 2.Only sends back how long you look at any given in-game add that is in a specific location in the game. 3.I.P. address (questionable, but ton's of programs not to mention games have been doing this for years). I was disappointed with Battlefield 2. It felt like a totally different kind of game from the other Battlefield series games. That's okay, except that i didn't like the helicopters or the airplanes in battlefield 2 and that is what brought me to the series in the first place. I will give this game a try and hope for one more good title out of the series before EA really blows it.
It is probably not the most popular subject on Slashdot, but the A+ training materials provide a decent fundamental knowledge of hardware, software, Operating Systems, and how everything works togather. It is where I started, and i now not only know how to work on computers but i get paid for it.
Secretly causing a "forced malfunction" is probably the best solution.
Unless you are a film buff, actually like to know about films and their productions, and have possibly worked in the industry. There is not enough time for me to see all of what I want to see. There are literally tens of thousands of films to see not to mention the CARTOONS! I can't get them fast enough!
If this is happening now, chances are that IBM has talked to Lenovo about this many times in the past. They have probably come up with some sort of "linux will work just fine on the computers we will be making" backroom agreement between both companies. I am not sure, but i do not think Lenovo would attempt to alienate IBM in the areas of laptops and PCs. Mabey non-corp linux support for these machines has become some sort of terrible burden for Lenovo.
For millions of years, humans have been beating each other to death with sticks from trees.Those trees have to go.
In a WinXP class that i just got done with today the prof wanted to demonstrate windows live to us.We went to some kind of map part of it to look at satellite images.This service was a joke.It was slow.It was cumbersome.It totally turned me off of it immediately.I'm sure that many others will have the same experience
The only people that seem to be terrorizing me are the United States Government.
This restores my faith that one day when I graduate I will be needed.
Remember that technologies improve.The flash memory we have today that can take 100,000 writes might not be the flash memory of tomorrow.My first (real) hard drive was a 10gig maxtor that cost around 70.00.Think about the technological improvements and price per gig that we have seen in just the past five years.In another five years we might see (hopefully) just that kind of improvement in flash technology.