It is nearly equivalent if your margin of error is more than 3%, surely. And seeing as accurately dating stars is ridiculously difficult, that seams more than likely the case.
If there's licensed proprietary code in the drivers that ATI/nVidia doesn't own, it'd take a great deal of lawyers and possibly price hikes to make it possible. Just because something's closed source doesn't mean to say the only reason it's not open source is laziness or hatred of F/OSS...
A baby gorilla. Right. Dell are bowing to pressure. They're not doing it because Ubuntu is actually as useful as Windows. Please check your fanboyism at the door. GNU/Linux isn't "better" than windows. It doesn't have the same feature-set, so it's not directly comparable. There are still a flying shed-load of stuff XP does that no distro of Linux can (multimedia and games spring to mind, not to mention a decent-looking UI and great desktop performance), so harping on about how it's fantastic and better than XP just makes you look foolish. Try qualifying things with "in my opinion" or "for what I want to do". Intuitive file system? Really? "Program Files" is less intuitive than/usr/bin? Fantastic logic.
No, he's right. There's evidence I'm a 2,000ft-tall fighting robot, as there aren't any other 2,000ft-tall fighting robots around me. Clear evidence I fought them off, surely.
You clearly don't understand what TiVo are doing. They're doing this for the consumer. If they can't demonstrate to the FCC and the broadcasters that they're trying to protect their content, *poof* goes your TiVo. Your sense of entitlement is clearly overshadowed by your naivete. If TiVo sells you a hard disk that they don't want you to do what you want with, then it's stated in the license you accepted when you bought the product. Suck it up!
Driving at 100mph on the motorway? She should lose her license. I don't want to be rude, but she clearly doesn't give a flying shit about other road users. Her getting confused by her car is the least of her worries.
Well, as you're unwilling to read about XP Embedded, this discussion will be pretty pointless. XP Embedded is completely customisable. You can change anything you want on it. Want to change the power management? Do it. It's for non-standard hardware, just like the OLPC. The fact you're comparing it to XP running on a standard notebook is, quite frankly, hilarious. I could say that Linux is a bad choice as the FC6 install I downloaded and ran on my PC is slow in some respects and has shitty power management, if I used your logic. But then I know the OLPC isn't the same hardware as my PC, and FC6 isn't the OS on the OLPC.
The Classmate isn't running XP Professional, but XP Embedded, which gives you a stripped-down version of XP, including only the components you want (in great detail). It doesn't have to have anything it won't need. Though with Windows, you get to run Windows software *and* open-source software. The only reason to go with anything else would be licensing costs, not functionality-wise.
Nice troll, there. Seriously nice. Well crafted, insidiously linking Islam to something else entirely, the whole deal. Fantastic stuff.
Scientology pushed for charges to be made against Keith. This isn't about Islam, or multiculturalism (as much as that word clearly hurts you), but about Scientology's doctrine of using the law to harass critics, even without a conviction, to silence or discredit them. If what you said was true - that multiculturalism is to blame - then the multicultural places around the world would be having the exact same problems as are being discussed here. As they're not, your trollish behaviour is nicely outed for us all to see.
Scientologists don't like Xenu, so surely this is what you get for following Xenu, not messing with him;) Xenu is the Scientologists's Satan, whereas LRH is their Jesus.
And also, not forgetting, that some of the people who make or desire to make films are still artists (though admittedly fewer and fewer), whose vision might require more than one film to tell their story. Let's not be too cynical, though after star wars and the matrix I can hardly blame you:-P
And Holocaust Deniers have their own expo, too - getting a bunch of people together doesn't automatically make their proclaimed reason for meeting up correct. Web 2.0 is clearly a massive buzzword, one that has taken marketing departments by storm. It doesn't describe anything. AJAX? Well, we call that AJAX. Social networking? We call that social networking. It's impossible to get the same definition of Web 2.0 from two different people. That should be a warning sign.
That Tim O'Reilly guy is clearly some sort of asshat masquerading as someone people should pay attention to. Terrible.:)
I don't want to sound ungrateful for your informative post, nor am I being sarcastic when I write this, but of course the hack depends on using encryption for content protection. It's a hack for a specific "problem", notably encrypted content. I guess you meant the problem with the security system used on HD DVDs is that it relies on encryption for content protection. This hack is merely a work-around. Every hack depends on what it's hacking, otherwise it's not a hack but software:)
Of course it is. Most HD DVD users don't hack firmware. Most PC users don't hack firmware. Statistically speaking, it's abnormal. I'm not saying it's wrong - clearly the majority's actions don't define what's right or wrong, I'm just saying it's not normal for people to hack firmware.
ANY site, channel, newspaper, magazine, or other that has advertising has a massive, massive conflict of interest when discussing its advertisers or their products. Slashdot's own Opinion Center, while not necessarily displaying any bias, still has a conflict of interest. That's why commercially-supported media is inherently dangerous. Even when it looks OK, it's still dodgy as fuck.
This crack relies on just one person having one of these cracked drives, and using it to expose weaknesses that can be exploited on non-cracked hardware running custom software. Whether MS took these drives off the shelf tomorrow or not, it doesn't matter. The fact at least one cracked drive exists out there, in the hands of people looking to circumvent the DRM, means this crack can't be stopped. Us normal non-firmware-hacking types will have to wait for where this current hack takes us, as this is the first step to getting an unrevokable crack in the hands of johhny-no-soldering-iron.
Their marketing slogan was "You either love it or hate it", featuring an advert of people either going crazy to get to the stuff, or crazy to get away from it. Personally, I think it's delicious:) I can eat the stuff with a spoon it's so tasty. Yay yeast extract! And, fyi, it's about 100 years old, and invented by Germans.
Easy. It's fucking SLOW. It does let you do all kinds of great things, but it's slow. And if you're running any services or apps that rely on cygwin, they all have to use the same version otherwise things start to act very mysteriously, and cause all kinds of weird-ass problems. I love cygwin. I got to run PHP with process control functions under windows. But then that stopped my OpenSSH service from working:)
Or maybe when you sleep, you involuntarily open your eyes sometimes, and not fully wake up, and go back to sleep. If there's a spider, your brain notices the spider and wakes you up. That's the danger of anecdotal evidence for phenomena like this - you don't know about the 50,000 other times spiders have been above you when you sleep that you didn't see because you didn't open your eyes during sleep to see them, and so your brain didn't wake you up, throwing doubt on your literal spidey sense.
As for "gut instinct", that might be something completely different. There's a bundle of nerves all wrapped up just above peoples' stomachs, which has been said by some (note my weasel words) to be able of very basic emotional "thought". But that's another story;)
It's much, much more than just switching CPUs. Intel provides a shitload of support for Apple's product development, essentially producing their entire base system. Intel's strengths are that it can do this, whereas AMD would struggle to do it half as well (owing to its relative size and facilities at its disposal). Seeing as Apple's prices are already higher for hardware than other vendors selling the same hardware, increasing the price for Macs would make them prohibitively expensive. Sure it'll be a mac/amd fanboy's wet dream, but Jobs ain't stupid. I'm sure Apple loves what Intel does for them, as Intel has the resources to toss the commercial salad like no-one else. Couple that with having to take a hit in performance for the switch, and it's pure wishful thinking.
Plus when you stop, the sand doesn't instantly spread evenly across the surface, so transcribing the pattern to a carving is far, far easier than doing the same from a water-based method.
Yeah! I'm pissed off too, because I can't watch these shows on my kettle in my kitchen! If you choose to run a minority OS, you can't honestly expect to have the level of support as the vast majority. That's clearly unreasonable.
The BBC sometimes can't justify spending shitloads of license payers' money on technology a tiny minority uses. The DRM is essential due to the protection required to stop people not paying their license fee and just downloading shows. They have to protect their revenue, and they have to protect those who do pay their licenses.
BitTorrent isn't superior to offerings from TV networks, regardless of how you see it. Well, it is for you as your OS of choice isn't supported, so it's either BitTorrent or nothing, but the majority of PC users (Windows) find these services work juuust fine. Like Channel4's 4oD service. It's great.
I didn't think it ran multi-user OR over a network... isn't it just in the actual voting machines? As for compression and repairing, these databases are only in use for a day on the machine, and as long as the vote count takes on the tabulator machines. These aren't massive histories, just one-shot databases. I'm not excusing them (shit, I hate electronic voting), or criticising you, btw, just trying to figure it out:)
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It is nearly equivalent if your margin of error is more than 3%, surely. And seeing as accurately dating stars is ridiculously difficult, that seams more than likely the case.
If there's licensed proprietary code in the drivers that ATI/nVidia doesn't own, it'd take a great deal of lawyers and possibly price hikes to make it possible. Just because something's closed source doesn't mean to say the only reason it's not open source is laziness or hatred of F/OSS...
A baby gorilla. Right. Dell are bowing to pressure. They're not doing it because Ubuntu is actually as useful as Windows. Please check your fanboyism at the door. GNU/Linux isn't "better" than windows. It doesn't have the same feature-set, so it's not directly comparable. There are still a flying shed-load of stuff XP does that no distro of Linux can (multimedia and games spring to mind, not to mention a decent-looking UI and great desktop performance), so harping on about how it's fantastic and better than XP just makes you look foolish. Try qualifying things with "in my opinion" or "for what I want to do". Intuitive file system? Really? "Program Files" is less intuitive than /usr/bin? Fantastic logic.
No, he's right. There's evidence I'm a 2,000ft-tall fighting robot, as there aren't any other 2,000ft-tall fighting robots around me. Clear evidence I fought them off, surely.
You clearly don't understand what TiVo are doing. They're doing this for the consumer. If they can't demonstrate to the FCC and the broadcasters that they're trying to protect their content, *poof* goes your TiVo. Your sense of entitlement is clearly overshadowed by your naivete. If TiVo sells you a hard disk that they don't want you to do what you want with, then it's stated in the license you accepted when you bought the product. Suck it up!
Driving at 100mph on the motorway? She should lose her license. I don't want to be rude, but she clearly doesn't give a flying shit about other road users. Her getting confused by her car is the least of her worries.
Well, as you're unwilling to read about XP Embedded, this discussion will be pretty pointless. XP Embedded is completely customisable. You can change anything you want on it. Want to change the power management? Do it. It's for non-standard hardware, just like the OLPC. The fact you're comparing it to XP running on a standard notebook is, quite frankly, hilarious. I could say that Linux is a bad choice as the FC6 install I downloaded and ran on my PC is slow in some respects and has shitty power management, if I used your logic. But then I know the OLPC isn't the same hardware as my PC, and FC6 isn't the OS on the OLPC.
The Classmate isn't running XP Professional, but XP Embedded, which gives you a stripped-down version of XP, including only the components you want (in great detail). It doesn't have to have anything it won't need. Though with Windows, you get to run Windows software *and* open-source software. The only reason to go with anything else would be licensing costs, not functionality-wise.
Nice troll, there. Seriously nice. Well crafted, insidiously linking Islam to something else entirely, the whole deal. Fantastic stuff.
Scientology pushed for charges to be made against Keith. This isn't about Islam, or multiculturalism (as much as that word clearly hurts you), but about Scientology's doctrine of using the law to harass critics, even without a conviction, to silence or discredit them. If what you said was true - that multiculturalism is to blame - then the multicultural places around the world would be having the exact same problems as are being discussed here. As they're not, your trollish behaviour is nicely outed for us all to see.
9/10 for the post, though. Seriously good.
But it's fine for me to burn in hell for eternity for not believing in the zombie jesus? Cheers, pal! You're a star!
Scientologists don't like Xenu, so surely this is what you get for following Xenu, not messing with him ;) Xenu is the Scientologists's Satan, whereas LRH is their Jesus.
And also, not forgetting, that some of the people who make or desire to make films are still artists (though admittedly fewer and fewer), whose vision might require more than one film to tell their story. Let's not be too cynical, though after star wars and the matrix I can hardly blame you :-P
And Holocaust Deniers have their own expo, too - getting a bunch of people together doesn't automatically make their proclaimed reason for meeting up correct. Web 2.0 is clearly a massive buzzword, one that has taken marketing departments by storm. It doesn't describe anything. AJAX? Well, we call that AJAX. Social networking? We call that social networking. It's impossible to get the same definition of Web 2.0 from two different people. That should be a warning sign.
:)
That Tim O'Reilly guy is clearly some sort of asshat masquerading as someone people should pay attention to. Terrible.
I don't want to sound ungrateful for your informative post, nor am I being sarcastic when I write this, but of course the hack depends on using encryption for content protection. It's a hack for a specific "problem", notably encrypted content. I guess you meant the problem with the security system used on HD DVDs is that it relies on encryption for content protection. This hack is merely a work-around. Every hack depends on what it's hacking, otherwise it's not a hack but software :)
Of course it is. Most HD DVD users don't hack firmware. Most PC users don't hack firmware. Statistically speaking, it's abnormal. I'm not saying it's wrong - clearly the majority's actions don't define what's right or wrong, I'm just saying it's not normal for people to hack firmware.
ANY site, channel, newspaper, magazine, or other that has advertising has a massive, massive conflict of interest when discussing its advertisers or their products. Slashdot's own Opinion Center, while not necessarily displaying any bias, still has a conflict of interest. That's why commercially-supported media is inherently dangerous. Even when it looks OK, it's still dodgy as fuck.
This crack relies on just one person having one of these cracked drives, and using it to expose weaknesses that can be exploited on non-cracked hardware running custom software. Whether MS took these drives off the shelf tomorrow or not, it doesn't matter. The fact at least one cracked drive exists out there, in the hands of people looking to circumvent the DRM, means this crack can't be stopped. Us normal non-firmware-hacking types will have to wait for where this current hack takes us, as this is the first step to getting an unrevokable crack in the hands of johhny-no-soldering-iron.
Their marketing slogan was "You either love it or hate it", featuring an advert of people either going crazy to get to the stuff, or crazy to get away from it. Personally, I think it's delicious :) I can eat the stuff with a spoon it's so tasty. Yay yeast extract! And, fyi, it's about 100 years old, and invented by Germans.
Easy. It's fucking SLOW. It does let you do all kinds of great things, but it's slow. And if you're running any services or apps that rely on cygwin, they all have to use the same version otherwise things start to act very mysteriously, and cause all kinds of weird-ass problems. I love cygwin. I got to run PHP with process control functions under windows. But then that stopped my OpenSSH service from working :)
Or maybe when you sleep, you involuntarily open your eyes sometimes, and not fully wake up, and go back to sleep. If there's a spider, your brain notices the spider and wakes you up. That's the danger of anecdotal evidence for phenomena like this - you don't know about the 50,000 other times spiders have been above you when you sleep that you didn't see because you didn't open your eyes during sleep to see them, and so your brain didn't wake you up, throwing doubt on your literal spidey sense.
;)
As for "gut instinct", that might be something completely different. There's a bundle of nerves all wrapped up just above peoples' stomachs, which has been said by some (note my weasel words) to be able of very basic emotional "thought". But that's another story
It's much, much more than just switching CPUs. Intel provides a shitload of support for Apple's product development, essentially producing their entire base system. Intel's strengths are that it can do this, whereas AMD would struggle to do it half as well (owing to its relative size and facilities at its disposal). Seeing as Apple's prices are already higher for hardware than other vendors selling the same hardware, increasing the price for Macs would make them prohibitively expensive. Sure it'll be a mac/amd fanboy's wet dream, but Jobs ain't stupid. I'm sure Apple loves what Intel does for them, as Intel has the resources to toss the commercial salad like no-one else. Couple that with having to take a hit in performance for the switch, and it's pure wishful thinking.
Grow up! Seriously.
Plus when you stop, the sand doesn't instantly spread evenly across the surface, so transcribing the pattern to a carving is far, far easier than doing the same from a water-based method.
Yeah! I'm pissed off too, because I can't watch these shows on my kettle in my kitchen! If you choose to run a minority OS, you can't honestly expect to have the level of support as the vast majority. That's clearly unreasonable.
The BBC sometimes can't justify spending shitloads of license payers' money on technology a tiny minority uses. The DRM is essential due to the protection required to stop people not paying their license fee and just downloading shows. They have to protect their revenue, and they have to protect those who do pay their licenses.
BitTorrent isn't superior to offerings from TV networks, regardless of how you see it. Well, it is for you as your OS of choice isn't supported, so it's either BitTorrent or nothing, but the majority of PC users (Windows) find these services work juuust fine. Like Channel4's 4oD service. It's great.
Sounds a bit like sour grapes to me...
I didn't think it ran multi-user OR over a network... isn't it just in the actual voting machines? As for compression and repairing, these databases are only in use for a day on the machine, and as long as the vote count takes on the tabulator machines. These aren't massive histories, just one-shot databases. I'm not excusing them (shit, I hate electronic voting), or criticising you, btw, just trying to figure it out :)