I've always believed that the only censorware that has any chance of truly being effective is the type that takes jpeg screenshots at certain intervals and saves them to a protected directory. This places the responsibility back in the hands of parents where it belongs. Who in their right mind would let a stranger control their children's access to information?
As an aside, my high school's filter blocked any search for "teen," as I found out trying to get information on teens in the Olympics.
Looks more like an old or slow PC to me. Celeron? Hard drive? graphics accelerator? Linux? Wouldn't surprise me if someone uppgraded that proc and started using it to play UT on their TV. Yeah, teh graphics card prolly sucks, but for 6x4x16, in UT which is morelimited by the proc, it would work. Or even load Windows, for a wider selection of games. This does NOT look like a completely closed box. Why not just market it as a computer for use with a TV? It has pretty much all the requirements. One thing htat puzzled me, though, was the lack of pricing data anywhere on the page.
True, anyone should have the right to comment on any license. I myself hate the license to Office 2000. However, the NASM license is not nearly as predatory as that one, and yet because it isn't the GPL it gets treated with the term "black hole." I merely meant to point out that other licenses are valid, not that every license is valid. However, it is the right of the programmer to decide how top license his code, just hopefully if it's overly restrictive no one will buy/use it.
The whole attitude of much of the open source movement gets to me. The use of the term "black hole" to refer to code not under the GPL is troubling. Other licenses have valid uses, and it should be up to the author which to use. If a person is only willing to code under the GPL, then he is as nonsensical as a person who refuses to drive anything except a Ford Explorer. You're using their compiler; they have the right to say what you can use it for just as much as the GPL says what you can do with code released under it.
Not all computer lovers got the shit kicked out of them in high school. I ran cross-country and track, and got along with the entire team, plus a number of lacross and football players. No one picked on me. Most schools have no entry requirements for some sports every season, give them a try and put some effort out. Meet some people, get some color, some muscle, and learn to socialize.
Did these athletes sign some form of agreement when they entered the competition to refrain from these actions? If not, there's no way this can be enforced at all. Also, what struck me about the ban on non-sponsor clothing while recieving medals was what happens if an athlete cannot get a sponsor for a particular article of clothing? And how long do they intend to force athletes to not put their diaries online? During the games? Until the next games? Forever?
And while we're on the subject, has anyone else here seen _Without Limits_, and recognized the similarities between the then-AAU and the IOC?
Assuming this is true, it's really not all that surprising. After all, Microsoft ported some applications to MacOS earlier, mostly in an attempt to show that they had a competitor. Porting Office to linux is probably an attempt to get the DoJ off their backs, and at the same time get some linux users to see how nice MO Office is, and then say, "Now, if you tried it on the platform it's designed for, it would be much better." That's their angle, not support and not admitting that there are other worthwhile OSes.
What matters most in this arena is price and performance, with a slight advantage going to performance. With no data on the speed of these technologies, I can't say for certain, but since the cost of fabricating DDRRAM is only slightly higher than SDRAM, and is a relatively easy change, it's unlikely that MRAM will be even close to it in price, making speed a non-issue.
Sounds like a nifty idea, but it does rely on the thief using your email address, which isn't guaranteed. It also has the potential for someone else to send the triggering email, thus wiping your system...
Well, in my AP CS class, after we finished what we needed for the Ap test, we modded Quake time after time, and even taught our teacher how to play. That was even more fun, because he had said no skill was involved in these games. But seriously, Quake is written in QuakeC, which is damn close to the C++ taught in school, and the differences are simple for anyone with half a brain to figure out by just looking at the code. I know I learned a lot about both Quake and coding from that.
In that case, I hope any ivading army DOES destroy these nodes, as it would be instantly destroyed by mobs of angry Slashdotters who are pissed they can't access their news, and America would be free (such as it is, anyway) again!
You still didn't address my point about all of us following what are in effect orders to pay taxes to a government that performs illegal actions. By your logic, we are responsible for these actions, as most people are aware of at least some of them.
The Nazis who pleaded about following orders were personally killing helpless prisoners in cold blood. You simply CANNOT draw a parallel between this and pushing paper at a company that happens to use some questionable practices. You also fail to adress the issue of a worker at a company who is unaware of the company's practices in another area. By your logic, also, all US citizens are guilty, for we pay the taxes that have financed many illegal operations, and we do it merely because we are told to by people who hold power over us.
And as an aside to this, in various military actions in recent decades, soldiers have been ordered to do something illegal, such as murder civilians, and when the Nuremburg ruling is brought up, they are reminded that disobeying an order in wartime is punishable by immediate death, so don't be so quick to judge.
At first, I thought, "obviously this isn't broadcasting." However, as I think about it more, how is setting a file up for streaming by the general public any diffferent from an open broadcast? Both are open to anyone, provided the necessary hardware, knowledge of URL/frequency, and free to the end user, except for that required hardware. Given that, it seems streaming should be considered broadcasting.
Which is not to say I'd support this kind of crippling licensing. It seems to me that if the licensing is severe enough to shut down the streaming industry in AU, then those licensing laws need to be revised. OK, they were created when the Internet was text-only, but how did broadcasting companies survive then, and why can't Internet streaming companies do the same?
I'm really interested to see what these guys produce. I like a lot of what has been previously created by starting clean: the RISC processor and, more recently, the Agilent Arcticooler, which is smaller, cheaper, and more powerful than these big, ugly Alphas that cost $30 and block half your RAM slots.
However, try as I do, I can't seem to imagine a non-WIMP interface method. Still, I would love a new style that's not held back by legacy interfaces, just as I love that my new motherboard doesn't have any old ISA slots, thus forcing me to finally upgrade my AWE64, which is a little obsolete. Similarly, I would love an OS that lacked this desktop analogy and really showed how powerful these machines are.
This kind of cheating is really nothing new, back in the days of Quake 1 there were client-side mods that gave the user a huge advantage, like aiming, hearing the health of his enemies, or having long rods coming out of the enemy's model to track him through walls. Yes, it sucks, and Asus should not be doing this, but please don't pretend it's unprecedented. And don't even get me started about Diablo1.
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And while we're on the subject, has anyone else here seen _Without Limits_, and recognized the similarities between the then-AAU and the IOC?
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And as an aside to this, in various military actions in recent decades, soldiers have been ordered to do something illegal, such as murder civilians, and when the Nuremburg ruling is brought up, they are reminded that disobeying an order in wartime is punishable by immediate death, so don't be so quick to judge.
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Which is not to say I'd support this kind of crippling licensing. It seems to me that if the licensing is severe enough to shut down the streaming industry in AU, then those licensing laws need to be revised. OK, they were created when the Internet was text-only, but how did broadcasting companies survive then, and why can't Internet streaming companies do the same?
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However, try as I do, I can't seem to imagine a non-WIMP interface method. Still, I would love a new style that's not held back by legacy interfaces, just as I love that my new motherboard doesn't have any old ISA slots, thus forcing me to finally upgrade my AWE64, which is a little obsolete. Similarly, I would love an OS that lacked this desktop analogy and really showed how powerful these machines are.
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