20 odd years ago, when calculators first came out, there were models that didn't have percent and memory functions that happened to use the same chip as models that did. There were ways to rig in your own switches to enable those functions.
I could purchase a cheap Casio and modify it to be a not-as-cheap Casio that had the M+ M- and MR keys. I couldn't then expect Casio to honor the warranty on the calculator.
This is no different. No new precedent is being set. No new 'rights' are being taken away from you.
And you've made it very apparent that you're fully aware of the limitations in this product by your protestations here. So if the product doesn't suit your needs, and you can't modify it to suit your needs, don't buy one. Nobody is duping you.
Sony charges RENT on their products? Sheesh. I guess I'm probably pretty delinquent on my rent payments. Hope the repo man doesn't get me before I can call Sony and straighten it all out...
Yep. Sheer ignorance. It's terrible how ignorant people who disagree with you are. And a shame you don't have the far-reaching power to 'educate' them.
Go read the ACLU website, to see what kind of paranoia they are trying to stir up, to make payments on the expensive new copier at National Headquarters.
That's an excellent sentiment. And part of watching government closely is keeping close to the government. That is made easier if the most government power is delegated locally as possible.
So let's get rid of the National bureacracy and bring government closer to home.
The grandparent comment was praising Linux as if the fact that it can run apache, even on a 'desktop' machine, makes it a thing of wonderment. ("Of course it can!")
The reason we even have the PC as an open-architecture system and not a shitty closed black box controlled by IBM is because a bunch of engineers at Phoenix reverse-engineered the BIOS and managed to start producing compatible systems.
Actually, I have the Technical Reference Manual for the very first generaton version of the IBM PC here (the one with the 16/64 motherboard- you had to add memory on IO cards if you needed more than 64K). The full schematic is published in it. There are NO chips on the motherboard that are not Commercial Off the shelf parts, except for the ROM.
The commented ROM source code is also published in the Technical Reference Manual.
The IBM PC was never a 'closed black box' and Phoenix did NOT 'rescue' the hardware. The BIOS was copyright and illegal to reproduce, but it was very OPEN and many programmers took good (and bad, linking too close into the ROM source) advantage of it's openness.
What Phoenix accomplished is interesting. They 'reverse engineered' the product specification for the IBM BIOS and handed off that specification to a team who had not looked at IBM's published source code, who reimplemented it. In essence, anybody who read the source was 'contaminated' and couldn't work on the reimplementation. But that's not IBM being Closed.
I remember about 12 years ago being in an online chat on a multi-line BBS system. I had been given a phone number from somebody to call, but then shut down the term program without writing it down. I was running Windows 3.1 and the term program I used at that time was Telemate (a MS-DOS program). I decided to run a string search on my permanet swapfile. Sure enough I recovered the phone number out of that big multi-megabyte file.
In the days of 'virtual memory' (which is now, and an era that goes years back) you'll have a HARD time not having traces remain on your hardware.
The truly funny thing is that the so called 'Sagan' project was a total dismal failure on the part of internal Apple developers to come up with a next-generation MacOS that wasn't just more code piled onto the old mess.
They made several other attempts at a 'next gen MacOS' before the outsiders from NeXT came in and rescued them.
Sagan should have been suing because being associated with Apple's 'Code Gurus' of the time put him in a bad light.
"Port Cities" don't need to have all the stuff New Orleans has been famous for.
Not saying that New Orleans' culture is bad or anything of the kind. But 80% of the reason people live there isn't to support it as a utilitarian Port City.
The part that disturbs me is that when they put the Governor of Louisiana on TV news, she kept saying, almost in a false-triumphalist tone 'we _will_ rebuild.'
I mean. Go ahead. With your own money. Here's free transportation out if that's what you want.
The better 'Power PC' chips will continue to exist, i.e. IBM's POWER architecture. They won't be ignored, Apple just won't produce 'desktop' hardware that uses watered-down versions of them any longer.
Whether anything called a 'G6' will come out is dubious, since G3, G4, G5 were all marketing-gimmick names coined by Apple Computer.
You coded yourself into a dead end. 'Altivec' is indeed rapidly becoming 'legacy.' You can file it where a lot of people file their 6809 assembly code.
Deal with it. Maybe you should port your code all over to the Dec Alpha processor. *smirk*
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it's going to take a lot of money to setup a DRM infrastructure to monitor and deactivate "hacked" PS3s.
Naw, it will be very economical.
There will just be little 'patches' included on new game disks, as they come out, that do the dirty work for Sony.
Don't want your system disabled? Stick with the games you already have.
Listen.
20 odd years ago, when calculators first came out, there were models that didn't have percent and memory functions that happened to use the same chip as models that did. There were ways to rig in your own switches to enable those functions.
I could purchase a cheap Casio and modify it to be a not-as-cheap Casio that had the M+ M- and MR keys. I couldn't then expect Casio to honor the warranty on the calculator.
This is no different. No new precedent is being set. No new 'rights' are being taken away from you.
And you've made it very apparent that you're fully aware of the limitations in this product by your protestations here. So if the product doesn't suit your needs, and you can't modify it to suit your needs, don't buy one. Nobody is duping you.
Sony charges RENT on their products? Sheesh. I guess I'm probably pretty delinquent on my rent payments. Hope the repo man doesn't get me before I can call Sony and straighten it all out...
Reality that isn't virtual??
What a frightening concept.
You knew it all long before anything that could have been presented to you as evidence.
It's all just a matter of electing YOUR candidate to office.
Better loosen those blinders.
Naw. Never mind.
Yep. Sheer ignorance. It's terrible how ignorant people who disagree with you are. And a shame you don't have the far-reaching power to 'educate' them.
You 'anti-Bush all the time, anytime' nutcases do a good job of discrediting yourselves.
He made the milk in your refrigerator go sour, too, didn't he?
TO PROTECT THE ACLU'S INTERESTS.
Go read the ACLU website, to see what kind of paranoia they are trying to stir up, to make payments on the expensive new copier at National Headquarters.
That's an excellent sentiment. And part of watching government closely is keeping close to the government. That is made easier if the most government power is delegated locally as possible.
So let's get rid of the National bureacracy and bring government closer to home.
Whoo. You found a way to invoke Haliburton. Here's your cookie!
I'm a former intelligence officer, and I never EVER saw you at the water cooler.
Could it be that one, or both of us, are lying through our teeth??
Well I always liked a good Filibuster.
I'm looking forward to all the blood on the floor when they pull the 'nuclear option.'
Anything that gets polytricksters fighting, maybe even causes a few of them to cease to exist, can't be all bad.
The grandparent comment was praising Linux as if the fact that it can run apache, even on a 'desktop' machine, makes it a thing of wonderment. ("Of course it can!")
A desktop ('workstation') copy of Windows NT 3.51 can also run Apache.
The reason we even have the PC as an open-architecture system and not a shitty closed black box controlled by IBM is because a bunch of engineers at Phoenix reverse-engineered the BIOS and managed to start producing compatible systems.
Actually, I have the Technical Reference Manual for the very first generaton version of the IBM PC here (the one with the 16/64 motherboard- you had to add memory on IO cards if you needed more than 64K). The full schematic is published in it. There are NO chips on the motherboard that are not Commercial Off the shelf parts, except for the ROM.
The commented ROM source code is also published in the Technical Reference Manual.
The IBM PC was never a 'closed black box' and Phoenix did NOT 'rescue' the hardware. The BIOS was copyright and illegal to reproduce, but it was very OPEN and many programmers took good (and bad, linking too close into the ROM source) advantage of it's openness.
What Phoenix accomplished is interesting. They 'reverse engineered' the product specification for the IBM BIOS and handed off that specification to a team who had not looked at IBM's published source code, who reimplemented it. In essence, anybody who read the source was 'contaminated' and couldn't work on the reimplementation. But that's not IBM being Closed.
I remember about 12 years ago being in an online chat on a multi-line BBS system. I had been given a phone number from somebody to call, but then shut down the term program without writing it down. I was running Windows 3.1 and the term program I used at that time was Telemate (a MS-DOS program). I decided to run a string search on my permanet swapfile. Sure enough I recovered the phone number out of that big multi-megabyte file.
In the days of 'virtual memory' (which is now, and an era that goes years back) you'll have a HARD time not having traces remain on your hardware.
Also- who is Unilever?
You're kidding, right?
Let's just say Unilever isn't a dude selling bars of soap on eBay.
Don't a lot of the Linux distributions out now have compiled-in requirements for Pentium or above processors?
(I learned how to network with Linux on a bunch of cheap 386-sx systems I could get cheap and my one, single 486 box.)
So it's like someone, hypothetically, coming out with a product and calling it 'Red Hat Linux' without kissing Linus' ring?
The truly funny thing is that the so called 'Sagan' project was a total dismal failure on the part of internal Apple developers to come up with a next-generation MacOS that wasn't just more code piled onto the old mess.
They made several other attempts at a 'next gen MacOS' before the outsiders from NeXT came in and rescued them.
Sagan should have been suing because being associated with Apple's 'Code Gurus' of the time put him in a bad light.
"Port Cities" don't need to have all the stuff New Orleans has been famous for.
Not saying that New Orleans' culture is bad or anything of the kind. But 80% of the reason people live there isn't to support it as a utilitarian Port City.
The part that disturbs me is that when they put the Governor of Louisiana on TV news, she kept saying, almost in a false-triumphalist tone 'we _will_ rebuild.'
I mean. Go ahead. With your own money. Here's free transportation out if that's what you want.
Ironically, a study to determine the effects of a Cat 5 hurricane was also shelved.
That would have been wasted money. Now they don't have to 'study' it, they can just look at footage.
The better 'Power PC' chips will continue to exist, i.e. IBM's POWER architecture. They won't be ignored, Apple just won't produce 'desktop' hardware that uses watered-down versions of them any longer.
Whether anything called a 'G6' will come out is dubious, since G3, G4, G5 were all marketing-gimmick names coined by Apple Computer.
You coded yourself into a dead end. 'Altivec' is indeed rapidly becoming 'legacy.' You can file it where a lot of people file their 6809 assembly code.
Deal with it. Maybe you should port your code all over to the Dec Alpha processor. *smirk*
Much longer than five years. NeXT shipped a multi-platform OS for years before they bought Apple Computer.