Windows Vista is an absolute disaster! From an engineer's point of view, the system is not built for security and stability, its just patched up with holes left for the recording industries. If a virus was to take advantage of these holes, then I doubt anything could stop it. Combined with all the out-of-the-box DRM and restrictions, the system is a lot more complicated for no apparent reason. For the NVIDIA drivers to work properly in Vista, there is a LOT of work and possible debugging due to Vista's chaos. Don't blame NVIDIA for this, its Microsoft's fault for the whole DRM fiasco. Now NVIDIA and ATI have to comply. ATI already told the masses that Microsoft's idea is crap and customers would be paying for this big bucks. Microsoft are no longer the leader/monopolist they once were. If you have an issue, don't buy Vista (like most of us), and get REAL high performance, or switch to an even better OS. The choice is there, suing and wining gets you nowhere.
Its funny how as soon as the public hardware catches up to the 'industrial' hardware, all of a sudden its dead. I think its more accurate to say that this 'industry' can no longer sustain unethical behaviours with the current medium so they are moving to the next. Just when any individual can lawfully make backups from their DVD's and watch them instead of scratching the real copy, the thirst for power and control leads them to not only change the standard yet again, but also split into many different standards. Hmmm... Just food for thought...
This is a very stupid analogy. The history is written by the winners, not the loosers. America is ultra commercialised country, and this kills by all means any technological discoveries as the environment does not allow for science. Just an example to summarise the above:
* The nuclear bombs during the world war that USA used on Japan were invented and made by German scientists that have been captured.
* The space shuttles have been invented by the Germans and modified to their current status. (Germans couldn't finalise the design, currently Americans don't have the know how to fix it)
* The Germans had tanks that could not even be touched by the Americans tanks, they used TERRORISTS to circumvent the fuel line to the German tanks in order to stop them as all other means failed.
As you see, America can BUY or STEAL technology but cannot be the birth of any new science. Its the best commercial world, at the expense of science. The above facts can be verified if you look for the answers hard enough. USA as any other 'leading' country writes their own version of historical events tailored for their internal needs. The sheep then follow...
Anybody tried checking their Linux/BSD for Microsoft licensed authenticity? Maybe through Wine?
Maybe call the authenticity check a security check? If I see any machine that passes the test, it means a quick fdisk and linux/bsd installation is required to secure it. ETA. 10 minutes max before somebody else will do it for me over the internet...
I think the KDE project is growing quite quickly, especially with all of the new features in the QT libraries. I'm just hoping that the developers would not make the same mistakes already made by Microsoft.
Well, considering MP3 didn't use to have a DRM inbuilt and was straight forward and a popular standard, i think that the new unpopular and DRM infested standard should use another extension.
Considering most everyday people are migrating from intel to amd for performance and price, that was a smart move from apple. Ofcourse intel first embeded the cpu id's as well... hmm, DRM in apple here we come...
At just the cost of a laptop... Now I think of all those poor families that cannot afford private schools... Oh wait, they are sending the kids to public schools...
Your argument is only valid if you are free to do as you please with the software that has been rightfully purchased.
To be force fed the usual EULA's and 'we made it, your copy is ours, get lost', is similar to say... the haircut you get cannot be cut at another salon ever again, and technically your hair is no longer yours...
I purchase lots of software, and I only choose software that includes ALL source code, documentation and license to modify as I please. I pay for their time and effort, not for encrypted binaries that are useless and 'technically not mine'...
Here we have a person that is very much talented towards computers, a person who knows a lot and a person who could potentially bring big innovations and discoveries to mankind.
Lets all beat the hell out of him before he unfolds something that should be kept hidden... Or better yet, so he never gets to be anything the 'general' public is...
Is the 'law' still protecting the public or beginning to get in the way of technological advancement?
Go get 'em RIAA! EEhhhaaa! Those youngsters seem to always cause trouble. Then again, maybe it is you that's ageing?!?
Whatever the case, your methods have put me off from purchasing music under the RIAA. Plenty more record companies and bands that I can support without cowboy RIAA shooting me in the ass.
I think this will be the season for antennae and wireless shops around the US. With the growing WAN's around the place, and the endless similarity between a lightning rod and those antennae... Ouch!
The only thing all versions of windows are missing is multiuser support. I'm sure I don't run my CPU at 100% throttle, yet nobody else can use my machine without one of us having to go for a coffee break.
Its the so called law of the jungle. With the legal systems not able to control financially powerful organisations such as M$, then the natural reaction to this problem is for open source to become one of the only competitors to M$.
Unlike the courts, in competition such as this, the vast amounts of highly payed lawers cannot be of much use.
Rather then changing the virtual world, I think its time for the affected countries to 'upgrade' their banknote manufacturing processes.
I am going to try scanning a coin, printing it, then using it on a vending machine. Somehow MAYBE it won't work... Hmm... Maybe try on a laser printer...
The amount of stupid people outnumber the amount of any sensible life form. Therefore it will be impossible for people to protect themselves against people by the utilisation of people.
Maybe if you get an army of well trained monkeys and begin breeding them, we'll have a chance. However, that also raises the question whether the people capable to train monkeys and their trained monkey throughput can compare with the amout of new worms and fake addresses.
I still use the CAPS lock key as long as its associated with a LED of any colour.
Between periods of burst programming, when I blankly stare at the glowing CRT, I tend to pass time by repeatedly pressing the CAPS lock key and getting absorbed by the pulsating LED.
By the way, all CAPS in this message were intentionally made by pressing the 'Caps Lock' key.
I doubt this will put an end to child porn. It will most likely push the related material further down in the underground, where only selected people will have access, and that is if all ISP's decide to comply with the ban.
However, most likely the people who want to access 'banned' content will still be able to - through proxies or p2p methods.
Maybe if more people started reading/. then they will have less time to spend looking at porn, let alone trying to find child porn.
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Windows Vista is an absolute disaster! From an engineer's point of view, the system is not built for security and stability, its just patched up with holes left for the recording industries. If a virus was to take advantage of these holes, then I doubt anything could stop it. Combined with all the out-of-the-box DRM and restrictions, the system is a lot more complicated for no apparent reason. For the NVIDIA drivers to work properly in Vista, there is a LOT of work and possible debugging due to Vista's chaos. Don't blame NVIDIA for this, its Microsoft's fault for the whole DRM fiasco. Now NVIDIA and ATI have to comply. ATI already told the masses that Microsoft's idea is crap and customers would be paying for this big bucks. Microsoft are no longer the leader/monopolist they once were. If you have an issue, don't buy Vista (like most of us), and get REAL high performance, or switch to an even better OS. The choice is there, suing and wining gets you nowhere.
Its funny how as soon as the public hardware catches up to the 'industrial' hardware, all of a sudden its dead. I think its more accurate to say that this 'industry' can no longer sustain unethical behaviours with the current medium so they are moving to the next. Just when any individual can lawfully make backups from their DVD's and watch them instead of scratching the real copy, the thirst for power and control leads them to not only change the standard yet again, but also split into many different standards. Hmmm... Just food for thought...
This is a very stupid analogy. The history is written by the winners, not the loosers. America is ultra commercialised country, and this kills by all means any technological discoveries as the environment does not allow for science. Just an example to summarise the above:
* The nuclear bombs during the world war that USA used on Japan were invented and made by German scientists that have been captured.
* The space shuttles have been invented by the Germans and modified to their current status. (Germans couldn't finalise the design, currently Americans don't have the know how to fix it)
* The Germans had tanks that could not even be touched by the Americans tanks, they used TERRORISTS to circumvent the fuel line to the German tanks in order to stop them as all other means failed.
As you see, America can BUY or STEAL technology but cannot be the birth of any new science. Its the best commercial world, at the expense of science. The above facts can be verified if you look for the answers hard enough. USA as any other 'leading' country writes their own version of historical events tailored for their internal needs. The sheep then follow...
Woohoo, so I will finally be able to tell Microsoft that my unlicensed version of Linux needs a valid key?
Anybody tried checking their Linux/BSD for Microsoft licensed authenticity? Maybe through Wine?
Maybe call the authenticity check a security check? If I see any machine that passes the test, it means a quick fdisk and linux/bsd installation is required to secure it. ETA. 10 minutes max before somebody else will do it for me over the internet...
I think the KDE project is growing quite quickly, especially with all of the new features in the QT libraries. I'm just hoping that the developers would not make the same mistakes already made by Microsoft.
That means Canada will be slashdotted eternally hahahaha
Thats what happens when politicians think they know how technology (or anything else for that matter) works.
funny how they keep having issues...
Well, considering MP3 didn't use to have a DRM inbuilt and was straight forward and a popular standard, i think that the new unpopular and DRM infested standard should use another extension.
Considering most everyday people are migrating from intel to amd for performance and price, that was a smart move from apple. Ofcourse intel first embeded the cpu id's as well... hmm, DRM in apple here we come...
I buy DRM because I love to utilise the DRM technology that I pay for!
...this is slashdot... explain yourself... hands...? people from the opposite sex involved?
At just the cost of a laptop... Now I think of all those poor families that cannot afford private schools... Oh wait, they are sending the kids to public schools...
Your argument is only valid if you are free to do as you please with the software that has been rightfully purchased.
To be force fed the usual EULA's and 'we made it, your copy is ours, get lost', is similar to say... the haircut you get cannot be cut at another salon ever again, and technically your hair is no longer yours...
I purchase lots of software, and I only choose software that includes ALL source code, documentation and license to modify as I please. I pay for their time and effort, not for encrypted binaries that are useless and 'technically not mine'...
Lets see...
Here we have a person that is very much talented towards computers, a person who knows a lot and a person who could potentially bring big innovations and discoveries to mankind.
Lets all beat the hell out of him before he unfolds something that should be kept hidden... Or better yet, so he never gets to be anything the 'general' public is...
Is the 'law' still protecting the public or beginning to get in the way of technological advancement?
They DON'T care. All they care is to make a few quick bucks and to kick as much as they can, because slowly their company(?) is killed by the mass.
(?)Company generally means they offer a product or a service. Does RIAA offer any of the above or just legal threats to children?
Go get 'em RIAA! EEhhhaaa! Those youngsters seem to always cause trouble. Then again, maybe it is you that's ageing?!? Whatever the case, your methods have put me off from purchasing music under the RIAA. Plenty more record companies and bands that I can support without cowboy RIAA shooting me in the ass.
I think this will be the season for antennae and wireless shops around the US. With the growing WAN's around the place, and the endless similarity between a lightning rod and those antennae... Ouch!
Fun to watch but expensive to reproduce...
The only thing all versions of windows are missing is multiuser support. I'm sure I don't run my CPU at 100% throttle, yet nobody else can use my machine without one of us having to go for a coffee break.
Multi-User or Multi-Settings?
Its the so called law of the jungle. With the legal systems not able to control financially powerful organisations such as M$, then the natural reaction to this problem is for open source to become one of the only competitors to M$.
Unlike the courts, in competition such as this, the vast amounts of highly payed lawers cannot be of much use.
Rather then changing the virtual world, I think its time for the affected countries to 'upgrade' their banknote manufacturing processes.
I am going to try scanning a coin, printing it, then using it on a vending machine. Somehow MAYBE it won't work... Hmm... Maybe try on a laser printer...
The amount of stupid people outnumber the amount of any sensible life form. Therefore it will be impossible for people to protect themselves against people by the utilisation of people.
Maybe if you get an army of well trained monkeys and begin breeding them, we'll have a chance. However, that also raises the question whether the people capable to train monkeys and their trained monkey throughput can compare with the amout of new worms and fake addresses.
I still use the CAPS lock key as long as its associated with a LED of any colour.
Between periods of burst programming, when I blankly stare at the glowing CRT, I tend to pass time by repeatedly pressing the CAPS lock key and getting absorbed by the pulsating LED.
By the way, all CAPS in this message were intentionally made by pressing the 'Caps Lock' key.
I doubt this will put an end to child porn. It will most likely push the related material further down in the underground, where only selected people will have access, and that is if all ISP's decide to comply with the ban.
However, most likely the people who want to access 'banned' content will still be able to - through proxies or p2p methods.
Maybe if more people started reading /. then they will have less time to spend looking at porn, let alone trying to find child porn.