OpenDNS has been around for YEARS. The original reason it was made had nothing to do with any of this, it was so that members could vote to add new root domains that would have never been added to the "official" DNS servers. It was an end run around ICANN, basically. There are very few restrictions on OpenDNS on what can be added, and it's all voted on by the members. I actually tried using OpenDNS for awhile, but I had problems with it. There just weren't enough servers, and those that were there went down frequently. They acted as a relay to the "real" DNS as well, so you could resolve.com,.net,.org, etc. But after the 5th DNS outage in a month, I finally set BIND on my server to hit the root servers again instead of OpenDNS. The service just wasn't reliable enough. These goals that are being mentioned in this article have absolutely nothing to do with what OpenDNS was supposed to be about. Either TFA is BS written by a media drone who has no clue what's going on, or OpenDNS has radically changed its goals since I last used it a year ago. I hope for their sake that it's the former.
I was in EB Games at the mall today, and they had a PS3 E3 propoganda video (it was obviously produced by Sony) on...it was all I could do to keep from falling over laughing. Here is a direct quote: "They took the rumble feature out of the controller, that makes it lighter and more ergonomic. And it now has 6 degrees of freedom with NO EXTERNAL SENSORS REQUIRED! This is the most innovative controller I've ever seen! The 60-gig model is only $599, and the 20-gig model is only $499!!!" (it was obviously either a Sony PR drone or a media drone that Sony paid). Um...taking the rumble out makes it lighter and more ergonomic, so that's a good thing? They didn't even mention Nintendo, who blew everyone away at E3 and stole the show...Sony was virtually ignored, so it's likely that "E3 video" was really just Sony propoganda in disguise. That was the most arrogant piece of BS I've ever seen...even Microsoft hasn't put out propoganda that bad, and that's saying something.
Speaking of weird crashes...I have an XP machine at home (haven't put Gentoo on it yet, gotta get a second hard drive first, but that's beside the point. Anyway, I was having all kinds of random crashes on this machine since I upgraded from an Duron 750 to an Athlon XP 3200+. At first I figured CPU, but the CPU worked fine in another machine, and this machine worked fine with the other processor. Then I figured RAM...tried changing it, same problems. Then I figured video card, changed it...it helped but I still had random crashes. Got a new video card (Radeon X850XT), computer just about died...would only boot maybe 10% of the time. Windows wouldn't reinstall, it would get a fatal error at the exact same spot every time. I finally figured out what the problem was...the power supply! It was supposedly a 350W power supply, but when I swapped it with a new 410W, all the problems instantly vanished. It was apparently dying, and it was probably a cheap power supply to begin with (it came with the case).
I've been using Gentoo for 3 years now, and it's probably the "hardest" distro to use, at least from a newbie/Windows user point of view...and I have no problems using it as a desktop. In fact, I'm posting this from Firefox on Gentoo on my laptop using the Wi-fi at Panera Bread as we speak. I've used it for gaming too...mainly Blizzard games, they generally tend to work very well under Wine. I haven't had the opportunity to try WOW under Wine yet (my high-end computer does not have Gentoo on it *yet* due to me lacking a second hard drive), but I've heard it works very well. As long as WOW works under Wine, I really don't have any use for Windows...it's really the only non-console game I play anymore. Ubuntu is extremely easy to set up and use, though I don't use it myself...I started on Linux at the same time that Win95 came out, so I for the most part learned both at the same time, so I didn't have to change my way of thinking like long-time Windows users have to. Ubuntu just doesn't give me the compile-time control that Gentoo does. However, if I had to recommend a Linux distro to my mom, or my grandmother, it'd definitely be Ubuntu.
The people who *knowingly* run illegal copies of Windows won't be affected by this in the slightest. These people have been cracking WGA since it came out, first with Javascript, then later with cracked DLL's. I'm sure there will be a crack for this within 24 hours of it being released (there always has been in the past), and these people will able to get it very easily. The only people that this will affect are 1) People who think they have a legal copy of Windows but really don't because whoever they bought it from screwed them, and 2) People with legal copies who either don't want to run WGA for some reason, or 3) People with legal copies who run WGA and it mistakenly identifies their machine as "not legit". In short, the "pirates" (their term) will continue on unaffected as they always have, while the "legitimate" users will get screwed.
I'm not going to touch either for probably a very long time. I'll *consider* a BD or HD-DVD player once the prices come way down and the movies are playable under Linux with entirely free software. If HD-DVD/Blu-Ray continues being the DRM-encumbered mess that it is, they can keep it and their "high definition" movies...I'm perfectly happy with DVD.
Billy West did Nixon, Zoidberg, the Professor, Zapp Brannigan, and Fry. He did such a good job that the first time I saw the show, I didn't realize he was doing all those characters until I saw the credits.
I have a feeling that we aren't hearing the whole story here. It's probably just a case of bad journalism. If I'm reading TFA correctly, the police had already told him that he couldn't come back. This would mean that he had been told by the police that he was banned from the premesis. It's likely that he had been doing something to annoy their customers and wasn't just minding his own business and surfing. This would mean that the restaurant already had the cops there once before and had the guy banned. We had to do things like this in the convenience store I used to work at as an assistant manager all the time - usually to drunks or homeless that would constantly try to bum money off of people. Anyway, if the cops told him he couldn't come back and he did, it wouldn't be "theft of service" that they'd charge him with, but *trespassing*. If someone that is known to have been banned from your property proceeds to come back, calling 911 is definitely the correct thing to do. I have a feeling that the article author heard that this guy had been using free wireless internet and decided to twist the truth of what actually happened. Or maybe they decided on the "theft of service" thing in addition to the trespassing he was already being charged with.
I don't know about Windows, but Linux has plenty of tools for this. I use both cpufrequtils and cpufreqd, the most common ones I use are "ondemand" (which gives applciations power when needed but otherwise clocks down), and "powersave" (which runs at lowest clock speed all the time). I haven't dug deep enough into Windows, but I believe WinXP has some similar functions, though you don't have as much control over it.
I'm waiting on a Lite until they come out with the color that's similar to the pearl blue backlit GBA-SP that I have. That color is out in Japan but not the US yet. In the meantime I have my regular DS. I'm REALLY impressed with the screens on the DS Lite, but I don't particularly want the white one (plus I'm a little short on money now), so I'll wait till they have the color I want. I don't really want to pay extra to import one.
Though...to be fair, those quotes will never come up in normal gameplay. You have to trigger them by clicking units at least 4-5 times in a row. Humor that you can have anytime you want to, but the way it's done it won't come into normal gameplay unless you do want it to.
I'm a Gentoo person myself...I can't see how I ever used another distro. (I mainly used Redhat and then Slackware before that...tried Debian and SuSE at one point but didn't really like either.) I never had any trouble with DVD...everything pretty much worked out of the box once I emerged mplayer and vlc. However, I can't say I'd recommend Gentoo to my mom, my girlfriend, or anyone else who isn't familiar with Linux. The nice thing about Linux is, if you set it up for someone, it's pretty nearly impossible for them to do anything to break the system unless they log in as root. But that would mean me keeping the root passwords for the systems I set up and having to handle installing things and such, and that would be a hassle. If you're going to recommend a Linux distro to someone unfamiliar with it, try recommending Ubuntu.
Tried it. Firefox does state that it's attempting to download a file and asks for a location to save. I'm sure it's malware, but it would take effort on the part of a Firefox user to install it. They'd have to save it to the dekstop and knowingly execute it.
That's true...in order to sell the product in the US, they would have to create a US subsidiary, which would be subject to US laws. However, from what I see here, this is a product intended to be sold in China. I don't think they have any intention of selling it outside China.
That assumes that the Chinese government would even allow such a suit. China has its own laws and they generally don't respect the "intellectual property" laws of the west.
Try Gentoo. I used a combination of Redhat and Slackware until about 3 years ago when I switched to Gentoo...I haven't looked back since. emerge...no dependency hell, and total control over package configuration. Of course, that means downloading and compiling source for everything, but if you're using a reasonably fast system, it doesn't take long at all. If you're still totally against compiling from source, you CAN install binary packages in Gentoo. There's a second CD available that has collections of binary packages, or you can use an emerge flag to indicate binary package preference.
I can understand why RMS goes out of his way to stress that to those who don't understand the free software movement. Linux is not an operating system. It's a kernel sure, but the kernel is a very small part of the OS. He's correct in that the entire system is almost exclusively GNU, except for the kernel. libc, all of the command line utilities, init, etc. The GNU system can run without Linux (HURD, I'm not particularly a fan of it but it does work although not as well as Linux), but Linux cannot do much of anything without the GNU system, as it's just a kernel.
My mom got me a Sony digital camera for a christmas present last year, and of course it only takes the Memory Stick stuff. I'll probably eventually pick up a 1GB or 2GB one when I get the money...other than that the camera is nice. I'm probably eventually going to get a PSP (not till they're cheap though), and I figure I can use the same MS from my camera to rip movies and such from DVD. Ah well, for now I just have the camera and it was free for me.
I don't necessarily have a problem with the format itself...but selling movies in that format (which is much lower quality than DVD) for MORE than DVD's? Um...no way. If you could get blank rewritable disks and there was an easy way to transfer movies from DVD to it, I'd have no problem with it. But I'm not about to go buy all of my movies that I already have on DVD AGAIN and pay more for them than the DVD's cost.
Well, if you want to get technical, it is possible to use microwaves to beam power between two antennas. However, the things they show on that link are not the right shape to do it, nor would they be able to handle the amount of power they're talking about transferring. It would require a fairly high power microwave transmitter, and you'd have to align the two dishes together very precisely. It would also be very inefficient, the transmitter would use a lot more power than you could ever hope to recover at the other end. Also, it would likely be very dangerous to stand in between the dishes, you'd likely receive severe burns. I can actually see this technology being used in orbit...satellites with lots of solar panels "beaming" power to a ground station (in this case the ineffeciency wouldn't matter so much, because the energy you're capturing is "free" from the sun), but the amount of power this would provide would be negligeable compared to what we already generate. You would need an absolutely huge number of satellites and ground stations to make any appreciable amount of power, and the ground area this takes up could be used far more efficiently for other things. Okay, that's enough of a rant there...I agree, when they do stuff like this on Slashdot, they make it WAY too obvious that it's an April Fools joke.
Yeah, a movie isn't the same if you don't sneak food in. One time that I remember, me and two friends of mine snuck an 18 inch extra large pizza (slices individually plastic wrapped) and a 12 pack of Coke. 3 guys wearing coats with lots of pockets. You couldn't even tell that we had anything. My roommate used to work at a movie theater, and one time when he was cleaning up after a movie, he found the remains of a complete meal from Olive Garden. Anyway, I don't believe that DVD releases will cut into movie theaters. People that want to see it in the theater will anyway. It will only sway people who hate theaters (like me). Most movies I just wait for the DVD to come out anyway. It has to be something REALLY REALLY good before I'll even consider paying for overpriced tickets and going into a noisy crowded theater to see a movie. I've gone to the theaters maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 7 years.
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OpenDNS has been around for YEARS. The original reason it was made had nothing to do with any of this, it was so that members could vote to add new root domains that would have never been added to the "official" DNS servers. It was an end run around ICANN, basically. There are very few restrictions on OpenDNS on what can be added, and it's all voted on by the members. I actually tried using OpenDNS for awhile, but I had problems with it. There just weren't enough servers, and those that were there went down frequently. They acted as a relay to the "real" DNS as well, so you could resolve .com, .net, .org, etc. But after the 5th DNS outage in a month, I finally set BIND on my server to hit the root servers again instead of OpenDNS. The service just wasn't reliable enough. These goals that are being mentioned in this article have absolutely nothing to do with what OpenDNS was supposed to be about. Either TFA is BS written by a media drone who has no clue what's going on, or OpenDNS has radically changed its goals since I last used it a year ago. I hope for their sake that it's the former.
I was in EB Games at the mall today, and they had a PS3 E3 propoganda video (it was obviously produced by Sony) on...it was all I could do to keep from falling over laughing. Here is a direct quote: "They took the rumble feature out of the controller, that makes it lighter and more ergonomic. And it now has 6 degrees of freedom with NO EXTERNAL SENSORS REQUIRED! This is the most innovative controller I've ever seen! The 60-gig model is only $599, and the 20-gig model is only $499!!!" (it was obviously either a Sony PR drone or a media drone that Sony paid). Um...taking the rumble out makes it lighter and more ergonomic, so that's a good thing? They didn't even mention Nintendo, who blew everyone away at E3 and stole the show...Sony was virtually ignored, so it's likely that "E3 video" was really just Sony propoganda in disguise. That was the most arrogant piece of BS I've ever seen...even Microsoft hasn't put out propoganda that bad, and that's saying something.
Speaking of weird crashes...I have an XP machine at home (haven't put Gentoo on it yet, gotta get a second hard drive first, but that's beside the point. Anyway, I was having all kinds of random crashes on this machine since I upgraded from an Duron 750 to an Athlon XP 3200+. At first I figured CPU, but the CPU worked fine in another machine, and this machine worked fine with the other processor. Then I figured RAM...tried changing it, same problems. Then I figured video card, changed it...it helped but I still had random crashes. Got a new video card (Radeon X850XT), computer just about died...would only boot maybe 10% of the time. Windows wouldn't reinstall, it would get a fatal error at the exact same spot every time. I finally figured out what the problem was...the power supply! It was supposedly a 350W power supply, but when I swapped it with a new 410W, all the problems instantly vanished. It was apparently dying, and it was probably a cheap power supply to begin with (it came with the case).
I've been using Gentoo for 3 years now, and it's probably the "hardest" distro to use, at least from a newbie/Windows user point of view...and I have no problems using it as a desktop. In fact, I'm posting this from Firefox on Gentoo on my laptop using the Wi-fi at Panera Bread as we speak. I've used it for gaming too...mainly Blizzard games, they generally tend to work very well under Wine. I haven't had the opportunity to try WOW under Wine yet (my high-end computer does not have Gentoo on it *yet* due to me lacking a second hard drive), but I've heard it works very well. As long as WOW works under Wine, I really don't have any use for Windows...it's really the only non-console game I play anymore. Ubuntu is extremely easy to set up and use, though I don't use it myself...I started on Linux at the same time that Win95 came out, so I for the most part learned both at the same time, so I didn't have to change my way of thinking like long-time Windows users have to. Ubuntu just doesn't give me the compile-time control that Gentoo does. However, if I had to recommend a Linux distro to my mom, or my grandmother, it'd definitely be Ubuntu.
The people who *knowingly* run illegal copies of Windows won't be affected by this in the slightest. These people have been cracking WGA since it came out, first with Javascript, then later with cracked DLL's. I'm sure there will be a crack for this within 24 hours of it being released (there always has been in the past), and these people will able to get it very easily. The only people that this will affect are 1) People who think they have a legal copy of Windows but really don't because whoever they bought it from screwed them, and 2) People with legal copies who either don't want to run WGA for some reason, or 3) People with legal copies who run WGA and it mistakenly identifies their machine as "not legit". In short, the "pirates" (their term) will continue on unaffected as they always have, while the "legitimate" users will get screwed.
I'm not going to touch either for probably a very long time. I'll *consider* a BD or HD-DVD player once the prices come way down and the movies are playable under Linux with entirely free software. If HD-DVD/Blu-Ray continues being the DRM-encumbered mess that it is, they can keep it and their "high definition" movies...I'm perfectly happy with DVD.
Billy West did Nixon, Zoidberg, the Professor, Zapp Brannigan, and Fry. He did such a good job that the first time I saw the show, I didn't realize he was doing all those characters until I saw the credits.
I have a feeling that we aren't hearing the whole story here. It's probably just a case of bad journalism. If I'm reading TFA correctly, the police had already told him that he couldn't come back. This would mean that he had been told by the police that he was banned from the premesis. It's likely that he had been doing something to annoy their customers and wasn't just minding his own business and surfing. This would mean that the restaurant already had the cops there once before and had the guy banned. We had to do things like this in the convenience store I used to work at as an assistant manager all the time - usually to drunks or homeless that would constantly try to bum money off of people. Anyway, if the cops told him he couldn't come back and he did, it wouldn't be "theft of service" that they'd charge him with, but *trespassing*. If someone that is known to have been banned from your property proceeds to come back, calling 911 is definitely the correct thing to do. I have a feeling that the article author heard that this guy had been using free wireless internet and decided to twist the truth of what actually happened. Or maybe they decided on the "theft of service" thing in addition to the trespassing he was already being charged with.
I don't know about Windows, but Linux has plenty of tools for this. I use both cpufrequtils and cpufreqd, the most common ones I use are "ondemand" (which gives applciations power when needed but otherwise clocks down), and "powersave" (which runs at lowest clock speed all the time). I haven't dug deep enough into Windows, but I believe WinXP has some similar functions, though you don't have as much control over it.
I thought Ballmer threw chairs...but then again, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he was throwing feces too.
I'm waiting on a Lite until they come out with the color that's similar to the pearl blue backlit GBA-SP that I have. That color is out in Japan but not the US yet. In the meantime I have my regular DS. I'm REALLY impressed with the screens on the DS Lite, but I don't particularly want the white one (plus I'm a little short on money now), so I'll wait till they have the color I want. I don't really want to pay extra to import one.
"Do that again and you'll pull back a stump!"
Though...to be fair, those quotes will never come up in normal gameplay. You have to trigger them by clicking units at least 4-5 times in a row. Humor that you can have anytime you want to, but the way it's done it won't come into normal gameplay unless you do want it to.
I'm a Gentoo person myself...I can't see how I ever used another distro. (I mainly used Redhat and then Slackware before that...tried Debian and SuSE at one point but didn't really like either.) I never had any trouble with DVD...everything pretty much worked out of the box once I emerged mplayer and vlc. However, I can't say I'd recommend Gentoo to my mom, my girlfriend, or anyone else who isn't familiar with Linux. The nice thing about Linux is, if you set it up for someone, it's pretty nearly impossible for them to do anything to break the system unless they log in as root. But that would mean me keeping the root passwords for the systems I set up and having to handle installing things and such, and that would be a hassle. If you're going to recommend a Linux distro to someone unfamiliar with it, try recommending Ubuntu.
The name was changed to Urectum in 2620 because of all of the Uranus jokes...
Tried it. Firefox does state that it's attempting to download a file and asks for a location to save. I'm sure it's malware, but it would take effort on the part of a Firefox user to install it. They'd have to save it to the dekstop and knowingly execute it.
But can they do 1.21 gigawatts. If they could, it would make the beam go back in time and destroy the missile before it was ever launched!
That's true...in order to sell the product in the US, they would have to create a US subsidiary, which would be subject to US laws. However, from what I see here, this is a product intended to be sold in China. I don't think they have any intention of selling it outside China.
That assumes that the Chinese government would even allow such a suit. China has its own laws and they generally don't respect the "intellectual property" laws of the west.
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Try Gentoo. I used a combination of Redhat and Slackware until about 3 years ago when I switched to Gentoo...I haven't looked back since. emerge ...no dependency hell, and total control over package configuration. Of course, that means downloading and compiling source for everything, but if you're using a reasonably fast system, it doesn't take long at all. If you're still totally against compiling from source, you CAN install binary packages in Gentoo. There's a second CD available that has collections of binary packages, or you can use an emerge flag to indicate binary package preference.
I can understand why RMS goes out of his way to stress that to those who don't understand the free software movement. Linux is not an operating system. It's a kernel sure, but the kernel is a very small part of the OS. He's correct in that the entire system is almost exclusively GNU, except for the kernel. libc, all of the command line utilities, init, etc. The GNU system can run without Linux (HURD, I'm not particularly a fan of it but it does work although not as well as Linux), but Linux cannot do much of anything without the GNU system, as it's just a kernel.
My mom got me a Sony digital camera for a christmas present last year, and of course it only takes the Memory Stick stuff. I'll probably eventually pick up a 1GB or 2GB one when I get the money...other than that the camera is nice. I'm probably eventually going to get a PSP (not till they're cheap though), and I figure I can use the same MS from my camera to rip movies and such from DVD. Ah well, for now I just have the camera and it was free for me.
I don't necessarily have a problem with the format itself...but selling movies in that format (which is much lower quality than DVD) for MORE than DVD's? Um...no way. If you could get blank rewritable disks and there was an easy way to transfer movies from DVD to it, I'd have no problem with it. But I'm not about to go buy all of my movies that I already have on DVD AGAIN and pay more for them than the DVD's cost.
Well, if you want to get technical, it is possible to use microwaves to beam power between two antennas. However, the things they show on that link are not the right shape to do it, nor would they be able to handle the amount of power they're talking about transferring. It would require a fairly high power microwave transmitter, and you'd have to align the two dishes together very precisely. It would also be very inefficient, the transmitter would use a lot more power than you could ever hope to recover at the other end. Also, it would likely be very dangerous to stand in between the dishes, you'd likely receive severe burns. I can actually see this technology being used in orbit...satellites with lots of solar panels "beaming" power to a ground station (in this case the ineffeciency wouldn't matter so much, because the energy you're capturing is "free" from the sun), but the amount of power this would provide would be negligeable compared to what we already generate. You would need an absolutely huge number of satellites and ground stations to make any appreciable amount of power, and the ground area this takes up could be used far more efficiently for other things. Okay, that's enough of a rant there...I agree, when they do stuff like this on Slashdot, they make it WAY too obvious that it's an April Fools joke.
Yeah, a movie isn't the same if you don't sneak food in. One time that I remember, me and two friends of mine snuck an 18 inch extra large pizza (slices individually plastic wrapped) and a 12 pack of Coke. 3 guys wearing coats with lots of pockets. You couldn't even tell that we had anything. My roommate used to work at a movie theater, and one time when he was cleaning up after a movie, he found the remains of a complete meal from Olive Garden. Anyway, I don't believe that DVD releases will cut into movie theaters. People that want to see it in the theater will anyway. It will only sway people who hate theaters (like me). Most movies I just wait for the DVD to come out anyway. It has to be something REALLY REALLY good before I'll even consider paying for overpriced tickets and going into a noisy crowded theater to see a movie. I've gone to the theaters maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 7 years.