no. I like to use search engines, not decision engines with their own controversy and positive articles about microsoft (aka propaganda machines). Also nice to know how they have no opt out from tracking, no guarantee of anonymity data (as pitiful as that is in the first place), etc.
Brought to you by the same company that first tried to forcibly obtain yahoo, and instead got the ceo kicked out and replaced them with a microsoft individual. How's that "yahoo"?
hey if you want to pay * more* for less rights/freedoms/decisions, don't let me stop you. In the meantime, when it breaks, or you can't do what you want because of apple's lock in, don't look for sympathy for your whine either. That's about once a month.
Apple itself represents a step backward. The tablet and/or apple's continued existence is just a continuation of it.
How is the app store any safer than say, buying from a known/respected company, or downloading from an open source repository? Do you think apple apps are just airtight as far as vulnerabilities or something?
The real reason people buy apple is because it's not microsoft, and for the non techie folks, that's all they need to know. That's fine, it's not a bad thing. People are free to make their choices. The rest is just psychology: where people refuse to let go of bad decisions. I forgot the name of the concept, but I'm sure someone else can assist with that.
well, they seemed to imply that it will have an app for hulu or something. It doesn't make up for the fact that for a $500 you're getting a 10" ipod, which is basically worthless. You can get a $400 netbook with significantly more functionality for less (toshiba s1120 is my most recent example that even my very not-technical 64 year old mother bought).
One administration official said the budget will send a message that it's time members of Congress recognize that NASA can't design space programs to create jobs in their districts. "That's the view of the president," the official said.
That....is disturbing, if that is their view. Maybe next they need to have a war on science again?
yeah, I tried mandriva when it switched from mandrake, before I ever did ubuntu. Fedora and Gentoo were pretty much what else I was considering. I'll play with all of the above and see, I guess my original presumptions aren't that far off.
umm, fspot uses mono. Mono is equivalent to having.net dependencies on linux, which creates patent issues and other concerns. Does anyone want that in linux? No.
I'm fine with googling answers to crap I don't know. However, is it likely I'll be able to at least run the install with no problems? I mean if I know enough to do some apt-get/sudo stuff, possibly edit the xorg init, am I going to be able to get it running?
removing gimp isn't a good reason to put mono on ubuntu.
add this revenue sharing (aka yahoo default) and add me to the list of users who isn't using ubuntu anymore. This is dipping their toes way too much into a gray area here.
any other suggestions of equally good linux flavors that don't have mono or the firefox move here?
games that you have a disc can never be taken away though, ensuring that if you ever emulate the old system on newer hardware, all you end up needing is a crack to bypass the cd checking and bam - you can still play the game you actually own from who knows how many years ago. Think I'd love to play my old games on my new pc with the bigger screen, etc? I think we all know the answer to that. Meanwhile, it's sad that to ensure a backup will work after the cd/dvd auth service is taken offline for the disc, that you have to get a cd check bypassing.exe, that's pretty sad. Like you, I understand that they are deliberately renting the games to people, but we don't have a lot of other choices with most games right now. Blame every major games publishier (blizzard/activision, ea) for ensuring that such a situation even came around in the first place.
I'm surprised verizon would do that. I don't know for sure but my vibe says it'd be quite a battle to try to get that one proven in verizon's favor in court, in more ways than one.
out the box? sure, as long as it's not plugged in it's just as secure as mac or linux.
In reality, otherwise, the machines do not have the same security. This isn't an attack on Microsoft, it's just reality. They're poor performers as far as security is concerned and have been from day one.
I think it's harder to validate if someone is Malware free than identify what OS they're running via modem data, no? I keep thinking ICMP or nmap, but I'm sure there are legitimate ways since the ISP already has your data.
When I think of trying to identify malware, how would you know without inspecting packets? does malware consistently spam traffic? I would assume not all the time on that.
I'm merely being philosophical on this, as I don't know the answer: if you do, by all means, please answer.
It's quite important that they get the fees for abusing the DMCA. Lots of companies have tried and with a case that is clear about it, could set an important precedent to stop people from just doing bogus DMCA takedowns all day.
I've never heard people suggest that before, but the idea of "using open source = discount on your internet bill" is a good idea.
Do it in a very simple way: if you're not running windows or OSX, you get a 5% discount your bill. Some might differ on whether to put OSX in the "Do not run" category.
This isn't a troll, it's pretty accurate. Using Mac and believing it's "open" is no different than believing that BSD is the same as GPL. Yet you'll notice significant issues with MacOS being on BSD vs Linux with GPLv3.
Look at it this way: every single thing on mac costs money, and very little is compatible. Yet everything on linux is free, and a whole lot of it's compatible - in fact there's more issue with Microsoft products being compatible with linux than vice versa.
Let me make this real simple. You're incorrect in your thought process. I'm tired of your lack of understanding that skepticism is EXTREMELY important for society. Skepticism, and someone's lack of belief in something, and is what results in new discovery. It's the concept of taking off your rose colored glasses. On one hand is blind skepticism, and the other is fanaticism. Most people do not have blind skepticism, they have educated guesses.
Your age (and yes, I remember baud days and the punchcards too yet I was never old enough to have to use punchcards - but I still have in my possession my father's set, and know what the program was and what the output is) are not a validation to the fact that technology can evolve beyond our wildest dreams. It is not a reason to illogically believe in something that doesn't have fact behind it. People can understand the past and make quite good assumptions about what is to come in the future by simple correlation.
The future is not some mystical, impossible to figure out, horrible or excellent thing. It's simply what's coming down the road, and some people can see ahead of them, and some people have blinders on. I love the future, and I enjoy it, but that is me, and my definition doesn't have any impact on what is society's definition of the future.
I'm so tired of people thinking it can be done - this thing has as much hype as the apple tablet, and neither of these have anything. Both are horrible deliveries and over promises, not that such a concept is foreign to apple. Onlive however is new, and has been doing this since day one. I pity anyone who's invested in onlive at this point.
corporations can easily, and in many ways, hide their cash flow both inbound and outbound. Hiding through an anonymous subsidiary is usually the most common way of doing so, or having it embedded in a 10k with a vague mention of the subsidiary or so forth.
yeah, the apple hype on this is disgusting. I'll wait until something is actually out and solid instead of a deliberate leak designed to get people interested. There's actually nothing substantive in the article or the summary.
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I think the issue here is that for a marginal amount of good there's a whole lot of bad that can come out of this idea.
no. I like to use search engines, not decision engines with their own controversy and positive articles about microsoft (aka propaganda machines). Also nice to know how they have no opt out from tracking, no guarantee of anonymity data (as pitiful as that is in the first place), etc.
Brought to you by the same company that first tried to forcibly obtain yahoo, and instead got the ceo kicked out and replaced them with a microsoft individual. How's that "yahoo"?
Yeah. Bing. I'll pass.
hey if you want to pay * more* for less rights/freedoms/decisions, don't let me stop you. In the meantime, when it breaks, or you can't do what you want because of apple's lock in, don't look for sympathy for your whine either. That's about once a month.
Apple itself represents a step backward. The tablet and/or apple's continued existence is just a continuation of it.
How is the app store any safer than say, buying from a known/respected company, or downloading from an open source repository? Do you think apple apps are just airtight as far as vulnerabilities or something?
The real reason people buy apple is because it's not microsoft, and for the non techie folks, that's all they need to know. That's fine, it's not a bad thing. People are free to make their choices. The rest is just psychology: where people refuse to let go of bad decisions. I forgot the name of the concept, but I'm sure someone else can assist with that.
well, they seemed to imply that it will have an app for hulu or something. It doesn't make up for the fact that for a $500 you're getting a 10" ipod, which is basically worthless. You can get a $400 netbook with significantly more functionality for less (toshiba s1120 is my most recent example that even my very not-technical 64 year old mother bought).
yup. wow. last line in the article:
That....is disturbing, if that is their view. Maybe next they need to have a war on science again?
yeah, I tried mandriva when it switched from mandrake, before I ever did ubuntu. Fedora and Gentoo were pretty much what else I was considering. I'll play with all of the above and see, I guess my original presumptions aren't that far off.
umm, fspot uses mono. Mono is equivalent to having .net dependencies on linux, which creates patent issues and other concerns. Does anyone want that in linux? No.
I'm fine with googling answers to crap I don't know. However, is it likely I'll be able to at least run the install with no problems? I mean if I know enough to do some apt-get/sudo stuff, possibly edit the xorg init, am I going to be able to get it running?
removing gimp isn't a good reason to put mono on ubuntu.
add this revenue sharing (aka yahoo default) and add me to the list of users who isn't using ubuntu anymore. This is dipping their toes way too much into a gray area here.
any other suggestions of equally good linux flavors that don't have mono or the firefox move here?
games that you have a disc can never be taken away though, ensuring that if you ever emulate the old system on newer hardware, all you end up needing is a crack to bypass the cd checking and bam - you can still play the game you actually own from who knows how many years ago. Think I'd love to play my old games on my new pc with the bigger screen, etc? I think we all know the answer to that. Meanwhile, it's sad that to ensure a backup will work after the cd/dvd auth service is taken offline for the disc, that you have to get a cd check bypassing .exe, that's pretty sad. Like you, I understand that they are deliberately renting the games to people, but we don't have a lot of other choices with most games right now. Blame every major games publishier (blizzard/activision, ea) for ensuring that such a situation even came around in the first place.
bingo. if they know how to install apps, they already know how to google their problems and are definitely more skilled than the average consumer.
I'm surprised verizon would do that. I don't know for sure but my vibe says it'd be quite a battle to try to get that one proven in verizon's favor in court, in more ways than one.
if said anti-malware makes people think they're safe, well, back to square one right there.
out the box? sure, as long as it's not plugged in it's just as secure as mac or linux.
In reality, otherwise, the machines do not have the same security. This isn't an attack on Microsoft, it's just reality. They're poor performers as far as security is concerned and have been from day one.
yes, there are people who can secure it - but there are less layers of stupidproofing to prevent them from bypassing their own security loopholes.
Basically: even with UAC (or without it), superuser password requests are much more direct than just "click to continue".
So I agree:I wouldn't want to penalize such people, but since when did those folks have an issue in the first place?
I think it's harder to validate if someone is Malware free than identify what OS they're running via modem data, no? I keep thinking ICMP or nmap, but I'm sure there are legitimate ways since the ISP already has your data.
When I think of trying to identify malware, how would you know without inspecting packets? does malware consistently spam traffic? I would assume not all the time on that.
I'm merely being philosophical on this, as I don't know the answer: if you do, by all means, please answer.
It's quite important that they get the fees for abusing the DMCA. Lots of companies have tried and with a case that is clear about it, could set an important precedent to stop people from just doing bogus DMCA takedowns all day.
I've never heard people suggest that before, but the idea of "using open source = discount on your internet bill" is a good idea.
Do it in a very simple way: if you're not running windows or OSX, you get a 5% discount your bill. Some might differ on whether to put OSX in the "Do not run" category.
The rest is too discriminatory and too extreme.
This isn't a troll, it's pretty accurate. Using Mac and believing it's "open" is no different than believing that BSD is the same as GPL. Yet you'll notice significant issues with MacOS being on BSD vs Linux with GPLv3.
Look at it this way: every single thing on mac costs money, and very little is compatible. Yet everything on linux is free, and a whole lot of it's compatible - in fact there's more issue with Microsoft products being compatible with linux than vice versa.
Let me make this real simple. You're incorrect in your thought process. I'm tired of your lack of understanding that skepticism is EXTREMELY important for society. Skepticism, and someone's lack of belief in something, and is what results in new discovery. It's the concept of taking off your rose colored glasses. On one hand is blind skepticism, and the other is fanaticism. Most people do not have blind skepticism, they have educated guesses.
Your age (and yes, I remember baud days and the punchcards too yet I was never old enough to have to use punchcards - but I still have in my possession my father's set, and know what the program was and what the output is) are not a validation to the fact that technology can evolve beyond our wildest dreams. It is not a reason to illogically believe in something that doesn't have fact behind it. People can understand the past and make quite good assumptions about what is to come in the future by simple correlation.
The future is not some mystical, impossible to figure out, horrible or excellent thing. It's simply what's coming down the road, and some people can see ahead of them, and some people have blinders on. I love the future, and I enjoy it, but that is me, and my definition doesn't have any impact on what is society's definition of the future.
I'm so tired of people thinking it can be done - this thing has as much hype as the apple tablet, and neither of these have anything. Both are horrible deliveries and over promises, not that such a concept is foreign to apple. Onlive however is new, and has been doing this since day one. I pity anyone who's invested in onlive at this point.
corporations can easily, and in many ways, hide their cash flow both inbound and outbound. Hiding through an anonymous subsidiary is usually the most common way of doing so, or having it embedded in a 10k with a vague mention of the subsidiary or so forth.
we already have regulatory capture, this decision just makes it easier.
well, what definition of hype is there other than hype? Do you realize what you're saying, and how controlled leaks play into this?
yeah, the apple hype on this is disgusting. I'll wait until something is actually out and solid instead of a deliberate leak designed to get people interested. There's actually nothing substantive in the article or the summary.