Fine, then select no OS, or get Linux and install over it. What is the problem here. It is like you running to the ice cream counter and arguing with the guy because you don't want rum raisin. So what, don't get rum raisin, it is not that complicated.
This has nothing to do with IBM, believe me. It upset quite a few IBM users as well (who think the Windows key is a waste of space, which I agree with)
Is there a basic problem between being able to differentiate between groups and people? I know groups are complex beasts, but this isn't that tricky. Because somebody inside a group says one thing, it does not mean that the group is saying that? Or do you speak for your entire family, your company, your neighbourhood, your country, etc...
I think you are oversimplifying the situation. No doubt people have tried to do deals and get music without DRM, but at this point, the big Music Companies are too worried to do this. All this talk from Jobs and Yahoo is to try to get some sort of public reaction, which they can then use to make some deals (hopefully). It might not cost you anything to run around saying how much you dislike DRM, but for 2 big companies, such as Apple and Yahoo to do it, it means something.
SO you are completely wrong, it is possible to get rid of DRM by making such speeches, getting the public united against it, getting over companies on board, then more and more companies start selling DRM-less products, until the big guys have to. This is the way it could work, your option is to say nothing, and hope for the best. Brilliant.
The reason games ran at 320x200x256 was because that was what the low-end PS/2 machines came with standard, and it was the PS/2 that pretty much defined where IBM wanted "beyond EGA" to go.
VGA and EGA could display at a higher resolution, but 320x200 was the highest (and only) resolution that would display 256 colours (or with Mode X 320x240, which not many games had).
This is a great point, and probably the only thing saving software playes is the very fact that annoys most of us - two different formats. For the first one to deny software players, will be cutting there marketshare, giving a boost to the other. A tricky situation for the organisations behind each format.
Well, you have to use logic when thinking about it. It is not a Gumby character, it is a phone. Just because your dreams about having a plasticine phone have been shattered, no need to start blaming people.
I don't see this. I look after about 20 recruitment websites in Australasia across a number of industry sectors. (The sites are almost all designed and tested for a wide range of browsers, screen sizes and platforms so I'm not trying to exclude anyone at all.)
Ahh, but as the poster says, you need to look at the audience. So, your statistics tell us what the unemployed use. This begs another question, is there any correlation between being employed and using Firefox? (nobody gets fired for using Firefox!)
YOu are asking Google to police the web? Is that really their role. How is it up to them to decide what is illegal, and what is not? Obviously they are not responsible. It would be impossible for it to be otherwisre.
So what if they awarded an account manager, what do you think that means? That they have someone examine every aspect of the site for illegal activity? They did not assign a ip lawyer to the site, they assigned an account manager.
This is an idiotic statement. Who do I ask about over the counter medicine? Who do I ask about light bulbs? Or car tyres? Or which oranges are the good ones to buy? Or which speakers to get? I guess I should just spend the rest of my life education myself about every possible thing that I am going to buy.
There is another way to look at the Palestinian/Israel trouble.
On one side, there is a bunch of terrorists attacking Israel. On the other side, you have an entire army, controlled by the elected government, attacking Palestine.
In Israel they also elected a government more likely to attack than talk.
There is no easy solution for this conflict, and if you are taking sides, it is a clear sign that you are no longer interested in helping solve it.
Why is this such a logical problem for people, you can have it both ways.
Apple can have the more secure DRM, but it is attacked more, so there are more breaches.(whatever that means)
And Apple can have a more secure OS.
These two things have nothing to do with each other. I don't think that this is a complicated subject, but many people here seem confused. If you only judge these two things on how many breaches they have, then yes, that is a problem. But if you judge the value of the OS, or the DRM on how easy it is to break, as most people do, then where is the problem?
Yes, it is a big concern, since it is highly likely that Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will become a standard, replacing DVDs (I know, there is change that they will both fail, and we can only hope).
If you can not see a problem, with one company, like Sony, deciding that certain films are not ok, then you should think long and hard again.
I spoke to someone about this last year, and I was led to understand that their was a huge pool of data, colleceted by all the weather agencies around the world, and everyone had access to it. It is not like Canada has weather recording stations spread throught the world, in case they don't get data from somewhere.
It always seems a bit odd to me, that when you model the weather, you need to model the entire world, and all the different models get their data from the same sources. Why then, don't we have a world weather computer? What I mean, is combining all these different computer resources into one huge model? I know that each nation does its own little tweaks to produce the "best" model, but surely the ability to throw even more machines at such a problem would produce better results? Are we heading this way, or is their just too much prestige for a country to work out its own weather?
(And surely in Canada, you could just steal the results from the USA equivalent)
Have a look at what car is driven to a record number of victories by the triple WRC champion. A Citroën...
I am guessing here, but I think that is what I, or most people, look for in a car. Since we aren't, you know, planning on competing in the WRC championship any time soon (whatever the hell that is)
Maybe you could actually say something useful, like what area of the US you work in, what college you went to, and why there were only 10 people in your CS class?
Nah, much better to have a little rant. Feel better now?
Yes, in the good old slavery days, you could do that, because you ownder a person. Unfortunately, these days, people look down on owning people, so it is a bit tricky. So it is a bit economically unfeasable to pour all this money into someone, who can just leave anytime they want. Maybe you can stop posting this crap to every story now.
Not having kept my eye on the car market, it is difficult for me to say how good a car maker they are. But you using as an example a car from 1955 doesn't really help support your opinion any.
Yes, this is ok. I still wish they had a backup option, that would save all your messages into a big file for you to store somewhere. That would be perfect.
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Fine, then select no OS, or get Linux and install over it. What is the problem here. It is like you running to the ice cream counter and arguing with the guy because you don't want rum raisin. So what, don't get rum raisin, it is not that complicated.
Yeah, try replacing "the whole industry" in Ken Kutaragi statement with "the consumer".
Or perhaps you can tell us how Ken is trying to change the whole industry?
That is why I always masturbate under the table. Much safer that way, especially when share an offer with two chicks.
This has nothing to do with IBM, believe me. It upset quite a few IBM users as well (who think the Windows key is a waste of space, which I agree with)
Is there a basic problem between being able to differentiate between groups and people? I know groups are complex beasts, but this isn't that tricky. Because somebody inside a group says one thing, it does not mean that the group is saying that? Or do you speak for your entire family, your company, your neighbourhood, your country, etc...
Depressing for whom?
I think you are oversimplifying the situation. No doubt people have tried to do deals and get music without DRM, but at this point, the big Music Companies are too worried to do this. All this talk from Jobs and Yahoo is to try to get some sort of public reaction, which they can then use to make some deals (hopefully). It might not cost you anything to run around saying how much you dislike DRM, but for 2 big companies, such as Apple and Yahoo to do it, it means something.
SO you are completely wrong, it is possible to get rid of DRM by making such speeches, getting the public united against it, getting over companies on board, then more and more companies start selling DRM-less products, until the big guys have to. This is the way it could work, your option is to say nothing, and hope for the best. Brilliant.
The reason games ran at 320x200x256 was because that was what the low-end PS/2 machines came with standard, and it was the PS/2 that pretty much defined where IBM wanted "beyond EGA" to go.
VGA and EGA could display at a higher resolution, but 320x200 was the highest (and only) resolution that would display 256 colours (or with Mode X 320x240, which not many games had).
She clearly does exist, as you can see from this link. Also note that she has a variety of disguises, very suspicious indeed!
This is a great point, and probably the only thing saving software playes is the very fact that annoys most of us - two different formats. For the first one to deny software players, will be cutting there marketshare, giving a boost to the other. A tricky situation for the organisations behind each format.
Why do you have to cut it in half?
Well, you have to use logic when thinking about it. It is not a Gumby character, it is a phone. Just because your dreams about having a plasticine phone have been shattered, no need to start blaming people.
I don't see this. I look after about 20 recruitment websites in Australasia across a number of industry sectors. (The sites are almost all designed and tested for a wide range of browsers, screen sizes and platforms so I'm not trying to exclude anyone at all.)
Ahh, but as the poster says, you need to look at the audience. So, your statistics tell us what the unemployed use. This begs another question, is there any correlation between being employed and using Firefox? (nobody gets fired for using Firefox!)
YOu are asking Google to police the web? Is that really their role. How is it up to them to decide what is illegal, and what is not? Obviously they are not responsible. It would be impossible for it to be otherwisre.
So what if they awarded an account manager, what do you think that means? That they have someone examine every aspect of the site for illegal activity? They did not assign a ip lawyer to the site, they assigned an account manager.
This is an idiotic statement. Who do I ask about over the counter medicine? Who do I ask about light bulbs? Or car tyres? Or which oranges are the good ones to buy? Or which speakers to get? I guess I should just spend the rest of my life education myself about every possible thing that I am going to buy.
There is another way to look at the Palestinian/Israel trouble.
On one side, there is a bunch of terrorists attacking Israel. On the other side, you have an entire army, controlled by the elected government, attacking Palestine.
In Israel they also elected a government more likely to attack than talk.
There is no easy solution for this conflict, and if you are taking sides, it is a clear sign that you are no longer interested in helping solve it.
Why is this such a logical problem for people, you can have it both ways.
Apple can have the more secure DRM, but it is attacked more, so there are more breaches.(whatever that means)
And Apple can have a more secure OS.
These two things have nothing to do with each other. I don't think that this is a complicated subject, but many people here seem confused. If you only judge these two things on how many breaches they have, then yes, that is a problem. But if you judge the value of the OS, or the DRM on how easy it is to break, as most people do, then where is the problem?
Yes, it is a big concern, since it is highly likely that Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will become a standard, replacing DVDs (I know, there is change that they will both fail, and we can only hope).
If you can not see a problem, with one company, like Sony, deciding that certain films are not ok, then you should think long and hard again.
I spoke to someone about this last year, and I was led to understand that their was a huge pool of data, colleceted by all the weather agencies around the world, and everyone had access to it. It is not like Canada has weather recording stations spread throught the world, in case they don't get data from somewhere.
It always seems a bit odd to me, that when you model the weather, you need to model the entire world, and all the different models get their data from the same sources. Why then, don't we have a world weather computer? What I mean, is combining all these different computer resources into one huge model? I know that each nation does its own little tweaks to produce the "best" model, but surely the ability to throw even more machines at such a problem would produce better results? Are we heading this way, or is their just too much prestige for a country to work out its own weather?
(And surely in Canada, you could just steal the results from the USA equivalent)
Have a look at what car is driven to a record number of victories by the triple WRC champion. A Citroën...
I am guessing here, but I think that is what I, or most people, look for in a car. Since we aren't, you know, planning on competing in the WRC championship any time soon (whatever the hell that is)
Maybe you could actually say something useful, like what area of the US you work in, what college you went to, and why there were only 10 people in your CS class?
Nah, much better to have a little rant. Feel better now?
Yes, in the good old slavery days, you could do that, because you ownder a person. Unfortunately, these days, people look down on owning people, so it is a bit tricky. So it is a bit economically unfeasable to pour all this money into someone, who can just leave anytime they want. Maybe you can stop posting this crap to every story now.
Not having kept my eye on the car market, it is difficult for me to say how good a car maker they are. But you using as an example a car from 1955 doesn't really help support your opinion any.
Yes, this is ok. I still wish they had a backup option, that would save all your messages into a big file for you to store somewhere. That would be perfect.