No shit man... but you can use that opportunity to give them some nice present or whatever you want... if you are the "geek" friend why not offering to repair their malware infested Zombindows (R) operating system? Or if you really are that annoying, ask them to tape it!
The way I saw seasons 3 and 4 of 24 was by borrowing the DVDs from a friend, that is how I got hooked, and I enjoyed the extras as much as the show.
whatever happened to socializing? oh wait... I am in slashdot!
no, you just fell for MS's propaganda. First of all, more than 80% of software is written for other purposes than shrink-wrapped sale. Yup, I agree with you, I won't go far to say a figure like 80%, but I would say "most" (for science, military, engineering, buisness, etc)
People who write this stuff have less need for restrictive licenses in any case.
Uuhh... wrong these people do indeed use more restrictive licenses, even what you will call "draconian" licenses for this software, just go ahead and ask the people in the military (in whatever country you live) or Barclays, Citybank, etc about the software used for stock trading, like market simulation systems (hint, I should know, I work in MAS market simulations).
Such licenses are more than "Play-my-way-or-I--grab-my-ball-and-go-to-play-som ewhere-else"-GPL style, these licenses are of the "Play-my-way-or-I-will-sue-you-until-you-have-no-l imbs-to-sell" kind of licenes
You were very lucky indeed, my father has some of his (Masters) thesis data (processed by using some computer at Mexico's UNAM) in nothing less than punch cards. It is very amazing to know what people achieved by using such technology:)
. You elect a president, and then he puts incompetent cronies in positions of huge responsibility in important areas of the government.
When the last president of Mexico (Vicente Fox) started, he appointed to several high ranking positions to people that had been found in a "head hunting" process. These were supposed to be the best or, very good at least, in their respective areas, I personally know one of them, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), because the guy who was appointed is a friend of my father and both are biologists, the guy is an expert in environment issues.
On theory, that kind of approach should have worked wonders, as it was people that *knew* what their where doing. However all these people lacked true knowledge of Politics, and they were eaten alive by the other parties. Not because they did their work wrongly, but because they just did not have the teeth to defend themselves of "politics".
In other countries like Switzerland, heads of each major area of government, from transportation to defense, are independently, democratically elected. The next time an American starts talking about "democracy", remind them that they need to look elsewhere, far outside of their own country, to find a more true example of the democracy. That would be very good in theory, the problem is that, people (the majority) in the USA (similarly, in Mexico) do not care about electing, and going to election once every four or six years to choice a president is cumbersome enough. It will prove quite difficult to educate them to do it more often.
Of course, that is a matter of the controlling government not wanting to truly democratize the election of the people in power...
However, I would love to see someone fighting in court with the argument that the Wireless provided IN FACT did give permission to log into the network, and to backup such claims with the DHCP logging information on their computer. The truth is that the default state of most commercial routers is to allow anyone to connect it that way. If the person buying the service does not acknwoledge with such behaviour she can always instruct their router to do otherwise. Or, if users do not like the default behaviour, they should press companies to provide the routers with a "closed" state router by default.
Actually those kind of advertisements that appear on top of the real content are more obstrusive than the full commercials. I started to see those ads in Football matches some years ago. As it is not possible to break for 30 seconds ads during a football(soccer) match TV companies started adding those ads strips at the bottom of the image. They really suck because they prevent you from watching some part of the the content. They blatantly interfere with the actual content of the video.
I find those ads similarly disguisting to the times when a radio presenter would turn the volume of a song down to say some kind of crap... moreover, imagine listening to Queen's "Dont Lose your head" in Last.FM and suddenly starting to listen "buy viagra! buy viagra! buy cheap viagra!" on top of it.
Even advancements in multi-core technology would not require a 3.x series kernel (unless I'm mistaken in my belief that the 2.6.x series supports multi-core CPU's), simply because once you cam make a dual-core CPU functional with the kernel, expanding that functionality to 4, 8, or even 64 cores is simply an expanding of the current code. And even if the current kernel does not support multi-core CPU's, that would be more of a 2.8.x series, rather than an entirely new kernel version
I guess that a 3.0 version would be a suitable "label" to a conversion of the Linux kernel into a Microkernel architecture, I am not saying that it is going to be done, but I think that with the development of multicore technology and the overall new technology a microkernel architecture seems plausible.
In any case, I assume that just a modification of such size would make the version major worth of being changed.
I can't wait to sit through a dozen commercials while I try to waste some free time.
You already did that. That is what TV is all about isn't it? killing some time while watching soups, "news" or cartoons. The only difference is that... mmm... well, I guess there is no difference at all form the viewer point of view. The only difference from the "content provider" point of view is that I guess the guys showing the "my neighbour falling LOLZ!" video won't get a penny for the ads embeded in their video...
I remeber signing in in YouTube like page which actually payed you for each click a page with your video or picture generated... something similar would be fair in the case of video advertisment dont you think?
European countries, they import graduates for example from Latin America, give them a free or a cheap Phd, and they get a cheap doctor in whetever they need, for 3 o 4 years of education.
What Europe are you talking about? I am Latin American currently doing a PhD in Comp.Sci. in the UK and let me tell you it is faaaaaar from cheap, I've got to pay £10,500 (about $20,838.8) a year plus about £700 for montly expenses... The only way I could afford it is by a sponsorship from my government.
no you can tell on any tv. even the 480i. the difference is non trivial. Howdy shite, how can you know what parent poster or I can or can not see!
I've got some thick glasses over here and I assure you, as parent, I have seen no difference whatsoever between the DVD and HD formats. As people said, for me, the utility of using HD will come when the 40'' TVs are affordable (which wont be in quite some time for me). Meanwhile, I am very happy buying The Fifth Element for $5 instead of $20...
For the love of God editors, I understand that it is fine to write a sensationalist title on some articles but that is blatant FALSE. It is a complete LIE. People at Skype specifically stated that the fault was in *their* log-in mechanisms.
Really this kind of journalism is disgusting... I am tagging this story as LIE which I hope other people do as well, unless editors change the title.
I find hard to believe Slashdot has got so low... this and the speculative digg-like "articles" ending with a question mark "?", What the fuck.
. And then they sue if they cannot get a cease and desist agreement, or if the defendant is a bad actor, but they don't routinely sue everyone who may have infringed a copyright and was not willing to pay thousands of dollars in extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H settlement -- money.
Fixed. You know, you really should get used to the automobile examples and this sort of speak in order to be understood by the/. crowd.;-)
I have not been bothered by ads since I installed AdBlock Plus (in Firefox) or Privoxy (using Opera). In fact it is really interesting (and cumbersome) to see the "real" internet whenever I have to browse the web in a computer that does not have such applications.
Does anyone know how old the hard drive is?. It is 51 years old
Anyway, even I (born in 1981) started buying LPs (my first LP was Europe's Final Countdown) and then went to cassete (I beat the crap of a walkman because it chewed my Ride The Lighting cassete... a very sad day). I still remember how CDs were supposed to make music albums more affordable, too bad I have never felt that way...
Unless it is the UK... I always wonder why is there a weather section for the UK. Everytime I see it the forecast is the same, cloudy with rain. I think being a weather forecaster here in the UK is a heck of an easy task, you can always give the correct forecast by going with the "its gonna rane lad" choice...
It's Russia we're talking about here. More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. The last line of the article should also say "two more criminal trial dismissals are scheduled..."
You are assuming that they the guy is guilty, it seems the USA government has brainwashed you with the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
It is funny (ironic?) that it is in Russia where this "innocent until proven guilty" has a stand whereas in the USA RIAA and friends keep extorting innocent people when the fact is that it allofmp3 is legal or was legal until the RIAA used their power to extort the Russian government to change their laws (if it was a loophole or whatever else does not matter, it was/the law/).
Of course I understand you might find it amusing that there are some countries where people have the opportunity to defend themselves from Corporations; sadly this is changing slowly as such Corporations keep corrupting such countries.
To finish this post, thing for a moment, if the Judicial system in Russia is . More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. then, I would suppose that Sony-BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner have CRAPLOADS of more money than the guy running allofmp3 and therefore could pay more to such corrupt people to win such lawsuits and whatnot...
Something similar happened to me... I bought my laptop in my home country before coming to study here in the UK, it is an HP with Windows XP Proffesional (it has the sticker under it), after two years in the UK my hard disk went dead and I had to buy a new one.
After buying the new HD I contacted HP via online chat and exposed my problem to the guy, I told him that I would like to *pay* for the recover disk (or whatever it is called) to reinstall Windows (they say they send it to you for 15 pounds at most), but he told me that it was not possible because my license was for another language version and not the UK- English version, he told me that the only solution was to buy a retail copy of windows (WTF?).
I ended downloading the WindowsUE which is an illegal distribution of Windows XP with a lot of improvements, and I have been using it since then... my thought is WTF, I have the license and I really wanted to do things the right way but it was not possible. Now, you might say I could have gone via Linux... which I kind of did (I dual boot Ubuntu/XP) but I need windows to use SPSS, I have tried it with Wine and CXOffice without success...
From the wikipedia: Opera is not supported in the current releases but will be supported with future builds,[11] as will be Windows 2000.[12] Additional platforms are being considered as well.[13]
I am writing this comment from my Opera browser in Linux... (imagine, two layers of incompatibility) while I am looking a flash video in youtube (and after failing to see the Silverlight "demo" video because it is in some obscure format WMV).
I could even write this comment using my Wii (and watch YouTube videos...) while I am sure MS will not make the least effor to make Silverlight content avaiable in those competing platforms...
My point? We have got into a point where Flash is the/standard/ (which I do not like... I always prefered Java Applets) for such kind of content, and it has come a loooong way to support all these architectures.
Slashdot Mirror
No shit man... but you can use that opportunity to give them some nice present or whatever you want... if you are the "geek" friend why not offering to repair their malware infested Zombindows (R) operating system? Or if you really are that annoying, ask them to tape it!
The way I saw seasons 3 and 4 of 24 was by borrowing the DVDs from a friend, that is how I got hooked, and I enjoyed the extras as much as the show.
whatever happened to socializing? oh wait... I am in slashdot!
no, you just fell for MS's propaganda. First of all, more than 80% of software is written for other purposes than shrink-wrapped sale.
m ewhere-else"-GPL style, these licenses are of the "Play-my-way-or-I-will-sue-you-until-you-have-no-l imbs-to-sell" kind of licenes
Yup, I agree with you, I won't go far to say a figure like 80%, but I would say "most" (for science, military, engineering, buisness, etc)
People who write this stuff have less need for restrictive licenses in any case.
Uuhh... wrong these people do indeed use more restrictive licenses, even what you will call "draconian" licenses for this software, just go ahead and ask the people in the military (in whatever country you live) or Barclays, Citybank, etc about the software used for stock trading, like market simulation systems (hint, I should know, I work in MAS market simulations).
Such licenses are more than "Play-my-way-or-I--grab-my-ball-and-go-to-play-so
or... dare I say: Usenet?
So, why would you like to to run upon usenet? Do you plan to start a big flamewar about the Torrentspy blocking or anything?
something tells me you wont be desired there!.
You were very lucky indeed, my father has some of his (Masters) thesis data (processed by using some computer at Mexico's UNAM) in nothing less than punch cards. It is very amazing to know what people achieved by using such technology :)
. You elect a president, and then he puts incompetent cronies in positions of huge responsibility in important areas of the government.
When the last president of Mexico (Vicente Fox) started, he appointed to several high ranking positions to people that had been found in a "head hunting" process. These were supposed to be the best or, very good at least, in their respective areas, I personally know one of them, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), because the guy who was appointed is a friend of my father and both are biologists, the guy is an expert in environment issues.
On theory, that kind of approach should have worked wonders, as it was people that *knew* what their where doing. However all these people lacked true knowledge of Politics, and they were eaten alive by the other parties. Not because they did their work wrongly, but because they just did not have the teeth to defend themselves of "politics".
In other countries like Switzerland, heads of each major area of government, from transportation to defense, are independently, democratically elected. The next time an American starts talking about "democracy", remind them that they need to look elsewhere, far outside of their own country, to find a more true example of the democracy.
That would be very good in theory, the problem is that, people (the majority) in the USA (similarly, in Mexico) do not care about electing, and going to election once every four or six years to choice a president is cumbersome enough. It will prove quite difficult to educate them to do it more often.
Of course, that is a matter of the controlling government not wanting to truly democratize the election of the people in power...
Howdy shit we are in front of one of those Red Neck Christian extremists trying to put their ideology down our throats...
I always enjoy reading these posts... they make me laugh (I am an atheist so... I guess I will go to hell)
The Windows registry allows creating keys that have nulls in them,...
;-)
Wow, so does it mean that I managed to program r00tkitZ since the MS-DOS time when I did MD PR0N[ALT+255][ALT+255]
darn, I know I was leet but haven't realised I was *that* leet!
Us and it would be awfully hard to convince anyone that you need a new war just cause of some pirate DVDs.
Don't you know that piracy helps terrorism, and terrorism is the mother of all evil and must be exterminated before they use their WMDs?.
Ignorantia juris non excusat.
However, I would love to see someone fighting in court with the argument that the Wireless provided IN FACT did give permission to log into the network, and to backup such claims with the DHCP logging information on their computer. The truth is that the default state of most commercial routers is to allow anyone to connect it that way. If the person buying the service does not acknwoledge with such behaviour she can always instruct their router to do otherwise. Or, if users do not like the default behaviour, they should press companies to provide the routers with a "closed" state router by default.
Actually those kind of advertisements that appear on top of the real content are more obstrusive than the full commercials. I started to see those ads in Football matches some years ago. As it is not possible to break for 30 seconds ads during a football(soccer) match TV companies started adding those ads strips at the bottom of the image. They really suck because they prevent you from watching some part of the the content. They blatantly interfere with the actual content of the video.
I find those ads similarly disguisting to the times when a radio presenter would turn the volume of a song down to say some kind of crap... moreover, imagine listening to Queen's "Dont Lose your head" in Last.FM and suddenly starting to listen "buy viagra! buy viagra! buy cheap viagra!" on top of it.
Even advancements in multi-core technology would not require a 3.x series kernel (unless I'm mistaken in my belief that the 2.6.x series supports multi-core CPU's), simply because once you cam make a dual-core CPU functional with the kernel, expanding that functionality to 4, 8, or even 64 cores is simply an expanding of the current code. And even if the current kernel does not support multi-core CPU's, that would be more of a 2.8.x series, rather than an entirely new kernel version
I guess that a 3.0 version would be a suitable "label" to a conversion of the Linux kernel into a Microkernel architecture, I am not saying that it is going to be done, but I think that with the development of multicore technology and the overall new technology a microkernel architecture seems plausible.
In any case, I assume that just a modification of such size would make the version major worth of being changed.
I can't wait to sit through a dozen commercials while I try to waste some free time.
... mmm ... well, I guess there is no difference at all form the viewer point of view. The only difference from the "content provider" point of view is that I guess the guys showing the "my neighbour falling LOLZ!" video won't get a penny for the ads embeded in their video...
You already did that. That is what TV is all about isn't it? killing some time while watching soups, "news" or cartoons. The only difference is that
I remeber signing in in YouTube like page which actually payed you for each click a page with your video or picture generated... something similar would be fair in the case of video advertisment dont you think?
European countries, they import graduates for example from Latin America, give them a free or a cheap Phd, and they get a cheap doctor in whetever they need, for 3 o 4 years of education.
What Europe are you talking about? I am Latin American currently doing a PhD in Comp.Sci. in the UK and let me tell you it is faaaaaar from cheap, I've got to pay £10,500 (about $20,838.8) a year plus about £700 for montly expenses... The only way I could afford it is by a sponsorship from my government.
no you can tell on any tv. even the 480i. the difference is non trivial.
Howdy shite, how can you know what parent poster or I can or can not see!
I've got some thick glasses over here and I assure you, as parent, I have seen no difference whatsoever between the DVD and HD formats. As people said, for me, the utility of using HD will come when the 40'' TVs are affordable (which wont be in quite some time for me). Meanwhile, I am very happy buying The Fifth Element for $5 instead of $20...
Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage
For the love of God editors, I understand that it is fine to write a sensationalist title on some articles but that is blatant FALSE. It is a complete LIE. People at Skype specifically stated that the fault was in *their* log-in mechanisms.
Really this kind of journalism is disgusting... I am tagging this story as LIE which I hope other people do as well, unless editors change the title.
I find hard to believe Slashdot has got so low... this and the speculative digg-like "articles" ending with a question mark "?", What the fuck.
. And then they sue if they cannot get a cease and desist agreement, or if the defendant is a bad actor, but they don't routinely sue everyone who may have infringed a copyright and was not willing to pay thousands of dollars in extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H settlement -- money.
/. crowd. ;-)
Fixed. You know, you really should get used to the automobile examples and this sort of speak in order to be understood by the
Are you implying that it is much easier to close your eyes, cover your ears and shout LALALALALLAAL at the problem?
:).
uhm... it doesn't really make it better
I have not been bothered by ads since I installed AdBlock Plus (in Firefox) or Privoxy (using Opera). In fact it is really interesting (and cumbersome) to see the "real" internet whenever I have to browse the web in a computer that does not have such applications.
Other than that, this is a non story.
Nothing for you to see here, move along
Oh shit! they must have blocked the Opera browsers too... as I wasnt able to see it neither :-(
Does anyone know how old the hard drive is?.
It is 51 years old
Anyway, even I (born in 1981) started buying LPs (my first LP was Europe's Final Countdown) and then went to cassete (I beat the crap of a walkman because it chewed my Ride The Lighting cassete... a very sad day). I still remember how CDs were supposed to make music albums more affordable, too bad I have never felt that way...
Unless it is the UK... I always wonder why is there a weather section for the UK. Everytime I see it the forecast is the same, cloudy with rain. I think being a weather forecaster here in the UK is a heck of an easy task, you can always give the correct forecast by going with the "its gonna rane lad" choice...
It's Russia we're talking about here. More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. The last line of the article should also say "two more criminal trial dismissals are scheduled..."
/the law/).
You are assuming that they the guy is guilty, it seems the USA government has brainwashed you with the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
It is funny (ironic?) that it is in Russia where this "innocent until proven guilty" has a stand whereas in the USA RIAA and friends keep extorting innocent people when the fact is that it allofmp3 is legal or was legal until the RIAA used their power to extort the Russian government to change their laws (if it was a loophole or whatever else does not matter, it was
Of course I understand you might find it amusing that there are some countries where people have the opportunity to defend themselves from Corporations; sadly this is changing slowly as such Corporations keep corrupting such countries.
To finish this post, thing for a moment, if the Judicial system in Russia is . More corrupt than a NBA Basketball game. then, I would suppose that Sony-BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner have CRAPLOADS of more money than the guy running allofmp3 and therefore could pay more to such corrupt people to win such lawsuits and whatnot...
Something similar happened to me... I bought my laptop in my home country before coming to study here in the UK, it is an HP with Windows XP Proffesional (it has the sticker under it), after two years in the UK my hard disk went dead and I had to buy a new one.
After buying the new HD I contacted HP via online chat and exposed my problem to the guy, I told him that I would like to *pay* for the recover disk (or whatever it is called) to reinstall Windows (they say they send it to you for 15 pounds at most), but he told me that it was not possible because my license was for another language version and not the UK- English version, he told me that the only solution was to buy a retail copy of windows (WTF?).
I ended downloading the WindowsUE which is an illegal distribution of Windows XP with a lot of improvements, and I have been using it since then... my thought is WTF, I have the license and I really wanted to do things the right way but it was not possible. Now, you might say I could have gone via Linux... which I kind of did (I dual boot Ubuntu/XP) but I need windows to use SPSS, I have tried it with Wine and CXOffice without success...
From the wikipedia:
/standard/ (which I do not like... I always prefered Java Applets) for such kind of content, and it has come a loooong way to support all these architectures.
Opera is not supported in the current releases but will be supported with future builds,[11] as will be Windows 2000.[12] Additional platforms are being considered as well.[13]
I am writing this comment from my Opera browser in Linux... (imagine, two layers of incompatibility) while I am looking a flash video in youtube (and after failing to see the Silverlight "demo" video because it is in some obscure format WMV).
I could even write this comment using my Wii (and watch YouTube videos...) while I am sure MS will not make the least effor to make Silverlight content avaiable in those competing platforms...
My point?
We have got into a point where Flash is the
"Ah," says St. Peter, "you're right. That was the screensaver."
There, fixed it for you.