Id like to point out that in the theoretical there is *NO* way for software to detect if it is running on a virtual machine.
Sure there are. VMWare and other virtual machine manufacturers don't go out of their way to hide the fact to the guest OS that they're running in a virtual machine. It's trivial to examine the hardware on a VMWare guest and see that it is indeed a virtual machine. Look at a Linux bootup as a guest OS in VMWare and you'll see at least half a dozen instances where VMware pops up in the dmesg output due to things like the ATA controllers, USB controllers, CD drive brand, hard drive, vlance or vmxnet network controller, etc. Now, if VMware went out of their way to hide all this information to deceive to guest OS I think Microsoft would probably just sue them for DMCA violations.
You're not free to install Vista home on any virtual machine including vmware under windows, bochs on linux or parallels for Mac.
That's exactly what the article summary says... did they update the summary without noting it?:
explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines (ie Macs pretending to be PCs)."
Not that it matters since I don't think many Mac users will waste their money on Vista anytime soon when they can run everything they need on an old copy of Windows 2000 Pro or, in a worst case, Windows XP Pro they either pirated as a volume-license-key edition or bought cheap as an OEM copy. The OEM copies of Vista Ultimate (the equivalent of Windows XP Pro IMHO) look as expensive as Windows 2000 Server was. If it wasn't for Mickeysoft not releasing newer DirectX versions on older versions of Windows we would have absolutely zero reason to ever upgrade from Windows 2000 Pro... it was stable as hell, runs Firefox like a champ, etc. The only reason I upgraded to XP was because newer games are requiring it for the newer DirectX support.
Personally, I'm happy with Firefox 1.5.something. Tried 2.0, it screwed my bookmarks, various other things.
You must be doing something screwy with your bookmarks. I've got hundreds of bookmarks organized into folders and had zero problems going from 1.5 to 2.0. It disabled a couple of oddball extensions I had but fired right up.
I really really really don't get what is so difficult about voting machines. It's just a series of accumulating registers. The user touches this button, this register gets incremented. At the end of the election you print out the totals. Maybe instead of Diebold we need to just get HP, Casio or Texas Instruments to design these things... I never had these problems with my calculator.
History has shown time and time again over the past 25 years that consumers generally do not adopt Sony's proprietary formats: Betamax, Minidiscs, MemoryStick, SACD, UMD, and now Blu-Ray. Things that they develop in conjunction with other companies like CDs and eventually DVDs gained widespread adoption. I won't buy into Blu-Ray simply because it's a stupid name. "Buy this new movie on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray Disc". "Blu-Ray Disc" sounds retarded compared to "DVD" which rolls off the tongue.
How many people won't even know that they have been rooted?
This sounds like the perfect opportunity for one of those chain e-mail letters to be circulated. "Have you played any of these Sony CDs on your computer? If so you're entitled to $150. Pass this along to 5 other people or you will die tomorrow!"
I realize you're all trying to be funny and I hate to ruin the gag, but stop looking like search engine n00bs and put quotation marks around your searches for more accurate results. I know, I know, the gag wouldn't be any fun then when Monster.com doesn't return any results for "nose picker" or "professional asshole".
They're going to delay movie releases to combat piracy? Brilliant!
Well, their first plan was to just start making really shitty movies that nobody would want to waste drive space or blank DVDs on but they underestimated how desperate people are for new releases.
Just like when I use my cell phone to make a quick 20 second call gets billed as a full minute despite the fact that they are certainly capable of timing your call down to the microsecond.
Comcast offers rental for their HD-DVR for a modest price, and no contract, and customers are snapping these units up. ON DEMAND had HD movies that can be viewed at the customers leisure, much of this content is at no additional charge.
So, you're saying that HDTV is truly superior because people prefer it over standard TV when there is little to no cost premium over standard definition? How did you figure that out Einstein? Do you want the 16 ounce medium Coke for $3 or the jumbo 64 ounce tub of Coke for $3.25 at the theater? Apparently everyone likes the tub of Coke.
I'm still not sold on HDTV because the sets are too damned expensive. If you're going to go with HDTV it only makes sense to get a plasma/LCD/DLP TV, but they're overpriced compared to the old CRT sets. Not to mention the size is confusing to people... a 37" LCD TV is smaller than my 32" CRT when watching 4:3 format content. I guess I could be a total tool and watch everything stretched out so everyone looks squat and fat, but that looks like crap.
Fortunately it's possible to receive HD cable programming without one of their HD boxes... Oh, wait, you can't...
Why not? I've seen friends that have Cox Cable and they don't need a digital cable box to receive the HD channels... at least not for the broadcast stuff from ABC/NBC/CBS... but what else is there to watch in HD? Discovery Channel? HDTV is the most overrated technology I've ever seen. It looks beautiful, but the content is still crap.
so I'll likely go with the $49.99 33s - cheapest one they make with RPN. I just don't like the chevron button layout.
I wonder if they still make them like they used to though. My HP48GX has been dropped on concrete numerous times with no marks whatsoever. Most sturdy calculator I've ever used, HOWEVER, it is slow as dog shit if you're using it for any complicated calculations. I was jealous of my friends with their TI-92s, but the things were too big.
Its because they are selling the final version. This no different than any other public beta. No one expects Microsoft to offer the final version of Vista for free because there was a free public beta.
Why would Apple charge for something that is basically akin to GRUB? Sure, they offer you native drivers for their hardware, but what manufacturer of computer equipment WOULDN'T offer a Microsoft Windows XP driver for their hardware? Other than that, the only thing Bootcamp does is act as a boot manager between OS X and third party X86 operating systems... something LILO has been doing for a decade now. Hell, even OS/2 had a nifty boot manager and so does Windows NT! Get a clue Apple, your reality-distortion-field is fluctuating again.
Last month I installed the FuzzyOCR on my Spamassassin setup it and I can now testify that rare is the image spam that gets through.
Enjoy it for the few months that it'll last you. I'm already getting CAPTCHA-style image spam that confuses the OCR programs (not to mention I can't read it either). So, this new spam is usually that image and some random paragraph out of a book or something. Clearly the spammers know what they're doing is unwanted and they continue to escalate their attacks against the spam defenders and yet our lawmakers continue to ignore it. Why not make it a $500,000 fine PER SPAM message and give the fine to the person that got spammed?
I think more likely than not, your real intentions at the time were to take the opportunity to establish authority over her, while simultaneously making a show for your wife.
Dude, she's *12*, not 18. He is absolutely correct to assert his authority over her actions in order to protect her. If he didn't do that then he'd be guilty of being an absentee parent letting his computer babysit his kids.
or just keeping them to her cellphone and txts. 99% of all trouble kids get in to involves the cellphone that their parents ironically gave them to keep them out of trouble.
Again, she's *12*. How many 12 year olds do you know with cell phones? Maybe I'm out of touch, but I didn't get a cell phone until I was 19 and that was because my car was such a piece of shit that I was sick of being stranded on the side of the highway when it broke down that I went and bought one myself. That was only 12 years ago.. I doubt the situations have changed much where suddenly all the kids have a cell phone now. Cell phones are for super-elite rich kids.
I do not understand where they think they have derived the right to force everyone to think the same way they do.
They're probably Slashdot or Digg users. Group-think is very strong in both of these online communities and you will get moderated down if you disagree with the accepted collective doctrine. It is understandable, and frankly human nature, that this problem extends to communities of practice outside our simple online technical groups. You can find similar situations in the "real world" all the time. Try taking a political science course with a liberal professor and then express your neo-conservative viewpoints during discussions. I'd bet 90% of the time you would come out of the class with a lower grade than your liberal classmates even though you showed the same amount of enthusiasm and willingness to participate in class discussions as they did. There are perceived notions among our communities that the collective is "right" and anyone who dares go against the collective group-think is inherently wrong. As we've seen time and time again though, advancements in culture and technology occur when people are brave enough to break away from the collective and tread down new paths even at the risk of being ridiculed or persecuted.
Can anyone identify the date that making products ceased to be about how good your product was and became more like a poker game where you win if you can raise the stakes higher than the other players can afford?
MPAA executives have never admitted that piracy isn't the motivation for DRM. The current generation will never admit that: piracy is their excuse and they will stick to it. DRM is part of their business model and it won't go anywhere until it results in a shareholder-awakening loss of money.
I'm less concerned with piracy and more concerned with the death of the used movie and music market. With DRM, how am I supposed to resell music that I've purchased to the local place that used to buy my used CDs when I was sick of them? How do I sell my DVDs when I'm tired of watching that movie? I've paid either nearly full or even full price for the movie or music, yet I've lost the right to resell the content in the secondary market? Will the studio or record company unlock that content from its DRM chains so that I can resell it upon request?
I know, some will scream at me that "most" people have Windows so its "not a big deal", but just the fact that you are not required to have windows to get a grant is just not right.
I'll be there standing shoulder to shoulder with you as I continue to fight for the rights of all Amiga users. I think we all know we have the superior operating system yet these Winders people continue to dominate!
There are technologies for those wanting to make their content available freely. Looks like they want to kill the latter.
Looks like they're out to kill Shoutcast. While those Internet stations may pay royalties (somehow I doubt most of them do) for airing the music over the Internet, they're streaming it in an unprotected format so anyone could easily digitally copy that stream and reproduce it. I imagine that is what the legislation is intended to combat. If so, FUCK THEM! They're taking Internet streams that work great across all platforms all will force DRM that will restrict it down to a handful of "trusted" official platforms. Bye bye listening to US-based Internet radio from Linux.
No, just one pop-up is enough to destroy a pupils life forever. Then consider the whole class was there. *shudder*
I've always wondered about this. Why don't prosecutors go after parents then too? Imagine the evil that gets instilled in kids on their home computers just browsing around the Interwebs.
This is the final straw that confirms the iPhone beyond "barely affordable but classy social symbol" the iPod was so good to hit, and right into "outrageously priced executive toy".
Executives aren't going to buy a toy if it doesn't push out their Exchange e-mail like their Blackberry does. The Yahoo push e-mail is a non-starter... businesses aren't using Yahoo e-mail. It also lacks mobile Office applications like a Blackberry would... executives need to view documents and spreadsheets on the road. No, the only market this thing appeals to are young people with too much disposable income that need to always have the coolest new gadget to fit in with the socially cool crowd. Think Sidekick-killer. Yes, these phones appeal to the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears wannabes, but sadly Apple has told everyone else to essentially fuck off by crippling the phone's third party app functionality. After seeing all the facts, I'd still rather have a Blackjack or Blackberry.
There's a 2MP camera on the iPhone, but he didn't mention anything about video recording capability and in fact, the only supported application he mentioned was a photo gallery... no videos aside from the iTunes video stuff. I imagine the phone will not record videos either.
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Sure there are. VMWare and other virtual machine manufacturers don't go out of their way to hide the fact to the guest OS that they're running in a virtual machine. It's trivial to examine the hardware on a VMWare guest and see that it is indeed a virtual machine. Look at a Linux bootup as a guest OS in VMWare and you'll see at least half a dozen instances where VMware pops up in the dmesg output due to things like the ATA controllers, USB controllers, CD drive brand, hard drive, vlance or vmxnet network controller, etc. Now, if VMware went out of their way to hide all this information to deceive to guest OS I think Microsoft would probably just sue them for DMCA violations.
That's exactly what the article summary says... did they update the summary without noting it?: explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines (ie Macs pretending to be PCs)."
Not that it matters since I don't think many Mac users will waste their money on Vista anytime soon when they can run everything they need on an old copy of Windows 2000 Pro or, in a worst case, Windows XP Pro they either pirated as a volume-license-key edition or bought cheap as an OEM copy. The OEM copies of Vista Ultimate (the equivalent of Windows XP Pro IMHO) look as expensive as Windows 2000 Server was. If it wasn't for Mickeysoft not releasing newer DirectX versions on older versions of Windows we would have absolutely zero reason to ever upgrade from Windows 2000 Pro... it was stable as hell, runs Firefox like a champ, etc. The only reason I upgraded to XP was because newer games are requiring it for the newer DirectX support.
I really really really don't get what is so difficult about voting machines. It's just a series of accumulating registers. The user touches this button, this register gets incremented. At the end of the election you print out the totals. Maybe instead of Diebold we need to just get HP, Casio or Texas Instruments to design these things... I never had these problems with my calculator.
History has shown time and time again over the past 25 years that consumers generally do not adopt Sony's proprietary formats: Betamax, Minidiscs, MemoryStick, SACD, UMD, and now Blu-Ray. Things that they develop in conjunction with other companies like CDs and eventually DVDs gained widespread adoption. I won't buy into Blu-Ray simply because it's a stupid name. "Buy this new movie on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray Disc". "Blu-Ray Disc" sounds retarded compared to "DVD" which rolls off the tongue.
I realize you're all trying to be funny and I hate to ruin the gag, but stop looking like search engine n00bs and put quotation marks around your searches for more accurate results. I know, I know, the gag wouldn't be any fun then when Monster.com doesn't return any results for "nose picker" or "professional asshole".
I'm still not sold on HDTV because the sets are too damned expensive. If you're going to go with HDTV it only makes sense to get a plasma/LCD/DLP TV, but they're overpriced compared to the old CRT sets. Not to mention the size is confusing to people... a 37" LCD TV is smaller than my 32" CRT when watching 4:3 format content. I guess I could be a total tool and watch everything stretched out so everyone looks squat and fat, but that looks like crap.
Have you ever SEEN a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California? I haven't, so how do you know it has 5 digits on the odometer?
Why would Apple charge for something that is basically akin to GRUB? Sure, they offer you native drivers for their hardware, but what manufacturer of computer equipment WOULDN'T offer a Microsoft Windows XP driver for their hardware? Other than that, the only thing Bootcamp does is act as a boot manager between OS X and third party X86 operating systems... something LILO has been doing for a decade now. Hell, even OS/2 had a nifty boot manager and so does Windows NT! Get a clue Apple, your reality-distortion-field is fluctuating again.
Enjoy it for the few months that it'll last you. I'm already getting CAPTCHA-style image spam that confuses the OCR programs (not to mention I can't read it either). So, this new spam is usually that image and some random paragraph out of a book or something. Clearly the spammers know what they're doing is unwanted and they continue to escalate their attacks against the spam defenders and yet our lawmakers continue to ignore it. Why not make it a $500,000 fine PER SPAM message and give the fine to the person that got spammed?
Executives aren't going to buy a toy if it doesn't push out their Exchange e-mail like their Blackberry does. The Yahoo push e-mail is a non-starter... businesses aren't using Yahoo e-mail. It also lacks mobile Office applications like a Blackberry would... executives need to view documents and spreadsheets on the road. No, the only market this thing appeals to are young people with too much disposable income that need to always have the coolest new gadget to fit in with the socially cool crowd. Think Sidekick-killer. Yes, these phones appeal to the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears wannabes, but sadly Apple has told everyone else to essentially fuck off by crippling the phone's third party app functionality. After seeing all the facts, I'd still rather have a Blackjack or Blackberry.
There's a 2MP camera on the iPhone, but he didn't mention anything about video recording capability and in fact, the only supported application he mentioned was a photo gallery... no videos aside from the iTunes video stuff. I imagine the phone will not record videos either.