I agree wholeheartedly. There's pornography, music piracy, video game piracy, and pornography.
Oh come on! Are you saying you don't use BitTorrent to download ISO images of Linux and home movies (not pornography you pervert) of their vacations and kids playing in the orchestra?
Not cheaper than DVDs. Especially not if you want to do daily backups to a different medium, and do a different weekly.
That will get very expensive, very fast, and require a lot of storage space.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that you believe backing up 300GB of data via DVD-Rs is more convenient and safe than just buying 2 or 3 300GB USB hard drives and rotating them back and forth to work or a friend's house periodically. You'd be burning around 70 DVDs a day! It only works for incredibly small amounts of data that will fit on a single drive, otherwise the cost and complexity in terms of time involved in cataloging and swapping DVDs to backup your hard drive is prohibitive until someone comes up with an affordable DVD-RW library system with built in DVD-RW drives. i.e. backup to the library, pull out a spindle of backup disks to take off site in a convenient cartridge and put a new one in for tomorrow. If you're going to go to that complexity and expense you might as well just get LTO-3 tape drives.
But some folks have 3 terabytes (not porn btw) of HTPC stuff
Is it even legal to archive that stuff? I thought it was for time-shifting purposes only... basically once you watch it you're expected to delete it. I'm sure NBC or HBO or whoever wouldn't be very happy to know you're cataloging and archiving their intellectual property indefinitely without a license.
Or, ya know, release the source code so the community can fix it.
Nothing is stopping "the community" from writing an open source Flash player just like people did with the xpdf reader for PDF documents. Or you could stop complaining and, ya know, just get a Mac.
AFAIR it's pretty easy to change the default to whatever you want. Factory setting is still.docx
The problem is that people WON'T and we'll start getting deluged with Office 2007 documents in their crappy proprietary format. Why go and create a completely new document format when there's a perfect ODF format available that will be 100% open with all other office suites that implement it. No more complicated and buggy filters needed to import documents, just write your code to the file spec and you'll see what the user intended you to see when they created the documents.
We don't want a new Office 2007 XML document format, just implement ODF correctly according to the specifications and be done with it. Allow the older formats in order to open legacy documents, but ODF should be the default on all new Office releases.
Probably. This is why a clean install would be the wrong thing to do. Reimaging a drive would be far more ambigous. What you would have then is a drive where most of the files are before x date.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place? Why give these wankers any more ideas on how to cover up their theft? If you want to do the crime, then be prepared to pay the consequences... legal music is only $1 a track on iTunes, more than reasonable. Is it really worth gambling up to $150,000 per track that you are safe?
As for wiping the drive to give to charity, reimaging the drive is also a non-issue since you'd just wipe the drive and give the computer to them and let them provide their own OS since you can't legally transfer the OS license anyway in most cases. You could always stick Ubuntu on it.
I'm willing to bet a number of entries (especially of those which didn't win, or didn't even make it into the round of 24) will end up as features in the next MacOS.
Oh oh oh! I hope one of the entries that wins is working PEAP-GTC session resumption support in the Apple Airport wireless driver. I'm not holding my breath on that one though.
A lot of artists still believe in some mythical ideal of artistic integrity, even at the expense of making more money.
Bullshit. Artists are worried about money just as much as everyone else. If they were only interested in their artistic integrity they'd still be playing hole-in-the-wall bar gigs for $50 a night, singing for free on the street corner, or distributing their music for free via web sites. I don't fault them for wanting to make money off their work, but don't give me some bullshit excuse that your artistic integrity compels you to insist that I buy all 12 tracks of your shitty album for $18 instead of the 1 track that was catchy enough to get played on the radio over and over and over again.
Pro - Portable Apps, including firefox and thunderbird so your cookies aren't left behind when you do online banking at a public computer. Con - Only works on WinXP
But there's certainly nothing stopping you from using Portable Firefox or Portable Thunderbird or Portable OpenOffice on a regular flash drive, and "U3 Technology" only works with certain U3-aware applications so it's not like you can encapsulate any program and make it U3-aware. I figured right away this was a completely useless feature and blew it away using the uninstaller. Unfortunately you seem to need a Windows box to run the uninstaller so I had to go hunt one down to remove this garbage since I use Macs 99% of the time.
I personally don't go to any concerts because the price of a ticket is inflated. I'd pay 10$ for a show of musician I wanted to see, but not $50 and upwards per seat.
Oh for crying out loud, just admit you guys are cheap and be done with it. I've heard this over and over and over again. Even if songs were 10 cents each and released in a completely lossless open format with no DRM people would STILL pirate music. Concerts are one of the few places where the vast majority of the money goes to the artists so give them a break if they're trying to recoup potential income they lost from bogus record contracts.
Sweet. Now I can fix the flash drive (with their permission) rather than tell them to buy a different device.
Just make them aware that the U3 uninstaller will repartition the flash drive and erase all the data on it. Definitely a no-go for those "My assignment is due in 20 minutes, I need to print this now now now!!!" people. Other than that, the uninstaller seems to do exactly what you'd expect. I picked up a couple of 2 GB Sandisk Micro thumb drives from Best Buy on Wednesday since they were on sale for $45 each. Quite a steal for a drive with an MSRP of around $85. Works just fine now and the CD-image partition is no longer there so it doesn't autorun anything on Windows.
Awsome - Rockstar have a new game - might check it out
Hell, it's not funny, it's true. Before I started seeing this Jack Thompson stuff pop up I didn't even know anything about this Bully game. Now I've seen a trailer for it, screenshots, and frankly I'm pretty excited to pick this one up. Thanks Jack. If you didn't make such a big deal over this I never would've found this gem. I can't wait to beat up bullies.
There is no new money to be made, a port would merely move a sale from Win32 to Linux, more work, no revenue. The Linux market is really only those who refuse to emulate or dual boot.
Well if they had a clue maybe they'd realize that gamers really couldn't care less what operating system they're using as long as it runs the games. If game companies started basing their products on a stable Linux core instead of that flaky Windoze shit we'd start to see gamers switching overnight. Do you really think they get done playing their newest game only to fire up Microsoft Office or some other proprietary Windows applications? Gamers use their $3000 computer like a $3000 video game console, nothing more, nothing less. The underlying OS is irrelevent to them, it's the performance that matters. I'd love to see a new standard for video games that used bootable Linux DVDs to play games just like a console rather than having to load up the Windoze bloat before launching the game.
It will have a faster FSB and other upgraded features that will take advantage of the Core 2's speed. So wait for those Macs.:) I say June of next year.
I have a hunch that Intel may be releasing EVEN FASTER chipsets and CPUs by Q2 2008 so I'd recommend waiting until at lease then to buy a new Mac. Then again, if you can wait that long I'd recommend waiting a year longer and getting the next generation after that which will undoubtably blow away anything you'll be able to get in Q2 2008!:-)
Our enterprise file servers run w2k3sp1... Those ports are open on these machines. Basically we have to hope that noone brings infection inside.
That would be impossible unless you have users that have laptops that they take outside the office or users that browse the web or receive e-mail to their desktops or users that connect remotely from their homes via dialup or VPNs. All very unlikely scenarios in any modern business environment.
baby bottles are allowed as long as the mother will drink from the bottle to prove that it is safe.
So why isn't THAT the standard? Just have people take a big swig from their liquid before allowing it on. It wouldn't really work for hair gel or shampoo, but it would be fine for people buying soft drinks or water bottles to bring on the plane. And what about books? Is my novel going to explode? These are just some of the reasons I don't travel by air anymore, it's just an enormous pain in the ass and I can bring a lot more luggage if I drive.
Nope. You have to drag music into iTunes and create a playlist to copy your music onto the iPod, otherwise it won't be playable by the device. You CAN use it as a portable hard drive as well, but it can't play the content on the hard drive unless you use iTunes to make a playlist and let it copy the music onto it... during which the process renames the music file to some garbage name and files it away in the iPod's database so it's hard to extract it back to the original file without special software to correlate the media file with the database. Personally if I had known that before I bought my iPod Mini I wouldn't have bought it. It just seems idiotic that you can't just drag and drop MP3s into it like a hard drive and browse the directory list to play whatever songs you want on it, including videos if you have a video iPod. You shouldn't NEED any additional software at all beyond a USB capable computer that can read and write to the iPod filesystem like a hard drive.
The current administration has asserted that even US citizens apprehended on US soil can be classified as enemy combatants and held outside of the usual (criminal, military) prison systems.
Can you provide a single example of an American citizen being dragged from US soil to be held as an enemy combatant without due process? A link to a reputable news source would be sufficient.
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We don't want a new Office 2007 XML document format, just implement ODF correctly according to the specifications and be done with it. Allow the older formats in order to open legacy documents, but ODF should be the default on all new Office releases.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place? Why give these wankers any more ideas on how to cover up their theft? If you want to do the crime, then be prepared to pay the consequences... legal music is only $1 a track on iTunes, more than reasonable. Is it really worth gambling up to $150,000 per track that you are safe?
As for wiping the drive to give to charity, reimaging the drive is also a non-issue since you'd just wipe the drive and give the computer to them and let them provide their own OS since you can't legally transfer the OS license anyway in most cases. You could always stick Ubuntu on it.
What about geothermal or hydroelectric power?
But there's certainly nothing stopping you from using Portable Firefox or Portable Thunderbird or Portable OpenOffice on a regular flash drive, and "U3 Technology" only works with certain U3-aware applications so it's not like you can encapsulate any program and make it U3-aware. I figured right away this was a completely useless feature and blew it away using the uninstaller. Unfortunately you seem to need a Windows box to run the uninstaller so I had to go hunt one down to remove this garbage since I use Macs 99% of the time.
So why isn't THAT the standard? Just have people take a big swig from their liquid before allowing it on. It wouldn't really work for hair gel or shampoo, but it would be fine for people buying soft drinks or water bottles to bring on the plane. And what about books? Is my novel going to explode? These are just some of the reasons I don't travel by air anymore, it's just an enormous pain in the ass and I can bring a lot more luggage if I drive.
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