And here is way - if it was true than Microsft and Apple should be calling their software "BSD/Windows" and "BSD/OSX", since they both have lots of BSD software in them.
The userland != the OS. The OS *is the kernel*. The rest is just tools on top. I could install the BSD userland on the Linux kernel, and it would still be Linux. "GNU/Linux" is just RMS ego-stoking - you don't *have* to use the GNU utilities with the Linux kernel.
You did pay interest. Any time you give money for something in advance while recieving nothing in return, you are indirectly paying interest because in 7 months the money you paid out will be less valueable than it is now due to inflaction. Basic economics.
You can think of it another way, you could have placed that money in a high-interest savings account and earned 3% or more interest on it during the period you had the game on pre-order. Since you did not, that difference is how much the pre-order cost. (it's actually a percent or two more than that due to inflation, but you get the idea).
Why do people fall for the whole preorder scam? Giving a store your hard earned money months in advance for something you have yet to recieve is foolish - once you factor in interest you are paying *more* for the game than you would if you just waited until release day - and there are *never* shortages of games on release day.
OF COURSE it would. It would no longer orbit the earth, so it would no longer be a moon.
This smacks of an elementary-level understanding, I don't know why it made the front page. If you change the physical properties of a named object, and want to name it something else, who cares?
The question of This + Quantum Entaglement is also flawed, you can't have both. If you set the spin of one, you've destroyed the entaglement.
True, according to this once you set the spin of an electron you destory the entanglement.
but not until *after* that new state was reflected in the other entangled electron, correct? If thi sis the case, can't you ship a billion billion entangled electrons from X to y, and set the spin of ones at X to send a message to Y? Sure, you can only use each entanglement once, but hey, electrons ain't very large...
Even assuming this person was being truthful, the only case they would have is agsinst the makers of VirtualDub, not the people who are talking about VirtualDub.
This is not patent law, where the user is the infringer - it is trademark law.
The device has WiFi - there is almost nowhere in my city I can go without access to a WiFi connection. Why would I use EVDO or EDGE or UMTS and pat outlandish bandwidth costs when WiFi is free?
The poster's VM-download solution would be better for the following reasons:
- After the initial morning login/download, the VM solution uses little network bandwidth (aside from file shares). A thin client is *constantly* hogging up network bandwidth with every single action you take on the screen.
- A VM solution would be more responsive and run faster. Yes, a VM is slower tha native, but it's orders of magnitude faster than a thin client, even with a gigabit LAN. This is more due ti latency issues than raw bandwidth.
- The VM solution provides you with other benefits the thin client does not - it completely frees you from the underlying hardware and operating systems, as long as there is a host that can run the VM you are golden. For example, transition everyone to a Windows VM, and you can now order any new desktops without Windows installed, using Linux as the host OS instead. No wasted money re-purchasing extra licenses you don't need (since you have corperate).
..no, but instead your launch window is basically eliminated by 1/4 the year. You'd have a hell of a time finding a suitable launch date anywhere from Dec - April in Cape Breton, or anywhere else in the maritimes for that matter. The weather around here in winter is totall yunpredictable, they can forecast for sunny days on Monday for Wednesday, and when Wednesday gets here, it's a huge blizzard.
I mean, it snows every 3-4 days. It's hard to schedule a luanch in weather like that , having to de-ice constantly as well, etc.
In addition, the camera will also be used for facemapping technology in Activision's World Series Of Poker game.
It's really too bad, because this sounds like an excellent use of technology and will make for a great poker game. Too bad no one will play it, because there is almost guarenteed no realmoney involved.
If Activision wanted to make a mint off this, they would allow you to deposit real money into an account associated with your Live account, so you could play in tournaments online for real cash. This would put them into the same space as Party Poker etc, except the Activision software would be way more advanced and would draw in more players probably.
Of course, they would never do this since it would be illegal in the US. Maybe a European only version of the game?
Currently Linux users are able to play the two main Windows Media formats (wmv and wma) but only if they install closed-source modules...
Totally false. ffmpeg / mplayer / vlc etc. can all decode WMV files *natively* using the ffmpeg libavcoded libraries.
The problem is not decoding the files, that is trivial. The problem is dealing with the copy protection. Another open source library is not going to help this, because it will still never be allowed to decrypt the copy-protected files.
For that matter, it's trivial to open multiple google accounts (just send youself a bunch of invites). You could open a different one for each service if you want.
If a darknet wants to provide indemnity for it's users, then why don't they just disable all logging of information on the darknet? If there ar eno records, then none can be supenaed.
It would be pretty trivial to design a system whereby it is proveable that any given packet *did not* originate from within Relakks, but stil not know from where it did originate. Such a system would provide them protection from lawsuits and also protect their customers identities.
Soft drinks seems to be the only area of commerce in which people will place an order for an item, get a *totally different* item, and often not even complain or ask for any kind of substitution whatsoever.
I mean, if you order a steak and fries and the waiter brings you roast chicken and mash, do you just sit there and eat it anyway?!?!
The service is provided by the Swedish high-tech company Relakks, which offers a neutral IP on top of your existing ISP service through a strongly encrypted VPN connection. Basically, this gives users the advantage of a Swedish IP address from anywhere in the world.
So, how long until Ma Bell and Pa Cable make it against their TOS to connect to an "unauthorized" VPN provider (whereby darknet VPNs are conviently never authorized)? Of course they would only do this after a little "helful nudge" by the DOJ.
Serioulsy - the idea is great, but using a service like this is basically like putting a big "HEY, I AM OVER HERE, COME ARREST ME AND THEN DO AN UNLAWFUL SEARCH OF MY HOUSE!" sign on your roof.
The sad sad thing is - a few years ago I would take a comment like this owrth a grain of salt and offer up some tinfoil to the potser. Nowadays I feel like it could actually happen.
Customers should contact Dell to determine if their notebook computer battery is part of this recall. Please visit the firm's Web site at www.dellbatteryprogram.com beginning at 1 a.m. Central Daylight Time Aug. 15 or call toll-free at 1-866-342-0011, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time. Customers may continue to use the notebook computers safely by turning the system off, ejecting the battery, and using the AC adapter and power cord to power the system until the replacement battery is received. Customers can also write to: Dell Inc., Attn: Battery Recall, 9701 Metric Blvd., Austin, Texas 78758.
...this is akin to you going to a restaurant and upon asking for a Coke, you are instead served a Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.
I can't fucking stand when that happens. Whenever it does I send it back. I didn't order a Pepsi (aka sewer water with sugar added), I ordered a Coke. If they don't server cokde they should have told me so I could order root beer. When a waiter/waitress does this I feel like throwing it all over them and saying "oh, you didn't order a Pepsi? Well, neither did I".
Microsoft Excel - Obviously the name means that this software will let me excel at something. Maybe it will let me excel at *anything*?!?! My life just got simpler!
Microsoft Outlook - Hrm, sounds like this may be some soft of lighthouse control software. Either that, or maybe it will predict the future for me! Combined with Excel I will be unstoppable!
Apple QuickTime - Hrm, sounds like this let's me time-travel using my computer, my making time go faster. Or perhaps it is a timing program for when you are learning the quick step. Not sure yet....
Seriously - if you think Linux apps are the only ones with weird names, you're out to lunch. The problem is not *naming*, it is *branding*. Maybe when ou have a few million to invest in a linux application branding campaign you will donate it? No? didn't think so.
For that matter, how the hell are these foreign cells growing **whole tumours** in the host without the host's immune system going into complete overdrive?
I mean, it's hard to even transplant a finger in a human without using huge amounts of anti-rejection drugs. How is there a tumor growing inside the dog, with cells that must have a totally different DNA and chromosone pattern? Why is the dog's host system not attacking it?
I mean, part of the whole problem with cancer is that the cells are in fact your own cells, so your body never attacks the infection. But if the cancer is directly contagious than this is not the case at all.
So don't saturate it then. Cap at your router to only allow say, 20 Mbps. Then you don't saturate your connection and they won't bother you. This is what I do (with smaller numbers) after getting harassed by the local ISP.
Locally capped 20Mbps is much better than uncapped 6Mbps.
As I was just saying to someone at the office - I am highly surprised they are still going after planes. Why bother with all the massive effort and planning?
Think if the mass damage it would cause if they blew up 25 or 30 bridges in small ( 150,000 people ) random US cities, all at once, all during rush hour.
They could easily kill ** tens of thousands ** . And these small cities do nit have high security budgets int he first place, and they for sure don't inspect the underside of their bridges daily. All it would take is a very small amount of planning, about 30 coordinated people, some (relatively small) explosive charges, and some divers.
You can't be safe all the time from everyone. It's not worth spedning your life worrying about everything - a falling piece of meteoriate rock could crash into your house tomorrow while you sleep and kill you instantly, you don't see many people worrying about it though.
By scaring everyone into acting irrationally, and making life a living hell for normal citizens, they have already won. They won because the people did not say "I will not let you scare me", they instead said "government, protect me!"
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And here is way - if it was true than Microsft and Apple should be calling their software "BSD/Windows" and "BSD/OSX", since they both have lots of BSD software in them.
The userland != the OS. The OS *is the kernel*. The rest is just tools on top. I could install the BSD userland on the Linux kernel, and it would still be Linux. "GNU/Linux" is just RMS ego-stoking - you don't *have* to use the GNU utilities with the Linux kernel.
Perhaps if we dam up Niagra falls, and The Grand Canyon, we could use a lot less coal and oil too.
Er... it has already been done decades ago.
You did pay interest. Any time you give money for something in advance while recieving nothing in return, you are indirectly paying interest because in 7 months the money you paid out will be less valueable than it is now due to inflaction. Basic economics.
You can think of it another way, you could have placed that money in a high-interest savings account and earned 3% or more interest on it during the period you had the game on pre-order. Since you did not, that difference is how much the pre-order cost. (it's actually a percent or two more than that due to inflation, but you get the idea).
Why do people fall for the whole preorder scam? Giving a store your hard earned money months in advance for something you have yet to recieve is foolish - once you factor in interest you are paying *more* for the game than you would if you just waited until release day - and there are *never* shortages of games on release day.
OF COURSE it would. It would no longer orbit the earth, so it would no longer be a moon.
This smacks of an elementary-level understanding, I don't know why it made the front page. If you change the physical properties of a named object, and want to name it something else, who cares?
The question of This + Quantum Entaglement is also flawed, you can't have both. If you set the spin of one, you've destroyed the entaglement.
True, according to this once you set the spin of an electron you destory the entanglement.
but not until *after* that new state was reflected in the other entangled electron, correct? If thi sis the case, can't you ship a billion billion entangled electrons from X to y, and set the spin of ones at X to send a message to Y? Sure, you can only use each entanglement once, but hey, electrons ain't very large...
Even assuming this person was being truthful, the only case they would have is agsinst the makers of VirtualDub, not the people who are talking about VirtualDub.
This is not patent law, where the user is the infringer - it is trademark law.
apt-rpm is orders of magnitude slower than apt-deb because of the goofy wat the RPM packaging system is designed.
You can rightfully expect apt-get install to take about 3-4 times as long on a RedHat system than a debian system.
The device has WiFi - there is almost nowhere in my city I can go without access to a WiFi connection. Why would I use EVDO or EDGE or UMTS and pat outlandish bandwidth costs when WiFi is free?
You can't sue someone for using your trademark in a publication, as long as the trademark actually referrs to your product, there is no problem.
Why do you think review sites are allowed to bash Sony / Microsoft / FooBrand products without fear of retribution?
The point of a trademark is not to keep people from talking about your product, it is to keep another company from pretending to be your product.
The poster's VM-download solution would be better for the following reasons:
- After the initial morning login/download, the VM solution uses little network bandwidth (aside from file shares). A thin client is *constantly* hogging up network bandwidth with every single action you take on the screen.
- A VM solution would be more responsive and run faster. Yes, a VM is slower tha native, but it's orders of magnitude faster than a thin client, even with a gigabit LAN. This is more due ti latency issues than raw bandwidth.
- The VM solution provides you with other benefits the thin client does not - it completely frees you from the underlying hardware and operating systems, as long as there is a host that can run the VM you are golden. For example, transition everyone to a Windows VM, and you can now order any new desktops without Windows installed, using Linux as the host OS instead. No wasted money re-purchasing extra licenses you don't need (since you have corperate).
..no, but instead your launch window is basically eliminated by 1/4 the year. You'd have a hell of a time finding a suitable launch date anywhere from Dec - April in Cape Breton, or anywhere else in the maritimes for that matter. The weather around here in winter is totall yunpredictable, they can forecast for sunny days on Monday for Wednesday, and when Wednesday gets here, it's a huge blizzard.
I mean, it snows every 3-4 days. It's hard to schedule a luanch in weather like that , having to de-ice constantly as well, etc.
In addition, the camera will also be used for facemapping technology in Activision's World Series Of Poker game.
It's really too bad, because this sounds like an excellent use of technology and will make for a great poker game. Too bad no one will play it, because there is almost guarenteed no realmoney involved.
If Activision wanted to make a mint off this, they would allow you to deposit real money into an account associated with your Live account, so you could play in tournaments online for real cash. This would put them into the same space as Party Poker etc, except the Activision software would be way more advanced and would draw in more players probably.
Of course, they would never do this since it would be illegal in the US. Maybe a European only version of the game?
Currently Linux users are able to play the two main Windows Media formats (wmv and wma) but only if they install closed-source modules...
Totally false. ffmpeg / mplayer / vlc etc. can all decode WMV files *natively* using the ffmpeg libavcoded libraries.
The problem is not decoding the files, that is trivial. The problem is dealing with the copy protection. Another open source library is not going to help this, because it will still never be allowed to decrypt the copy-protected files.
For that matter, it's trivial to open multiple google accounts (just send youself a bunch of invites). You could open a different one for each service if you want.
I have never understood this really.
If a darknet wants to provide indemnity for it's users, then why don't they just disable all logging of information on the darknet? If there ar eno records, then none can be supenaed.
It would be pretty trivial to design a system whereby it is proveable that any given packet *did not* originate from within Relakks, but stil not know from where it did originate. Such a system would provide them protection from lawsuits and also protect their customers identities.
It has nothing to do with brand.
Soft drinks seems to be the only area of commerce in which people will place an order for an item, get a *totally different* item, and often not even complain or ask for any kind of substitution whatsoever.
I mean, if you order a steak and fries and the waiter brings you roast chicken and mash, do you just sit there and eat it anyway?!?!
The service is provided by the Swedish high-tech company Relakks, which offers a neutral IP on top of your existing ISP service through a strongly encrypted VPN connection. Basically, this gives users the advantage of a Swedish IP address from anywhere in the world.
So, how long until Ma Bell and Pa Cable make it against their TOS to connect to an "unauthorized" VPN provider (whereby darknet VPNs are conviently never authorized)? Of course they would only do this after a little "helful nudge" by the DOJ.
Serioulsy - the idea is great, but using a service like this is basically like putting a big "HEY, I AM OVER HERE, COME ARREST ME AND THEN DO AN UNLAWFUL SEARCH OF MY HOUSE!" sign on your roof.
The sad sad thing is - a few years ago I would take a comment like this owrth a grain of salt and offer up some tinfoil to the potser. Nowadays I feel like it could actually happen.
Customers should contact Dell to determine if their notebook computer battery is part of this recall. Please visit the firm's Web site at www.dellbatteryprogram.com beginning at 1 a.m. Central Daylight Time Aug. 15 or call toll-free at 1-866-342-0011, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time. Customers may continue to use the notebook computers safely by turning the system off, ejecting the battery, and using the AC adapter and power cord to power the system until the replacement battery is received. Customers can also write to: Dell Inc., Attn: Battery Recall, 9701 Metric Blvd., Austin, Texas 78758.
I can't fucking stand when that happens. Whenever it does I send it back. I didn't order a Pepsi (aka sewer water with sugar added), I ordered a Coke. If they don't server cokde they should have told me so I could order root beer. When a waiter/waitress does this I feel like throwing it all over them and saying "oh, you didn't order a Pepsi? Well, neither did I".
Microsoft Excel - Obviously the name means that this software will let me excel at something. Maybe it will let me excel at *anything*?!?! My life just got simpler!
Microsoft Outlook - Hrm, sounds like this may be some soft of lighthouse control software. Either that, or maybe it will predict the future for me! Combined with Excel I will be unstoppable!
Apple QuickTime - Hrm, sounds like this let's me time-travel using my computer, my making time go faster. Or perhaps it is a timing program for when you are learning the quick step. Not sure yet....
Seriously - if you think Linux apps are the only ones with weird names, you're out to lunch. The problem is not *naming*, it is *branding*. Maybe when ou have a few million to invest in a linux application branding campaign you will donate it? No? didn't think so.
For that matter, how the hell are these foreign cells growing **whole tumours** in the host without the host's immune system going into complete overdrive?
I mean, it's hard to even transplant a finger in a human without using huge amounts of anti-rejection drugs. How is there a tumor growing inside the dog, with cells that must have a totally different DNA and chromosone pattern? Why is the dog's host system not attacking it?
I mean, part of the whole problem with cancer is that the cells are in fact your own cells, so your body never attacks the infection. But if the cancer is directly contagious than this is not the case at all.
So don't saturate it then. Cap at your router to only allow say, 20 Mbps. Then you don't saturate your connection and they won't bother you. This is what I do (with smaller numbers) after getting harassed by the local ISP.
Locally capped 20Mbps is much better than uncapped 6Mbps.
As I was just saying to someone at the office - I am highly surprised they are still going after planes. Why bother with all the massive effort and planning?
Think if the mass damage it would cause if they blew up 25 or 30 bridges in small ( 150,000 people ) random US cities, all at once, all during rush hour.
They could easily kill ** tens of thousands ** . And these small cities do nit have high security budgets int he first place, and they for sure don't inspect the underside of their bridges daily. All it would take is a very small amount of planning, about 30 coordinated people, some (relatively small) explosive charges, and some divers.
You can't be safe all the time from everyone. It's not worth spedning your life worrying about everything - a falling piece of meteoriate rock could crash into your house tomorrow while you sleep and kill you instantly, you don't see many people worrying about it though.
By scaring everyone into acting irrationally, and making life a living hell for normal citizens, they have already won. They won because the people did not say "I will not let you scare me", they instead said "government, protect me!"
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