Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless. A sarge-etch upgrade I did on a bytemark vm left sendmail (I know probablly not the best MTA but the tutorial I was following at the time used it) in a weired state where it seemed to be working but got itself in the CBL twice for no apparent reason (the really annoying thing about the CBL is they won't tell you why you got in there).
in the end I ripped it out and switched to postfix, still annoying though.
They just want to eliminate casual copying, and to that end good old CSS does just fine, when you get right down to it. Maybe it stops some but the problem is cracks do spread even when those who distribute them too widely get threatened with lawsuits.
and once someone has a decrypter they can copy as many DVDs as they want.
With the HD stuff however they have managed to turn it into an arms race which should deter all but the most determined.
Some pirates may well do a bit for bit copy but that requires special (read: expensive and difficult to obtain) equipment. I bet most pirates (especially those who don't try to hide the fact that thier product is pirate) crack the encryption, recompress if nessacery and burn on relatively cheap, readilly availible consumer grade burners.
Sooner or later this kind of tech is going to result in a stilsuit. Hope so anyway, those things are just too cool not to be instantiated. Afaict the main ways in which the body loses water are breathing and sweating,
I would imagine if you could keep the body cool enough to avoid sweating and condensed the moisture from breathing out you would probablly gain not lose water (remember respiration converts carbohydrates and oxygen into water and CO2 from your system).
the real problem as I see it is how to get rid of excess body heat in a hot climate other than through the vaporisation and release of water. Maybe an ice pack that you left out to refreeze at night (deserts are often very cold at night) would do it.
Apple probablly doesn't make very much money on the bottom of the range macs, bottom of the range machines from any vendor are there to get a low headline price and in apples case to allow people to get a low risk experiance with the platform.
apples markup on build time options is huge though, very often it is significantly cheaper to buy the parts elsewhere and REPLACE the ones apple supplies and thier margins on the higher models probably aren't exactly slim either.
I also don't see any evidence to your claim that they will sell "an order of magnitude more copies into the clone market". IIRC apple is already one of the biggest players in the laptop market.
Afaict it depends on how the flash is connected, if the flash is on IDE (e.g. a compactflash card in a CF-IDE adaptor) then it is no problem to install windows on it. If it is connected in some other way then it will probablly be much harder.
And they have already stopped retailing XP according to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx XP is still supposed to be availible retail and direct (big brand) OEM until June 30, 2008 and system builder (whitebox OEM) until January 31, 2009 .
Not just picking on RH here, just more familiar with their offerings. You should try some other distros, I started to feel that fedora was bloated before I had even finished my first install of it when I discovered that FC6 required 3 CDs to install even a basic system and FC7 dropped CD distribution altogether.
Install something like debian or ubuntu and consider picking a desktop environment that is less bloated than KDE/GNOME (such as XFCE or even ICEWM).
and Windows has plenty, but hey - you can always get the company to compensate for their mistakes has any end user ever sucesfully got MS to pay for thier fuckups?
And good luck getting your warranty - if your s/w is partly responsible for the failure, they'll do everything possible to deny you the warranty. Yeah right, when you take a machine in with a failed hard drive they aren't exactly going to be able to tell what OS was on it before it failed are they?
It would seem, then, that there are some significant differences between what Apple wants and what Apple's customers want. Apple is in the buisness of selling all in soloutions, they don't want people running copies of one of the key components of that soloution on other peoples hardware most likely without paying for it at all (or at best paying the upgrade price).
Maybe they should give in to what some geeks want and try and turn themselves into a software company in direct competition with microsoft but such a move would be pretty risky.
If I need an emergency replacement this hour, best buy is about my only option. One thing that is worth looking into is if there are any moderate size online stores who have thier warehouse near you and if so whether they have a sales counter at said warehouse.
Personally I am near manchester in the UK and often buy things in person from micro direct, they have two sites both with sales counters, prices and selection are reasonable. I'm sure there must be other suppliers who work in a similar way.
after some prodding, it turned out they'd had a Michaelangelo outbreak at their store a month prior. and the moral of this story is if you sell software on floppies prise out the write protect tab before doing so.
He quit on his own a few weeks later when he realized that he was under constant supervision and wouldn't have an opportunity to steal again. having him quit on his own probablly made it harder for him to find an excuse to take them to court later.
choose products that you know you can get the product out of without visiblly damanging the seals in a way you can't repair, replace the item with something of similar weight and return it as still sealed in box.
The different control options are one major difference, graphics quailty is another, availibility of mods for games is another, better representation of certain genres is another.
also the xbox requires a subscription to get online multiplayer gaming. Over 3 years that will almost double the price of the console (using prices from wikipedia and looking at the lowest model it lists as supporting ethernet).
Afaict most games haven't even gone DX10 yet let alone 10.1.
Yes PC gaming is something of a niche market, console gaming took over those who are happy with no modability, so-so graphics and console controllers years ago. Those who have lasted this long in the PC gaming market have probablly already either resigned themselves to buying a new rig every few years or learnt how to/found a friend who knows how to upgrade PCs.
If you can actually pull it off, by having the foresight to purchase an SLI board, and lucky enough to have selected a mid/low end card that actually is still available when its time to 'upgrade'. Or alternatively if you buy multiple PCs with identical graphics cards at the same time you can give some of them new cards and use the cards you pull out to upgrade the rest to SLI.
... can you get a comment about chess on a thread about graphics cards. That is one of the things I really like about/., the story acts as a jumping off point for discussions that then lead off in all sorts of interesting directions.
Please, read up a bit about digital signals and the Nyquist theorem, it is counter-intuitive, but it works. yeah sure if you have perfect nyquist filters. Unfortunately those don't and can't exist (causality rears it's ugly head).
a basic digital sampling system looks something like
input->analog anti aliasing filter->ADC->storage/transmission->DAC->analog reconstruction filter->output
the performance of such a system will be far short of what nyquist would suggest.
What works better for a given storage/transmission sample rate is to oversample at the ADC and DAC and do most of the filtering digitally e.g.
input->analog anti aliasing filter->ADC->digital anti aliasing filter->downsampling->storage/transmission->upsampling->digital reconstruction filter->DAC->analog reconstruction filter->output
You still can't reach the nyquist ideal this way but you can get much closer to it.
getting back on topic though it is almost certainly true that a well mastered CD played on a good player is better than any common analog recoding medium.
iirc the laser turntables are mostly aimed at recovering old/damaged records where a conventional stylus either couldn't track sucessfully or would risk destroying the recording.
Now, try to do that with my Deftones CD try playing it in a sony discman with anti shock turned on, portable CD players often have a lot better recovery capabilities than fixed ones.
You could also try ripping it using something like cdparanoia.
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Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless.
A sarge-etch upgrade I did on a bytemark vm left sendmail (I know probablly not the best MTA but the tutorial I was following at the time used it) in a weired state where it seemed to be working but got itself in the CBL twice for no apparent reason (the really annoying thing about the CBL is they won't tell you why you got in there).
in the end I ripped it out and switched to postfix, still annoying though.
They just want to eliminate casual copying, and to that end good old CSS does just fine, when you get right down to it.
Maybe it stops some but the problem is cracks do spread even when those who distribute them too widely get threatened with lawsuits.
and once someone has a decrypter they can copy as many DVDs as they want.
With the HD stuff however they have managed to turn it into an arms race which should deter all but the most determined.
Some pirates may well do a bit for bit copy but that requires special (read: expensive and difficult to obtain) equipment. I bet most pirates (especially those who don't try to hide the fact that thier product is pirate) crack the encryption, recompress if nessacery and burn on relatively cheap, readilly availible consumer grade burners.
Sooner or later this kind of tech is going to result in a stilsuit. Hope so anyway, those things are just too cool not to be instantiated.
Afaict the main ways in which the body loses water are breathing and sweating,
I would imagine if you could keep the body cool enough to avoid sweating and condensed the moisture from breathing out you would probablly gain not lose water (remember respiration converts carbohydrates and oxygen into water and CO2 from your system).
the real problem as I see it is how to get rid of excess body heat in a hot climate other than through the vaporisation and release of water. Maybe an ice pack that you left out to refreeze at night (deserts are often very cold at night) would do it.
You would also still need food of course.
Apple probablly doesn't make very much money on the bottom of the range macs, bottom of the range machines from any vendor are there to get a low headline price and in apples case to allow people to get a low risk experiance with the platform.
apples markup on build time options is huge though, very often it is significantly cheaper to buy the parts elsewhere and REPLACE the ones apple supplies and thier margins on the higher models probably aren't exactly slim either.
I also don't see any evidence to your claim that they will sell "an order of magnitude more copies into the clone market". IIRC apple is already one of the biggest players in the laptop market.
Afaict it depends on how the flash is connected, if the flash is on IDE (e.g. a compactflash card in a CF-IDE adaptor) then it is no problem to install windows on it. If it is connected in some other way then it will probablly be much harder.
And they have already stopped retailing XP
according to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx XP is still supposed to be availible retail and direct (big brand) OEM until June 30, 2008 and system builder (whitebox OEM) until January 31, 2009 .
Not just picking on RH here, just more familiar with their offerings.
You should try some other distros, I started to feel that fedora was bloated before I had even finished my first install of it when I discovered that FC6 required 3 CDs to install even a basic system and FC7 dropped CD distribution altogether.
Install something like debian or ubuntu and consider picking a desktop environment that is less bloated than KDE/GNOME (such as XFCE or even ICEWM).
there may be something odd going on in the partition table or boot area of the drive or similar.
try writing over the entire drive with zeros using dd.
and Windows has plenty, but hey - you can always get the company to compensate for their mistakes
has any end user ever sucesfully got MS to pay for thier fuckups?
And good luck getting your warranty - if your s/w is partly responsible for the failure, they'll do everything possible to deny you the warranty.
Yeah right, when you take a machine in with a failed hard drive they aren't exactly going to be able to tell what OS was on it before it failed are they?
I don't think doping generally goes all that deep, you can probablly get rid of most of it by stripping back the surface with a suitable chemical.
they are always labeled a "test". what exactly were they testing?
The test serves two main purposes
1: to make sure that the bomb works the way you think it will.
2: to demonstrate to others that the bomb really works the way you claim it will.
It would seem, then, that there are some significant differences between what Apple wants and what Apple's customers want.
Apple is in the buisness of selling all in soloutions, they don't want people running copies of one of the key components of that soloution on other peoples hardware most likely without paying for it at all (or at best paying the upgrade price).
Maybe they should give in to what some geeks want and try and turn themselves into a software company in direct competition with microsoft but such a move would be pretty risky.
If I need an emergency replacement this hour, best buy is about my only option.
One thing that is worth looking into is if there are any moderate size online stores who have thier warehouse near you and if so whether they have a sales counter at said warehouse.
Personally I am near manchester in the UK and often buy things in person from micro direct, they have two sites both with sales counters, prices and selection are reasonable. I'm sure there must be other suppliers who work in a similar way.
I guess the "laptop stand" approach is ... cheap?
yeah, it avoids the cost of a seperate monitor though you still need a seperate keyboard and mouse.
I would imagine it is also less hassle than a seperate monitor if you move arround a lot.
after some prodding, it turned out they'd had a Michaelangelo outbreak at their store a month prior.
and the moral of this story is if you sell software on floppies prise out the write protect tab before doing so.
He quit on his own a few weeks later when he realized that he was under constant supervision and wouldn't have an opportunity to steal again.
having him quit on his own probablly made it harder for him to find an excuse to take them to court later.
choose products that you know you can get the product out of without visiblly damanging the seals in a way you can't repair, replace the item with something of similar weight and return it as still sealed in box.
The different control options are one major difference, graphics quailty is another, availibility of mods for games is another, better representation of certain genres is another.
also the xbox requires a subscription to get online multiplayer gaming. Over 3 years that will almost double the price of the console (using prices from wikipedia and looking at the lowest model it lists as supporting ethernet).
Afaict most games haven't even gone DX10 yet let alone 10.1.
Yes PC gaming is something of a niche market, console gaming took over those who are happy with no modability, so-so graphics and console controllers years ago. Those who have lasted this long in the PC gaming market have probablly already either resigned themselves to buying a new rig every few years or learnt how to/found a friend who knows how to upgrade PCs.
If you can actually pull it off, by having the foresight to purchase an SLI board, and lucky enough to have selected a mid/low end card that actually is still available when its time to 'upgrade'.
Or alternatively if you buy multiple PCs with identical graphics cards at the same time you can give some of them new cards and use the cards you pull out to upgrade the rest to SLI.
... can you get a comment about chess on a thread about graphics cards. /., the story acts as a jumping off point for discussions that then lead off in all sorts of interesting directions.
That is one of the things I really like about
Please, read up a bit about digital signals and the Nyquist theorem, it is counter-intuitive, but it works.
yeah sure if you have perfect nyquist filters. Unfortunately those don't and can't exist (causality rears it's ugly head).
a basic digital sampling system looks something like
input->analog anti aliasing filter->ADC->storage/transmission->DAC->analog reconstruction filter->output
the performance of such a system will be far short of what nyquist would suggest.
What works better for a given storage/transmission sample rate is to oversample at the ADC and DAC and do most of the filtering digitally e.g.
input->analog anti aliasing filter->ADC->digital anti aliasing filter->downsampling->storage/transmission->upsampling->digital reconstruction filter->DAC->analog reconstruction filter->output
You still can't reach the nyquist ideal this way but you can get much closer to it.
getting back on topic though it is almost certainly true that a well mastered CD played on a good player is better than any common analog recoding medium.
iirc the laser turntables are mostly aimed at recovering old/damaged records where a conventional stylus either couldn't track sucessfully or would risk destroying the recording.
Now, try to do that with my Deftones CD
try playing it in a sony discman with anti shock turned on, portable CD players often have a lot better recovery capabilities than fixed ones.
You could also try ripping it using something like cdparanoia.