The point here is not to punish the offenders, but to make the public aware of the offense. They pick apple because everyone knows about iTunes and the iPod and all things apple. If they had gone after, say, Microsoft for DRM on the Zune or something, people would say 'thank god I have an iPod and don't have to worry about that crap'.
And that is why us kids have the wonderful people at www.peacefire.org Oh, and cDc. I'd like to see any of these work on me (I'm 16 BTW). Some keyloggers would get screwed by my software Dvorak keyboard layout....others because I use Linux. Hardware IM logging on the router level would be fucked by things like scatterchat or my Gaim-encryption and OTR plugins. Web filtering software would be killed by Tor, I2P, Freenet, and the circumventors from the great guys at Peacefire. Not to mention the fact that I built my computer. I set up my network. I installed my parents computer. I repair all of them. And there are a few neighboring wifi networks I could connect to if needed. Yea. I'm the kid that set up 5 of the peacefire circumventor sites for the kids at my school, disguised as a google search page, with SSL enabled, last week.
Well, where I currently go to school, you just need a decent memory and high school chem. Buckyballs were mentioned in my chem class last year...though very briefly.
I gotta say, I love all things google, but froogle is absolutely horrible. It just gives you too much unrelated junk, and sort by price never works because of that. Try searching it for cheap iPods. You gotta first sort through 30 or 40 pages of iPod cases...with no real way to remove 'em all. It's best to just stick with sites like pricegrabber or even pricewatch unless you know VERY specifically what you want.
support for OSS craps out? Have you ever even used closed source progrmas? I'm not sure if you mean support as in updates and things, or support as in tech support...but the best experience I've had with either of them is with OSS. I can't remember the last time I got working tech support from the company for something. Hell, I can't remember the last time I called or emailed the company for something without them saying 'it's gotta be a virus'...or just not replying. EA and Dell have got to be the absolute worst.
The set of chargable AAs I bought for about $15 from Radioshack about a year ago is around 1200mAh, charge in 8 hours, and will last a week or two in my digital camera (after which they'll last a week or two in a CD player, and then about a month in my wireless mouse, without recharging)
Seems great to me. And who says you have to charge them the full 5 hours? Need a few hours use out of something? Find a library or something, plug 'em in and browse slashdot for a half hour:)
And just remember...the actual batteries are about 3/4 the size of a normal AA, if not smaller. You can't expect them to have the same capacity.
Just because they list a bunch of old games doesn't mean they're doing it to be cool. I dunno about you, but I much prefer the original Command and Conquer to the newer Generals. Why? Because they actually bothered to give it decent gameplay instead of just assuming people would buy it for the graphics. Most modern games are just lazy attempts to clone an older game and throw in better graphics. They decided to base their top 5 games on gameplay instead of graphics. Wish more people would do that.
Mandriva's the only distro I've ever used that I can just install and forget about it. Everything 'just works'. Ubuntu, on the other hand, I can't even get to install.
Uh...I've had two Lego RCXs sitting in my closet for...about 6 years now. What's so new about this thing? http://mindstorms.lego.com/ it's been around for a while. Hell, my highschool has about 10 of 'em, and has been using them for 5 or 6 years at least.
I've noticed that government employees never respond at all. Everything from my school's network admin to senators.
I did get a reply from Hillary Clinton though. It was an automated response saying she was too busy to read my email. I guess that doesn't really count though, does it?
But see...to do that, they would have to encrypt all the channels in some way that only people who paid for them could view them...and then you'd need a box to decrypt them...and your box would have to be programmed by them individually for each person...and there aren't that many people that won't pay for cable because of this. They'd gain maybe 10 customers by doing this, but it'd probably be quite expensive for them, at least initially.
No one cares. It's not worth the cost.
ESR has always supported propietary software. Read his book. Nowhere does he claim open source is better...he just says there are certain places where companies should use open source that they don't....and then certain places where they should be using propietary where they don't.
Nothing new here....
I just tried to install Xen a few days ago. It completely killed by Linux install. I couldn't login at all. I had to do a complete reinstall. It also killed my bootloader during the install, so now I can't login to windows either.
It was so bad, the people on mandrivausers.org thought my computer got hacked or something. But nope, when I re-ran the install, I got an error on the bootloader setup complaining about Xen, so....
Um....a lot more than that?
Do you consider a painting to be 3D? It probably has several layers....the canvas is probably a few layers, then a few layers of paint on top of that....
I do write...but I find most politicians ingore that. I've gone to protests also...signed petitions...but it never feels like it does anything. And quite often when I write or e-mail I get replies saying they're too busy to bother reading it.
Despite what many believe, not all informed citizens can vote. Personally, I get the EFF newsletter, the ACLU newsletter, Project-censored, IPac, and various others. I watch the news almost every day. I also read many news sites online. I know what's going on. I'm a US Citizen. But I can't vote. Why? Because I'm 16. Does that mean I shouldn't be worried about where our country's going? Does that mean I can't write to 'my' representatives? I HATE when people say 'if you don't vote you can't complain'. Because not everyone who gets affected by the laws can vote on them. You people can do whatever you want to screw us over and we can't do a thing about it.
Meh...all I know is I've got two computers, one with an ATI, one with a NVidia. When I looked up their prices, the NVidia was about twice as much...but I have a buncha games that won't run on the NVidia (biggest problem being 3D pixel shader or something) that run great on my Radeon. Dunno the actual model number for the NVidia though.
I really don't know what I'm using. I install a distro (tried it on Mandriva, Slackware and Libranet) then install the drivers from ATI's website, and everything works fine. Don't know more than that about my graphics card, because I don't need to. It works.
I don't understand all the comments saying ATI's Linux drivers suck. I've got a Radeon 9200, and I've never had a problem with 'em. I love the thing. I HATE NVidia. They're expensive as hell. I always recommend AMD and ATI. Of course, I don't think there's anyone here that would say AMD isn't good...heh. I've got my Athlon XP 2200+ overclocked from 1.35GHz to 2.09, and I've had it higher, but not all of my RAM is fast enough. I can't wait for this merger if it's true.
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The point here is not to punish the offenders, but to make the public aware of the offense. They pick apple because everyone knows about iTunes and the iPod and all things apple. If they had gone after, say, Microsoft for DRM on the Zune or something, people would say 'thank god I have an iPod and don't have to worry about that crap'.
And that is why us kids have the wonderful people at www.peacefire.org
Oh, and cDc.
I'd like to see any of these work on me (I'm 16 BTW). Some keyloggers would get screwed by my software Dvorak keyboard layout....others because I use Linux. Hardware IM logging on the router level would be fucked by things like scatterchat or my Gaim-encryption and OTR plugins. Web filtering software would be killed by Tor, I2P, Freenet, and the circumventors from the great guys at Peacefire.
Not to mention the fact that I built my computer. I set up my network. I installed my parents computer. I repair all of them. And there are a few neighboring wifi networks I could connect to if needed.
Yea. I'm the kid that set up 5 of the peacefire circumventor sites for the kids at my school, disguised as a google search page, with SSL enabled, last week.
All I can say is: BRING IT ON! lol
Hopefully one of the other differences is that they think bullets feel good...
Well, where I currently go to school, you just need a decent memory and high school chem. Buckyballs were mentioned in my chem class last year...though very briefly.
As I already said, I got my first iPod, a 15GB 3rd gen for $15. Got my second, a 4GB nano for $80.
I got my first iPod for $15 actually. 15GB 3rd gen.
I gotta say, I love all things google, but froogle is absolutely horrible. It just gives you too much unrelated junk, and sort by price never works because of that. Try searching it for cheap iPods. You gotta first sort through 30 or 40 pages of iPod cases...with no real way to remove 'em all. It's best to just stick with sites like pricegrabber or even pricewatch unless you know VERY specifically what you want.
support for OSS craps out? Have you ever even used closed source progrmas? I'm not sure if you mean support as in updates and things, or support as in tech support...but the best experience I've had with either of them is with OSS. I can't remember the last time I got working tech support from the company for something. Hell, I can't remember the last time I called or emailed the company for something without them saying 'it's gotta be a virus'...or just not replying. EA and Dell have got to be the absolute worst.
The set of chargable AAs I bought for about $15 from Radioshack about a year ago is around 1200mAh, charge in 8 hours, and will last a week or two in my digital camera (after which they'll last a week or two in a CD player, and then about a month in my wireless mouse, without recharging) Seems great to me. And who says you have to charge them the full 5 hours? Need a few hours use out of something? Find a library or something, plug 'em in and browse slashdot for a half hour :)
And just remember...the actual batteries are about 3/4 the size of a normal AA, if not smaller. You can't expect them to have the same capacity.
Meh. Of my 4 sites, one is 0%, one is 4%, one is 13%. All depends on the site content.
Just because they list a bunch of old games doesn't mean they're doing it to be cool. I dunno about you, but I much prefer the original Command and Conquer to the newer Generals. Why? Because they actually bothered to give it decent gameplay instead of just assuming people would buy it for the graphics. Most modern games are just lazy attempts to clone an older game and throw in better graphics. They decided to base their top 5 games on gameplay instead of graphics. Wish more people would do that.
Mandriva's the only distro I've ever used that I can just install and forget about it. Everything 'just works'. Ubuntu, on the other hand, I can't even get to install.
Uh...I've had two Lego RCXs sitting in my closet for...about 6 years now. What's so new about this thing?
http://mindstorms.lego.com/ it's been around for a while. Hell, my highschool has about 10 of 'em, and has been using them for 5 or 6 years at least.
I've noticed that government employees never respond at all. Everything from my school's network admin to senators.
I did get a reply from Hillary Clinton though. It was an automated response saying she was too busy to read my email. I guess that doesn't really count though, does it?
...it looks EXACTLY the same. The people I"ve shown it to didn't even know it was a different program.
But see...to do that, they would have to encrypt all the channels in some way that only people who paid for them could view them...and then you'd need a box to decrypt them...and your box would have to be programmed by them individually for each person...and there aren't that many people that won't pay for cable because of this. They'd gain maybe 10 customers by doing this, but it'd probably be quite expensive for them, at least initially. No one cares. It's not worth the cost.
I don't have one. I see no need for one. They're very expensive and very small capacity. I'll stick with my case of CDs.
ESR has always supported propietary software. Read his book. Nowhere does he claim open source is better...he just says there are certain places where companies should use open source that they don't....and then certain places where they should be using propietary where they don't. Nothing new here....
I just tried to install Xen a few days ago. It completely killed by Linux install. I couldn't login at all. I had to do a complete reinstall. It also killed my bootloader during the install, so now I can't login to windows either. It was so bad, the people on mandrivausers.org thought my computer got hacked or something. But nope, when I re-ran the install, I got an error on the bootloader setup complaining about Xen, so....
Um....a lot more than that? Do you consider a painting to be 3D? It probably has several layers....the canvas is probably a few layers, then a few layers of paint on top of that....
I do write...but I find most politicians ingore that. I've gone to protests also...signed petitions...but it never feels like it does anything. And quite often when I write or e-mail I get replies saying they're too busy to bother reading it.
Despite what many believe, not all informed citizens can vote.
Personally, I get the EFF newsletter, the ACLU newsletter, Project-censored, IPac, and various others. I watch the news almost every day. I also read many news sites online. I know what's going on.
I'm a US Citizen.
But I can't vote. Why? Because I'm 16. Does that mean I shouldn't be worried about where our country's going? Does that mean I can't write to 'my' representatives?
I HATE when people say 'if you don't vote you can't complain'. Because not everyone who gets affected by the laws can vote on them. You people can do whatever you want to screw us over and we can't do a thing about it.
Meh...all I know is I've got two computers, one with an ATI, one with a NVidia. When I looked up their prices, the NVidia was about twice as much...but I have a buncha games that won't run on the NVidia (biggest problem being 3D pixel shader or something) that run great on my Radeon. Dunno the actual model number for the NVidia though.
I really don't know what I'm using. I install a distro (tried it on Mandriva, Slackware and Libranet) then install the drivers from ATI's website, and everything works fine. Don't know more than that about my graphics card, because I don't need to. It works.
I don't understand all the comments saying ATI's Linux drivers suck. I've got a Radeon 9200, and I've never had a problem with 'em. I love the thing. I HATE NVidia. They're expensive as hell. I always recommend AMD and ATI. Of course, I don't think there's anyone here that would say AMD isn't good...heh. I've got my Athlon XP 2200+ overclocked from 1.35GHz to 2.09, and I've had it higher, but not all of my RAM is fast enough.
I can't wait for this merger if it's true.