I'm actually going to have to call bullshit on this one. The xbox 360's "Proprietary" hdd was actually an off the shelf laptop HDD, i should know, i'm using one of them for my TVs built in tivo capability. If you opened the case, you found a bog standard 2.5 inch drive, mind you you needed a torx screwdriver to get at it, but it was just the same.
Advocates freedom, but then takes it away?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Open source is a good thing. ubuntu, redhat, gentoo. These are names we associate to particular operating systems. without trademark, we would have every fat greasy linux geek calling his own homebrew distro "Knoppix xtreme" or something equally banal. Trademark preserves the quality image we have in our minds of a particular product. I mean, let's take the DS and PSP for example. Their trademarks are ripped off blatently by chinese company's making extremly low quality, similar looking products. Eliminating trademarks on opensource product's will have the EXACT same effect.
Every trademan, programmer, anyone who put's anysort of work into a product, either for self gratification or momey, deserves to have their product, if made to a high degree of quality and worksmanship, be considered good. he doe's not deserve for some charlatan to come along and call his lower quality and inferior product the same name to leech the reflected glory away from the original worksman, who im going to call bill. Bill has 3 kids and a mortgage, a nagging wife and a goldfish. if bill leaves boston travelling in a car at 60 miles an hour and tracey is travelling from new york in a time capsule travelling 120 miles an hour, how much wood will a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
To summarise: dont do school, stay in milk, drink drugs.
I'm all for freedom and the open source way, but there's limit's, without those limit's,we wouldn't have limits, and we'd be limitless in our depravity. if we follow that particular line of thinking,pretty soon we'll have women riding horse's one leg on each side, salt in our lasagne and massive orgies in the street, thousands of naked bodies writhing in ecstasy, all on the cusp of losing complete sexual control.......................on second thought, down with trademark!
"Obviously no one wants Blizzard to lax up on cheaters, so the only solution I see is for Blizzard to at least give some warning - and give people a chance to correct/ remove the problem application before they ban them."
Blizzard does. The WoW loader is equipped with anti cheat technology called the gatekeeper, a rather invasive piece of software. It detect's anticheat software before the game is loaded and gives the cheater a chance to disable it before they login. once they login, all bet's are off.
"Ethnic rivalry, not religion, is the source of the tension in Northern Ireland"
Biggest crock of shit ive ever heard. As an irishman, this offends me. I'd like to know where the author of this elephant shit got this from. Wikipedia doe'snt count. The plantation of ulster was a strategy to ensure prostant dominance in northern ireland in 1609. Religion was the primary motivation for the plantation, not an "ethnic purge". I challenge the author to demonstrate significant difference's between any english and irish person. barring the accent, irish and english people are pretty much physically identical. Also, take this tripe somewhere else. this is a thread for a NASA probe being lost, not a soapbox to push your crazy religious nonsense. to everyone else, i apologise for taking trollbait.
Not everyone has time to learn how to grep through a crash log to discover why the printer refuse's to work. Not everyone has to the time to learn how to untar something. While these things may seem trivial to you and me, for the uninitated it is hours of work that they just dont have. Jobs, relationships, JOBS. these things come first and foremost. While i do believe that most people have the ability and aptitude to grasp the fundimental concepts of linux and how to do the dance, most of us just dont have the time. Windows "just works". You plug something in and most of the time it'll give you a popup saying "your new device is ready for use". Even if it does'nt, then it's 3 simple steps to get it working.
Until electronic's companies provide linux driver support (or a virtual environment is made whereby windows drivers and components can run flawlessly behind the scene's in linux, it's just not going to happen. Who need's to grep when you have a 5 year old dragging out of your leg and the dinner to make?
Flamebait, maybe. But thats the thing. Stallman created something millions of people around the globe use. While it may be redundant and a bit immature to say "what have you done?"...
not to mention the thousands of manhours put into stopping that very bag reaching the customers hands, the police and anti drug squad's who may have been killed to assure that said bag reaches said customer, the hundreds of drug runner's who've put shotguns to their chins to avoid going back to the barons and having them do it instead, the farmers who grow it, only to be paid pennies and told to "farm like a good monkey".
Drug's hurt alot more than just the customer. they are a plague on society and life in general. people are such weak minded bastards that they need such an escape. the only escape i need is a decent song and the company of my friends.
And maybe a cold beer.
Doe's that make me a hypocrite, though? am i just substituting one drug for the other?
Look at Europe, without lifting a finger they have negative population growth.
You call your's a finger? i call mine billy.
whats that, billy? touch me? well, just for today..
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I'm actually going to have to call bullshit on this one. The xbox 360's "Proprietary" hdd was actually an off the shelf laptop HDD, i should know, i'm using one of them for my TVs built in tivo capability. If you opened the case, you found a bog standard 2.5 inch drive, mind you you needed a torx screwdriver to get at it, but it was just the same.
i think you rock man. fight the good fight.
Anyone else see this and think that they were referring to something on the on-board computer?
i'd mod this funny if i had the points.
Someone Mod this insightful, please.
that article make absolutly no sense to anyone else?
"Parents" basement, suuuuure.
MMORPG, passing phase, temporary. yeah right. Good luck nursing that addiction.
Advocates freedom, but then takes it away? Are you fucking kidding me? Open source is a good thing. ubuntu, redhat, gentoo. These are names we associate to particular operating systems. without trademark, we would have every fat greasy linux geek calling his own homebrew distro "Knoppix xtreme" or something equally banal. Trademark preserves the quality image we have in our minds of a particular product. I mean, let's take the DS and PSP for example. Their trademarks are ripped off blatently by chinese company's making extremly low quality, similar looking products. Eliminating trademarks on opensource product's will have the EXACT same effect. Every trademan, programmer, anyone who put's anysort of work into a product, either for self gratification or momey, deserves to have their product, if made to a high degree of quality and worksmanship, be considered good. he doe's not deserve for some charlatan to come along and call his lower quality and inferior product the same name to leech the reflected glory away from the original worksman, who im going to call bill. Bill has 3 kids and a mortgage, a nagging wife and a goldfish. if bill leaves boston travelling in a car at 60 miles an hour and tracey is travelling from new york in a time capsule travelling 120 miles an hour, how much wood will a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? To summarise: dont do school, stay in milk, drink drugs. I'm all for freedom and the open source way, but there's limit's, without those limit's,we wouldn't have limits, and we'd be limitless in our depravity. if we follow that particular line of thinking,pretty soon we'll have women riding horse's one leg on each side, salt in our lasagne and massive orgies in the street, thousands of naked bodies writhing in ecstasy, all on the cusp of losing complete sexual control.......................on second thought, down with trademark!
Blizzard does. The WoW loader is equipped with anti cheat technology called the gatekeeper, a rather invasive piece of software. It detect's anticheat software before the game is loaded and gives the cheater a chance to disable it before they login. once they login, all bet's are off.
Biggest crock of shit ive ever heard. As an irishman, this offends me. I'd like to know where the author of this elephant shit got this from. Wikipedia doe'snt count. The plantation of ulster was a strategy to ensure prostant dominance in northern ireland in 1609. Religion was the primary motivation for the plantation, not an "ethnic purge". I challenge the author to demonstrate significant difference's between any english and irish person. barring the accent, irish and english people are pretty much physically identical. Also, take this tripe somewhere else. this is a thread for a NASA probe being lost, not a soapbox to push your crazy religious nonsense. to everyone else, i apologise for taking trollbait.
"(click here for big boobs or fat cash)" Should'nt that be "click here for fat boobs and big cash"?
I find it funny that the parent was moderated "Informative". Is that you, deep thought?
Not everyone has time to learn how to grep through a crash log to discover why the printer refuse's to work. Not everyone has to the time to learn how to untar something. While these things may seem trivial to you and me, for the uninitated it is hours of work that they just dont have. Jobs, relationships, JOBS. these things come first and foremost. While i do believe that most people have the ability and aptitude to grasp the fundimental concepts of linux and how to do the dance, most of us just dont have the time. Windows "just works". You plug something in and most of the time it'll give you a popup saying "your new device is ready for use". Even if it does'nt, then it's 3 simple steps to get it working. Until electronic's companies provide linux driver support (or a virtual environment is made whereby windows drivers and components can run flawlessly behind the scene's in linux, it's just not going to happen. Who need's to grep when you have a 5 year old dragging out of your leg and the dinner to make?
ohh hot damn if i had mod points.
No, I'M SPARTACUS!
It's still a fair point.
not to mention the thousands of manhours put into stopping that very bag reaching the customers hands, the police and anti drug squad's who may have been killed to assure that said bag reaches said customer, the hundreds of drug runner's who've put shotguns to their chins to avoid going back to the barons and having them do it instead, the farmers who grow it, only to be paid pennies and told to "farm like a good monkey". Drug's hurt alot more than just the customer. they are a plague on society and life in general. people are such weak minded bastards that they need such an escape. the only escape i need is a decent song and the company of my friends. And maybe a cold beer. Doe's that make me a hypocrite, though? am i just substituting one drug for the other?
So it is. Damn. gotta wonder though, who's betty?
i can call you buddy, and buddy when you call me you can call me al!
And almost every comment so far has been about the submitter's username. Maybe i should sign up a new username. "Póg mo thóin"
Not really. they dont exist. :)
Flashback was an awesome game, and it was imagesoft. played it through twice. hell, might give it another go on my Zsnes. I recommend it to you all.
Look at Europe, without lifting a finger they have negative population growth. You call your's a finger? i call mine billy. whats that, billy? touch me? well, just for today..
Damn, if i had mod points. mod parent up.