...why there is a FreeBSD network driver compatability layer? Why not Linux? Isn't there more development put into network drivers for Linux (by third parties and first parties) than for FreeBSD? Is it a license issue?
They've been offering their products at a lower rate in India and other countries for a while now, to reduce piracy. Of course they don't do that in North America or Europe, unless you count the low-cost deals they strike with universities.
Those don't count. Those are essentially rentals.
Our multi-party system is probably somewhat less efficient than the US two-party system, because of the need for constant haggling and give-and-take and compromise, but it has the important advantage that, as voters, we can nuance our votes by voting, not only for a preferred side, but also for one of the parties within that side.
Actually, I think that makes it more efficient, because it is a good check against a single party committing some act of gross legislative lunacy. Over here in the United States, we very much had a one party government from 2000 to 2007, as the President and the majority of Congress were both of the same party. That is actually one of the main reasons why so much of what the US has done in that time period has been so outrageous. While there was still compromise, it was generally more one sided, and was more a compromise between degrees than a compromise between actual differing positions.
Actually, considering that this ISN'T in America, so it isn't a system where you have two parties which dominate everything else, a "top ten" could be very powerful and have the support of quite a few people.
Actually, looking at the list of signatories (it only displays the 500 most recent), I think it would be a safe bet that the number of people who want Clarkson in as PM would be significantly lower.
Honestly, remember this is the magazine that lets Dvorak have two columns (although they are right next to each other). You have to take into account the audience for this magazine. This is essentially a magazine for inexperianced users. Consider that they have a write in segment in their magazine which normally consists of "how do I do this in MS Office." For the audience that this magazine is written for, figuring out how to install flash (even though there is a readme file which gives you explicit instructions) could very well be an issue. Truth be told, the only reason I have a subscription is because it doesn't cost me any money (got it through one of the millions of easy to track down online free subscription offers).
...they didn't necessarily make it "easy" either. I never got the first confirmation email they sent me(waited 15 minutes), so I tried having it sent to a non-hotmail account, which promptly received the confirmation. I bit because for me, it is essentially free, as the only thing that ever happens on my Windows install is playing games and browsing non-porn sites. Hell, I don't even have a decent audioplayer installed. So, for me, letting them observe me playing UT3 or CSS for an hour or two a day essentially constitutes free, which is incidentally enough, the only price that I could ever stomach for any version of Vista.
Maybe he should have said "very good for the average user (web browsing, flash games, office suites)"
No, because he if you read the article, he got the computer because It was time to buy my daughter a cheap Linux system to be used for schoolwork and playing flash games. However, he never actually complained about the hardware being underpowered (which seems to be an assumption of your comment).
Hardware wise, he complained about a low efficiency power supply (which, considering the machine is branded as green, in an environmentally friendly sense) leading to wasted power, and mentioned the fact that there was what he assumed to be a non-functioning winmodem. Insofar as software, he felt that the OS had a strong Google branding (enough to be compared to, but not called, crapware) and that the OS was rough around the edges and as such shouldn't have been included with a system like this (aimed at Grandma).
He never said anything that supports your assumption that he is Lumping PCs into two categories, "Bleeding edge, $2000 PC" and "Everything else". Can you please explain to me where that assumption is coming from?
The operating system one uses as a child isn't necessarily the operating system one uses as an adult. Most of the schools I went to as a kid had (not at the time) old macs. I hated them, ended up being a Windows user for a brief "dark" period (long enough to get me addicted to the games, however) and then migrated to Linux, which is overall,for me, not a pain in the ass.
They didn't note that a USB Thumbdrive was instantly recognized (which it would be) but that a wireless mouse was recognized and was working immediately upon insertion of the mouse's wireless adaptor. Which ultimately does seem to be the kind of thing that one would note if that person was not a Linux user. While you say it is sad that they note that, it is actually sad that it is worth noting. When I got my current mouse (an Ideazon Reaper which I won at QuakeCon) Windows refused to recognize it until I had installed the damned drivers for it, whereas with my Ubuntu install, it worked perfectly the second I plugged it in (DPI switching and all).
If by well known, you mean almost completely unknown to most people until it really started becoming close to actual completion, and even then, managing to not garner any extra interest in the idea (because all they used it for was to make these nice, cool looking glorified doors) beyond development that had already started on Portal, then yes.
Actually, my first issue with SecuROM was with C&C 3. I use Process Explorer, which is a task manager replacement program produced by Sysinternals (which is a company owned by Microsoft). For some reason, Process Explorer is flagged as a "bad" program by SecuROM. So, if I have used it, I have to reboot my computer to play C&C 3, because otherwise a message will pop up saying that a "reguired security module could not be loaded."
The "prize" that StarForce offered required you take your machine with you to show that there was damage found, that you be able to reproduce it on demand (not necessarily easy considering) and that you actually show up, IN PERSON, at their offices. In Russia.
...being in a game. And I am not just talking about Bioshock, either. A bunch of people had issues with SupCom having SecuROM, and when the SupCom community told GPG to get rid of it, they did. With WIC, there was a petition started on the forums that was eventually locked (look http://www.massgate.net/read.php?3,29121,page=1). Bunches of other games have had issues with SecuROM as well.
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...why there is a FreeBSD network driver compatability layer? Why not Linux? Isn't there more development put into network drivers for Linux (by third parties and first parties) than for FreeBSD? Is it a license issue?
...there were web browsers that allowed you to block certain types of code, or had extensions that would perform a similar function...
They've been offering their products at a lower rate in India and other countries for a while now, to reduce piracy. Of course they don't do that in North America or Europe, unless you count the low-cost deals they strike with universities.
Those don't count. Those are essentially rentals.
Well, at which point he can just use the PS3's game playing capabilities. I never said he would be playing PC games on it.
You can install linux on a ps3, which means you *CAN* do all those things on one system other than a PC.
So he should get a job reporting for the Fox News Channel?
Our multi-party system is probably somewhat less efficient than the US two-party system, because of the need for constant haggling and give-and-take and compromise, but it has the important advantage that, as voters, we can nuance our votes by voting, not only for a preferred side, but also for one of the parties within that side.
Actually, I think that makes it more efficient, because it is a good check against a single party committing some act of gross legislative lunacy. Over here in the United States, we very much had a one party government from 2000 to 2007, as the President and the majority of Congress were both of the same party. That is actually one of the main reasons why so much of what the US has done in that time period has been so outrageous. While there was still compromise, it was generally more one sided, and was more a compromise between degrees than a compromise between actual differing positions.
Actually, considering that this ISN'T in America, so it isn't a system where you have two parties which dominate everything else, a "top ten" could be very powerful and have the support of quite a few people.
Actually, looking at the list of signatories (it only displays the 500 most recent), I think it would be a safe bet that the number of people who want Clarkson in as PM would be significantly lower.
Honestly, remember this is the magazine that lets Dvorak have two columns (although they are right next to each other). You have to take into account the audience for this magazine. This is essentially a magazine for inexperianced users. Consider that they have a write in segment in their magazine which normally consists of "how do I do this in MS Office." For the audience that this magazine is written for, figuring out how to install flash (even though there is a readme file which gives you explicit instructions) could very well be an issue. Truth be told, the only reason I have a subscription is because it doesn't cost me any money (got it through one of the millions of easy to track down online free subscription offers).
At first they will behave differently, but as soon as they get used to it, they will probably forget all about it.
...they didn't necessarily make it "easy" either. I never got the first confirmation email they sent me(waited 15 minutes), so I tried having it sent to a non-hotmail account, which promptly received the confirmation. I bit because for me, it is essentially free, as the only thing that ever happens on my Windows install is playing games and browsing non-porn sites. Hell, I don't even have a decent audioplayer installed. So, for me, letting them observe me playing UT3 or CSS for an hour or two a day essentially constitutes free, which is incidentally enough, the only price that I could ever stomach for any version of Vista.
Something funny about this whole thing...
Out of curiosity, what programs do you have that can't play ogg files?
http://brawndo.com/ This is not good...
Maybe he should have said "very good for the average user (web browsing, flash games, office suites)"
No, because he if you read the article, he got the computer because It was time to buy my daughter a cheap Linux system to be used for schoolwork and playing flash games . However, he never actually complained about the hardware being underpowered (which seems to be an assumption of your comment).
Hardware wise, he complained about a low efficiency power supply (which, considering the machine is branded as green, in an environmentally friendly sense) leading to wasted power, and mentioned the fact that there was what he assumed to be a non-functioning winmodem. Insofar as software, he felt that the OS had a strong Google branding (enough to be compared to, but not called, crapware) and that the OS was rough around the edges and as such shouldn't have been included with a system like this (aimed at Grandma).
He never said anything that supports your assumption that he is Lumping PCs into two categories, "Bleeding edge, $2000 PC" and "Everything else". Can you please explain to me where that assumption is coming from?
The operating system one uses as a child isn't necessarily the operating system one uses as an adult. Most of the schools I went to as a kid had (not at the time) old macs. I hated them, ended up being a Windows user for a brief "dark" period (long enough to get me addicted to the games, however) and then migrated to Linux, which is overall,for me, not a pain in the ass.
Well, actually, it looks like all the people who are buying it online and writing reviews know that it isn't Windows.
Or almost any selection of downloadable movies, actually.
They didn't note that a USB Thumbdrive was instantly recognized (which it would be) but that a wireless mouse was recognized and was working immediately upon insertion of the mouse's wireless adaptor. Which ultimately does seem to be the kind of thing that one would note if that person was not a Linux user. While you say it is sad that they note that, it is actually sad that it is worth noting. When I got my current mouse (an Ideazon Reaper which I won at QuakeCon) Windows refused to recognize it until I had installed the damned drivers for it, whereas with my Ubuntu install, it worked perfectly the second I plugged it in (DPI switching and all).
If by well known, you mean almost completely unknown to most people until it really started becoming close to actual completion, and even then, managing to not garner any extra interest in the idea (because all they used it for was to make these nice, cool looking glorified doors) beyond development that had already started on Portal, then yes.
Actually, my first issue with SecuROM was with C&C 3. I use Process Explorer, which is a task manager replacement program produced by Sysinternals (which is a company owned by Microsoft). For some reason, Process Explorer is flagged as a "bad" program by SecuROM. So, if I have used it, I have to reboot my computer to play C&C 3, because otherwise a message will pop up saying that a "reguired security module could not be loaded."
The "prize" that StarForce offered required you take your machine with you to show that there was damage found, that you be able to reproduce it on demand (not necessarily easy considering) and that you actually show up, IN PERSON, at their offices. In Russia.
...being in a game. And I am not just talking about Bioshock, either. A bunch of people had issues with SupCom having SecuROM, and when the SupCom community told GPG to get rid of it, they did. With WIC, there was a petition started on the forums that was eventually locked (look http://www.massgate.net/read.php?3,29121,page=1). Bunches of other games have had issues with SecuROM as well.
Enjoy your blag, then!