Another thing- when you spread lies and FUD like "10 minutes out of every hour waiting for a reboot" you automatically lose that portion of your audience who know you're lying like a shag carpet.
YMMV. You must realize that for some of us, this is not an exaggeration! That pretty much summed up my experience with Windows, which is why I'm a Linux user now. I don't know if it's the way I use a computer, or simply bad Windows karma, but every time I get on a Windows box I crash it constantly--and I'm not even doing really intensive things, either. So don't go calling people liars just because you didn't share the same experience.
I've never met a person who got motion sickness from 3D games, but if you do, then the answer is obvious. Just don't use it. It's just a window manager, after all. Unlike Windows, you can replace the GUI at will, and there are certainly quite a few 2D wm's available. I just think a 3D one would be really cool:)
Who says a 3D interface would have to play by the same rules? Perhaps someone could design a taskbar that brings you to the window of your choice automatically. Why would this be any different than a 2D wm? I think you begin to depend on a certain interface, and if it has shortcomings, you tend to start relying on them. For instance, in Windows you're stuck with just the one desktop. You get really used to minimizing and maximizing windows in order to multitask, even though that's not the best way to do it. When I switched to Linux, I was amazed at how simple a change the multiple desktops were, and how fricking useful they are. Nowadays I feel restricted and contrained when I use Windows because of that. When you get down to it, a 3D inteface would really be nothing more than a more efficient way of arranging windows.
Yes, it will have an impact on the industry: more people are going to buy dvds because of it! Dvd piracy tools have been available since 1997, so I'd say it's not unreasonable that DVD piracy is not hurting them.
but amazon did it first online and grabbed a patent.
Excuse me? No they did not. Afilliate programs have been used on the net for quite some time, certainly before Amazon was ever founded. There is an unbelievable amount of prior use here--if they even try to enforce this, they're in trouble:)
It blows the voodoo away. I must admit though, I'm not sure how effective this is going to be when we are still dealing with TVs that might be scanning 480 rows if you're lucky.
Well, duh, of course it beats the V3. A lot of PC cards also blow away the V3. But how likely do you think it will be that that a chipset being output to a tv will beat, say, a GeForce 256 running at 1280x1078? The resolution difference alone will give the computer an advantage. Let's also consider that a V3 is 16-bit. It's like how the @Home guys keep comparing their service to a 28.8. I don't think it's very likely the Dolphin will be able to beat a 32-bit card running at a decent resolution, 'cause it'll always have to output to a tv.
Yeah, I noticed that B&N has revamped their site quite a bit. Unless you want to buy a video, they're pretty much identical.
Okay, I have to say it. How the HELL did this get patented?! One-click shopping was bad enough, but the USPTO guys must have their heads way up their asses to let this one through. *sigh* I suppose we can expect a patent on e-commerce.
Just don't forget to put a BIG-ASS-FAN in there. These babies probably cost $500/each before ram (I know the Socket 7 version of this thing is $400 with no chip) and it would be a shame to crispy fry them.
Hmm... that would probably be the main motivation for using Crusoe chips, I think;)
Well, I guess click-wrap licenses wouldn't really fall under that argument, then, but that's okay because I was referring to shrink wrap licenses anyway.
weeell... I did come across a pr0n site once accidentaly by misspelling mirabilis, but there certainly wasn't anything graphic on that particular page.
To begin with, we need to get this idea out of our heads that a kid who accidentally looks at a nude human being will be emotionally or socially injured in some way. The only reason this is such a big deal is because of the long tradition of Puritanical/conservative/whatever values in this country that associate sinfulness/evil with the nude human form. This is completely artificial, and the sooner that sentiment is gone, the better.
Yes, I agree that that attitude is articifical, but nowhere in Christian belief does it say the human body in itself is sinful, naked or not. There is nothing inherintly wrong with nudity, it has more to do with how your culture as a whole views it. And in Western culture, nudity is very much tied to sexuality--and that is where the idea of nudity as sin comes from. In fact, a lot of the Bible was written in a time when public bathing was really the only way of doing it. In the Roman civilization, for instance, nudity was perfectly innocent and had nothing at all to do with sexuality.
No, EULAs and other click-wrap licensed are completely different from the GPL, because software companies won't allow you to see the conditions of the license until after you agree to it. Yes, they give you a yes/no screen, but at that point you've already bought and opened it, and software stores won't refund something that's been opened. In contrast, the GPL is freely accessible to anyone here.
dude, that is probably the hardest way of doing it. Here's how I do it: delete the cache folder, and create a new one. then delete history.dat and history.list. That's all there is to it!
To a limited extent, I can understand that it can slow pirating; since the pirates must buy an original to copy from each zone in which they plan to sell it.
Not at all. If someone is going to pirate a DVD, he can simply remove the region coding altogether. Region Coding has absolutely nothing to do with piracy, just as CSS encryption has absolutely nothing to do with piracy. It's about controlling users, and raping them for more money; simply put.
1.A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members. 2.An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners. 3.A group of parties, factions, or nations united in a common cause; a bloc.
This describes the MPAA to a T, does it not? If what you say is true, and I wholeheartedly agree that it is, we should all refer to them as the "DVD cartel." It's a perfectly appropriate description, and it makes them sound like the bad guy!
I think that ever since VA took over slashdot, the news has gone steadily downhill.
Nonsense. There have been no changes whatsoever in what gets posted. Don't give in to the trolls crying foul at every chance they get. There has been no sign of influence, and no reason to suspect otherwise of CmdrTaco and Hemos.
Who cares about a movie review? If I wanted a movie review I would go somewhere else, I want news for nerds, stuff that matters, what happened?
Slashdot has done movie reviews every now and then for some time; this is nothing new. As for why in the first place, I think it's kinda good to have a geek's perspective on the latest movies, don't you? With so many dumb pop culture movies targeted for teens these days, I think it's a little nice to have a forum that reviews movies as they would appeal to geeks in general.
You have a really good point there. But DeCSS does not only run under Windows. The original does, because at the time Linux didn't have UDF filesystem support. But DeCSS has since been ported over as "css-auth" which works basically the same. And there is an MPEG2 player called Xmovie (Sorry, I don't have a link readily available. You could probably find it on Freshmeat) that incorporates css-auth into it and can play DVDs (although it's all software, and is fricking slow unless you have a beast of a computer).
and the same Christian religion caused quite a lot of violations of personal freedom
Not quite. organized religion caused this; don't confuse the two. The Church can't be blamed for everything done in its name, since many times it was done by people who couldn't truly be called Christians. Simply calling yourself Christian does not make you one.
produced corrupt hierarchy of organized religion that supported the worst governments of the world, etc.
Which is why separation of Church and State is important, lest the power be misused as it was in the Roman Catholic Church. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; this is true no matter where you look.
Great, for those who can afford to skip buying that new car in favor of rdram and a mainboard that can handle it. Meanwhile, most users will be using a slower version so it just won't matter. And that's assuming Rambus even hits the stores. Rambus is technically flawed so that they had to take off one of the slots or else it would fail--to fix it would require a complete redesign, and Intel's too far behind AMD to even contemplate that. Intel's not beat, not by a longshot, but I'm rooting for AMD.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
YMMV. You must realize that for some of us, this is not an exaggeration! That pretty much summed up my experience with Windows, which is why I'm a Linux user now. I don't know if it's the way I use a computer, or simply bad Windows karma, but every time I get on a Windows box I crash it constantly--and I'm not even doing really intensive things, either. So don't go calling people liars just because you didn't share the same experience.
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
sure, geek != OSS hacker; however, OSS hacker == geek, so it's still apropriate :)
Yes, it will have an impact on the industry: more people are going to buy dvds because of it! Dvd piracy tools have been available since 1997, so I'd say it's not unreasonable that DVD piracy is not hurting them.
Excuse me? No they did not. Afilliate programs have been used on the net for quite some time, certainly before Amazon was ever founded. There is an unbelievable amount of prior use here--if they even try to enforce this, they're in trouble :)
Well, duh, of course it beats the V3. A lot of PC cards also blow away the V3. But how likely do you think it will be that that a chipset being output to a tv will beat, say, a GeForce 256 running at 1280x1078? The resolution difference alone will give the computer an advantage. Let's also consider that a V3 is 16-bit. It's like how the @Home guys keep comparing their service to a 28.8. I don't think it's very likely the Dolphin will be able to beat a 32-bit card running at a decent resolution, 'cause it'll always have to output to a tv.
Okay, I have to say it. How the HELL did this get patented?! One-click shopping was bad enough, but the USPTO guys must have their heads way up their asses to let this one through. *sigh* I suppose we can expect a patent on e-commerce.
Hmm... that would probably be the main motivation for using Crusoe chips, I think ;)
Well, I guess click-wrap licenses wouldn't really fall under that argument, then, but that's okay because I was referring to shrink wrap licenses anyway.
weeell... I did come across a pr0n site once accidentaly by misspelling mirabilis, but there certainly wasn't anything graphic on that particular page.
Yes, I agree that that attitude is articifical, but nowhere in Christian belief does it say the human body in itself is sinful, naked or not. There is nothing inherintly wrong with nudity, it has more to do with how your culture as a whole views it. And in Western culture, nudity is very much tied to sexuality--and that is where the idea of nudity as sin comes from. In fact, a lot of the Bible was written in a time when public bathing was really the only way of doing it. In the Roman civilization, for instance, nudity was perfectly innocent and had nothing at all to do with sexuality.
Actually, no. Republic.
No, EULAs and other click-wrap licensed are completely different from the GPL, because software companies won't allow you to see the conditions of the license until after you agree to it. Yes, they give you a yes/no screen, but at that point you've already bought and opened it, and software stores won't refund something that's been opened. In contrast, the GPL is freely accessible to anyone here.
dude, that is probably the hardest way of doing it. Here's how I do it: delete the cache folder, and create a new one. then delete history.dat and history.list. That's all there is to it!
The beauty of Open Source: don't compile it in!
Not at all. If someone is going to pirate a DVD, he can simply remove the region coding altogether. Region Coding has absolutely nothing to do with piracy, just as CSS encryption has absolutely nothing to do with piracy. It's about controlling users, and raping them for more money; simply put.
cartel (kär-tl) n.
1.A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members.
2.An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners.
3.A group of parties, factions, or nations united in a common cause; a bloc.
This describes the MPAA to a T, does it not? If what you say is true, and I wholeheartedly agree that it is, we should all refer to them as the "DVD cartel." It's a perfectly appropriate description, and it makes them sound like the bad guy!
Nonsense. There have been no changes whatsoever in what gets posted. Don't give in to the trolls crying foul at every chance they get. There has been no sign of influence, and no reason to suspect otherwise of CmdrTaco and Hemos.
Who cares about a movie review? If I wanted a movie review I would go somewhere else, I want news for nerds, stuff that matters, what happened?
Slashdot has done movie reviews every now and then for some time; this is nothing new. As for why in the first place, I think it's kinda good to have a geek's perspective on the latest movies, don't you? With so many dumb pop culture movies targeted for teens these days, I think it's a little nice to have a forum that reviews movies as they would appeal to geeks in general.
You have a really good point there. But DeCSS does not only run under Windows. The original does, because at the time Linux didn't have UDF filesystem support. But DeCSS has since been ported over as "css-auth" which works basically the same. And there is an MPEG2 player called Xmovie (Sorry, I don't have a link readily available. You could probably find it on Freshmeat) that incorporates css-auth into it and can play DVDs (although it's all software, and is fricking slow unless you have a beast of a computer).
That's what I meant; I should've been clearer about that.
The aforementioned flaw was with Rambus. It was an engineering error and is not fixable.
Not quite. organized religion caused this; don't confuse the two. The Church can't be blamed for everything done in its name, since many times it was done by people who couldn't truly be called Christians. Simply calling yourself Christian does not make you one.
produced corrupt hierarchy of organized religion that supported the worst governments of the world, etc.
Which is why separation of Church and State is important, lest the power be misused as it was in the Roman Catholic Church. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; this is true no matter where you look.
Great, for those who can afford to skip buying that new car in favor of rdram and a mainboard that can handle it. Meanwhile, most users will be using a slower version so it just won't matter. And that's assuming Rambus even hits the stores. Rambus is technically flawed so that they had to take off one of the slots or else it would fail--to fix it would require a complete redesign, and Intel's too far behind AMD to even contemplate that. Intel's not beat, not by a longshot, but I'm rooting for AMD.