We need a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the "lost key" argument.
And we need it to be average Joes who don't give a shit about our principle...
First to make a Windows worm that puts white noise on every drive connected wins a medal for liberty! Come on, it would be no more obscene than the government's "argument" now. At least a good firewall will give you some protection from the worm. Good lawyers and friends in the Labour party are required to give you some protection from the government!!
I think you're talking about Italy and France. The American common law and adversarial trial system comes from English law as far as I know. IANAL... but I have seen enough reports of them on Newsnight!
As for the answer "since when" - since everyone got the vote and "populism" was synonymous with police enforced government oppression.
"OMFG they blew up bombs on the tube. This should be ILLEGAL! We need NEW LAWS right away! And to hell with the dodgy bastards we don't like, let the police arrest and detain without trial and tear off the bollocks of anyone who doesn't CONFESS!!!"
Sadly that line of thought is human nature and probably popular among the uneducated in every nation on Earth.
My old Windows box hasn't been upgraded in a few years and I consider it an old machine, more useful for its hard drives than performance.... and yet its Geforce 5900FX and Athlon XP 2500 aught to be enough for the "high end" system requirements for Vista.
Maybe these were high end when Longhorn was earlier in development, but for any enthusiast they're mid range at best now in 2006. I suppose on-board graphics drag the definition down for the worst PC's, which indeed will hopefully be forced onto better cards after Vista's release.
Oh and why the PC's languishing is because I switched my laptop to a Mac and the desktop is next!
As a Mac user with a friendly relationship with Linux and BSD, I urge Microsoft to do precisely that.
Windows would be a locked Microsoft and Certified Vendors platform and as a result would both help those its really meant for: corporate users, by making their systems secure for a change; and would also help the rest of us by removing this monstrosity of a platform from the home hobbyist and gamer community outright.
Alas, MS will do no such thing. They learned at some point that the user wants a billlion different choices of crapware and was willing to pay for it with a whored box.
DRM for music and video players is a different arena. MS are playing a canny game there for the moment. Though have Apple to catch up to. Should be an entertaining fight.
I agree with you. I also think particular exam grades should be set so as to keep their value absolute too. Such as top 5% in a test get an A, next 5% get the B and so on.
But hearing this pathetic argument against grammar schools of late convinces me Britain is going to keep at this useless path until China and India boot us so hard in the balls we wake up!
I'm of the mind that humans have an innate understanding of certain linguistic building blocks, which we then play around with more as we grow up. An inherited pre-existing structure which our minds expect to experience around us and from which all our languages are derived.
The linguistic parallel to the collective unconscious.
If developing artificial speech and hearing with computers takes us closer to this, then I think the results should be extraordinary.
Yeah... I find myself doing the good old command+control+D trick (onscreen dictionary in OS X) as often at Penny Arcade as I do the most technical of sites. Quite something for a comic strip and games blog.
Of course I think he's at his best when using expletive combos!
Nice link, my good Troll... Actual appearances to one side, I've always been surprised by the scale of PA's graphic evolution. The strip could really be *the* case study for comic artists starting out, trying to find the right way for themselves.
Besides, I'm sure you have a pencil neck and extra head-height hairdo to match!
>I just had a profound thought: Steve Jobs released the Intel Macs so early, and with 32-bit processors, to force developers to port now . If he'd waited, then Vista would have ran on them. If they'd put 64-bit chips in them, Windows 64-bit edition would have ran (they both support EFI).
Quite right. The timing of all this is most audacious. 2006 will be quite a test indeed.
I think he'd throw it in, even if they unveil half a entire new range of Macs, simply because it would add to the already sizeable RDF effect such an event produces! The keynote equivalent of machinegun fire.
If it doesn't come out at an event, it'll be a webpage announcement instead like the original, which I happily use having bought that very day.
Plays well with my old PC too actually, plenty enough buttons and precision for Battlefield 2. Shame there's no windows driver to take advantage of the sidescroll though. That's a killer feature on Tiger.
Apple would be fine. Indeed, they'd probably be quite friendly to it if you ask me.
Mac users expect a whole ton of things. We're not just the "it's not windows" brigade Linux and media folk assume sometimes. There's a tightness to the interface, a standard to the software catalogue, and a history longer than Windows'. Google would really have to pull off something amazing to challenge Tiger and Leopard for users who have the dough. The competition would be for first time switchers.
Just putting the idea that "using a non-windows OS is not suicide" into the minds of the masses beyond the OSS world and iPod halo effect would be in Apple's interest. It would reinforce the notion that Windows really isn't the only game in town. It would make "cross platform" really mean something to the majority of software companies. And it would make Windows the notable odd one out with a shrinking market share.
Real competition. My goodness - that's what's exciting about this story. Even if it is just vaporous crud like it seems!!!
Google's branding would be enough to make computers marketed with such an OS quite a tasty proposition for millions of home users. Especially those bitten by virii, yet still too cheap to head on over to Apple!
Google could also carry a lot of cred in the server world if they tied such a thing together as professionally as they seem to be able to do, going by their other projects so far.
However: it is a paradigm shift for a browser based company. Google have the market magic, stock price, prestige and popularity right now to consider such a thing. But can they stand a Ballmer headbutting?
1. New system start sound - last changed with PowerPC - sounding a little like Intel's famous chimes, or maybe the new one they could also be about to unveil?
2. Big advertising push with Intel and Apple coordinating their work and helping eachother. Apple love the Intel cash, and Intel really need the new machines to showcase their chips and chipsets / wifi.
3. Apple want the BLUE MAN GROUP!!
All that and slim as hell sub notebooks... it should be pretty neat.
Yes, that comment (even more than the charts being in the wrong order) sinks the plausibility of the review entirely.
Who cares? SOMEONE WITH A FREAKING 5+ GIGABYTE FILE FFS!!
What idiot chose this writer to do the article? Someone who doesn't get why bigger media is better has as much competence on DVD burners as a non-gamer / high end user does on the latest and most expensive graphics cards.
I'm looking forward to the high capacity of bluray discs making backup easier the same way DVD-R did after CD-R. The DRM doesn't matter as long as I can burn what I like to a good technical quality media.
Maybe I'll get an HD TV someday, but I've already got files calling out for these discs.
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Leopard or Linux?
I guess it comes down to whether you want to switch hardware while you're at it, or get in on the Mac hacking scene!
They've hit it on the head with this one!
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Right, that's it. I have an idea:
We need a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the "lost key" argument.
And we need it to be average Joes who don't give a shit about our principle...
First to make a Windows worm that puts white noise on every drive connected wins a medal for liberty! Come on, it would be no more obscene than the government's "argument" now. At least a good firewall will give you some protection from the worm. Good lawyers and friends in the Labour party are required to give you some protection from the government!!
I think you're talking about Italy and France. The American common law and adversarial trial system comes from English law as far as I know. IANAL ... but I have seen enough reports of them on Newsnight!
As for the answer "since when" - since everyone got the vote and "populism" was synonymous with police enforced government oppression.
"OMFG they blew up bombs on the tube. This should be ILLEGAL! We need NEW LAWS right away! And to hell with the dodgy bastards we don't like, let the police arrest and detain without trial and tear off the bollocks of anyone who doesn't CONFESS!!!"
Sadly that line of thought is human nature and probably popular among the uneducated in every nation on Earth.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
We just lend them over to the Uzbeks instead.
It should stay neutral because otherwise you get get a real zap whenever you plug in an RJ45...
My old Windows box hasn't been upgraded in a few years and I consider it an old machine, more useful for its hard drives than performance .... and yet its Geforce 5900FX and Athlon XP 2500 aught to be enough for the "high end" system requirements for Vista.
Maybe these were high end when Longhorn was earlier in development, but for any enthusiast they're mid range at best now in 2006. I suppose on-board graphics drag the definition down for the worst PC's, which indeed will hopefully be forced onto better cards after Vista's release.
Oh and why the PC's languishing is because I switched my laptop to a Mac and the desktop is next!
And the EU ... then all it takes is pressure on China and India who have no reason to care and its global.
Unless you plan on setting up a Linux rig production line in Venezeula?
As a Mac user with a friendly relationship with Linux and BSD, I urge Microsoft to do precisely that.
Windows would be a locked Microsoft and Certified Vendors platform and as a result would both help those its really meant for: corporate users, by making their systems secure for a change; and would also help the rest of us by removing this monstrosity of a platform from the home hobbyist and gamer community outright.
Alas, MS will do no such thing. They learned at some point that the user wants a billlion different choices of crapware and was willing to pay for it with a whored box.
DRM for music and video players is a different arena. MS are playing a canny game there for the moment. Though have Apple to catch up to. Should be an entertaining fight.
I feel for you Maynard. Maybe this thread's it's own proof! :D
I agree with you. I also think particular exam grades should be set so as to keep their value absolute too. Such as top 5% in a test get an A, next 5% get the B and so on.
But hearing this pathetic argument against grammar schools of late convinces me Britain is going to keep at this useless path until China and India boot us so hard in the balls we wake up!
A truer tale of education in Britain in the last 20 years I have never heard.
I'm of the mind that humans have an innate understanding of certain linguistic building blocks, which we then play around with more as we grow up. An inherited pre-existing structure which our minds expect to experience around us and from which all our languages are derived.
The linguistic parallel to the collective unconscious.
If developing artificial speech and hearing with computers takes us closer to this, then I think the results should be extraordinary.
But it's just my two cents obviously!
Yeah ... I find myself doing the good old command+control+D trick (onscreen dictionary in OS X) as often at Penny Arcade as I do the most technical of sites. Quite something for a comic strip and games blog.
Of course I think he's at his best when using expletive combos!
Nice link, my good Troll...
Actual appearances to one side, I've always been surprised by the scale of PA's graphic evolution. The strip could really be *the* case study for comic artists starting out, trying to find the right way for themselves.
Besides, I'm sure you have a pencil neck and extra head-height hairdo to match!
>I just had a profound thought: Steve Jobs released the Intel Macs so early, and with 32-bit processors, to force developers to port now . If he'd waited, then Vista would have ran on them. If they'd put 64-bit chips in them, Windows 64-bit edition would have ran (they both support EFI).
Quite right. The timing of all this is most audacious. 2006 will be quite a test indeed.
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore/
£1429 base MacBook
£929 base iMac
As usual, something of a "market adjustment". Must buy Mac on holiday!
I think he'd throw it in, even if they unveil half a entire new range of Macs, simply because it would add to the already sizeable RDF effect such an event produces! The keynote equivalent of machinegun fire.
If it doesn't come out at an event, it'll be a webpage announcement instead like the original, which I happily use having bought that very day.
Plays well with my old PC too actually, plenty enough buttons and precision for Battlefield 2. Shame there's no windows driver to take advantage of the sidescroll though. That's a killer feature on Tiger.
Apple would be fine. Indeed, they'd probably be quite friendly to it if you ask me.
Mac users expect a whole ton of things. We're not just the "it's not windows" brigade Linux and media folk assume sometimes. There's a tightness to the interface, a standard to the software catalogue, and a history longer than Windows'. Google would really have to pull off something amazing to challenge Tiger and Leopard for users who have the dough. The competition would be for first time switchers.
Just putting the idea that "using a non-windows OS is not suicide" into the minds of the masses beyond the OSS world and iPod halo effect would be in Apple's interest. It would reinforce the notion that Windows really isn't the only game in town. It would make "cross platform" really mean something to the majority of software companies. And it would make Windows the notable odd one out with a shrinking market share.
Real competition. My goodness - that's what's exciting about this story. Even if it is just vaporous crud like it seems!!!
You're on the right track there.
Google's branding would be enough to make computers marketed with such an OS quite a tasty proposition for millions of home users. Especially those bitten by virii, yet still too cheap to head on over to Apple!
Google could also carry a lot of cred in the server world if they tied such a thing together as professionally as they seem to be able to do, going by their other projects so far.
However: it is a paradigm shift for a browser based company. Google have the market magic, stock price, prestige and popularity right now to consider such a thing. But can they stand a Ballmer headbutting?
Hear hear!
... it should be pretty neat.
I also expect the following from the Intel Macs:
1. New system start sound - last changed with PowerPC - sounding a little like Intel's famous chimes, or maybe the new one they could also be about to unveil?
2. Big advertising push with Intel and Apple coordinating their work and helping eachother. Apple love the Intel cash, and Intel really need the new machines to showcase their chips and chipsets / wifi.
3. Apple want the BLUE MAN GROUP!!
All that and slim as hell sub notebooks
Yes, that comment (even more than the charts being in the wrong order) sinks the plausibility of the review entirely.
Who cares? SOMEONE WITH A FREAKING 5+ GIGABYTE FILE FFS!!
What idiot chose this writer to do the article? Someone who doesn't get why bigger media is better has as much competence on DVD burners as a non-gamer / high end user does on the latest and most expensive graphics cards.
Hear hear!
I'm looking forward to the high capacity of bluray discs making backup easier the same way DVD-R did after CD-R. The DRM doesn't matter as long as I can burn what I like to a good technical quality media.
Maybe I'll get an HD TV someday, but I've already got files calling out for these discs.
Hear hear!
Plays like a hog on my 1gb xp2500+
And I remember Civ 2 being fine on a p133 laptop!
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