I haven't got a laptop, but I did create a partition specifically to dual boot linux, and Ubuntu borked at my fakeraid stripe (well, it would have fucked everything up, but I was knowlegeable enough to stop it from trying to sort out my drives - I'm not claiming any expertise of linux here, I just knew from the partitioning it was trying to do that what it was planning would be a bad idea for my stripe).
I've since filled that partition with crap (1tb of storage should be enough for anyone my arse), otherwise I'd give OpenSuse a go - it supposely plays nicer with fakeraid, according to other posts here. At some point I'll grab another HD and do it, but it's not really a priority ATM. I do have my old win2k installation on a separate old fat IDE HD, still bootable, which I guess I could delete, but it'd be not too much use installing something that cannot see the stripe.
This has taken me about 3 minutes... Mephedrone FTW.
Seconded - The only thing stopping me from moving to Linux is games support. I'm a gamer, and need games on the day of release, and need them to just work (admittedly sometimes this is a problem with Windows too, especially with some DRM:P). I don't _need_ fancy graphics to enjoy games (I still play Angband and varients, and am starting to get into Dwarven Fortress), but I'm still a slave to pretties in some ways and thus a slave to Bill.
Man, this has taken me about 1/4 hour to write... Mephedrone FTL
Hell, just plain old LOOKING without recording it is still illegal.
Plain old looking is _not_ illegal, depending on the expectation of privacy. Many people's homes sit on widely used roads, and if glancing in at someone as you walk or drive past their house is now a crime, I'd guess just about everyone is a criminal.
Has anyone else noticed the picture of Mike Turner with the Sphinx in the background halfway down the third page linked to in TFS? The caption below it is surely a little redundant...
IANAL - The UK laws on libel are that the truth trumps all, with quite a few exceptions.
There are injunctions to protect crime victim's privacy (which I agree with to some degree; if I was sexually abused or raped I would think I'd have the right not to have the entire country know the details).
There are laws on privacy and laws on public interest, and neither actually takes precedence over each other. It's basically up to a judge to decide... meh.
However, there is a growing trend of "super-injunctions", which prevent even the mention of something happening. The recent John Terry fiasco was one attempt to get one of these, which failed, and resulted in the judge deciding the entire story could be reported in full. I've no idea why this was put under an injunction in the first place, but those are the privacy laws.
I'm most worried about the gagging orders placed on newspapers regarding things like the Carter-Ruck Ivory Coast toxic waste. The Guarian
If you have no paid voice, then demanding evidence is basically inneffectual. If you haven't noticed, 99% of media outside of the internet is controlled by a few large companies. They decide what goes into their papers and on the TV, and can pay whichever expert to give a quote supporting what they decide. Individuals have no power against media conglomerates, and without legal recourse for those individuals those big companies will just make an agreement between themselves, and screw anyone who gets in the way. They do that to some degree already, since they have far less to lose than some poor schmuck who decides to sue them... they lose = potential damages, possible fine, media group continues as if nothing has happened. Poor schmuck loses = Loss of life savings, reputation in tatters, life in ruins.
Also, allowing libel without juristriction would enable those who were actually guilty of misdemeanors to point at the innocent and justify their actions
Media corporations have way too much power already - I'm not being elitist about this, and saying that people cannot differentiate between media propoganda and actual news and information (at least not now, that's a different discussion), what I am saying is that much of the arguments and facts that the big boys in the media industry do not like simply do not get reported. No one even hears about them. If media conglomerates were allowed to simply lie, most would believe them purely because the other side of the argument could not be expressed.
I drive vans and trucks for a living and every single vehicle I drive has LW, all manufactured in the last 5 years, except for one. I use it primarily to listen to the cricket when it's on. My home radio also has LW. With some of the newer vans, they only have a MW button, but that changes SW/MW/LW. Also in others, the MW spectrum encompasses all LW/MW/SW, without explicitly sayng it does.
There are plenty of programs about the French Resistance too, which surely glorify some of their acts. Our legal system has gone to shit since fucking New Labour got in. Personal liberty seems to be a forgotten concept. Also, from TFS : These laws make it illegal to have or to share information intended to be useful to terrorists
Wait... so if I tell a terrorist "don't blow yourself up", I'm technically breaching the law since I am sharing information with a terrorist that I consider useful. It's not useful for them to fulfil their terrorist aims, but that's not what TFS says, anyway. I just reported youtube for showing videos of hate crime, anyway, with a direct link to a CBC video of a hate crime. I might report the "Female Agents" film website for glorifying terrorism next. What fun...
Capitalism results in an improved standard of living for those with money. However, "standard of living" does not imply happiness, once you hit a certain threshold. The happiest societies are the ones with the least disparity in wealth. The trend is very very obvious - larger disparity, more unhappiness.
So what to do? Aim for money, or aim for happiness? Capitalism works, it creates wealth, but unbounded it does create unhappiness. Capitalism has always been bounded anyway, otherwise we'd have a shed load more monopolies than we do now. We need to bind it more to allow societies to thrive within it.
I work 9 1/2 hour days, with 1/2hr lunch, manual labour and driving, every day for 48 weeks a year. I get paid very little over minimum wage (must be about 10$ an hour, I've not checked the exchange rate recently). I used to code for a living, but I got bored of that. I enjoy my job now.
If robots worked as well as humans, we would not be using humans. Robots fuck up all the time. They are not nearly good enough to perform anything but strict sequential instructions. You need more than that in warehouses etc, and the thing that is killing warehouse jobs in the west is not new world efficiency, it's new world low wages. Manufacturing is a lot simpler than distribution, but it is still not simple robotically, nor cheap. Put simply : Robots do not increase efficiency in 99% of the applications they supposedly could because they are stupid.
So you decide which certain activities others have given up their right to? Or who? Perhaps the law could decide who has given up their legal right to be protected by the law...
Some people would claim that trespassing on land revokes legal rights, but I'd wager just about everyone has at least accidently gone onto someone else's land without permission, at some time in the past.
Well said. I personally had a nice celebration of the end of last millenium at home, laughing at the morons whe celebrated it a year too early too. Didn't they look the fools!
I do still have a win2k boot drive though.... best.... windows... ever...
Alcohol is in fact the only drug that I know of that has withdrawal symptoms that include death. If you are a severe alcoholic, you should not go cold turkey. From about.com:
However, within six to 48 hours after not drinking, hallucinations may develop. These usually are visual hallucinations but they can also involve sounds and smells. They can last for a few hours up to weeks at a time.
Also within this time frame after quitting, convulsions or seizures can occur, which is the point at which alcohol withdrawal can become dangerous, if not medically treated. The symptoms may progress to delirium tremens (DT's) after three to five days without alcohol. The symptoms of DT's include profound confusion, disorientation, hallucinations, hyperactivity, and extreme cardiovascular disturbances.
Once DT's begin, there is no known medical treatment to stop them. Grand mal seizures, heart attacks and stroke can occur during the DT's, all of which can be fatal.
But I'd rather get 3 years of work from a ambitious employee than 10 years from a just-getting-by timecard-puncher.
This is a completely false dichotomy. I am personally not ambitious, yet I'm the one person my boss comes to if he really needs something done, out of hours or not. I do it because I like my job, and I don't mind doing extras from time to time. There are a lot of just getting by ambitious people where I work too.
Back when I was in school, women were bitches the old-fashioned way - behind each other's backs, and occasionally in shouting matches at the park across the street from the school.
We all know what the teachers will get up to, but this story was about the girls I think.
It is most definitely not like holding gun manufacturers liable for murders, because our economy can do without guns now. Our economy cannot do without the internet.... It has literally pervaded into every big business in the world. No major industry can do without it. It is fundamental to the current operating of all current big business.
ISP's provide a simple service... or they should do. If my ISP want to regulate what I can and cannot download, I will leave it. That or encrypt, then it's au revoir morons.
Pros: Blue LED fan
Cons: I bought 2 of these the top heatsink fell onto the bottom card and burned down my house and killed my Family. Why
Other Thoughts: This product is unsafe and should be recalled (but they wont because they dont care) Not neweggs fault they are the best
That's a nice idea, but any copyright notices will be stripped as quickly as drm is. The downloader will never see them. If there was a good way of imprinting copyright on works, do you not thnk some copyright holders would not have tried it?
No one reads licenses. Well, maybe not no one, but under 1% of the population. The entire notion of software licensing to the general public is bogus. I am a well informed, technically minded computer user, and I never read the licenses I click yes to. I do not have the time or patience. Licenses could ask my first born of me, but that does not make them valid. Reasonable expectation is the key.
I've got stung by one of these recently - I dropped my internet connection a while back (I'm at my parents for the weekend)... Football Manager '09 refuses to work now. I can't play a game on my own without an internet connection. The worst thing is I could just download a cracked copy and play that how I liked. I just want to play the game I bought.
Anyway, a contract that someone enters into without knowing some important tenets of that contract is not a contract.
No, Google is providing a browser which 99% of the population just click yes to if they have downloaded it, which reserves the right to restrict access to certain websites by default. It is corporate censorship.
I personally just want a fucking browser, and that is it. Filtering is added _after_ the browser.
It doesn't look like an anti-phishing measure to me. It's a clause so they don't get sued when someone uses their internet browser for something illegal.
In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.
Well thanks to Google et al we now know that we don't have to look at shit we don't want to, apparentely. Thank the Lord for multinational corporations telling us what to do.
Yes, and I've found the killer application which will essentially _require_ windows to be running for a complete experience on this console. Behold Big City Rigs: Garbage Truck Driver!
Whoever said collecting trash won't pay the bills? Hop in the seat of your very own garbage truck and clean up and collect the trash as you manage your own waste utilization company.
34 missions take you through various environments, including city streets, industrial areas, business centers and more.
Not your typical garbage truck! Choose your own corporate look - vehicle color, name and logo - get ready to watch your company grow!
Solve special tasks like waste glass containers, construction waste, toxic waste and more.
Seconded for ZoomPlayer. VLC used to be my default player, but it kept occasionally crashing to desktop, and it had laggy controls sometimes. Mediaplayer classic used to be my default player until I started using Vista64, and I couldn't get it to run at all most of the time.
ZoomPlayer just seems to run everything I throw at it, has a decent interface, and has no lag on controls etc.
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I haven't got a laptop, but I did create a partition specifically to dual boot linux, and Ubuntu borked at my fakeraid stripe (well, it would have fucked everything up, but I was knowlegeable enough to stop it from trying to sort out my drives - I'm not claiming any expertise of linux here, I just knew from the partitioning it was trying to do that what it was planning would be a bad idea for my stripe).
I've since filled that partition with crap (1tb of storage should be enough for anyone my arse), otherwise I'd give OpenSuse a go - it supposely plays nicer with fakeraid, according to other posts here. At some point I'll grab another HD and do it, but it's not really a priority ATM. I do have my old win2k installation on a separate old fat IDE HD, still bootable, which I guess I could delete, but it'd be not too much use installing something that cannot see the stripe.
This has taken me about 3 minutes... Mephedrone FTW.
Seconded - The only thing stopping me from moving to Linux is games support. I'm a gamer, and need games on the day of release, and need them to just work (admittedly sometimes this is a problem with Windows too, especially with some DRM :P). I don't _need_ fancy graphics to enjoy games (I still play Angband and varients, and am starting to get into Dwarven Fortress), but I'm still a slave to pretties in some ways and thus a slave to Bill.
Man, this has taken me about 1/4 hour to write... Mephedrone FTL
Hell, just plain old LOOKING without recording it is still illegal.
Plain old looking is _not_ illegal, depending on the expectation of privacy. Many people's homes sit on widely used roads, and if glancing in at someone as you walk or drive past their house is now a crime, I'd guess just about everyone is a criminal.
Has anyone else noticed the picture of Mike Turner with the Sphinx in the background halfway down the third page linked to in TFS? The caption below it is surely a little redundant...
IANAL - The UK laws on libel are that the truth trumps all, with quite a few exceptions.
There are injunctions to protect crime victim's privacy (which I agree with to some degree; if I was sexually abused or raped I would think I'd have the right not to have the entire country know the details).
There are laws on privacy and laws on public interest, and neither actually takes precedence over each other. It's basically up to a judge to decide... meh.
However, there is a growing trend of "super-injunctions", which prevent even the mention of something happening. The recent John Terry fiasco was one attempt to get one of these, which failed, and resulted in the judge deciding the entire story could be reported in full. I've no idea why this was put under an injunction in the first place, but those are the privacy laws.
I'm most worried about the gagging orders placed on newspapers regarding things like the Carter-Ruck Ivory Coast toxic waste. The Guarian
If you have no paid voice, then demanding evidence is basically inneffectual. If you haven't noticed, 99% of media outside of the internet is controlled by a few large companies. They decide what goes into their papers and on the TV, and can pay whichever expert to give a quote supporting what they decide. Individuals have no power against media conglomerates, and without legal recourse for those individuals those big companies will just make an agreement between themselves, and screw anyone who gets in the way. They do that to some degree already, since they have far less to lose than some poor schmuck who decides to sue them... they lose = potential damages, possible fine, media group continues as if nothing has happened. Poor schmuck loses = Loss of life savings, reputation in tatters, life in ruins.
Also, allowing libel without juristriction would enable those who were actually guilty of misdemeanors to point at the innocent and justify their actions
Media corporations have way too much power already - I'm not being elitist about this, and saying that people cannot differentiate between media propoganda and actual news and information (at least not now, that's a different discussion), what I am saying is that much of the arguments and facts that the big boys in the media industry do not like simply do not get reported. No one even hears about them. If media conglomerates were allowed to simply lie, most would believe them purely because the other side of the argument could not be expressed.
I drive vans and trucks for a living and every single vehicle I drive has LW, all manufactured in the last 5 years, except for one. I use it primarily to listen to the cricket when it's on. My home radio also has LW. With some of the newer vans, they only have a MW button, but that changes SW/MW/LW. Also in others, the MW spectrum encompasses all LW/MW/SW, without explicitly sayng it does.
There are plenty of programs about the French Resistance too, which surely glorify some of their acts. Our legal system has gone to shit since fucking New Labour got in. Personal liberty seems to be a forgotten concept. Also, from TFS : These laws make it illegal to have or to share information intended to be useful to terrorists
Wait... so if I tell a terrorist "don't blow yourself up", I'm technically breaching the law since I am sharing information with a terrorist that I consider useful. It's not useful for them to fulfil their terrorist aims, but that's not what TFS says, anyway. I just reported youtube for showing videos of hate crime, anyway, with a direct link to a CBC video of a hate crime. I might report the "Female Agents" film website for glorifying terrorism next. What fun...
Steam doesn't require you to be online. You can play all your games when in offline mode.
Capitalism results in an improved standard of living for those with money. However, "standard of living" does not imply happiness, once you hit a certain threshold. The happiest societies are the ones with the least disparity in wealth. The trend is very very obvious - larger disparity, more unhappiness.
So what to do? Aim for money, or aim for happiness? Capitalism works, it creates wealth, but unbounded it does create unhappiness. Capitalism has always been bounded anyway, otherwise we'd have a shed load more monopolies than we do now. We need to bind it more to allow societies to thrive within it.
I work 9 1/2 hour days, with 1/2hr lunch, manual labour and driving, every day for 48 weeks a year. I get paid very little over minimum wage (must be about 10$ an hour, I've not checked the exchange rate recently). I used to code for a living, but I got bored of that. I enjoy my job now.
If robots worked as well as humans, we would not be using humans. Robots fuck up all the time. They are not nearly good enough to perform anything but strict sequential instructions. You need more than that in warehouses etc, and the thing that is killing warehouse jobs in the west is not new world efficiency, it's new world low wages. Manufacturing is a lot simpler than distribution, but it is still not simple robotically, nor cheap. Put simply : Robots do not increase efficiency in 99% of the applications they supposedly could because they are stupid.
ps. I do often work in a tyre warehouse
So you decide which certain activities others have given up their right to? Or who? Perhaps the law could decide who has given up their legal right to be protected by the law...
Some people would claim that trespassing on land revokes legal rights, but I'd wager just about everyone has at least accidently gone onto someone else's land without permission, at some time in the past.
Well said. I personally had a nice celebration of the end of last millenium at home, laughing at the morons whe celebrated it a year too early too. Didn't they look the fools!
I do still have a win2k boot drive though.... best .... windows ... ever ...
Alcohol is in fact the only drug that I know of that has withdrawal symptoms that include death. If you are a severe alcoholic, you should not go cold turkey. From about.com:
However, within six to 48 hours after not drinking, hallucinations may develop. These usually are visual hallucinations but they can also involve sounds and smells. They can last for a few hours up to weeks at a time.
Also within this time frame after quitting, convulsions or seizures can occur, which is the point at which alcohol withdrawal can become dangerous, if not medically treated. The symptoms may progress to delirium tremens (DT's) after three to five days without alcohol. The symptoms of DT's include profound confusion, disorientation, hallucinations, hyperactivity, and extreme cardiovascular disturbances.
Once DT's begin, there is no known medical treatment to stop them. Grand mal seizures, heart attacks and stroke can occur during the DT's, all of which can be fatal.
But I'd rather get 3 years of work from a ambitious employee than 10 years from a just-getting-by timecard-puncher.
This is a completely false dichotomy. I am personally not ambitious, yet I'm the one person my boss comes to if he really needs something done, out of hours or not. I do it because I like my job, and I don't mind doing extras from time to time. There are a lot of just getting by ambitious people where I work too.
Back when I was in school, women were bitches the old-fashioned way - behind each other's backs, and occasionally in shouting matches at the park across the street from the school.
We all know what the teachers will get up to, but this story was about the girls I think.
It is most definitely not like holding gun manufacturers liable for murders, because our economy can do without guns now. Our economy cannot do without the internet.... It has literally pervaded into every big business in the world. No major industry can do without it. It is fundamental to the current operating of all current big business.
ISP's provide a simple service... or they should do. If my ISP want to regulate what I can and cannot download, I will leave it. That or encrypt, then it's au revoir morons.
I personally like this one:
Pros: Blue LED fan
Cons: I bought 2 of these the top heatsink fell onto the bottom card and burned down my house and killed my Family. Why
Other Thoughts: This product is unsafe and should be recalled (but they wont because they dont care) Not neweggs fault they are the best
That's a nice idea, but any copyright notices will be stripped as quickly as drm is. The downloader will never see them. If there was a good way of imprinting copyright on works, do you not thnk some copyright holders would not have tried it?
No one reads licenses. Well, maybe not no one, but under 1% of the population. The entire notion of software licensing to the general public is bogus. I am a well informed, technically minded computer user, and I never read the licenses I click yes to. I do not have the time or patience. Licenses could ask my first born of me, but that does not make them valid. Reasonable expectation is the key.
I've got stung by one of these recently - I dropped my internet connection a while back (I'm at my parents for the weekend)... Football Manager '09 refuses to work now. I can't play a game on my own without an internet connection. The worst thing is I could just download a cracked copy and play that how I liked. I just want to play the game I bought.
Anyway, a contract that someone enters into without knowing some important tenets of that contract is not a contract.
No, Google is providing a browser which 99% of the population just click yes to if they have downloaded it, which reserves the right to restrict access to certain websites by default. It is corporate censorship.
I personally just want a fucking browser, and that is it. Filtering is added _after_ the browser.
It doesn't look like an anti-phishing measure to me. It's a clause so they don't get sued when someone uses their internet browser for something illegal.
In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.
Well thanks to Google et al we now know that we don't have to look at shit we don't want to, apparentely. Thank the Lord for multinational corporations telling us what to do.
Yes, and I've found the killer application which will essentially _require_ windows to be running for a complete experience on this console. Behold Big City Rigs: Garbage Truck Driver!
Whoever said collecting trash won't pay the bills? Hop in the seat of your very own garbage truck and clean up and collect the trash as you manage your own waste utilization company.
34 missions take you through various environments, including city streets, industrial areas, business centers and more.
Not your typical garbage truck! Choose your own corporate look - vehicle color, name and logo - get ready to watch your company grow!
Solve special tasks like waste glass containers, construction waste, toxic waste and more.
Honestly, I couldn't make this up....
Seconded for ZoomPlayer. VLC used to be my default player, but it kept occasionally crashing to desktop, and it had laggy controls sometimes. Mediaplayer classic used to be my default player until I started using Vista64, and I couldn't get it to run at all most of the time.
ZoomPlayer just seems to run everything I throw at it, has a decent interface, and has no lag on controls etc.