This same possibility is open to any other PC retailer.
No it isn't. If Dell sells a machine with cheap components for $499 and HP sells a machine with the same CPU/RAM/HDD configuration that uses better quality power supply, better chipset, less pre-installed crapware, capacitors that don't explode, etc for $529, most people will buy the Dell. There's no guarantee that Apple will continue to use good quality parts in the future, but there *is* a guarantee that no big-name PC maker will ever be able to start. If using the highest quality parts and selling the machines for a premium price was a successful business model in the PC market, Alienware would have been big enough to buy out Dell instead of the other way around.
Actually we subsidised universal broadband too. The US government gave big telecom $100 billion to roll out nationwide 45 megabit/sec symmetric fiber to every home and business. We just didn't follow through and make sure the phone monopolies spent the money on fiber instead of stock options, CEO bonuses, and covering up previous financial shenanigans. Five years later, the money is gone and the best most of us can get is still 6mbit down/512k up cable. Even the few towns where you can get FIOS or similar fiber service, it's only an asymmetric 15m down/2m up connection instead of the promised 45m/45m.
How much more time do the local phone monopolies need to finish the fiber rollout, and how much more money will the government have to give them to do it?
HDCP is encryption on the wire between the player and the screen. Breaking it lets people watch "protected" content on a TV with DVI or component video inputs instead of HDMI, but it doesn't help with needing 64-bit Vista to watch HD movies. To play a high-def movie on Linux or 32-bit Windows, someone will have to crack the encryption on the disc, and that's a much stronger scheme than CSS or HDCP.
is anyone on here any more than utterly ambivalent to the fact that there is yet another slight incremental advancement in the power of video cards?
Why do you think there are so many posts here making fun of ATI's silly "CrossFire X1999X XTX GSXR SR71 X-treme Pro" naming scheme and so few saying "Ooh, I'm gonna buy one of those first thing tomorrow"?
I would love to read what other/. readers who actually are lawyers think.
Just remember, anyone on the internet claiming to be a doctor, lawyer, government agent, Apple employee, heir to a Nigerian prince, movie/TV star or woman is probably lying...
So, five years and $10 million in legal fees after the fact everyone whose searches were released gets a coupon for 3 months of free AOL dial-up. Sounds like justice to me!
Check section 13. It doesn't apply to individuals, but they do claim the right to audit businesses for license compliance.
13. Compliance with Licenses. If you are a business or organization, you agree that upon request from Adobe or Adobe's authorized representative, you will within thirty (30) days fully document and certify that use of any and all Software at the time of the request is in conformity with your valid licenses from Adobe.
You only mod the parent post "troll" because you know he's right....now where's my goddamn bread and circuses? I was promised a Wendy's super value meal and a new episode of American Idol tonight!
Booting from read-only media and cleaning a compromised machine works well for *nix systems, but there isn't a usable live CD malware removal tool for Windows. Unmodified Windows won't run from read-only media, the lack of a complete, free, legal NTFS driver and automated tools for removing Windows-specific malware makes Linux live DC distros impractical, and the pain of dealing with BartPE makes that a non-starter for all but the most technically adept admins. Until you can pop a disc in the drive, reboot, and click a big red "Kill Malware" button, people are going to keep using AV applications from within compromised Windows environments.
How so? I mean it's very cool as a technology, but I don't see an immediate application beyond screensavers. (OK, maybe an updated iPhoto slideshow mode and some new Keynote transitions, too...)
even at 3 packs a day you could survive for 1000 days
Probably not. Top Ramen has 190 calories per package, so 3 of them per day comes in at 570 C per day, less than a third of the 1800 C needed to keep up an average man's base metabolic rate. There's no way anyone could sustain that much caloric deficit for 3 years, even if they were an epic lard ass starting out.
There are free (cloned and pirated) World of Warcraft servers out there, but for some reason they have few players while the official servers are mostly full. Their subscriber count keeps going up, years after the game was released. Maybe Lineage 2 just sucks in a way that can't be generalized to a problem with PC gaming as a whole...
Most of the skeptics arguments are against points one and four. They point at the bazillions of tons of CO2 that can come out of volcanic eruptions or methane emissions from flatulent herbivores (mostly cattle)* and claim those are enough to make any contribution by burning fossil fuels insignificant. There's also the "it's not so bad" camp that argues that sea level probably won't rise that much, and deserts probably won't grow much beyond their present boundaries, and northern Canada would make great farmland, and hurricanes are too unpredictable to really understand anyway. Then there are the flat-earthers of climate change; they're already covered in the post above this one.
*Not that the present huge population of cattle has anything at all to do with mechanized agriculture, advanced transportation, affluence that allows many people to eat meat and dairy every day, and generally the presence of an industrial society. It wouldn't be *at all* fair to lump a majority of those cow farts in with the rest of the anthropogenic emissions or anything like that...
Yes, they were funny a lot of the time. My point was just that there was never a golden age where everyone was mature all the time and only posted on-topic, well-reasoned, polite comments.
Yeah, instead of mildly amusing jokes about video games, there would have been a dozen poorly disguised goatse.cx links, some obscene ASCII art and references to Natalie Portman and hot grits. Anyone who misses the "good old days" of slashdot wasn't really there.
No it's not, it's a war between Islam and Judaism. Israeli citizenship is open only to people of Jewish ancestry and not to descendants of the Muslims, Christians, and anyone else who lived there before the modern state of Israel was founded 1948, which makes them about as "democratic" as South Africa was in the 1970s.
Cut the crap and the Microsoft bashing, I'm much more concerned about the spate of port 22 scans, and the brute force ssh password attacks going on right now.
Fail2ban is your friend. Throttle those ssh botnets down to a few login attempts per hour and eventually the operator will go after a less secure target.
Internet Explorer uses the trademark "Mozilla" in it's user agent string ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT 5)" for example), and Microsoft wasn't ever sued over it. If there were any way Netscape could have used trademark law to break MSIE and get a leg up in the browser wars, they would have done it.
But if they didn't overcharge for Office, how would they finance IE, Media Player, MSN, XBox, Zune, Defender, Windows Live, and all the other parts of their world-domination scheme that don't generate any profit?
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The Way It's Always Been Done (aka. this is how osx/xp/gnome/kde works)
Only on slashdot will you see someone cite a group of 5-7 year old environments (WinXP, Gnome, KDE, OS X) as examples of "The Way It's Always Been Done" and a 20+ year old one (Plan 9) as innovative...
I think I posted a the same comment when MS announced the Xbox. Got modded up +4 or +5 insightful, too.
Look where the Xbox and Xbox 360 are now, I was totally wrong about the xbox, and that's why I think you are wrong about their music player. MS can and will use their piles of money to buy into another market, like they did when they rolled out Windows (financed by DOS money until they finally made a useful product at version 3.0), Office (financed with Windows/DOS revenue until it could take on Lotus 1-2-3, Wordstar, WordPerfect, et al), IE (licensed Spyglass code and bought most of Netscape's market share with Windows/Office money), Xbox, Windows Media Player, and every other MS product since DOS. Even if the first version sucks like a black hole they can keep pouring money into development and advertising until they gain a majority market share.
The average slashdotter that has no respect for IP laws expects others to respect their property. Very, very funny.
If you've read enough threads about IP issues here that you have an idea of what "average slashdotters" believe, and yet you still think illegal copying is equivalent to theft of physical goods, there's no hope for meaningful debate with you...
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This same possibility is open to any other PC retailer.
No it isn't. If Dell sells a machine with cheap components for $499 and HP sells a machine with the same CPU/RAM/HDD configuration that uses better quality power supply, better chipset, less pre-installed crapware, capacitors that don't explode, etc for $529, most people will buy the Dell. There's no guarantee that Apple will continue to use good quality parts in the future, but there *is* a guarantee that no big-name PC maker will ever be able to start. If using the highest quality parts and selling the machines for a premium price was a successful business model in the PC market, Alienware would have been big enough to buy out Dell instead of the other way around.
Actually we subsidised universal broadband too. The US government gave big telecom $100 billion to roll out nationwide 45 megabit/sec symmetric fiber to every home and business. We just didn't follow through and make sure the phone monopolies spent the money on fiber instead of stock options, CEO bonuses, and covering up previous financial shenanigans. Five years later, the money is gone and the best most of us can get is still 6mbit down/512k up cable. Even the few towns where you can get FIOS or similar fiber service, it's only an asymmetric 15m down/2m up connection instead of the promised 45m/45m.
How much more time do the local phone monopolies need to finish the fiber rollout, and how much more money will the government have to give them to do it?
HDCP is encryption on the wire between the player and the screen. Breaking it lets people watch "protected" content on a TV with DVI or component video inputs instead of HDMI, but it doesn't help with needing 64-bit Vista to watch HD movies. To play a high-def movie on Linux or 32-bit Windows, someone will have to crack the encryption on the disc, and that's a much stronger scheme than CSS or HDCP.
Why do you think there are so many posts here making fun of ATI's silly "CrossFire X1999X XTX GSXR SR71 X-treme Pro" naming scheme and so few saying "Ooh, I'm gonna buy one of those first thing tomorrow"?
Just remember, anyone on the internet claiming to be a doctor, lawyer, government agent, Apple employee, heir to a Nigerian prince, movie/TV star or woman is probably lying...
So, five years and $10 million in legal fees after the fact everyone whose searches were released gets a coupon for 3 months of free AOL dial-up. Sounds like justice to me!
If you can't find a way to sync your iPod with your Linux machine you haven't really been looking!
When will we get to mod articles "-1, Troll"?
You only mod the parent post "troll" because you know he's right. ...now where's my goddamn bread and circuses? I was promised a Wendy's super value meal and a new episode of American Idol tonight!
Go easy on him, he learned to add from the slashdot karma system. 48+1+1+1+1-1-1 equals 48 here...
Booting from read-only media and cleaning a compromised machine works well for *nix systems, but there isn't a usable live CD malware removal tool for Windows. Unmodified Windows won't run from read-only media, the lack of a complete, free, legal NTFS driver and automated tools for removing Windows-specific malware makes Linux live DC distros impractical, and the pain of dealing with BartPE makes that a non-starter for all but the most technically adept admins. Until you can pop a disc in the drive, reboot, and click a big red "Kill Malware" button, people are going to keep using AV applications from within compromised Windows environments.
How so? I mean it's very cool as a technology, but I don't see an immediate application beyond screensavers. (OK, maybe an updated iPhoto slideshow mode and some new Keynote transitions, too...)
even at 3 packs a day you could survive for 1000 days
Probably not. Top Ramen has 190 calories per package, so 3 of them per day comes in at 570 C per day, less than a third of the 1800 C needed to keep up an average man's base metabolic rate. There's no way anyone could sustain that much caloric deficit for 3 years, even if they were an epic lard ass starting out.
There are free (cloned and pirated) World of Warcraft servers out there, but for some reason they have few players while the official servers are mostly full. Their subscriber count keeps going up, years after the game was released. Maybe Lineage 2 just sucks in a way that can't be generalized to a problem with PC gaming as a whole...
Most of the skeptics arguments are against points one and four. They point at the bazillions of tons of CO2 that can come out of volcanic eruptions or methane emissions from flatulent herbivores (mostly cattle)* and claim those are enough to make any contribution by burning fossil fuels insignificant. There's also the "it's not so bad" camp that argues that sea level probably won't rise that much, and deserts probably won't grow much beyond their present boundaries, and northern Canada would make great farmland, and hurricanes are too unpredictable to really understand anyway. Then there are the flat-earthers of climate change; they're already covered in the post above this one.
*Not that the present huge population of cattle has anything at all to do with mechanized agriculture, advanced transportation, affluence that allows many people to eat meat and dairy every day, and generally the presence of an industrial society. It wouldn't be *at all* fair to lump a majority of those cow farts in with the rest of the anthropogenic emissions or anything like that...
Yes, they were funny a lot of the time. My point was just that there was never a golden age where everyone was mature all the time and only posted on-topic, well-reasoned, polite comments.
Yeah, instead of mildly amusing jokes about video games, there would have been a dozen poorly disguised goatse.cx links, some obscene ASCII art and references to Natalie Portman and hot grits. Anyone who misses the "good old days" of slashdot wasn't really there.
This is a war between Islam and democracy.
No it's not, it's a war between Islam and Judaism. Israeli citizenship is open only to people of Jewish ancestry and not to descendants of the Muslims, Christians, and anyone else who lived there before the modern state of Israel was founded 1948, which makes them about as "democratic" as South Africa was in the 1970s.
Fail2ban is your friend. Throttle those ssh botnets down to a few login attempts per hour and eventually the operator will go after a less secure target.
Internet Explorer uses the trademark "Mozilla" in it's user agent string ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT 5)" for example), and Microsoft wasn't ever sued over it. If there were any way Netscape could have used trademark law to break MSIE and get a leg up in the browser wars, they would have done it.
But if they didn't overcharge for Office, how would they finance IE, Media Player, MSN, XBox, Zune, Defender, Windows Live, and all the other parts of their world-domination scheme that don't generate any profit?
Only on slashdot will you see someone cite a group of 5-7 year old environments (WinXP, Gnome, KDE, OS X) as examples of "The Way It's Always Been Done" and a 20+ year old one (Plan 9) as innovative...
I think I posted a the same comment when MS announced the Xbox. Got modded up +4 or +5 insightful, too.
Look where the Xbox and Xbox 360 are now, I was totally wrong about the xbox, and that's why I think you are wrong about their music player. MS can and will use their piles of money to buy into another market, like they did when they rolled out Windows (financed by DOS money until they finally made a useful product at version 3.0), Office (financed with Windows/DOS revenue until it could take on Lotus 1-2-3, Wordstar, WordPerfect, et al), IE (licensed Spyglass code and bought most of Netscape's market share with Windows/Office money), Xbox, Windows Media Player, and every other MS product since DOS. Even if the first version sucks like a black hole they can keep pouring money into development and advertising until they gain a majority market share.
The average slashdotter that has no respect for IP laws expects others to respect their property. Very, very funny.
If you've read enough threads about IP issues here that you have an idea of what "average slashdotters" believe, and yet you still think illegal copying is equivalent to theft of physical goods, there's no hope for meaningful debate with you...