not if you don't give your cat sudo access. It's the same as giving your cat the root password but you can easily revoke sudo access whereas you can't easily force your cat to forget the root password.
...at the publishers' discretion. Just because the current games are region free does not mean that future games won't be, if people buy enough units.
got any sources? a quick search for "region free PS3" gives nothing to back you up. I think you may be "making it up". I know it's vogue to bash the PS3 but there are enough true things to bash them with we don't need to resort to making stuff up.
Canonical has like, 6 full time developers. It's not a very large company compared to RedHat and IBM. Their work tends to be more on making a nice desktop, rather than fixing the kernel.
- Relatively low murder rate - Democracy in more than name only - Mostly WASP population - English Speaking - Technologically forward looking - Good infrastructure - No thought police, DMCA or Dumbya.
you must really hate New Zealanders if you want to remove all these things from the country.
really? openSUSE is still the number 2 distro according to distrowatch. As well as that, as much as I like Ubuntu, there are some things you need to open a terminal to do. Suse's YaST can configure anything that I tried to throw at it (albeit very slowly) and is probably better for the standard "I only know Windows" type person since it is rather Windows-like.
How does the FDA know how many times a week you have sex? How does the FDA know about the condoms you bought from the supermarket and how would they know you're using them?
I imagine this is a survey and people simply answered questions. I don't think they installed cameras in peoples houses or anything
If in some future world, DRM is removed from the iTunes music store, the music sold there would still be in AAC format. AAC is an open format, and anyone could adopt it for their players, but if Samsung didn't, you'd still be out of luck.
I don't get what point you are trying to make here. You seem to be agreeing with me that in this future world without DRM, you can buy your new Samsung player and still play your AAC music. I thought you were arguing against my points?
If you ripped your CD collection, it would not be protected with FairPlay. If you tape from a CD to a cassette, you lose quality. Funny how no one seemed to mind that back in the day. I suspect that the "losing quality" argument is an excuse put out there by the dishonest pirate types.
of course, because a CD burner could be had, but they cost 100's of dollars. The reason we had to lose quality was because of technical and price limitations. If we wanted to, we could copy the music, but the technology was expensive. Now the technology is there and cheap but we still artificially limit it by introducing DRM. Of course, you can get around this by simply buying the CD from a store or downloading it from a torrent.
The only stand Apple could make is to simply stop selling music. How would that help anyone? I'm sorry, but I don't see any reason to appease whiners if it means I lose the ability to download legally.
the only stand? How about letting independent artists who WANT to put DRM free music on iTunes actually put it there? There are plenty of artists who want to put DRM unencumbered music on iTunes but Apple simply doesn't let them. Why? Jobs says he doesn't like DRM, he should offer them the option. But that would remove his vendor lock-in.
Let's not forget that iTunes is by far the largest online store, and iPods command an incredible market share. Apple does have some sway in the music industry.
People love to complain about Apple, and I suppose it's too much to ask for someone to do their homework first, right?
people love defending Apple too. Maybe THEY should do their homework. I'm no Apple hater, but Steve Jobs needs to put his money where his mouth is, if he's going to go saying that tracks should be released DRM free.
and if your iPod dies and you decide you want that nice new Samsung player?
Oh no, you're stuck with buying an iPod, because you have a massive CD collection protected with FairPlay (yes I know you can remove the DRM by burning and ripping, but you lose quality)
Which is of course, the real reason DRM is so prevalent, otherwise Steve Jobs would actually make a stand against DRM. Saying he doesn't like it isn't enough, he is in the unique position of actually being able to do something about it, but he doesn't. Because he likes the iPod/iTunes lock in too much.
DRM is more valuable as a lock in tool than as a piracy deterrant. That's why MS decided to use a different protection scheme for their Zune.
The "rhythm method" counts as birth control. So does having a vasectomy and having your tubes tied. Since the GP explicitly said "without using any form of birth control" then these don't count.
As for homosexual partnerships, I don't know if that's officially counted as birth control or not... But it would be a pretty useless statistic to count in a test about fertility
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Pyst did it...
will the processor wars never end?
streets aren't likely to change much 10,000 meters above sea level
of course it would be legal. They just couldn't release it under the GPL.
*looks around*
me?
but I don't even own a mac!
awwwww =(
not if you don't give your cat sudo access. It's the same as giving your cat the root password but you can easily revoke sudo access whereas you can't easily force your cat to forget the root password.
got any sources? a quick search for "region free PS3" gives nothing to back you up. I think you may be "making it up". I know it's vogue to bash the PS3 but there are enough true things to bash them with we don't need to resort to making stuff up.
it seems to have taken third parties a while to get on board the Wii, look for their releases around the end of 2007 and the start of 2008
Nintendo needs to support their developers more, these rumours of no third party Mii support and no online till 2008 don't make me happy =/
isn't the official pronunciation of MS SQL server "Sequel"?
I wonder what that says about Microsoft
Canonical has like, 6 full time developers. It's not a very large company compared to RedHat and IBM. Their work tends to be more on making a nice desktop, rather than fixing the kernel.
your English isn't fantastic either.
I believe the GP was taking a jab at "does just not work".
you must really hate New Zealanders if you want to remove all these things from the country.
really? openSUSE is still the number 2 distro according to distrowatch. As well as that, as much as I like Ubuntu, there are some things you need to open a terminal to do. Suse's YaST can configure anything that I tried to throw at it (albeit very slowly) and is probably better for the standard "I only know Windows" type person since it is rather Windows-like.
on feisty at least:
Applications->Add remove software
select "Nvidia Proprietry drivers". click OK.
Maybe you'd then prefer the official name, which is Ubuntu 7.04
the "Feisty Fawn" is just a codename
it actually needs to be "update-manager -d" in order to look for development versions.
"update-manager -c" was just to upgrade from an LTS version of ubuntu
can you even have a homosexual hermaphrodite?
applications, add remove programs, install wine
double click on WoW.exe
easy enough for you?
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I really hate to stoop to using a slashdot meme but...
*whoosh*
and they were off by 8 hours...
How does the FDA know how many times a week you have sex? How does the FDA know about the condoms you bought from the supermarket and how would they know you're using them?
I imagine this is a survey and people simply answered questions. I don't think they installed cameras in peoples houses or anything
I don't get what point you are trying to make here. You seem to be agreeing with me that in this future world without DRM, you can buy your new Samsung player and still play your AAC music. I thought you were arguing against my points?
of course, because a CD burner could be had, but they cost 100's of dollars. The reason we had to lose quality was because of technical and price limitations. If we wanted to, we could copy the music, but the technology was expensive. Now the technology is there and cheap but we still artificially limit it by introducing DRM. Of course, you can get around this by simply buying the CD from a store or downloading it from a torrent.
the only stand? How about letting independent artists who WANT to put DRM free music on iTunes actually put it there? There are plenty of artists who want to put DRM unencumbered music on iTunes but Apple simply doesn't let them. Why? Jobs says he doesn't like DRM, he should offer them the option. But that would remove his vendor lock-in.
Let's not forget that iTunes is by far the largest online store, and iPods command an incredible market share. Apple does have some sway in the music industry.
people love defending Apple too. Maybe THEY should do their homework. I'm no Apple hater, but Steve Jobs needs to put his money where his mouth is, if he's going to go saying that tracks should be released DRM free.
you are right, they paid for patent licenses as well as Linux coupons.
and if your iPod dies and you decide you want that nice new Samsung player?
Oh no, you're stuck with buying an iPod, because you have a massive CD collection protected with FairPlay (yes I know you can remove the DRM by burning and ripping, but you lose quality)
Which is of course, the real reason DRM is so prevalent, otherwise Steve Jobs would actually make a stand against DRM. Saying he doesn't like it isn't enough, he is in the unique position of actually being able to do something about it, but he doesn't. Because he likes the iPod/iTunes lock in too much.
DRM is more valuable as a lock in tool than as a piracy deterrant. That's why MS decided to use a different protection scheme for their Zune.
The "rhythm method" counts as birth control. So does having a vasectomy and having your tubes tied. Since the GP explicitly said "without using any form of birth control" then these don't count.
As for homosexual partnerships, I don't know if that's officially counted as birth control or not... But it would be a pretty useless statistic to count in a test about fertility