1. professional graphics editing (photoshop/illustrator) 2. hardware compatibility for bizarre or legacy devices 3. microsoft word
There are three examples for which ALL non-windows solutions are not as good. I've used openoffice and staroffice and both are worse than Word on windows although they usually get the job done. Most people can get away with using the Gimp, yet every professional editor uses Adobe software.
Lastly, any claims that you can run software Foo using Wine is baseless, because emulators original. Any claims about security or Gates eating small children are beside the point. Above are three simple reasons why someone would buy windows.
I'm surprised they can do that. I've read on the aclu site that you gain Miranda rights and are considered "arrested" if your credentials are confiscated.
How ironic, that the HTML-ized file on Google is available from Yahoo!...
Yahoo uses the evil Anti-Google FS. It's the 1's complement called GllgOe. It can store 01111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 bytes of data.
Removed the flip cover?!
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It "looks more like a phone" but they removed the cover... this is bad. Anyone that's ever put a phone into a pocket with, say, keys doesn't do it again once they get a huge gash down the center of the screen. Other phones, without a touch screen, can handle it using mineral glass. But the palm-based phones must use a plastic touchscreen, which is much more sensitive to scratching.
The old flip cover also fit your head nicely while talking, but the covers also broke off at the hinges... that was probably why it was removed. Instead they should've bolstered the hinge.
Hopefully there will be an inobtrusive cover available aftermarket, which both protects and adds minimal bulk.
Do they perform well in the city? How about on long road trips?
Something interesting (to me) is that they get BETTER milage in the city than on the highway. Look at the two popular ones... it looks like a typo when they say something like 45 city/39 highway.
My belief of why:
The recovery of power when braking in the city combined with the engine idle not being wasted at stoplights (gets converted to stored power) versus the squared function of air resistance in highway driving (as speed doubles, the air resistance quadruples).
Copyright law does (now) carry criminal penalties. It used to be civil only, putting the burden on the victim to sue people for infringement. The change came about mostly from lobbying by SPA due to software piracy, not from music piracy. And who's going to lobby congress saying "no! don't make the pirates go to jail for copying software!". It was a shoo-in law, and had a pretty good effect on reducing software piracy and driving them further underground.
The exact law is the copyright law, specifically how the AHRA changes it, and there are other quotes on this thread giving the Title and Section. It claims you cannot be prosecuted under copyright law for copying music in a specific manner. Part of that manner is using appropriate media with copyprotect bits.
I have substituted, perhaps incorrectly, "right to copy" for "cannnot be prosecuted under copyright law". It may not actually be a right as in "bill of rights" but it is NOT against the copyright law as you claim (when done properly). It falls under the quite legal fair use. It is a very explicit exception to the law, so you cannot claim it's against the law except when that exception doesn't apply. My comment was that you might be able to argue that the exception DOES apply when copying digital music over the Internet.
This has not been tested in court, as far as I know, but I do know that computers have been considered facsimile machines for the purpose of prosecuting spammers. If appropriately enabled, it might be possible to turn ON copy-protect bits when downloading from the internet, burn onto a music CD with those bits set (preventing successive copies by compatable hardware), and argue that you have satisfied the conditions of the AHRA exceptions.
uh, yeah. You have the legal right ot make copies of friend's music or the radio, neither of which you've technically paid for directly. You pay for it by a tax on the recording medium.
You've bought into a little too much dogma, and it's scary that you're so willing to not only pay for the right to do something, but subsequently give up that right.
The real question is, can one argue (successfully) that your computer equipment can qualify under AHRA as audio equipment. To do so, it would have to allow the copy protection bits to be used when playing or copying music, which is usually ignored.
It's one thing to make an honest mistake (and it's possible I have), but your claim of "fool" is made with righteous ignorance, the worst of the worst sin to the intelligent person.
minidisc.org has a quick explanation from RIAA's point of view, and they clarify that this applies to devices designed for recording and playback... not necessarily GP computers. That is the interpretation by RIAA and may be correct... but it also might be successfully argued that your particular computer falls under the protection.
A better place to look might be hrrc.org where they have more interest in the consumer's rights.
Also, it's Audio home recording act, not American... sorry. And thanks to the poster that clarified the differences between audio and data CD's, I didn't know that.
Your quote is more telling than you may think. Record stores generally sell only "music" blanks, which sends a tax to RIAA through the American Home Recording Act. You have full permission to burn a music CD borrowed from a friend onto a music disk, by law. If all the songs traded over Napster were burnt onto music blanks (which, coincidently are exactly the same as data blanks), there probably wouldn't have been a case vs Napster.
So, saying that blank cd sales are up (especially from record stores) is in effect saying that consumers are giving money to RIAA and exercising a right (which they paid for!) to copy CD's for home use.
If the comment also included data CDs, then the author is completely ignoring the fact that computer users actually write data to CDs. In any case, I suspect the conclusions drawn from that sentence are going to be horribly wrong by 95% of the non-technical folks reading it.
ccmay, that flechette rifle is a semi-auto and doesn't require a class 3 FFL, as far as I can tell. I'm not certain that's what you were referring to, though.
You also forgot to add to the list that you have to have an appropriate storage device such as a safe when it's not in your possession.
5.56 is low caliber, too. It's a similar boresize to a.22 rimfire.
That said, noone is arguing that firing the GE minigun into a group of spammers might hold some fantasy in the psyche of all the/. readers, if only for a fleeting second (166 rounds worth!).
There are plenty of things that are not as popular as films or TV or music. Some of them are even entertaining such as skiing or going to hockey games.
This comparison isn't especially enlightening, since it doesn't actually describe the relationship between film and games, other than "entertainment". To compare, you must have quantifyable things to measure. The only thing quantifyable they provided was cash outlay... which seemed to contradict the point of the article.
1) write a perl script to extract all the anonymizer addresses and filter based on that (checking to make sure it doesn't point back to sites you condone)
2) track down who's using the anonymizer and kick in their doors and confiscate their computers?
If the Iranian gov is censoring the web, do you think this would be an exception?
It'll last until the Iranian goverment puts blocks on their border routers and then it's case closed.
China has followed and blocked all such services from their country and in some cases has recorded what the people were doing through those sites first (IIRC).
Actually ANY legal response would slow down the attack. Remember the implementation was to ping every second for a response. After getting a response, it tests every hour or two.
Simply responding would significantly cut down the flood, and this is something they should try to do before the other 400,000 routers that were made are plugged in.
A sysadmin (at intel?) was fired and arrested later for intrusion. Apparently he patched some systems using a crack, but left backdoors open. That is what damned him.
If this worm doesn't leave any backdoors, it probably will not be prosecuted, even if the perpetrator is caught. The argument is that, if this worm could get into your machine, the other worm could.
My favorite was sitting next to some young guy in the terminal room, and switching keyboards on him when he wasn't looking. I'd type everything he typed (as it displayed on my screen) except for carriage-return... he couldn't seem to get it to work.
I convinced him that he had to hit the side of the terminal, like an old typewriter, in order to do a carriage return (and chided him for not knowing such a basic function of terminals)
so, there's this poor naive student smacking the side of the terminal every few seconds just to send an email.
--
The second favorite one was, in the same room with terminals around the walls (at that time hooked into a huge mass of serial ports on a vax, numbered tty01, tty02, etc), sending a bell (^G) to each terminal in order. It was very much like the ttys all doing "the wave" as a single beep was carried counter-clockwise around the room.
Sheesh, lighten up. Sometimes I post things that just sound FUNNY and aren't anything but that. Other people obviously thought there was some humor in it, too. Look at my posting history, most is modded for humor, with only a couple MS bashings:)
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Maybe he'll get to write a folk song about it.
Assuming you're talking about only x86 PC's:
1. professional graphics editing (photoshop/illustrator)
2. hardware compatibility for bizarre or legacy devices
3. microsoft word
There are three examples for which ALL non-windows solutions are not as good. I've used openoffice and staroffice and both are worse than Word on windows although they usually get the job done. Most people can get away with using the Gimp, yet every professional editor uses Adobe software.
Lastly, any claims that you can run software Foo using Wine is baseless, because emulators original. Any claims about security or Gates eating small children are beside the point. Above are three simple reasons why someone would buy windows.
I'm surprised they can do that. I've read on the aclu site that you gain Miranda rights and are considered "arrested" if your credentials are confiscated.
Yahoo uses the evil Anti-Google FS. It's the 1's complement called GllgOe. It can store 01111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 1111111111 bytes of data.
It "looks more like a phone" but they removed the cover... this is bad. Anyone that's ever put a phone into a pocket with, say, keys doesn't do it again once they get a huge gash down the center of the screen. Other phones, without a touch screen, can handle it using mineral glass. But the palm-based phones must use a plastic touchscreen, which is much more sensitive to scratching.
The old flip cover also fit your head nicely while talking, but the covers also broke off at the hinges... that was probably why it was removed. Instead they should've bolstered the hinge.
Hopefully there will be an inobtrusive cover available aftermarket, which both protects and adds minimal bulk.
If you piss off enough of the internet, you invite a DDOS.
$ telnet 64.94.110.11 80
Trying 64.94.110.11...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
Something interesting (to me) is that they get BETTER milage in the city than on the highway. Look at the two popular ones... it looks like a typo when they say something like 45 city/39 highway.
My belief of why:
The recovery of power when braking in the city combined with the engine idle not being wasted at stoplights (gets converted to stored power)
versus
the squared function of air resistance in highway driving (as speed doubles, the air resistance quadruples).
Copyright law does (now) carry criminal penalties. It used to be civil only, putting the burden on the victim to sue people for infringement. The change came about mostly from lobbying by SPA due to software piracy, not from music piracy. And who's going to lobby congress saying "no! don't make the pirates go to jail for copying software!". It was a shoo-in law, and had a pretty good effect on reducing software piracy and driving them further underground.
The exact law is the copyright law, specifically how the AHRA changes it, and there are other quotes on this thread giving the Title and Section. It claims you cannot be prosecuted under copyright law for copying music in a specific manner. Part of that manner is using appropriate media with copyprotect bits.
I have substituted, perhaps incorrectly, "right to copy" for "cannnot be prosecuted under copyright law". It may not actually be a right as in "bill of rights" but it is NOT against the copyright law as you claim (when done properly). It falls under the quite legal fair use. It is a very explicit exception to the law, so you cannot claim it's against the law except when that exception doesn't apply. My comment was that you might be able to argue that the exception DOES apply when copying digital music over the Internet.
This has not been tested in court, as far as I know, but I do know that computers have been considered facsimile machines for the purpose of prosecuting spammers. If appropriately enabled, it might be possible to turn ON copy-protect bits when downloading from the internet, burn onto a music CD with those bits set (preventing successive copies by compatable hardware), and argue that you have satisfied the conditions of the AHRA exceptions.
So, ianal, but I doubt you are either.
uh, yeah. You have the legal right ot make copies of friend's music or the radio, neither of which you've technically paid for directly. You pay for it by a tax on the recording medium.
You've bought into a little too much dogma, and it's scary that you're so willing to not only pay for the right to do something, but subsequently give up that right.
The real question is, can one argue (successfully) that your computer equipment can qualify under AHRA as audio equipment. To do so, it would have to allow the copy protection bits to be used when playing or copying music, which is usually ignored.
It's one thing to make an honest mistake (and it's possible I have), but your claim of "fool" is made with righteous ignorance, the worst of the worst sin to the intelligent person.
Apparently (and not surprisingly), RIAA doesn't believe that playing a CD on a computer, even using a music disc, gives you any rights to the music.
A better place to look might be hrrc.org where they have more interest in the consumer's rights.
Also, it's Audio home recording act, not American... sorry. And thanks to the poster that clarified the differences between audio and data CD's, I didn't know that.
Your quote is more telling than you may think. Record stores generally sell only "music" blanks, which sends a tax to RIAA through the American Home Recording Act. You have full permission to burn a music CD borrowed from a friend onto a music disk, by law. If all the songs traded over Napster were burnt onto music blanks (which, coincidently are exactly the same as data blanks), there probably wouldn't have been a case vs Napster.
So, saying that blank cd sales are up (especially from record stores) is in effect saying that consumers are giving money to RIAA and exercising a right (which they paid for!) to copy CD's for home use.
If the comment also included data CDs, then the author is completely ignoring the fact that computer users actually write data to CDs. In any case, I suspect the conclusions drawn from that sentence are going to be horribly wrong by 95% of the non-technical folks reading it.
>From the article:
Net Dimensions
8.3"(W) x 8.3"(H) x 3.1"(D)
Yow! I could put an entire general purpose computer in that space!
ccmay, that flechette rifle is a semi-auto and doesn't require a class 3 FFL, as far as I can tell. I'm not certain that's what you were referring to, though.
You also forgot to add to the list that you have to have an appropriate storage device such as a safe when it's not in your possession.
That said, noone is arguing that firing the GE minigun into a group of spammers might hold some fantasy in the psyche of all the /. readers, if only for a fleeting second (166 rounds worth!).
There are plenty of things that are not as popular as films or TV or music. Some of them are even entertaining such as skiing or going to hockey games.
This comparison isn't especially enlightening, since it doesn't actually describe the relationship between film and games, other than "entertainment". To compare, you must have quantifyable things to measure. The only thing quantifyable they provided was cash outlay... which seemed to contradict the point of the article.
I failed NOTHING, coward.
How hard is it to:
1) write a perl script to extract all the anonymizer addresses and filter based on that (checking to make sure it doesn't point back to sites you condone)
2) track down who's using the anonymizer and kick in their doors and confiscate their computers?
If the Iranian gov is censoring the web, do you think this would be an exception?
It'll last until the Iranian goverment puts blocks on their border routers and then it's case closed.
China has followed and blocked all such services from their country and in some cases has recorded what the people were doing through those sites first (IIRC).
Actually ANY legal response would slow down the attack. Remember the implementation was to ping every second for a response. After getting a response, it tests every hour or two.
Simply responding would significantly cut down the flood, and this is something they should try to do before the other 400,000 routers that were made are plugged in.
Could be crappy support hardware, or even the monitor doing something funky.
I've never had a vid card die on me either. And I also recently bought two 9800pros, replacing my geforces.
ATI hardware is far from crap. Software *WAS* crap but has come about 180 degrees.
Hell, I risk my keyboard to that all the time!
A sysadmin (at intel?) was fired and arrested later for intrusion. Apparently he patched some systems using a crack, but left backdoors open. That is what damned him.
If this worm doesn't leave any backdoors, it probably will not be prosecuted, even if the perpetrator is caught. The argument is that, if this worm could get into your machine, the other worm could.
My favorite was sitting next to some young guy in the terminal room, and switching keyboards on him when he wasn't looking. I'd type everything he typed (as it displayed on my screen) except for carriage-return... he couldn't seem to get it to work.
I convinced him that he had to hit the side of the terminal, like an old typewriter, in order to do a carriage return (and chided him for not knowing such a basic function of terminals)
so, there's this poor naive student smacking the side of the terminal every few seconds just to send an email.
--
The second favorite one was, in the same room with terminals around the walls (at that time hooked into a huge mass of serial ports on a vax, numbered tty01, tty02, etc), sending a bell (^G) to each terminal in order. It was very much like the ttys all doing "the wave" as a single beep was carried counter-clockwise around the room.
Sheesh, lighten up. Sometimes I post things that just sound FUNNY and aren't anything but that. Other people obviously thought there was some humor in it, too. Look at my posting history, most is modded for humor, with only a couple MS bashings :)