If they want to charge more for the OS, that's one thing - that they actually control. The rest, aside from their funky BIOS replacement, is pretty much OTS hardware, and definitely not worth more than it would cost in any other config.
EFI is a published standard. Otherwise I agree with this.
And if it's actually made by apple (or for apple by an OEM), then it's probably worth less, due to platform lockin - where's the opensource drivers for all the Apple proprietary components?
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Where's the outrage by end-users for not being able to load Linux as a replacement OS? Or the laughing commentary on the user who wants to load Windows on their Intel MAC?
The wifey is sitting next to me on her Mac-mini. Running Gentoo Linux without a hitch! Windows can run on a mac with BootCamp (which is free). But with virtualization getting better and better these days there is nothing stopping you from installing Windows under, say, VirtualBox, which is free as well (and open source).
Sorry.. but Apple should have been put into the ground and buried long, long ago...
Meh. People use them, some people like them. I personally am an AMD kind of guy so I build all my machines by hand. Gentoo is my OS of choice. There is no 'lock-in' with Mac's. Sure, you can't (legally) install OSX on a non-Mac, but they have to make money. We all do.
Followup question: if I borrow a CD from the library and rip it, is it legal for me to keep it?
Absolutely not. You didn't pay anyone the right to even use it (at least that's how I think they might see it in court)
But if you rent a BlurRay movie from Blockbuster or Rogers Video and are forced to 'rip' it to your Linux PC to play on your 40" TV screen (as you have a BD drive in your PC, but do not own a standalone player) and just happen to *forget* to delete the copy off your hard drive after you return it could be a different story.
For some reason that seems to happen to me 2, sometimes 3 times a week.;-)
DigiCert sells a wildcard cert for $499. You can find GeoTrust True Business ID Wildcard certs through some resellers for reasonable prices (vs the $995 direct from GeoTrust). I know, being a reseller, you can get them for $495/yr if you resell through OpenSRS.
Unlimited subdomains for $500/year is not bad. Considering even a 'cheap' cert from GeoTrust is $249/yr (from GeoTrust)
Searching... [ Results for search key : chromium ] [ Applications found : 1 ]
* games-action/chromium
Latest version available: 0.9.12-r6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,710 kB
Homepage: http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/
Description: Chromium B.S.U. - an arcade game
License: Artistic
If not, how would data recovery service be able to recover the data off a disk drive in a clean-room environment without the dedicated firmware?
That's the risk you run. If the data could be recovered by removing the platters and extracting the data, what's the point? If the data is sensitive enough someone would be willing to send it off to a recovery center to get the data they want.
Running Gentoo on my MSI Wind U100 (w/ voided-warranty-updated-RAM-and-HDD-goodness)
Works fine here... although a bit of flakiness with the Wifi driver.
Queue the "i don't want to waste a week installing my laptop!!" people. Some people like it. The time spent was not bad. Took me a day and a half off-and-on. It's worth it with limited resources. It's almost as snappy as my desktop AMD X2 5200+ w/ 4GB RAM (which is also Gentoo)
If you even mention allowing private hospitals here in a public place you're bound to have a mob of people loudly tell you otherwise.
In Saskatchewan here. Same reaction.
I don't fucking understand it. I've been an advocate of a public/private system around here for some time. I've had various debates about it and people seem to think that public/private means they have to pay for services. Which is not so. A public/private system would basically allow private shops to open up and do their thing.
Boob jobs do not exist in this area (not sure about other provinces). If I wanted to go out and buy my wife a $90,000 pair of tits, I should be able to do so. But no. Unless you have breast cancer and loose a breast, an implant is not acquirable. Same goes for ANY plastic surgery. If people want to spend money on that crap, LET THEM. It would bring _more_ money into the health system. But people just don't seem to get it!
Maybe it's just because I live in Saskatchewan. People here are so fucking close-minded it sickens me. Only reason I am still here is my whole family is here and housing is cheap.
just try by yourself to copy a scene from a bluray movie to include it in a report, a parody, a backup or any other fair use, you will find that there are obstacles in your way.
AnyDVD HD, BDInfo and tsMuxeR (wrapped in an WinXP install under VirtualBox on top of Gentoo Linux) seems to be working pretty well for me.
With the above setup, I can strip out all but the main movie and English audio channels as well as remove any 'lower' quality video streams in about one hour. (LG GGC-H20L - 6X BD Read Speed)
Yes, they are obstacles. But in the end it WILL always get broken. It's just the way it is. They can try and try and try as they might to stop us, but we will ALWAYS find a way around it.
The BD+ protected discs are supposedly out and about now... but I personally have not come across anything I like to watch that I can't backup to the harddrive for easy viewing.
I listen to Howard and Bubba mostly every day I can (Howard Mon-Thurs, Bubba Mon-Fri)
Howard stated this past week that if Sirius ever went away, so would he. He has his money... why should he stick around?
But, to be honest, Sirius is not going anywhere.
Sirius brings in $2 Billion or so a year in Subscriptions and Radio Sales. The problem is the startup debts were too great to maintain in a problematic economy. They owe $3.9 billion. Which, in all honesty, is actually not bad. Most people I know who own homes own a $250,000 house but only make $45,000-$70,000/year. In contrast they are in better shape than most individuals.
At present there are two companies looking at buying a good chunk of it to help put them back in better standing. One being EchoStar (former parent of Dish Network) and I believe the other is the parent of Comcast, or former parent or something.
They are hoping one of these companies buys a large portion of their debt (in turn owning a large portion of the company via equity). It's basically going to come down to a bidding war and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is their "get out of jail free" card.
Chapter 11 will allow them to sever contracts that are not making any money. I, personally, don't know anyone who listens to the Oprah or Martha Stewart Channels (do you?). Combined that could be a nice chunk of savings.
Howard will not go anywhere. His job was to bring the listeners to Satellite. He needed to bring at least 80,000 subscribers to pay his yearly salary. They currently have ~20,000,000 subscribers (w/merger).
As for the sound quality loss I have not noticed at all. Although I only listen in my car and work vehicles I dunno if thats much of a test.:-)
I'm glad I've always used a wrapper function of some capacity for the $_POST, $_GET and $_FILE input methods.
When I learned of filter_input all I had to do was slap it in the wrapper functions... versus going and changing every call to a much larger, more complicated function call.
For notebooks I have no idea how total system power usage looks, AMDs chipsets provide better integrated graphics than Intel do however. And I guess I would go for someone better though still crappy graphics when somewhat faster / more power efficient CPU (if Intel really is.)
In my experience Intel is dominating in the notebook business. I prefer AMD but the notebooks out there using them are either: 1) based on Sempron (slowish but low powered) 2) based on older X2 core (good performance but runs hot and sucks power)
Afaik AMD don't have an alternative to Atom, I may be wrong though.
AMD has the Geode LX and NX lines. Geode LX is very low powered and the highest clock speed (I've seen) is 566Mhz. Geode NX is targeted directly at the Atom. Although I have yet to see any of these out in the wild. I've only ever found a Geode in the wild clocked as high as 500Mhz (see the ALIX boards)
The Article (yes, they are not just a myth) explicitly tells of Ubuntu running on (err, op top of the hypervisor on) the PS3. Now, I for one do NOT want to go through and compile EACH AND EVERY SINGLE Ubuntu app I desire after being spoiled with apt-get (and dpkg before that) and repeating the process with EVERY SINGLE UPDATE/FIX. Further more, tracking down EACH AND EVERY library/dependency for said apps without the help of a packaging system would be a living breathing hell
You've obviously never used Gentoo Linux. This is where it shines the brightest.
That memory limit kicks the install times ass if you are installing live on the PS3.
There is, however, a pre-built stage4 tarball for the PS3 which contains all features and necessities for the PS3 (bluetooth stack, various drivers, etc.) you just install your wanted programs and tools afterward (like XFCE, or whatever windowmanager you prefer)
Piracy is wrong. If you've ever been on the other end of it, you'll realise how unjust it is. By pirating, you're giving the creators of good digital work less incentive to make it better. People need to live, and just because there's no direct cost of you pirating doesn't make it right. I can't believe how many people seem to think pirating is not wrong.
If their music is good, there is enough people out there buying it. If there's not, theres probably not much of a chance I'm downloading it anyway. I don't download shitty music to listen to shitty music. I do it to sample it and if I like a good chunk of it on the CD, i'll go buy it. If I like one song, fuck'em. It's mine.
Lets say, someone promised you $200 to clean some leaves. You clean those leaves, but they don't pay you. You're not hurt, and you haven't suffered any harm yet it's still unfair.
We're talking about legality of the matter. Not paying up over a verbal contract does not hold up well in court. Are you going to go out and file a lawsuit over $200? Seems more while than the $1.5 for a goddamned song.
Yeah. That's exactly the point. No justification required. If it doesn't move me enough to go out and buy it, it's not worth buying.
If it's not worth buying, I'll probably listen to it once and delete it. If the artist is in on the verge of welfare, good for them. They should learn to make better fucking music or go back to working at McDonalds.
I remember I was accused of malicious behaviour when my teacher say me writing HTML code. I was banned from use of any computer in the building until I hit high school.
(yea, yea.. this is a little more serious. I know.)
Just think how much more would have been purchased if all these criminals didn't have ready access to illegal material? Obviously, they would have purchased a copy of every single illegal download.
Because of they didn't actually make these purchases, millions of puppies in California had to be killed, because their owners couldn't afford to keep them into adulthood.
I can't tell if you are being serious or not (good job if you aren't!)
I live in Canada so I guess this study does not include me... but I occasionally 'pirate' media. However, said media is in a grey zone where nobody cares in my country. And that would be Television Shows. For the sake of quality, if there is a DVD/BluRay Release I will buy it, though... as I feel it helps more directly than the TV stations do.
I don't feel that piracy is wrong as it really does not directly harm one or more people. Don't even think for a second that taking $1.50 in profit is worth anything to a musician (as only 5-10% ever makes its way back to them). No. That just won't do. I look at it this way: If the song is good and is worth listening to, more than enough people will buy it to support the artist and keep them going. Obviously Piracy is in a parallel with sales, so as sales go up, so does piracy. Just the way it is. You also have merchandise, concerts and various other forms of income to the artist, their label, etc. etc.
Compare that to, say, failing to signal before making a turn? I feel that could be much more harmful. Yet, I see it EVERYWHERE. I witness many times a day where police officers don't do it. Not good enough? Okay. How about speeding up while the intersection lights have changed to Amber. Hell, what if they are full-on Red and some jackass decides to drive right through it. I feel that is more dangerous. I still see it. No way of reporting it as it's one of those crimes a police officer must witness (AFAIK, anyway).
Just because the law deems something illegal, it does not mean it is worth enforcing/fighting.
Thunderbird does a fine job and is cross platform. I use kdocker to dock it away and leave it running in the background. (alternatively use AllTray to avoid QT dependency)
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EFI is a published standard. Otherwise I agree with this.
Read next comment on your next statement.
The wifey is sitting next to me on her Mac-mini. Running Gentoo Linux without a hitch! Windows can run on a mac with BootCamp (which is free). But with virtualization getting better and better these days there is nothing stopping you from installing Windows under, say, VirtualBox, which is free as well (and open source).
Meh. People use them, some people like them. I personally am an AMD kind of guy so I build all my machines by hand. Gentoo is my OS of choice.
There is no 'lock-in' with Mac's. Sure, you can't (legally) install OSX on a non-Mac, but they have to make money. We all do.
Absolutely not. You didn't pay anyone the right to even use it (at least that's how I think they might see it in court)
But if you rent a BlurRay movie from Blockbuster or Rogers Video and are forced to 'rip' it to your Linux PC to play on your 40" TV screen (as you have a BD drive in your PC, but do not own a standalone player) and just happen to *forget* to delete the copy off your hard drive after you return it could be a different story.
For some reason that seems to happen to me 2, sometimes 3 times a week. ;-)
DigiCert sells a wildcard cert for $499.
You can find GeoTrust True Business ID Wildcard certs through some resellers for reasonable prices (vs the $995 direct from GeoTrust).
I know, being a reseller, you can get them for $495/yr if you resell through OpenSRS.
Unlimited subdomains for $500/year is not bad. Considering even a 'cheap' cert from GeoTrust is $249/yr (from GeoTrust)
Not a wrapper.
Check out the Chromium Wiki for more info:
http://dev.chromium.org/Home
Doesn't look like it's available on Gentoo.
That's the risk you run. If the data could be recovered by removing the platters and extracting the data, what's the point? If the data is sensitive enough someone would be willing to send it off to a recovery center to get the data they want.
Running Gentoo on my MSI Wind U100 (w/ voided-warranty-updated-RAM-and-HDD-goodness)
Works fine here... although a bit of flakiness with the Wifi driver.
Queue the "i don't want to waste a week installing my laptop!!" people. Some people like it. The time spent was not bad. Took me a day and a half off-and-on. It's worth it with limited resources. It's almost as snappy as my desktop AMD X2 5200+ w/ 4GB RAM (which is also Gentoo)
Wont work. Any line conditioning will kill all communications.
In Saskatchewan here. Same reaction.
I don't fucking understand it. I've been an advocate of a public/private system around here for some time. I've had various debates about it and people seem to think that public/private means they have to pay for services. Which is not so. A public/private system would basically allow private shops to open up and do their thing.
Boob jobs do not exist in this area (not sure about other provinces). If I wanted to go out and buy my wife a $90,000 pair of tits, I should be able to do so. But no. Unless you have breast cancer and loose a breast, an implant is not acquirable. Same goes for ANY plastic surgery. If people want to spend money on that crap, LET THEM. It would bring _more_ money into the health system. But people just don't seem to get it!
Maybe it's just because I live in Saskatchewan. People here are so fucking close-minded it sickens me. Only reason I am still here is my whole family is here and housing is cheap.
Idiot^WZombie-proof.
AnyDVD HD, BDInfo and tsMuxeR (wrapped in an WinXP install under VirtualBox on top of Gentoo Linux) seems to be working pretty well for me.
With the above setup, I can strip out all but the main movie and English audio channels as well as remove any 'lower' quality video streams in about one hour. (LG GGC-H20L - 6X BD Read Speed)
Yes, they are obstacles. But in the end it WILL always get broken. It's just the way it is. They can try and try and try as they might to stop us, but we will ALWAYS find a way around it.
The BD+ protected discs are supposedly out and about now... but I personally have not come across anything I like to watch that I can't backup to the harddrive for easy viewing.
I listen to Howard and Bubba mostly every day I can (Howard Mon-Thurs, Bubba Mon-Fri)
Howard stated this past week that if Sirius ever went away, so would he. He has his money... why should he stick around?
But, to be honest, Sirius is not going anywhere.
Sirius brings in $2 Billion or so a year in Subscriptions and Radio Sales. The problem is the startup debts were too great to maintain in a problematic economy. They owe $3.9 billion. Which, in all honesty, is actually not bad. Most people I know who own homes own a $250,000 house but only make $45,000-$70,000/year. In contrast they are in better shape than most individuals.
At present there are two companies looking at buying a good chunk of it to help put them back in better standing. One being EchoStar (former parent of Dish Network) and I believe the other is the parent of Comcast, or former parent or something.
They are hoping one of these companies buys a large portion of their debt (in turn owning a large portion of the company via equity). It's basically going to come down to a bidding war and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is their "get out of jail free" card.
Chapter 11 will allow them to sever contracts that are not making any money. I, personally, don't know anyone who listens to the Oprah or Martha Stewart Channels (do you?). Combined that could be a nice chunk of savings.
Howard will not go anywhere. His job was to bring the listeners to Satellite. He needed to bring at least 80,000 subscribers to pay his yearly salary. They currently have ~20,000,000 subscribers (w/merger).
As for the sound quality loss I have not noticed at all. Although I only listen in my car and work vehicles I dunno if thats much of a test. :-)
I'm glad I've always used a wrapper function of some capacity for the $_POST, $_GET and $_FILE input methods.
When I learned of filter_input all I had to do was slap it in the wrapper functions... versus going and changing every call to a much larger, more complicated function call.
I'd also like to know what the hell they were testing it with.
I'm running Gentoo on my MSI Wind U90. It boots pretty damn quick (about as quick as my desktop, actually) runs smooth for all tasks.
In my experience Intel is dominating in the notebook business. I prefer AMD but the notebooks out there using them are either:
1) based on Sempron (slowish but low powered)
2) based on older X2 core (good performance but runs hot and sucks power)
AMD has the Geode LX and NX lines.
Geode LX is very low powered and the highest clock speed (I've seen) is 566Mhz.
Geode NX is targeted directly at the Atom. Although I have yet to see any of these out in the wild.
I've only ever found a Geode in the wild clocked as high as 500Mhz (see the ALIX boards)
Or better yet, use your credit card number /as/ your password.
You've obviously never used Gentoo Linux. This is where it shines the brightest.
That memory limit kicks the install times ass if you are installing live on the PS3.
There is, however, a pre-built stage4 tarball for the PS3 which contains all features and necessities for the PS3 (bluetooth stack, various drivers, etc.) you just install your wanted programs and tools afterward (like XFCE, or whatever windowmanager you prefer)
At what resolution and bitrate?
I could probably transcode a porno into a black-and-white 32x32 pixel video to create a very small file.
On the flipside I could upscale it to a full 1080p 120hz video to create a very large file.
Specifics, people! This /is/ Slashdot!
If their music is good, there is enough people out there buying it. If there's not, theres probably not much of a chance I'm downloading it anyway. I don't download shitty music to listen to shitty music. I do it to sample it and if I like a good chunk of it on the CD, i'll go buy it. If I like one song, fuck'em. It's mine.
We're talking about legality of the matter. Not paying up over a verbal contract does not hold up well in court. Are you going to go out and file a lawsuit over $200? Seems more while than the $1.5 for a goddamned song.
You obviously missed the point.
Yeah. That's exactly the point. No justification required. If it doesn't move me enough to go out and buy it, it's not worth buying.
If it's not worth buying, I'll probably listen to it once and delete it. If the artist is in on the verge of welfare, good for them. They should learn to make better fucking music or go back to working at McDonalds.
'nuff said. Fucktwat.
Are you sure it was actually malicious?
I remember I was accused of malicious behaviour when my teacher say me writing HTML code. I was banned from use of any computer in the building until I hit high school.
(yea, yea.. this is a little more serious. I know.)
I can't tell if you are being serious or not (good job if you aren't!)
I live in Canada so I guess this study does not include me... but I occasionally 'pirate' media. However, said media is in a grey zone where nobody cares in my country. And that would be Television Shows. For the sake of quality, if there is a DVD/BluRay Release I will buy it, though... as I feel it helps more directly than the TV stations do.
I don't feel that piracy is wrong as it really does not directly harm one or more people. Don't even think for a second that taking $1.50 in profit is worth anything to a musician (as only 5-10% ever makes its way back to them). No. That just won't do. I look at it this way: If the song is good and is worth listening to, more than enough people will buy it to support the artist and keep them going. Obviously Piracy is in a parallel with sales, so as sales go up, so does piracy. Just the way it is. You also have merchandise, concerts and various other forms of income to the artist, their label, etc. etc.
Compare that to, say, failing to signal before making a turn? I feel that could be much more harmful. Yet, I see it EVERYWHERE. I witness many times a day where police officers don't do it. Not good enough? Okay. How about speeding up while the intersection lights have changed to Amber. Hell, what if they are full-on Red and some jackass decides to drive right through it. I feel that is more dangerous. I still see it. No way of reporting it as it's one of those crimes a police officer must witness (AFAIK, anyway).
Just because the law deems something illegal, it does not mean it is worth enforcing/fighting.
Absolutely agree.
Thunderbird does a fine job and is cross platform. I use kdocker to dock it away and leave it running in the background. (alternatively use AllTray to avoid QT dependency)
If I were the decision maker to choose the name, I would have named it Otto.
I agree. Use XFCE personally.
I do not understand this mentality of "it's not useful unless it comes with X,Y,Z and a kitchen sink."
Thunar is by far the best file manager I have ever used. So simple and quick.
(and it doesn't take a week to compile under Gentoo...)