Yeah, it sure is an awful service. The connection goes out at least two or three times a week for hours on end. They throttle my torrents, legit or otherwise. Youtube is definitely slower than it used to be. And a lot of times I've noticed a page simply timeout and I have to hit refresh.
I suspect in the future when most of the world has super fast fiber optic connections, we Americans are going to be stuck with paying hundreds a month for decades old cable technology and a neglected infrastructure. That's assuming you even have the money - because by then you also lost your IT job and have to work at Walmart 16 hours a day to make ends meet.
You will be found out the same way the people who download child porn are found out. By accident.
You'll want to bring in your computer for repair someday, or send a broken hard drive back to the manufacturer. They will find your illegal images and call the cops. Then you'll go to jail. When you get out, you will forever be known as a convicted sexual pervert. The simple act of downloading a few images will ruin your life.
Just because some politician wanted to be re-elected.
And God have mercy on you if you're an artist who creates his own violent porn.
I'm more worried about it not being able to update than how well it functions. The more people who pick this up, the more stories you'll hear about mac viruses and vulnerabilities. Apple will have to make a choice... if they choose not to sue Pystar into oblivion, they would need to decide if they should allow such systems to be updateable. Apple probably will not, the more systems they end up supporting, the less secure their os becomes overall.
If they choose to allow these hackintoshes to update, the more systems they end up supporting and the more money they would have to spend. Don't expect any support from Pystar or other such dealers. They run a risky business as it is. The best thing you can do when your Mac operating system becomes too unstable or too old is either buy an entirely new MacOS CD, install Windows, or install Linux.
Crap, I should have posted anonymously. To those in the NSA or whatever, I couldn't harm anyone for any cause. Sigh... Please don't storm my apartment.
I'm not sure, but couldn't they make digital broadcasts impossible to record on video tape and DVR? Just imagine, another marathon comes around and you're not able to record it. To my knowledge, I think it's impossible to prevent a person from recording an analog signal. Although, like an attempt at recording a DVD to tape, they can prevent you from recording a digital broadcast.
This whole thing is being pushed by big media. With the Democrats coming into full control of the government, no doubt big media will have absolute control over what we see, hear, and communicate. It's not just TV, I worry about the Internet as well. In a few years there won't even be enough ip addresses to go around. You'll be browsing some filtered sub-internet via a proprietary iTV device. Mark my words.
That's the thing... it's not technology. It's an action. I guess if someone patents breathing we're all fucked.
Interestingly, I imagine that if we had to make a maneuver in a maned space craft to save the crew and that maneuver was patented, the crew would be fucked.
You sure are doing a great job spurring innovation in space Beoing!
There is a certain pride among PC gamers of their machines. A lot of the time these machines are built with custom parts the user spent the time to research. Even so, there will always be the chance that a piece of hardware may have an issue with a game. Outside of the obvious hardware-not-being-good-enough problem, Creative Sound Blaster users have had audio problems with many games for many years. Certain ATI integrated chip users may have issues playing a game that is limited to just OpenGL. And people who buy a system from Walmart and expect it to run the latest games - despite it's cheap hardware and Vista Operating system - will be sorely disappointed.
For example, I have Halflife 2 and Portal on my computer. The processor is an old Sempron and the video card is a Geforce 6100. Not new or fast by any means - BUT - I have 2 gigs of ram and Windows XP. I play Portal just fine. My next door neighbor's computer has 1 gig of ram, some Intel graphics chip, a superior processor, but also Vista. It's brand new. Portal, a graphically simple game that uses a few shaders, is so slow you can't play it on the later levels even at the lowest resolution.
For the people who don't like research, and don't want to spend a lot of money for prebuilt 'gamer' systems - consoles are very attractive. I would buy a console myself if I could play most of the games using a keyboard... but that's just me.
Nothing will change. Consoles will continue to be made and sold. Computers will continue to be a decent alternative. As for Linux - well, OpenGL is awesome, but most games are made with Direct3D.
Not just businesses, schools and agencies don't either. Unless it's a computer science class more often than not your workstation will be a Dell or HP running Windows. So long as Windows remains the operating system of the government, it will be what most people learn and inevitably use. So long as Dell keeps selling computers with Windows to institutions, the government won't have any reason to consider a switch.
The parent is right you know. Prince's main audience is 40+ year-old women. I know, I bought his newest album for my mother. She was ecstatic.... she loved him when she was younger.
As far as I know, Prince is not capturing a wide younger audience. He's just recapturing a part of his old one. He needs to do what Madonna does - rather than just make new music, he should change his image to attract the younger more dominant audience.
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I imagine this could prove useful for treating muscular dystrophy and GSD.
Hmm, sounds like Linux.
God forbid the RIAA should start browsing Slashdot for ideas.
*IF* he is found guilty. He is innocent until proven otherwise.
I guess your only legal choices will be to buy Vista or switch to Linux.
Yeah, it sure is an awful service. The connection goes out at least two or three times a week for hours on end. They throttle my torrents, legit or otherwise. Youtube is definitely slower than it used to be. And a lot of times I've noticed a page simply timeout and I have to hit refresh.
I suspect in the future when most of the world has super fast fiber optic connections, we Americans are going to be stuck with paying hundreds a month for decades old cable technology and a neglected infrastructure. That's assuming you even have the money - because by then you also lost your IT job and have to work at Walmart 16 hours a day to make ends meet.
Yeah. There's nothing like getting hit by a bag of flesh.
It's not ridiculous. This is how open source works. If you want something, you go 'code it yourself'.
You will be found out the same way the people who download child porn are found out. By accident.
You'll want to bring in your computer for repair someday, or send a broken hard drive back to the manufacturer. They will find your illegal images and call the cops. Then you'll go to jail. When you get out, you will forever be known as a convicted sexual pervert. The simple act of downloading a few images will ruin your life.
Just because some politician wanted to be re-elected.
And God have mercy on you if you're an artist who creates his own violent porn.
I'm more worried about it not being able to update than how well it functions. The more people who pick this up, the more stories you'll hear about mac viruses and vulnerabilities. Apple will have to make a choice... if they choose not to sue Pystar into oblivion, they would need to decide if they should allow such systems to be updateable. Apple probably will not, the more systems they end up supporting, the less secure their os becomes overall.
If they choose to allow these hackintoshes to update, the more systems they end up supporting and the more money they would have to spend. Don't expect any support from Pystar or other such dealers. They run a risky business as it is. The best thing you can do when your Mac operating system becomes too unstable or too old is either buy an entirely new MacOS CD, install Windows, or install Linux.
Crap, I should have posted anonymously. To those in the NSA or whatever, I couldn't harm anyone for any cause. Sigh... Please don't storm my apartment.
The way things are going, the only way to make a difference may be to blow stuff up.
I'm not sure, but couldn't they make digital broadcasts impossible to record on video tape and DVR? Just imagine, another marathon comes around and you're not able to record it. To my knowledge, I think it's impossible to prevent a person from recording an analog signal. Although, like an attempt at recording a DVD to tape, they can prevent you from recording a digital broadcast. This whole thing is being pushed by big media. With the Democrats coming into full control of the government, no doubt big media will have absolute control over what we see, hear, and communicate. It's not just TV, I worry about the Internet as well. In a few years there won't even be enough ip addresses to go around. You'll be browsing some filtered sub-internet via a proprietary iTV device. Mark my words.
That's the thing... it's not technology. It's an action. I guess if someone patents breathing we're all fucked.
Interestingly, I imagine that if we had to make a maneuver in a maned space craft to save the crew and that maneuver was patented, the crew would be fucked.
You sure are doing a great job spurring innovation in space Beoing!
Yeah... and for the price they're selling it for you can get a really good used laptop that will run anything.
Why?
And don't forget credit. During the Roaring Twenties, you could buy anything you wanted on credit without a care in the world.
There is a certain pride among PC gamers of their machines. A lot of the time these machines are built with custom parts the user spent the time to research. Even so, there will always be the chance that a piece of hardware may have an issue with a game. Outside of the obvious hardware-not-being-good-enough problem, Creative Sound Blaster users have had audio problems with many games for many years. Certain ATI integrated chip users may have issues playing a game that is limited to just OpenGL. And people who buy a system from Walmart and expect it to run the latest games - despite it's cheap hardware and Vista Operating system - will be sorely disappointed.
For example, I have Halflife 2 and Portal on my computer. The processor is an old Sempron and the video card is a Geforce 6100. Not new or fast by any means - BUT - I have 2 gigs of ram and Windows XP. I play Portal just fine. My next door neighbor's computer has 1 gig of ram, some Intel graphics chip, a superior processor, but also Vista. It's brand new. Portal, a graphically simple game that uses a few shaders, is so slow you can't play it on the later levels even at the lowest resolution.
For the people who don't like research, and don't want to spend a lot of money for prebuilt 'gamer' systems - consoles are very attractive. I would buy a console myself if I could play most of the games using a keyboard... but that's just me.
Nothing will change. Consoles will continue to be made and sold. Computers will continue to be a decent alternative. As for Linux - well, OpenGL is awesome, but most games are made with Direct3D.
Yes, they are all evil despicable beings... Get real dude.
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These guys are after Limewire too it seems.
Not just businesses, schools and agencies don't either. Unless it's a computer science class more often than not your workstation will be a Dell or HP running Windows. So long as Windows remains the operating system of the government, it will be what most people learn and inevitably use. So long as Dell keeps selling computers with Windows to institutions, the government won't have any reason to consider a switch.
The parent is right you know. Prince's main audience is 40+ year-old women. I know, I bought his newest album for my mother. She was ecstatic.... she loved him when she was younger.
As far as I know, Prince is not capturing a wide younger audience. He's just recapturing a part of his old one. He needs to do what Madonna does - rather than just make new music, he should change his image to attract the younger more dominant audience.
I'd rather live in a weak country with freedom than a powerful oppressive one. China is like some big gilded cage.
That is the nature of war. Us vs Them. They are playing the same game. You must either play it or loose.
Yep, same here. Hotmail was my first email account. I ran to Yahoo as soon as I knew better. Then I got a Gmail account.
If Microsoft were just an internet-only business, they'd be filing for bankruptcy.