I've tried numerous versions of Windows on my PPC Mac, all of which have failed miserably. It's shaken my faith in installing an OS onto hardware it was not developed for.
Like Windows and every other OS, you've got no guarantee that Linux will work if you've got no guarantee it'll work. Try buying specific hardware that is advertised to work with Linux. Companies out there - even as mainstream as Dell - sell Linux-based computers. Those boxen don't have such problems.
Ahh, I see. So rather than trying to push Linux due to it's security or stability or flexibility advantages we need to advertise the fact that it, too, has solitaire.
Well aware that you're probably right, I don't know weather I should laugh or cry.
It may excite the Linux fan boi's but no one else is going to take it seriously.
Linux fans aren't going to take it seriously either. There's no reason for them to avoid thorough, empirical testing when Linux usually comes out on top anyways.
First, I don't remember getting points for killing civilians or family in Halo 3. So wouldn't his behavior be inconsistent with the game world?
The argument isn't that he was mimicking the videogame. It was that the videogame blurred his sense of life-and-death. In Halo when you shoot and kill someone they respawn a while later. Beyond being temporarily incapacitated there is no downside for anyone in death. There is a substantial difference.
I agree that Halo is not to blame here, but be careful what you're arguing against. The way you put that first line games like GTA can still take blame for real-world crime and violence.
I know video games don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time playing FPSes.
Really? How about:
I know reading educational books don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time studying human history.
Or perhaps:
I know praying don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time reading the bible.
4-5 games that I had heard of or seen commercials for
*gasp* Did a commercial mislead you? That's horrible! It's also a horrible way to shop for ANYTHING. It's not really Nintendo's fault that third party developers have been using both their current platforms to shovel off crap for - as many developers have been doing for pretty much every platform ever.
Do about half an hour of research 'round the web (ign, gamespot, et al) and get a feel for what the best games are for the platform for the genres your interested in. If after that you find that all the games are crap you may be in a position to complain.
Nintendo has been extremely successful with the DS - there's a reason for it, and it's not the cute little styluses.
I would have thought the hacked PSPs would be more common based on my own experiences. It's a lot more appealing because it doesn't require any extra hardware beyond the little SONY proprietary flash drive it supports normally anyways.
Except for the "LARGE ISO's". IMO there aren't any pirate-worthy games for the PSP; I use it entirely for homebrew. It's a wonderful little machine, if a tad uncomfortable.
MKV is popular with anime in regions that don't speak Japan largely because of how well it supports multiple streams within one container. It's far from dead.
Woah, bigotry? I mean yeah, we've got plenty of that here too but I don't see what that has to do with TFA. This is more of a the-land-of-paranoid-fear kind of thing. There's a big difference.
Almost 2 years ago Apple didn't just make an announcement about dropping DRM. It's perfectly reasonable for/.'ers to expect this to go with it, and it's worthwhile to make note that this part of the DRM remains.
Guess what? If I buy music, I also want to be able to share it with my friends (friends!=p2p) without being traced on ending up sued.
(1) Well you'll have to get a special license do that [good luck], or make suer it's creative commons music, or break the law.
(2) So long as your friends are your peers (I guess some technical argument could be made if you're friends with a professor of yours or some such), friends==p2p.
Yes, it's illegal to share with everyone in the world. It's also illegal to share in arbitrarily smaller-than-everyone circles. If you don't like it, either make an effort to get the laws changed [lololol], or just edit out the email address as it seems quite easy from the other posts here.
Editing an email address from inside an audio file is dark magic to Joe Sixpack. This won't stop all restricted-music-sharing, but - so long as Joe Sixpack knows - it should still hamper it somewhat without getting in the way of legitimate uses of the music. As a legitimate consumer this is win-win for me.
Now considering that Joe Sixpack will most likely have no bloody idea, this does seem to be RIAA-sue-bait of sorts. At least the RIAA'll have *some* evidence now rather than some magically acquired IP address.
It's perfectly reasonable for/.'ers to have expected this to go away with the announcement of the rest of the DRM going away. Things have changed significantly since any previous discussion about this to justify another one.
1) Download DRM-free song from iTunes
2) Open in Notepad, Find and replace with RIAA rep's email address, Save
3) Share on p2p network of choice
4) ???
5) Profit !!!
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to expect the information was recorded in an index file of sorts on the computer, and not in the audio files themselves.
Joe sixpack has no idea his iTunes purchased audio is watermarked and identifiable. Apple could do more to make it clear this is going on.
You keep harping on about going back to XP, when you people had the exact same ditribe about XP when it first came out.
Yes, and we were correct about it back then as well. XP really didn't add much over 2K. XP has just been around long enough and had enough SP's and patches and support to actually have become comparably worthwhile... if it didn't grab so much market share from Win2K we'd probably still be harping about stick with that one.
why don't we see this kind of thing when an open source package breaks backward comparability or copies features?
Your UID is lower than mine, so I can't really accuse you of being new here; I'm at a loss as to how you've over looked the endless tirades on/. every time an incompatibility issue comes up with F/OSS software. For starters, look at any of the last half dozen threads on Python 3 here. Half the posts are nothing more than attempts to calm the other half about compatibility issues.
IMO, the biggest problem with Vista was how long it took to get out the door. People were used to new OS's staggering a little with things like hardware support just after release back when MS released an OS every 2-3 years.
Someone from MS picked up on this. It's much smarter for them right now to make smaller, more gradual improvements (similar to OSX). This way people won't get scared off by the new changes, and the hardware/software incompatibilities can be kept to a minimum.
Yes, it sucks that MS is building it off of Vista, but right now that's what they've got to work with. Their other choice would have been to again take forever in coming out with a new, different OS which would again cause hardware incompatibilities. Even if the new OS is otherwise flawless it just won't be worth it.
This is probably the best course of action Microsoft could take.
I'm usually good with technology but I don't get football analogies. Could someone explain the technology behind this magic yellow line with a car analogy?
Why? I'm not sure why you're so sure about this. Is it some sort of naivete, or blind trust in the omnipotence and omniscience of the free software world?
If The post I replied to was truthful and Linux is better than Windows at "when-you-need-to-defrag", how could Linux be better than Windows if there is no utility to defragment the filesystem? It's more of a logic thing than blind trust.
filesystems fragment over time. NTFS more than others. It is a popular myth that you never need to defrag a linux box. It's just that the fragmentation is slower. Much slower. Sure, when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag, Linux is usually better than Windows, but this doesn't mean a Windows PC is the only one that ever needs defrag.
Could you point me to a tool to defrag ext2/3? If it needs to be fragmented eventually there has to be utilities out there to do so. Linux can't be "usually better than Windows" "when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag" if there isn't any such tool.
I'm not (just?) trying to be a smart-ass and prove you wrong, it's just that I would have expected that after using various Linux distros as my primary OS for about 2 1/2 years I would have come across such a utility eventually.
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I've tried numerous versions of Windows on my PPC Mac, all of which have failed miserably. It's shaken my faith in installing an OS onto hardware it was not developed for.
Like Windows and every other OS, you've got no guarantee that Linux will work if you've got no guarantee it'll work. Try buying specific hardware that is advertised to work with Linux. Companies out there - even as mainstream as Dell - sell Linux-based computers. Those boxen don't have such problems.
Ahh, I see. So rather than trying to push Linux due to it's security or stability or flexibility advantages we need to advertise the fact that it, too, has solitaire.
Well aware that you're probably right, I don't know weather I should laugh or cry.
It may excite the Linux fan boi's but no one else is going to take it seriously.
Linux fans aren't going to take it seriously either. There's no reason for them to avoid thorough, empirical testing when Linux usually comes out on top anyways.
Simply because there are still people pirating does not mean these efforts are completely, 100% ineffective.
First, I don't remember getting points for killing civilians or family in Halo 3. So wouldn't his behavior be inconsistent with the game world?
The argument isn't that he was mimicking the videogame. It was that the videogame blurred his sense of life-and-death. In Halo when you shoot and kill someone they respawn a while later. Beyond being temporarily incapacitated there is no downside for anyone in death. There is a substantial difference.
I agree that Halo is not to blame here, but be careful what you're arguing against. The way you put that first line games like GTA can still take blame for real-world crime and violence.
There are fully automatic 9mm handguns :D
If they don't come that way a little modding works nicely.
I know video games don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time playing FPSes.
Really? How about:
I know reading educational books don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time studying human history.
Or perhaps:
I know praying don't make kids violence, but, it *really* does look bad when you've got crazy ass kids blowing other people away and it turns out they've spent most of their free time reading the bible.
Killing over a copy of a violent videogame is no different than killing over a copy of a violent film.
I hope you mean
Killing over a copy of a violent videogame is no different than killing over a copy of a non-violent videogame.
Otherwise you're justifying the blame given to Halo 3 here.
Or did he shot his parents dead with the Xbox controller?...
If you haven't tried it, you'd be surprised how aerodynamic those things are.
Apologies to my roommate. The swelling should go down with time...
4-5 games that I had heard of or seen commercials for
*gasp* Did a commercial mislead you? That's horrible! It's also a horrible way to shop for ANYTHING. It's not really Nintendo's fault that third party developers have been using both their current platforms to shovel off crap for - as many developers have been doing for pretty much every platform ever.
Do about half an hour of research 'round the web (ign, gamespot, et al) and get a feel for what the best games are for the platform for the genres your interested in. If after that you find that all the games are crap you may be in a position to complain.
Nintendo has been extremely successful with the DS - there's a reason for it, and it's not the cute little styluses.
I would have thought the hacked PSPs would be more common based on my own experiences. It's a lot more appealing because it doesn't require any extra hardware beyond the little SONY proprietary flash drive it supports normally anyways.
Except for the "LARGE ISO's". IMO there aren't any pirate-worthy games for the PSP; I use it entirely for homebrew. It's a wonderful little machine, if a tad uncomfortable.
MKV is popular with anime in regions that don't speak Japan largely because of how well it supports multiple streams within one container. It's far from dead.
One more time the bigotry triumphs
Woah, bigotry? I mean yeah, we've got plenty of that here too but I don't see what that has to do with TFA. This is more of a the-land-of-paranoid-fear kind of thing. There's a big difference.
*hugs* Pweeeze?
Almost 2 years ago Apple didn't just make an announcement about dropping DRM. It's perfectly reasonable for /.'ers to expect this to go with it, and it's worthwhile to make note that this part of the DRM remains.
Guess what? If I buy music, I also want to be able to share it with my friends (friends!=p2p) without being traced on ending up sued.
(1) Well you'll have to get a special license do that [good luck], or make suer it's creative commons music, or break the law.
(2) So long as your friends are your peers (I guess some technical argument could be made if you're friends with a professor of yours or some such), friends==p2p.
Yes, it's illegal to share with everyone in the world. It's also illegal to share in arbitrarily smaller-than-everyone circles. If you don't like it, either make an effort to get the laws changed [lololol], or just edit out the email address as it seems quite easy from the other posts here.
Editing an email address from inside an audio file is dark magic to Joe Sixpack. This won't stop all restricted-music-sharing, but - so long as Joe Sixpack knows - it should still hamper it somewhat without getting in the way of legitimate uses of the music. As a legitimate consumer this is win-win for me.
Now considering that Joe Sixpack will most likely have no bloody idea, this does seem to be RIAA-sue-bait of sorts. At least the RIAA'll have *some* evidence now rather than some magically acquired IP address.
It's perfectly reasonable for /.'ers to have expected this to go away with the announcement of the rest of the DRM going away. Things have changed significantly since any previous discussion about this to justify another one.
1) Download DRM-free song from iTunes
2) Open in Notepad, Find and replace with RIAA rep's email address, Save
3) Share on p2p network of choice
4) ???
5) Profit !!!
Buwahahah
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to expect the information was recorded in an index file of sorts on the computer, and not in the audio files themselves.
Joe sixpack has no idea his iTunes purchased audio is watermarked and identifiable. Apple could do more to make it clear this is going on.
You keep harping on about going back to XP, when you people had the exact same ditribe about XP when it first came out.
Yes, and we were correct about it back then as well. XP really didn't add much over 2K. XP has just been around long enough and had enough SP's and patches and support to actually have become comparably worthwhile... if it didn't grab so much market share from Win2K we'd probably still be harping about stick with that one.
why don't we see this kind of thing when an open source package breaks backward comparability or copies features?
Your UID is lower than mine, so I can't really accuse you of being new here; I'm at a loss as to how you've over looked the endless tirades on /. every time an incompatibility issue comes up with F/OSS software. For starters, look at any of the last half dozen threads on Python 3 here. Half the posts are nothing more than attempts to calm the other half about compatibility issues.
IMO, the biggest problem with Vista was how long it took to get out the door. People were used to new OS's staggering a little with things like hardware support just after release back when MS released an OS every 2-3 years.
Someone from MS picked up on this. It's much smarter for them right now to make smaller, more gradual improvements (similar to OSX). This way people won't get scared off by the new changes, and the hardware/software incompatibilities can be kept to a minimum.
Yes, it sucks that MS is building it off of Vista, but right now that's what they've got to work with. Their other choice would have been to again take forever in coming out with a new, different OS which would again cause hardware incompatibilities. Even if the new OS is otherwise flawless it just won't be worth it.
This is probably the best course of action Microsoft could take.
I'm usually good with technology but I don't get football analogies. Could someone explain the technology behind this magic yellow line with a car analogy?
Why? I'm not sure why you're so sure about this. Is it some sort of naivete, or blind trust in the omnipotence and omniscience of the free software world?
If The post I replied to was truthful and Linux is better than Windows at "when-you-need-to-defrag", how could Linux be better than Windows if there is no utility to defragment the filesystem? It's more of a logic thing than blind trust.
filesystems fragment over time. NTFS more than others. It is a popular myth that you never need to defrag a linux box. It's just that the fragmentation is slower. Much slower. Sure, when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag, Linux is usually better than Windows, but this doesn't mean a Windows PC is the only one that ever needs defrag.
Could you point me to a tool to defrag ext2/3? If it needs to be fragmented eventually there has to be utilities out there to do so. Linux can't be "usually better than Windows" "when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag" if there isn't any such tool. I'm not (just?) trying to be a smart-ass and prove you wrong, it's just that I would have expected that after using various Linux distros as my primary OS for about 2 1/2 years I would have come across such a utility eventually.