It is feasible that the increased security measures have scared off potential attacks/crimes while they're still undetectable thought.
I can't really think of any way to prove such things to have actually happened or not, but it does help gray up that black/white situation you've painted where these measures have done absolutely nothing beneficial.
It's not really so clear cut who Israel is fighting... or who is fighting Israel. Remember, Hamas was voted in by civilians.
If the White House was being bombed, it'd could easily be considered an attack on the United States, not just the Bush Administration. Same with an attack on American solders.
Israel may be perfectly content with peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian people, but if in it's defense it has to fight their elected government it's not so far off from fighting them.
You may have been joking but that's a very good question. I'd mod you +1 Insightful if I had any mod points left.
Hamas historically hasn't really cared if someone is a combatant or not, but it'd be interesting to consider what options Israel - or anyone for that matter - has regarding defense against a DDOS attack from a botnet. Would there be justification in destroying the computer? What if the person didn't join the botnet purposefully/knowingly?
If the Israeli government seriously wanted to commit genocide it would have gotten it over with by now. It's much harder to selectively take out pseudo-military infrastructure while retaining civilian lives and wellbeing (as best as they can) rather than just collectively wiping everyone out.
It means to help shift public opinion - and consequently manpower, money and technology - to Israel and away from Hamas et al. Directly it won't disable would-be solders and suicide bombers, but it could seriously hamper funding and efforts by Hamas.
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I don't know when you last used Truecrypt, but they've had dead-simple.deb's for Ubuntu for quite some time.
Granted, I'm inclined towards oldschool PC games [Civilization II, Stacraft, etc.] as opposed to the new stuff [GTA, HL, etc]
While I don't know much about Civ2, you seem to be confused with the rest of the games. Half life and Starcraft were both released in '98; Halflife is only a number of months newer than Starcraft. GTA was actually released the year *before* Starcraft, as well.
If you want to compare only the newest iterations - HL2:EP2 and GTA4, then you'd be comparing them against SC2 - which is so new it isn't even in beta yet.
Most GPL && Linux fans in the audience welcome Microsoft's efforts to crack down on Windows piracy. People who are using pirated copies of Windows are using Windows drivers and Windows applications and Windows games and overall increasing Windows market-share. If someone is not using Windows (pirated or otherwise), they'll be much more likely to jump towards Linux - especially if they're looking for a free(-of-charge) OS. The GPL fans should be cheering at such suicidal actions from Microsoft.
/.'s arguments against WGA (and other sorts of DRM) have more to do with how it treats the legitimate end-users rather than getting software without cost/payment. There isn't really anything comparable with GPL'd software, what with how the GPL is specifically designed to avoid such things.
The problems you've listed in regards to touchscreens only really exist if it's replacing other input such as a mouse or keyboard, rather than being used in conjunction with it. I take all of my notes on my eeepc... except things which have to be sketched like graphs in my math classes, where I have to pull out paper and pencil and doodle something which I inevitably lose. If I could have a quick and easy option to sketch on my subnotebook, then return to typing, it would be much preferable.
Does that just mean the addition of new drivers or a revamp of the existing? I have some no name wifi usb that uses zd1211rw and it's pretty easy to make it fall over.
I'm not sure about this case, but in the past it has been both. My wireless usb stick (rt73) WAS supported in Ubuntu Dapper (and Edgy?) but after that it stopped working (required me to throw the firmware into/lib/firmware - once I do that it works fine).
From that experience I gather that yes, it is possible for them to revamp currently working drivers; however, it would probably be easier for you to just buy a supported card. May be a bit late to ask for it as a Christmas present, sadly.
You're correct that the vast majority of improvements in the Linux kernel - when taken by themselves - are unlikely to change anything for any specific end user. These become significant when you add them all together. Odds are slim that any one person will ever use some new hardware support being added in a given kernel update, or some notice some change that ups battery life by couple a percent. However, when you compare the hardware support or battery life of a modern Linux distro to one even a few years old the change is drastic.
There is a huge number of examples I could give, but a recent event really stands out for me. Just a couple days ago a friend was having computer problems (couldn't read a DVD) and wasn't sure if it was a hardware or software issue. A simple check was to boot off Linux off of a USB flash drive and see if it worked (it didn't - ends up the DVD was funky). What's amazing here is that on a completely random system - built as a Windows gaming machine without Linux in mind - a Linux install which has never seen this hardware before performed flawlessly. It booted off of the USB drive faster than the (clean, relatively minimal bloat) XP did from the hard drive, detected and automatically connected to wifi, et al. Everything just worked.
Adding support for a few new webcams or wifi adapters or some new memory management or power stuff isn't going to make a difference. Doing that repeatedly for years, however, and all of a sudden you've got the best hardware support (out of the box anyways) and best performing OS around.
It supports OpenGL in the guest if it's Windows XP or Vista (32bit). I know they have plans to eventually add DirectX support for Windows, but I haven't heard anything about OpenGL in a non-Windows guest (such as one that could use compiz).
Note that's not "repeated illegal downloaders", it's repeated users of file-sharing services, whether legal or not. It means that they've learned that they can't get their way via the courts, so now they want the right to get their way without having to go through the courts. This is a bad development.
It really depends on how you look at it. Consider the possibility of using this evidence in court when one of the file-sharers sues them or the ISP. This could be considered evidence that even the RIAA realize they have no legal case and are trying to circumvent the law. Now that they've given up that tool someone could pick it up and swing it back at them, harder. The same reason you consider this bad could be used beneficially.
There is that whole thing about having to have your mother be Jewish. It's not really such a requirement with the more Reform groups, but the Conservative and especially Orthodox Jews tend to keep it in mind when considering those who would wish to convert.
And even then, there's that whole thing about the Rabbi having to push you away to make sure you really want to convert.
If they said C was Orthodox Judaism, perhaps it'd be more accurate.
After doing nearly anything with sufficient repetition it becomes second-nature, to the point where virtually no thought is necessary - it's all muscle memory. Entering passwords is a perfect example of this. I know I've been able to log into my boxen and check my email while to tired to actually write anything recognizable - although I was awake.
CAPTCHA's change and require some thought; they aren't really comparable.
A few months back I did some computer help for someone who had all his passwords in post-it notes stuck around his monitor. I still remember some of them today.
Don't put your password on your windows computer, or on your windows computer. Both are easy pickings.
What? NN protects the strong, too. Without NN, ISP's charge extra for people who go to major websites like Google's. Smaller websites can be given more leeway - ISPs don't want to kill them off, just squeeze them for as much as they can. Without NN the strong get their strength cut out from under them. No the only one NN doesn't help are the ISP's.
Older people may be more knowledgeable, but as you get up there senility comes into play. Keeping the mind active helps stave senility off, just how keeping the body active helps keep it from decaying. TFA is basically just trying to prove that strategy games are included in that whole keeping the mind active thing.
A large part of why we're complaining is that it is not necessarily new (Second Life being the most obvious thing to compare it to), and the different things - like waiting in a virtual line - are just plain horrible. The fact that it's from SONY isn't exactly why we're ripping it apart. There's plenty of other aspects to burn.
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It's not as though one can not run older games on 64bit hardware/OS's.
Also, for software which supports 64bits it should be faster than it's 32bit equivalent, which is quite important for modern gaming.
Also, there is a 64bit version of XP.
Also, Vista really isn't that slow if you give it enough RAM - which clearly is not an issue in this case.
As of the time of writing, for a brand-new top-of-the-line gaming machine you'd want Vista 64 on there.
It is feasible that the increased security measures have scared off potential attacks/crimes while they're still undetectable thought.
I can't really think of any way to prove such things to have actually happened or not, but it does help gray up that black/white situation you've painted where these measures have done absolutely nothing beneficial.
People tend to sympathize with the underdog, and that works well in football or choice of operating system,
Gee, I can't think of anyone who sympathies with Microsoft Windows's declining market-share. *wink*
It's not really so clear cut who Israel is fighting... or who is fighting Israel. Remember, Hamas was voted in by civilians.
If the White House was being bombed, it'd could easily be considered an attack on the United States, not just the Bush Administration. Same with an attack on American solders.
Israel may be perfectly content with peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian people, but if in it's defense it has to fight their elected government it's not so far off from fighting them.
You may have been joking but that's a very good question. I'd mod you +1 Insightful if I had any mod points left.
Hamas historically hasn't really cared if someone is a combatant or not, but it'd be interesting to consider what options Israel - or anyone for that matter - has regarding defense against a DDOS attack from a botnet. Would there be justification in destroying the computer? What if the person didn't join the botnet purposefully/knowingly?
This isn't being done by the Israeli government. Perhaps it's being done by *some* Israeli's. There's quite a big difference there.
If the Israeli government seriously wanted to commit genocide it would have gotten it over with by now. It's much harder to selectively take out pseudo-military infrastructure while retaining civilian lives and wellbeing (as best as they can) rather than just collectively wiping everyone out.
It means to help shift public opinion - and consequently manpower, money and technology - to Israel and away from Hamas et al. Directly it won't disable would-be solders and suicide bombers, but it could seriously hamper funding and efforts by Hamas.
I don't know when you last used Truecrypt, but they've had dead-simple .deb's for Ubuntu for quite some time.
Granted, I'm inclined towards oldschool PC games [Civilization II, Stacraft, etc.] as opposed to the new stuff [GTA, HL, etc]
While I don't know much about Civ2, you seem to be confused with the rest of the games. Half life and Starcraft were both released in '98; Halflife is only a number of months newer than Starcraft. GTA was actually released the year *before* Starcraft, as well.
If you want to compare only the newest iterations - HL2:EP2 and GTA4, then you'd be comparing them against SC2 - which is so new it isn't even in beta yet.
Most GPL && Linux fans in the audience welcome Microsoft's efforts to crack down on Windows piracy. People who are using pirated copies of Windows are using Windows drivers and Windows applications and Windows games and overall increasing Windows market-share. If someone is not using Windows (pirated or otherwise), they'll be much more likely to jump towards Linux - especially if they're looking for a free(-of-charge) OS. The GPL fans should be cheering at such suicidal actions from Microsoft.
/.'s arguments against WGA (and other sorts of DRM) have more to do with how it treats the legitimate end-users rather than getting software without cost/payment. There isn't really anything comparable with GPL'd software, what with how the GPL is specifically designed to avoid such things.
In this case I believe "byte" is revalued at 7-bits. It's still 160 bytes, just now it's 1120 bits instead of 1280 bits.
One of the main selling points for "netbooks" is the price, usually around US$400-600. Flybooks are about five times that price.
The problems you've listed in regards to touchscreens only really exist if it's replacing other input such as a mouse or keyboard, rather than being used in conjunction with it. I take all of my notes on my eeepc... except things which have to be sketched like graphs in my math classes, where I have to pull out paper and pencil and doodle something which I inevitably lose. If I could have a quick and easy option to sketch on my subnotebook, then return to typing, it would be much preferable.
Does that just mean the addition of new drivers or a revamp of the existing? I have some no name wifi usb that uses zd1211rw and it's pretty easy to make it fall over.
I'm not sure about this case, but in the past it has been both. My wireless usb stick (rt73) WAS supported in Ubuntu Dapper (and Edgy?) but after that it stopped working (required me to throw the firmware into /lib/firmware - once I do that it works fine).
From that experience I gather that yes, it is possible for them to revamp currently working drivers; however, it would probably be easier for you to just buy a supported card. May be a bit late to ask for it as a Christmas present, sadly.
You're correct that the vast majority of improvements in the Linux kernel - when taken by themselves - are unlikely to change anything for any specific end user. These become significant when you add them all together. Odds are slim that any one person will ever use some new hardware support being added in a given kernel update, or some notice some change that ups battery life by couple a percent. However, when you compare the hardware support or battery life of a modern Linux distro to one even a few years old the change is drastic.
There is a huge number of examples I could give, but a recent event really stands out for me. Just a couple days ago a friend was having computer problems (couldn't read a DVD) and wasn't sure if it was a hardware or software issue. A simple check was to boot off Linux off of a USB flash drive and see if it worked (it didn't - ends up the DVD was funky). What's amazing here is that on a completely random system - built as a Windows gaming machine without Linux in mind - a Linux install which has never seen this hardware before performed flawlessly. It booted off of the USB drive faster than the (clean, relatively minimal bloat) XP did from the hard drive, detected and automatically connected to wifi, et al. Everything just worked.
Adding support for a few new webcams or wifi adapters or some new memory management or power stuff isn't going to make a difference. Doing that repeatedly for years, however, and all of a sudden you've got the best hardware support (out of the box anyways) and best performing OS around.
It supports OpenGL in the guest if it's Windows XP or Vista (32bit). I know they have plans to eventually add DirectX support for Windows, but I haven't heard anything about OpenGL in a non-Windows guest (such as one that could use compiz).
Many people will have a hard time getting a feeling for exactly where their fingers are if the screen is not see-through.
Note that's not "repeated illegal downloaders", it's repeated users of file-sharing services, whether legal or not. It means that they've learned that they can't get their way via the courts, so now they want the right to get their way without having to go through the courts. This is a bad development.
It really depends on how you look at it. Consider the possibility of using this evidence in court when one of the file-sharers sues them or the ISP. This could be considered evidence that even the RIAA realize they have no legal case and are trying to circumvent the law. Now that they've given up that tool someone could pick it up and swing it back at them, harder. The same reason you consider this bad could be used beneficially.
There is that whole thing about having to have your mother be Jewish. It's not really such a requirement with the more Reform groups, but the Conservative and especially Orthodox Jews tend to keep it in mind when considering those who would wish to convert.
And even then, there's that whole thing about the Rabbi having to push you away to make sure you really want to convert.
If they said C was Orthodox Judaism, perhaps it'd be more accurate.
After doing nearly anything with sufficient repetition it becomes second-nature, to the point where virtually no thought is necessary - it's all muscle memory. Entering passwords is a perfect example of this. I know I've been able to log into my boxen and check my email while to tired to actually write anything recognizable - although I was awake.
CAPTCHA's change and require some thought; they aren't really comparable.
A few months back I did some computer help for someone who had all his passwords in post-it notes stuck around his monitor. I still remember some of them today.
Don't put your password on your windows computer, or on your windows computer. Both are easy pickings.
What? NN protects the strong, too. Without NN, ISP's charge extra for people who go to major websites like Google's. Smaller websites can be given more leeway - ISPs don't want to kill them off, just squeeze them for as much as they can. Without NN the strong get their strength cut out from under them. No the only one NN doesn't help are the ISP's.
Older people may be more knowledgeable, but as you get up there senility comes into play. Keeping the mind active helps stave senility off, just how keeping the body active helps keep it from decaying. TFA is basically just trying to prove that strategy games are included in that whole keeping the mind active thing.
A large part of why we're complaining is that it is not necessarily new (Second Life being the most obvious thing to compare it to), and the different things - like waiting in a virtual line - are just plain horrible. The fact that it's from SONY isn't exactly why we're ripping it apart. There's plenty of other aspects to burn.