Tell people "Don't buy EA games, they put viruses on your computer and stop working if you use the CD too many times". It got the point across much better than "DRM" when Sony was putting trojans on their audio CDs.
So: Initial expense will be higher, but you'll be able to save on later purchases (because you can re-use the old supply), you'll save on power (because of lower vampiric power draw), and all the power supplies will be interchangeable. Fun fact: The power supply in my almost-twenty-year-old Sega Master System works in every other console I own from that era, as well as my Netgear router and an Asus eee 901. The Game Boy Pocket power adaptor works fine in my digital camera. And so on.
The real problem is greedy bastards that make their own connectors up to force people to pay extra for overpriced power supplies. As Westinghouse is doing here.
DVI is physically about twice the size. Unless Asus suddenly decides to use that thing on Apple laptops (which probably carries a licensing fee) it's not going to change any time soon.
Can you imagine the effect on your family, your job, your reputation? On the positive side, you could sell your story to a tabloid paper, earning you a lot of money back and giving you a warm feeling of retribution as half of the country finds out about the government locking up innocent people for six weeks. It won't fix anything, but it's better than sitting there and quietly letting 1984 become reality.
The code's low quality is the fault of the community, too. Who do you think wrote that complex code? Uh, "The XFree86® Project, Inc(TM)", maybe? The community effort is the result of the fucked up code (and even worse politics), not the other way around.
Just because _you're_ a clueless moron who won't understand the purpose of specialised hardware doesn't mean everyone else in the world is. Grow up please.
They can't do that, because if they did there'd be huge demand for the hardware but nobody buying games. They'd lose even more money than they're doing now.
You can complain all you want about endianness, but unless you can convince people that the base-10 system they've been reading for centuries is written back to front that's the way it'll stay.
Um, what?
Their robot has no need to execute anything it comes across, so downloaded script needn't be allowed to execute anything, ever. It has no need to render any of the media, so none of the image-library attacks can work. How do Google Image Search's thumbnails and the {PDF,.xls,.doc,.gz}-to-html links work then? How does/codesearch figure out the licence inside a tarball without trying to unpack it first?
They don't have to keep anything that they scan, so no save-to-disc code. Do they produce the contents of those "Cached Page" links from thin air?
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Should've put the IP address for goatse.cx on it
In all seriousness they should go to court with this. I'd love to see how long they can drag the case on before the judge throws it out.
Remind me who this war is against, again? I never see that part mentioned on the news, yet somehow people are getting killed constantly.
Tell people "Don't buy EA games, they put viruses on your computer and stop working if you use the CD too many times". It got the point across much better than "DRM" when Sony was putting trojans on their audio CDs.
QDOS, and IBM.
You can use google, can you not?
He could apologise for being an asshole, for one.
This would be a great idea, if not for the fact that the people who run most of these ISPs are about as smart as the average fast food burger-flipper.
Are you sure that's not because the PS3's built in wifi isn't interfering?
The real problem is greedy bastards that make their own connectors up to force people to pay extra for overpriced power supplies. As Westinghouse is doing here.
That sounds like a good idea. You could even disguise it as a generic protecting-the-US-economy law... anyone reading /. want to try this?
DVI is physically about twice the size. Unless Asus suddenly decides to use that thing on Apple laptops (which probably carries a licensing fee) it's not going to change any time soon.
No, UDF is the universal file system for operating systems.
It won't fix anything, but it's better than sitting there and quietly letting 1984 become reality.
Yes, it will open mailto links in GMail or whatever.
...but you can sure as hell fake it, if you can sell someone else's OS to a big company before they realise you didn't actually own it.
14bpc sounds stupid. Is there really any reason to not just use 16bpc? Sounds like they just want to create their own proprietary format.
Just because _you're_ a clueless moron who won't understand the purpose of specialised hardware doesn't mean everyone else in the world is. Grow up please.
They can't do that, because if they did there'd be huge demand for the hardware but nobody buying games. They'd lose even more money than they're doing now.
In the scale of terrorists, I'd put Saddam below Jack Thompson, but both well below the RIAA.
At least Saddam Hussein had the decency to put some of his victims out of their misery after he was done with them.
They also use 8.3-style filenames on the ubuntu 8.04 CD. Does that mean there's something wrong with that one too?
You can complain all you want about endianness, but unless you can convince people that the base-10 system they've been reading for centuries is written back to front that's the way it'll stay.
I use it too, as an answering machine for AIM messages. It's not good for much else except wasting RAM. When I want to IM someone I use Psi.