It's not politics, it's legality. The Kororaa livecd tried shipping preinstalled binary drivers and got a nastygram from one of the kernel devs as a result.
I had to point this out to someone the other day, who couldn't understand that the only reason the site they were looking at was in the Alexa top 500 but had awful pagerank is that most of its content is user-created, and said users have a room-temperature IQ on average.
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The site displays a huge black rectangle over half the content if you don't allow it to use Shockwave Flash.
Not true, I saw post 15000000 happen. Or was it 10 million...
It's not politics, it's legality. The Kororaa livecd tried shipping preinstalled binary drivers and got a nastygram from one of the kernel devs as a result.
So in other words, this survey is as worthless as Alexa.
Does that mean we can filter them out of the net too? Please?
If a Game Boy's 33MHz ARM7 can run it, I'd think one with hundreds of MHz would be able to as well.
For most websites it's BS anyway, Coral seems to take 5 minutes to load anything.
I've played many a FPS with a good story... just not the ones bundled with the game engine on disc.
Maybe it's not the EU, maybe it's just that they're sick of catering to the US government's "privacy" policy.
My computers don't scream either, but the people in their trajectory usually do...
With all the whining about the state of US internet access here I'd just like to point out I pay £55 monthly for one-third of that speed.
...the sudden increase in irc proxy scanners hitting my server over the past week.
Though I'm not sure what kind of explanation justifies doing that.
I had to point this out to someone the other day, who couldn't understand that the only reason the site they were looking at was in the Alexa top 500 but had awful pagerank is that most of its content is user-created, and said users have a room-temperature IQ on average.
IIRC they were saying something about a "buy 3 get 1" thing a while back so anyone could get one. Are they still doing that?
Parent post makes a completely legitimate question, whether or not it was intended that way.
Does Sony actively support running Linux on its hardware, or have they resigned themselves to being just an Apple clone with black plastic?
Just build cameras that record in 720x576. Or 799x599.
Maybe the badgers were powered up with red mushrooms.
I'd buy a console where the most popular games have sequel numbers in the double digits, no?
On the other hand, at least it's not 40 consecutive articles about the PS3 today.
If you think the "Firefox cult" is bad, you've obviously never seen the Opera one. Most of them still pretend their browser invented tabs.
They'd have proven God exists, AND done so using scientific methods. It'd be the death blow for half of the worst organisations in the world.
You could probably do that over 802.11n using a small amount of compression. Might be a good case for the MNG format.
Why not use wireless without radio waves? Have racks connected by a bunch of low-power lasers at ceiling height. It'd look nice too.
And your OS should have no firewall and share the root directory to the world by default.
After all, it's not like you're hiding kiddie porn on your hard drive, eh?