I'd say mod parent up here because this is important.
Slashdot stories are almost always links to blogs which links to reprints of stories. Half of them are uninterestingly written or contain nearly no information. BUT
Even if there was no link, if it was just a headline: Apple to soon release OSX Leopard!...without even an article..it wouldnt matter because slashdot is about the discussion. I want to see what people think about leopard..i want to see people uncovering cool features that arent mentioned in most stories..i want beta testers to come forward and tell about their experiances...THIS is why slashdot is great. Much more interesting than sites with many stories, but no usable forum to speak of. (digg,etc)
That beeing said, I have no idea why anyone would subscribe. I just block ads and get the stories ad-free anyways. And as for seeing them early...who to discuss with..yourself?
EE too here:) Just guessing but I imagine the ionized air channel the lightning has opened to ground has much better conductivity than a sack of salt water..
Not to mention the fact that as soon as my vidcard begins rendering any 3D the fan kicks into its higher speed mode. I'd rather have a quiet idle computer.
And yes I assume what applies to me applies to everyone!! Haw haw.
I use a cf-28 toughbook for my work, lugging it everywhere. It weighs about 8 lbs and is near indestructable, case made entirely of metal. You could probably run the damn thing over. I dont find the weight a bother at all but...
It weighs 8 lbs. WTF is in this thing to weigh as much as a ruggedized metal laptop?
Actually it seems to be little known that if you run "mplayer2" instead of the normal mplayer, you get a mplayer 6 style interface with all the codecs of mplayer.
Of course, if you are in the know this much, you might also know about media player classic, which is a vastly supperior media player anyways. It also has a media player 6.4 look to it.
Another vote here for IL-2 Sturmovik. (and expansions/sequels like forgotten battles)
It is a VERY realistic flight sim. You can NOT 'yank and bank' like so many others..or you black out and die. The bullets fly on proper ballistic flight paths and deflection shooting is apropriatly hard. Fuel and damage are all realistic..and the multiplayer is very good.
Also for modern aircraft, i've found the realistic mode in Falcon 4.0 to be brutally realistic. Like in real life, one screwup and you die haha. Not sure if they have fixed it, but falcon was very buggy last i played.
I thought the whole point of this stuff..why it was so exciting, was the crazy new virtualization stuff, allowing you to run windows along side mac, perhaps in a window in osx, at native speed.
Read up a bit on it and it seems its just windows booting on intel hardware because of some EFI update that ticked off the 'emu bios' option.
There is none of the fancy virtualization going on?
While i dont have an ipod and may never have an ipod, saying it did not chance popular culture seems to show a big ostritch effect goin on in your vicinity:) (no offense intended)
TONS of people have them, it has created whole new industries in music as far as online distribution and popularity of mp3's and other digital formats. It is on the path of destroying huge organizations like the RIAA if they dont adapt to support it.
Billions of dollars in various industries have shifted around in change as a direct result of its popularity.
What I am saying is, no nothing really technically innovative in the design of the ipod. But it is such a commercial success that it is changing the industries it is connected to. It is not USEFULL to us like cars or computers, and is on a smaller scale for sure, but I would still label it as a 'Big Thing'
While you made some good points you didnt really combat any of his.
He is saying that there are a ton of patents out there with PARTS of stuff in them...for example lets take a ficticious patent on something. The ipod why not. Now lets say someone patented a circular touch wheel and let is rot because he didnt have a product for it. Basically worthless by itself, but he hopes someone may use it and he can extract cash from them.
The apple makes the ipod, boom. He sues, gets rich. But what would have happened if the ipod had came from a garage inventor? He either gives up all his pofit or goes out of business.
The argument is there are a ton of patents out there for non complete ideas. These patents are sitting there doing nothing, making no money etc. Then someone makes a product that is amazingle innovative or just done well etc and then they get sued. They are just starting out and cant afford a lawsuit, and REALLY cant afford to lose the suit and have their pofits killed by payments to the sub patent holder.
So yes, patents do help the little guy, but its getting to the time when soo many good ideas are only feasable to be exploited by big business.
It is severe for sure, but it is mitigated by a couple things.
For one, as many have pointed out, its a local-only bug, and if the person has physical access, you are screwed anyways.
But what i find to be more important is...ubuntu patches are instantly released over its update system, and as long as you actually go on your computer, you will see the request to install the patch right away. The patch erases the log.
Also when installing ubuntu, the newest versions of all pkgs are downloaded from the internet if possible. So any new install with internet access is not veulnreble.
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Haha, clever. Almost enough to make me wanna pay the 5$..almost! :)
Very valid point, i agree. Not enough to pay but I do salute you and those like you (if thats the reason you pay, else bah!)
I'd say mod parent up here because this is important.
Slashdot stories are almost always links to blogs which links to reprints of stories. Half of them are uninterestingly written or contain nearly no information. BUT
Even if there was no link, if it was just a headline: Apple to soon release OSX Leopard!...without even an article..it wouldnt matter because slashdot is about the discussion. I want to see what people think about leopard..i want to see people uncovering cool features that arent mentioned in most stories..i want beta testers to come forward and tell about their experiances...THIS is why slashdot is great. Much more interesting than sites with many stories, but no usable forum to speak of. (digg,etc)
That beeing said, I have no idea why anyone would subscribe. I just block ads and get the stories ad-free anyways. And as for seeing them early...who to discuss with..yourself?
EE too here :) Just guessing but I imagine the ionized air channel the lightning has opened to ground has much better conductivity than a sack of salt water..
Not to mention the fact that as soon as my vidcard begins rendering any 3D the fan kicks into its higher speed mode. I'd rather have a quiet idle computer.
And yes I assume what applies to me applies to everyone!! Haw haw.
I use a cf-28 toughbook for my work, lugging it everywhere. It weighs about 8 lbs and is near indestructable, case made entirely of metal. You could probably run the damn thing over. I dont find the weight a bother at all but...
It weighs 8 lbs. WTF is in this thing to weigh as much as a ruggedized metal laptop?
For those who dont read the articles, link to the page containing pics and excerpts from the hdd is here:
http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/
Actually look up 'quicktime alternative'. This is mplayer distributed with the codecs to play quicktime files.
For divx etc download the koepi binaries for xvid..will play the four major mpeg-4 video codecs.
Actually it seems to be little known that if you run "mplayer2" instead of the normal mplayer, you get a mplayer 6 style interface with all the codecs of mplayer.
Of course, if you are in the know this much, you might also know about media player classic, which is a vastly supperior media player anyways. It also has a media player 6.4 look to it.
We in canada get the songs for 0.99 CDN which is a better deal than in the USA.
Not as good as it once was since the US dollar is crashing and the canadian dollar rising, but still among the best i think.
Another vote here for IL-2 Sturmovik. (and expansions/sequels like forgotten battles)
It is a VERY realistic flight sim. You can NOT 'yank and bank' like so many others..or you black out and die. The bullets fly on proper ballistic flight paths and deflection shooting is apropriatly hard. Fuel and damage are all realistic..and the multiplayer is very good.
Also for modern aircraft, i've found the realistic mode in Falcon 4.0 to be brutally realistic. Like in real life, one screwup and you die haha. Not sure if they have fixed it, but falcon was very buggy last i played.
As far as Ubuntu beeing most popular, this may help persuade you...
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http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=populari
Cool thanks.
I just need something clarified...
I thought the whole point of this stuff..why it was so exciting, was the crazy new virtualization stuff, allowing you to run windows along side mac, perhaps in a window in osx, at native speed.
Read up a bit on it and it seems its just windows booting on intel hardware because of some EFI update that ticked off the 'emu bios' option.
There is none of the fancy virtualization going on?
So thats you, I know people, especially in the construction industry who can easily smoke an ounce a week.
And dont tell me it has no long term effects, just look at a heavy smoker.
Side effects include lazyness and stupidity.
Ah, thought it was open because it is also an ISO standard. Guess it can be both private IP and a public ISO standard?
Sorry was thinking of mpeg-2 aac which is open, i guess apple uses mpeg-4 aac which is not?
I hear ya ;)
It doesnt, AAC is an open standard format.
Fairplay DRM on the otherhand...
While you may have a fancy low UID..you are misremembering what happened.
Taco apended that comment to the story posting, and thus it was not moderated at all.
Plenty of other Apple flames though.
I hear that!
I somewhat agree but..tamagochi was popular but what industry did it change?
Ipod may not affect one persons life a whole ton, but it has changed the music industry forever.
While i dont have an ipod and may never have an ipod, saying it did not chance popular culture seems to show a big ostritch effect goin on in your vicinity :) (no offense intended)
TONS of people have them, it has created whole new industries in music as far as online distribution and popularity of mp3's and other digital formats. It is on the path of destroying huge organizations like the RIAA if they dont adapt to support it.
Billions of dollars in various industries have shifted around in change as a direct result of its popularity.
What I am saying is, no nothing really technically innovative in the design of the ipod. But it is such a commercial success that it is changing the industries it is connected to. It is not USEFULL to us like cars or computers, and is on a smaller scale for sure, but I would still label it as a 'Big Thing'
While you made some good points you didnt really combat any of his.
He is saying that there are a ton of patents out there with PARTS of stuff in them...for example lets take a ficticious patent on something. The ipod why not. Now lets say someone patented a circular touch wheel and let is rot because he didnt have a product for it. Basically worthless by itself, but he hopes someone may use it and he can extract cash from them.
The apple makes the ipod, boom. He sues, gets rich. But what would have happened if the ipod had came from a garage inventor? He either gives up all his pofit or goes out of business.
The argument is there are a ton of patents out there for non complete ideas. These patents are sitting there doing nothing, making no money etc. Then someone makes a product that is amazingle innovative or just done well etc and then they get sued. They are just starting out and cant afford a lawsuit, and REALLY cant afford to lose the suit and have their pofits killed by payments to the sub patent holder.
So yes, patents do help the little guy, but its getting to the time when soo many good ideas are only feasable to be exploited by big business.
It is severe for sure, but it is mitigated by a couple things.
For one, as many have pointed out, its a local-only bug, and if the person has physical access, you are screwed anyways.
But what i find to be more important is...ubuntu patches are instantly released over its update system, and as long as you actually go on your computer, you will see the request to install the patch right away. The patch erases the log.
Also when installing ubuntu, the newest versions of all pkgs are downloaded from the internet if possible. So any new install with internet access is not veulnreble.
PS sorry for all the bad spelling