No kidding? As a C&C fan, I had basically written the series off as 'trashed by EA' after buying CNC3 feeling outraged that there wasn't a shred of Westwood left in it. If they allow this with RA3 (without a crack) I might actually buy it. (The beta was fairly fun, but I don't know if it can top RA2.)
Someone please remind me how they plan to force this on the US? It's bad enough that we have to kowtow to the UN's pipe dreams; now the EU wants to get its oar in? Enough is enough. The already UN wants to censor our internet and take away our guns, and now the EU wants to prosecute programmers as criminals for infringing on IP?
I'm becoming increasingly concerned that many 'election issues' are smokescreens to hide the real issues. This trend of relative morality and world government must be stopped. If we cannot protect basic human rights (including the right to live), keep our national sovereignty, and maintain personal responsibility for welfare, Western civilization is going to fall prey to this strange new breed of Islo-fascist Socialism we're seeing.
Personally, I think we as 'geeks' are far too wrapped up in our own little world of free software battles. I am making it my goal to do what I can to oppose socialism (especially our socialist education system, which is a root of the current problems) and get us out of the UN. Our precious free internet will cease to exist if the US Constitution goes out of operation.
That's silly. Turning off your server will save money, not the planet. If you want to save the planet, find another problem to worry about, like protecting satellites from kooky regimes, the below-replacement birthrate, or the increase in drug-resistant disease strains. There are huge problems in the world, but 'climate change' isn't one we can do anything about. If you want to find out about climate change (2008 was freezing cold!), look at the sky. We had fewer sunspots this cycle than in the last century, according to some reports.
It failed because the producers bundled it with what their consumers considered to be a nuisance good - junk mail. Nobody I know of pores over advertisements often enough to want anything of the sort. Now, if they had just sold it as a cheap barcode scanner WITHOUT ENCRYPTION and provided some subscription service that housed a zillion barcodes from everything (Google?), then perhaps it would have fared better.
The ultra-polished thing won't fly, because there's nothing preventing me from taking the polished code and stuffing it into the free version. It would just lead to a third-party release that included the goodies.
A simple remote support system is something that should be added regardless. Yeah, you can twiddle around and get a VNC working, but a simple, preinstalled app would make Linux for the desktop much more palatable to friends and family who are nervous about problems. Ever used CrossLoop? It's a simple little Windows front-end for TightVNC that uses a central server to link users. It's so simple that even people who can't tell me what browser they're using have been able to open it, read their random Share Code to me and press the big, shiny Connect button. I then enter their code and press connect, and it works. I'm not afraid of messy technicalities, but it's almost blissful how well it works. It even works perfectly in WINE (I often support XP from my Kubuntu desktop that way). CrossLoop requires less than 3 MB, so I don't think space is that big a deal. Why can't Ubuntu get something like this?
Charging for official support, licensed codecs, and just for the sake of charging seems like a bright idea, especially if you shrink-wrap a pressed disk in a shiny box.
Well, my paranoid side reads this as: "they have a basic quantum computer and are having trouble using it." If you recall, Colossus was the first large-scale programmable computer, not ENIAC, and the Colossus computers were hidden inside Bletchley Park, busily breaking the 'unbreakable' encryption of the day. I would not be shocked to learn that the NSA or some similar agency is already breaking our current encryption schemes with computers that "don't exist".
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret.
Ross Perot ($5b) lost the 1996 election. The another one died in 2006 (although he wasn't a billionaire).
No one knows how to bend the economy in certain directions, they just take stabs in the dark and hope for the best.
It's easy: prevent fraud and abuse, and leave everything else alone. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke told Friedman on his 90th birthday that the govt. made the depression worse and promised not to repeat it, but he doesn't seem to be keeping his promise.
The vast bulk of taxes are going to socialistic programs and defense. According to http://www.whitcam.com/research/archives/248, 51% of the 2007 budget went to income redistribution programs and 22% percent to military spending. Welfare programs are killing us, not misc pork.
Why can't they just cut wasteful, federal spending....and let ALL tax payers keep more of their own money?
Because in our instant-gratification society, spending is what gets you elected. Just look at Ted Stevens.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. -Unknown
The Ross Perot and Ron Paul movements are something of a last-gasp effort to stop this, but they have failed. I just hope we can avoid any more major disasters until the next election cycle. We probably have less than half-dozen more chances to elect a fiscal conservative before we're toast. In the meantime, educating the people around us is all we can do.
Going off into the woods will not let me escape government and capitalism (governments will tax you if they can, land tax, or whatever, and if you don't own the land, they'll do you for trespass). And even if I could, it isn't plausible for all those who object to the system to up and leave. Leave hospitals, schools etc.
I'm an anarchist. I hate capitalism because it removes freedom. It is a hierarchical system, reliant on the state. Capitalism is freedom only for a few, where as I want freedom for everyone.
Your position is nice ideologically, but it ignores the reality that man isn't good inherently. Anarchy (I'll assume you mean radical capitalism) is basically communism with property ownership.* As 2nd Post! points out, anarchy (and communism) suffer from a distorted view of human nature. People will always take take away others' freedoms to advance themselves when there is nothing to stop them (i.e. no government).
*Political ideology seems to me like a color wheel, with radical capitalism in between pure communism and classic liberal capitalism. Stuff like worker management socialism is on the opposite side of the wheel from radical capitalism.
I can up that; I would 'hear' my old CRT while wearing headphones for audio editing. It was annoying for audio work in general, but it was kinda handy when some longish plugin was running and I would hear a high-pitched twizzit when the status window closed (the more area of the screen changing the more distinct it was). It was a very quiet, high sound without any distinctive click or pop - just an indistinct sound. I don't know if it was the CRT itself or the VGA cable running next to the speaker wire. Now I have an LCD with DVI and don't get that anymore.
7. Secret hidden folders: Just use truecrypt. This doesn't even encrypt your home directory based on the article. And you need to go to the terminal to set it up?
I wonder if this can be turned off. Perhaps it's just me, but this sounds almost like a ready-made rootkit for malicious programs/people. Visibility of everything is one of my top reasons for using Linux; I do not want binary hives of junk or folders of invisible stuff.
The US (and any other Western country) can fix absolutely nothing if they loose their satellite network. We are completely dependent on satellites. The only news that could be better than this would be that somebody had decided to put some new life into SDI. (An EMP would be even worse than loosing satellites.)
Um, no. The Fed artificially lowered interest rates, and the Clinton Administration pressured the Fannie Mae to buy mortgage blocks with loans that shouldn't have been issued. The result is that far too many people got loans they couldn't afford, and now the bill is due. It's time to learn from history: people who can't get loans shouldn't have them. Yes, it's coldhearted, but federal compassion doesn't work.
Another huge problem is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Yes, it's nice to have you money protected by Uncle Sam, but it has a terrible side effect of removing responsibility. Why should Joe Average bother to make sure he uses sound banks if his Uncle Sam will replace his money if the bank tanks? Why should Joe Banker make sure his bank doesn't go under? After all, if he can make a heap of cash before it does, he'll get rich and Uncle Sam will kindly pay off his customers. Federal compassion doesn't work.
In other news, Hudson City Savings bank, which has consistently refused to issue shaky loans, reported record earnings of $110.7m for the third quarter and increased its quarterly dividends to $0.12 a share. Hooray for old-fashioned integrity.
Steam is great, but it still suffers from The Big Problem(TM). When the servers get shut off, your content goes blooey. Of course, I suppose you could send keys to un-DRM everything shortly before your turn off your servers, but I can't imagine the copyright owners allowing anything like that.
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No kidding? As a C&C fan, I had basically written the series off as 'trashed by EA' after buying CNC3 feeling outraged that there wasn't a shred of Westwood left in it. If they allow this with RA3 (without a crack) I might actually buy it. (The beta was fairly fun, but I don't know if it can top RA2.)
Someone please remind me how they plan to force this on the US? It's bad enough that we have to kowtow to the UN's pipe dreams; now the EU wants to get its oar in? Enough is enough. The already UN wants to censor our internet and take away our guns, and now the EU wants to prosecute programmers as criminals for infringing on IP?
I'm becoming increasingly concerned that many 'election issues' are smokescreens to hide the real issues. This trend of relative morality and world government must be stopped. If we cannot protect basic human rights (including the right to live), keep our national sovereignty, and maintain personal responsibility for welfare, Western civilization is going to fall prey to this strange new breed of Islo-fascist Socialism we're seeing.
Personally, I think we as 'geeks' are far too wrapped up in our own little world of free software battles. I am making it my goal to do what I can to oppose socialism (especially our socialist education system, which is a root of the current problems) and get us out of the UN. Our precious free internet will cease to exist if the US Constitution goes out of operation.
Have fun with zoning and that! Oh, and the bookkeeping should be fun, too.
That's silly. Turning off your server will save money, not the planet. If you want to save the planet, find another problem to worry about, like protecting satellites from kooky regimes, the below-replacement birthrate, or the increase in drug-resistant disease strains. There are huge problems in the world, but 'climate change' isn't one we can do anything about. If you want to find out about climate change (2008 was freezing cold!), look at the sky. We had fewer sunspots this cycle than in the last century, according to some reports.
It failed because the producers bundled it with what their consumers considered to be a nuisance good - junk mail. Nobody I know of pores over advertisements often enough to want anything of the sort. Now, if they had just sold it as a cheap barcode scanner WITHOUT ENCRYPTION and provided some subscription service that housed a zillion barcodes from everything (Google?), then perhaps it would have fared better.
I also like Ctrl+Alt+Esc, which gives me a nice X cursor and nukes something I click. I don't know if this works outside of KDE4.
The ultra-polished thing won't fly, because there's nothing preventing me from taking the polished code and stuffing it into the free version. It would just lead to a third-party release that included the goodies.
A simple remote support system is something that should be added regardless. Yeah, you can twiddle around and get a VNC working, but a simple, preinstalled app would make Linux for the desktop much more palatable to friends and family who are nervous about problems. Ever used CrossLoop? It's a simple little Windows front-end for TightVNC that uses a central server to link users. It's so simple that even people who can't tell me what browser they're using have been able to open it, read their random Share Code to me and press the big, shiny Connect button. I then enter their code and press connect, and it works. I'm not afraid of messy technicalities, but it's almost blissful how well it works. It even works perfectly in WINE (I often support XP from my Kubuntu desktop that way). CrossLoop requires less than 3 MB, so I don't think space is that big a deal. Why can't Ubuntu get something like this?
Charging for official support, licensed codecs, and just for the sake of charging seems like a bright idea, especially if you shrink-wrap a pressed disk in a shiny box.
Well, my paranoid side reads this as: "they have a basic quantum computer and are having trouble using it." If you recall, Colossus was the first large-scale programmable computer, not ENIAC, and the Colossus computers were hidden inside Bletchley Park, busily breaking the 'unbreakable' encryption of the day. I would not be shocked to learn that the NSA or some similar agency is already breaking our current encryption schemes with computers that "don't exist".
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret.
Ross Perot ($5b) lost the 1996 election. The another one died in 2006 (although he wasn't a billionaire).
No one knows how to bend the economy in certain directions, they just take stabs in the dark and hope for the best.
It's easy: prevent fraud and abuse, and leave everything else alone. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke told Friedman on his 90th birthday that the govt. made the depression worse and promised not to repeat it, but he doesn't seem to be keeping his promise.
The vast bulk of taxes are going to socialistic programs and defense. According to http://www.whitcam.com/research/archives/248, 51% of the 2007 budget went to income redistribution programs and 22% percent to military spending. Welfare programs are killing us, not misc pork.
Why can't they just cut wasteful, federal spending....and let ALL tax payers keep more of their own money?
Because in our instant-gratification society, spending is what gets you elected. Just look at Ted Stevens.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
-Unknown
The Ross Perot and Ron Paul movements are something of a last-gasp effort to stop this, but they have failed. I just hope we can avoid any more major disasters until the next election cycle. We probably have less than half-dozen more chances to elect a fiscal conservative before we're toast. In the meantime, educating the people around us is all we can do.
New idea! Just stop giving them subsidies! Then you don't have to regulate them.
Going off into the woods will not let me escape government and capitalism (governments will tax you if they can, land tax, or whatever, and if you don't own the land, they'll do you for trespass). And even if I could, it isn't plausible for all those who object to the system to up and leave. Leave hospitals, schools etc.
I'm an anarchist. I hate capitalism because it removes freedom. It is a hierarchical system, reliant on the state. Capitalism is freedom only for a few, where as I want freedom for everyone.
Your position is nice ideologically, but it ignores the reality that man isn't good inherently. Anarchy (I'll assume you mean radical capitalism) is basically communism with property ownership.* As 2nd Post! points out, anarchy (and communism) suffer from a distorted view of human nature. People will always take take away others' freedoms to advance themselves when there is nothing to stop them (i.e. no government).
*Political ideology seems to me like a color wheel, with radical capitalism in between pure communism and classic liberal capitalism. Stuff like worker management socialism is on the opposite side of the wheel from radical capitalism.
I know this is a naive question, but how does a client find any peers to query without a centralized server to get a list from?
I can up that; I would 'hear' my old CRT while wearing headphones for audio editing. It was annoying for audio work in general, but it was kinda handy when some longish plugin was running and I would hear a high-pitched twizzit when the status window closed (the more area of the screen changing the more distinct it was). It was a very quiet, high sound without any distinctive click or pop - just an indistinct sound. I don't know if it was the CRT itself or the VGA cable running next to the speaker wire. Now I have an LCD with DVI and don't get that anymore.
7. Secret hidden folders: Just use truecrypt. This doesn't even encrypt your home directory based on the article. And you need to go to the terminal to set it up?
I wonder if this can be turned off. Perhaps it's just me, but this sounds almost like a ready-made rootkit for malicious programs/people. Visibility of everything is one of my top reasons for using Linux; I do not want binary hives of junk or folders of invisible stuff.
Perhaps I'm just the exception to the rule, but I've never had an XP box get owned on install. Is that just because I always do it behind a router?
The US (and any other Western country) can fix absolutely nothing if they loose their satellite network. We are completely dependent on satellites. The only news that could be better than this would be that somebody had decided to put some new life into SDI. (An EMP would be even worse than loosing satellites.)
Um, no. The Fed artificially lowered interest rates, and the Clinton Administration pressured the Fannie Mae to buy mortgage blocks with loans that shouldn't have been issued. The result is that far too many people got loans they couldn't afford, and now the bill is due. It's time to learn from history: people who can't get loans shouldn't have them. Yes, it's coldhearted, but federal compassion doesn't work.
Another huge problem is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Yes, it's nice to have you money protected by Uncle Sam, but it has a terrible side effect of removing responsibility. Why should Joe Average bother to make sure he uses sound banks if his Uncle Sam will replace his money if the bank tanks? Why should Joe Banker make sure his bank doesn't go under? After all, if he can make a heap of cash before it does, he'll get rich and Uncle Sam will kindly pay off his customers. Federal compassion doesn't work.
In other news, Hudson City Savings bank, which has consistently refused to issue shaky loans, reported record earnings of $110.7m for the third quarter and increased its quarterly dividends to $0.12 a share. Hooray for old-fashioned integrity.
Hooray for businesses catering to their customers! No govt interference needed.
Tag this 'replacewithnothing' and write your congresscritter.
If you collapse Lookin4Trouble's post, you'll see that several other members have posted the same site. Of course, they could be duplicates.
Yes, they work very hard and have a lot of smart people, but they seem to have some major gullibility issues when it comes to politics.
Steam is great, but it still suffers from The Big Problem(TM). When the servers get shut off, your content goes blooey. Of course, I suppose you could send keys to un-DRM everything shortly before your turn off your servers, but I can't imagine the copyright owners allowing anything like that.
http://av-comparatives.org/ provides pretty decent testing. The most recent results are as follows:
Advanced +
AVIRA
GDATA
Symantec
McAfee (with Artemis)
Avast
TrustPort
Kaspersky
AVG
Advanced
ESET
BitDefender
F-Secure
eScan
Sophos
Norman
Standard
Microsoft
McAfee (without Artemis)
No Award
VBA32
Thanks for noticing. I guess I put too much faith in ./'s parser.
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