Posts by Ru

There's no evidence it is atheistic

It could easily have been some other Christian sect.

Have a look at Jack Chick's tract on Catholicism. Oh you wacky protestants, what will you think of next?

Point: Missed!

x86/x64 is great for desktop systems, the sort of high power big box workstations that will run content creation software that requires hefty resources. It sucks for the sort of small, low power, easily portable devices that content *consumers* are more interested in. Who the hell wants to run an IDE or a CAD package on a pocketable tablet?

This single-entity 'industry' you're grumbling about doesn't exist. And even if it were to pop into existence, it wouldn't care. You seem to be searching for some sort of 'WinARM' conspiracy here. There isn't one.

As for hosing consumers, that's a little tricker. Most people use remarkably few bits of software, and the bits of software they do use are generally under current or recent development, pretty far from the sort of legacy software that is at risk here. If you want to continue running all your old crap, feel free to keep running it on your desktop. MS can't afford to simply abandon intel/amd; the platform will be around for years.

Presumably, you also believe

that the terrorist attacks on the US are by people who hate and fear your freedom, right?

Three words: "Blind Taste Test"

Its all about the branding. Just ask Apple...

Don't be silly.

Google is unhappy because it represents privacy violation by *other people*, not Google. Google can be trusted with knowing about all your secure site access. Google is your friend. All those other guys though?

This isn't about your desktop

Its about tablets, because manufacturers seem to feel that they're the future.

Er, what?

Are you saying Mozilla should distribute all CA root certificates sent to it? Or that they should distribute none at all?

Seems to me that Firefox is their product, and therefore they can feel free to restrict what gets shipped with it.

"I've been expecting that that'd be the next law case against Linux"

Lawsuit against whom? What makes so many people feel that 'Linux' is some kind of legal entity?

"don't they have to release that beta version to everybody?"

Not really. If you distribute a binary built from GPL source, you have to make that source available to people you distribute it to. You don't have to share it with the world until you distribute those binaries worldwide.

Google also can't stop their partners redistributing that source, so in theory they could simply release it all to the public. But that rather stops them getting any nice deals from Google in future, so they don't.

IANAL, or a GPL weenie. I've always advocated the ISC or 2 or 3 clause BSD licenses myself. This would all have been much less of an issue if they'd just used NetBSD from the get-go ;-)

Re: "one can only date using carbon ??????"

Not at all. There are various colours and flavours of radiometric dating, suitable for different ages and levels of accuracy. Have a peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating if you're bored.

"Land of the complicit co-conspirator."

Right, right... government intelligence agencies not very nice. Super.

Only in the UK there is disapproval. Doesn't seem like Brits really want state supported torture, whereas it seems a lot more popular on the other side of the Atlantic. That's what the complaint is about, chief.

Not quite

This trend also affects older music (that may or may not be crap) that is remastered and rereleased, only with less dynamic range.

"Windows is declared unfit for purpose"

Ahh, so this is definitely a software issue rather than a user issue?

Well, I expect it'll be banned from sale just about as soon as all software developers are required to guarantee the merchantability and fitness for purpose of their products. I can recommend holding your breath til then; I'm sure it'll be Real Soon Now.

Re: https access

Of course. I'm sure you'd never have to worry about someone doing anything like ensuring that all workplace computers trust their own CA issued certificates and then running an SSL proxy so that encrypted traffic to certain sites could be inspected as if it were in plain text.

But what sort of a person would want to do that? Why, they'd have to exhibit a fair bit of malice, contempt for facebook users and have some sort of easy justification for management approval (it increases employee productivity!).

We don't need no stinking EMCON

Or, you know, the ability to see our oponents when it is raining. Or they're in vegetation. Or its a bit dusty out.

There's only one thing that should be measured in cups

And it isn't an ingredient of pizza.

"It will be cost effective when the oil starts to run out"

Nuclear power will be cost effective then. To be honest, it could be cost effective now but for the amount of hysteria associated with it.

'Green' power sources have been, are, and likely will always be a terrible, terrible idea in much of the world. The most effective 'renewable' source is Hydro, and that causes colossal ecological damage. Does that count as green? If you're outside of a low-latitude desert or area of active vulcanism, you're stuck with using wind or wave, one of which simply cannot cope with the power demands of a first world country and the other of which probably couldn't either even if anybody could get it to work. Which they can't.

Outside of some sort of solar-powered-hunter-gatherer society (which would require depopulation on an impressively genocidal scale) this sort of system isn't ever going to work. When the oil runs out, people will be screaming for nuclear to heat their houses, power their transport networks, make their TV go. The nuclear NIMBYs will be the first up against the wall when that day comes, and I for one will not be sad if a load of ignorant 'wind will save the world' types are lined up with them.

So you don't actually know what quantum computing is?

Hint: if you mention 'supersymmetry' then you clearly have no idea about particle physics either.

Not this tired old bullshit.

If you take a piece of copyright work and either illegally duplicate and sell it, or illegally distribute it for free to the point where the copyright holder's business is impacted, you are breaking the law.

The police have every right to confiscate the copies you've made of the work, the equipment you used to copy it, any money you made from it, they can arrest you and you can be prosecuted. You would be a criminal.

There are other situations where copyright infringement becomes a criminal matter too. Go read a summary of the relevant acts.

"don't take the piss out of consumers... We're not stupid"

Ahahaha.

Aha.

Sir, surely you jest?

An unfinished item has no value but scrap

Whereas completing the production run so the items are usable means they can be chucked for merely fire-sale prices.

I doubt this run was started *after* the product was abandoned, unless HP had some ruinously expensive termination clauses with their manufacturers. Which seems unlikely.