That said, I believe most EU countries, as well as Australia and recently Canada have laws similar to the DMCA. Other than Sweden I'm not sure of any specific countries that don't, though I'd venture to guess Russia, the middle east, india, china, the Koreas, africa, and most S american countries.
Australia actually relaxed copyright laws in 2006 or 07 I think. We had silly copyright laws that until the DMCA were far worse than the US. Thankfully they are not generally enforced to the letter, or just about everyone throughout the 80s and 90s would have been gaoled for taping their favorite TV shows.
Oh and by the way, africa is a continent, not a country. Don't thank me. Just doing my bit to help one of our American friends overcome their inherent failure to grok geography.
I suspect that has something to do with the President of Iran stating that his goal was to wipe Israel off the map. Some people don't take him seriously. People didn't take Hitler seriously, either.
I take him seriously and I agree with him on that point. I don't think that the Israeli people should have to die, although a in country with such a history of fanaticism I would expect many would be willing to, maybe all those people who hang out at the golden calf^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwailing wall. What I am saying is that in my opinion "Israel", the text in that funny shape drawn on a map, should be erased and replace with Palestine. What's wrong with that?
Seriously, why should a peaceful Middle-Eastern nation of Christians, Muslims and Jews be destroyed to compensate the European Jews for crimes committed against them in Europe? Why should any nation born from a dirty deal struck between Britain and terrorists be given any support at all? Why is the US so keen to prosecute Muslim terrorism but do nothing against extreme Zionism?
Seriously, wipe "Israel" off the map and put Palestine back where it belongs.
The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
I thought the advantage of standards was to reduce divergence in systems. The more implementations of particular items, such as screws, conform to a standard, such as phillips head, the better it is for the people who use screws.
Instead of focusing energy on the ISO vote, focus on getting implementations of the standard that *you* think is reasonable into widespread usage. If you think it is ODF or RTF or HTML or any of the hundreds of file formats for document representation that should be the choice of governments, then get good, usable versions of software into the market.
Energy has/is being focused on implementations of another standard and there are already good implementations of the formats you mention from numerous sources including Microsoft.
The problem with OOXML is that it cannot be implemented by anyone other than a single vendor because the format as defined contains references to specific behavior without actually specifying said behavior.
Where a vote has been passed on an obviously incomplete specification and through such blatant corruption, it should be challenged. This is the duty of anyone who values freedom and democracy - and for people intelligent enough to appreciate the importance of the the rule of law. The fact that the format was pushed through by Microsoft in particular is irrelevant to this point.
Standing around crying because Microsoft bought a standard is only counterproductive and makes you come off looking like a bunch of whiners. On top of that, because the whining is explicitly anti-this new standard, it is implicitly perceived to be against progress. So you shoot yourself in the foot by appearing to want to go technologically backwards and like whiny bitches at the same time.
The UKUUG taking legal action over the corruption in the vote doesn't make them look like whiners. It makes them look like learned elders who are about to take a stick to a bunch of delinquents. And all power to them.
Protest against the standardization of OOXML doesn't appear technologically backwards when conducted in an appropriate forum and it portrays OOXML as the backwards step it truly is.
As the web makes it possible for more devices from more vendors to inter-operate seamlessly, along comes a format which is only really implementable by one vendor. If someone was to try this with heads or threads, they'd be totally screwed. Microsoft needed to pay to have this pass and by highlighting that at every step of the way, the more money they pour into this, the more corrupt they appear and the more they blacken their own name.
Save the energy you want to spend on protests and lawsuits and direct it towards building a better product.
Oh nonononono. Silly little monkey.
This is not about a product. This is about a format to be implemented by anyone who can read a specification
A reasonable open standard already exists.
Using the judiciary to defeat corruption wherever it exists is entirely correct. That is one of the reasons for it's existence.
The slashdot summary does. TFA says that they are being sued for allowing file sharing on their infrastructure. The fact that they don't use filtering products such as (but not limited to) CopySense is evidence that they are complicit with file sharers.
I'm not saying they're not a pack of F**king idiots who are sure to lose in any justice system where the 'just' part of justice is meaningful, just pointing out that this is not exactly extortion.
...we might have picked it instead of Python. Thanks!
Are you trying to start a religious war? Python's alright and all, but I wouldn't put Java and Python in the same category.
For one thing Python is dynamically typed and Java isn't and there are a lot of cases where I personally prefer the rigor of a language with strict typing. Or perhaps you're a bit confused between Java and JavaScript? A lot of people make that mistake.
Your comment is a funny troll, which is still a troll.
I'm usually pretty quick to defend the Blender UI, I'm one of those people who understands how quick and powerful it really is, but this time I have to agree.
Any tutorial on video editing in Blender should be akin to a tutorial on cleaning teeth which starts with:
First off, you'll need to remove all of your teeth so you can get a really good angle with the brush.
I'm not going to say it's no different, but speaking as someone who is neither American or Russian, I see having to hand my laptop over to a bunch of oafs in the airport so they can go through it as more invasive than being required to register my wifi adapter. But maybe that's just me.
Yeah, you just keep telling yourself you live in the land of the free if that's what makes you feel good.
I use most of the gui tools on ubuntu to do configurations. Sometimes I jump into a terminal to do some config, but usually it's just to back up menu.lst or xorg.conf so I can replace it the next time an automatic update hoses them.
It's true that I prefer clicking a checkbox to typing "vi somethingjjjjjjjjjjllcwSomeSetting=thisnewvalue:wq" but I wonder, does preferring a simple graphical method of setting something over a complicated set of operations make me stupid? Or is it the person who insists that everything should only be done the hard way who is a little stupid?
I don't really know the answer, but I do know that after years of using a terminal to set everything up, having a simple graphical environment is very refreshing. If you really believe everything should be done the hard way, ditch your mouse and keyboard while the rest of us evolve.
Now that linux is going mainstream, you might have to switch to freedos.
Jurisdiction was the first thought that popped into my head
IANALSIIPT(I am not a lawyer specialising in international patent treaties), but it seems to me that they need to source a company prepared to perform the manouvre from a country that does not respect US patents in all their absurtity.
Said company, perhaps owned and operated by a toothless fish monger with excellent business accumen and ability to hire the right people from around the world, and existing for the sole purpose of moving one space vehicle, moves the satellite and retires very happily on US$100pcm. A small donation from the team, perhaps for Hawaiian shirt Fridays, should cover that.
Cheaper than buying a license and just a little bit cheeki^H^H^Haper.
This is the benefit of globalisation. While we in the more "advanced" countries are subject to absolute stupidity imposed by our own arrogance, there is always some old Toothless Jaun willing to do his bit for the benefit of humanity and they are more accessible than ever.
I'm all for it. Jeez, I should charge top dollar for this kind of fix.
I know he's lying because a real time-traveler would have gone back far enough to at least get a 4-digit UID. No funky paradoxes involved, no stealing accounts from other people; just go to a time when new UIDs were low and create an account.
Actually, he's not far off the truth. I always had the UID and the username/password. I just had to pick a time when your primitive "computer" will accept them. As for getting a four digit UID, why would I settle for four when I can have seven? And 1001285 is my favourite number.
As for paradoxes, I prefer the old swing paradoxes to funky ones. Bluegrass paradoxes are nice too. Remind me of home....
There are different kinds of intelligence. Some people can solve complicated problems like getting laid but can't handle simple problems like calculating pi to 15 places using a couple of paper clips a rubber band and a slinky. This doesn't make them useless to society, and I think we should celebrate our differences.
To look at it another way, Einsein supposedly intuited a lot of his work and then proved it later. He had that kind of mind. If Einstein had been a goat herd 2000 years ago, the accepted mode of proof would have been vastly different, so proof from them rates as primitive religion now just as general relativity is the superstitious mumbo jumbo of the future. I'd take you in my time machine to prove it, but it only seats one and I know you're prone to not returning them... or will be on July 12th, 2017.
Also, Einsein was wrong about a whole lot of stuff, but that doesn't make his contribution useless. Ditto for the goat herders.
If someone does finally work it out, kill him. Until then, being open to the idea that someone who can't read or write but can play world class lawn bowls probably has as much, if not more insight into the true nature of nature than Hawking et al is a healthy perspective.
That's ok - he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
??????!
OMG! It was terrible! There we were, me and Johnny just looking at boobs when everything went quiet. Then WHAM! Johnny's screaming and and his hard drive's thrashing around everywhere man. Then he goes quiet and I'm alone under heavy DoS right in the middle of a fricken ambush by 317337 haxorz! And there's Johnny, lying there pwned! HE GOT PWNED MAN!
If you need plants, then you need them to pollinate and theirs no point in the astronomer spending his time being a garderer so your best of sending some bees.
ssssh man, this is/. If you're going suggest sending bees, at least make them robotic killer bees...
(Think of how the Polynesians colonized the entire Pacific in simple canoes.) ... Some other culture will do this, and we'll talk about how barbaric they are for trading so callously in the lives of their astronauts.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if another culture will do it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do it as a return trip.
Other propulsions systems could make a round trip feasible by allowing solar powered launch. A culture that believes big, loud, exciting rockets are the only way to lift things into orbit, that will not commit any funding to alternative designs which work in computer simulations and have been around since the late nineteen eighties while supporting development of further rocket technology, that culture will fail to go much beyond the moon return.
To take the canoe example, do you think the Polynesians powered their canoes by facing backward and throwing shit overboard?
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Man, you just criticized macs on ./
Kiss your karma goodbye.
Australia actually relaxed copyright laws in 2006 or 07 I think. We had silly copyright laws that until the DMCA were far worse than the US. Thankfully they are not generally enforced to the letter, or just about everyone throughout the 80s and 90s would have been gaoled for taping their favorite TV shows.
Oh and by the way, africa is a continent, not a country.
Don't thank me. Just doing my bit to help one of our American friends overcome their inherent failure to grok geography.
I take him seriously and I agree with him on that point. I don't think that the Israeli people should have to die, although a in country with such a history of fanaticism I would expect many would be willing to, maybe all those people who hang out at the golden calf^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwailing wall. What I am saying is that in my opinion "Israel", the text in that funny shape drawn on a map, should be erased and replace with Palestine. What's wrong with that?
Seriously, why should a peaceful Middle-Eastern nation of Christians, Muslims and Jews be destroyed to compensate the European Jews for crimes committed against them in Europe? Why should any nation born from a dirty deal struck between Britain and terrorists be given any support at all? Why is the US so keen to prosecute Muslim terrorism but do nothing against extreme Zionism?
Seriously, wipe "Israel" off the map and put Palestine back where it belongs.
That's a good point. One that I obviously missed earlier. Thanks.
I thought the advantage of standards was to reduce divergence in systems. The more implementations of particular items, such as screws, conform to a standard, such as phillips head, the better it is for the people who use screws.
Energy has/is being focused on implementations of another standard and there are already good implementations of the formats you mention from numerous sources including Microsoft.
The problem with OOXML is that it cannot be implemented by anyone other than a single vendor because the format as defined contains references to specific behavior without actually specifying said behavior.
Where a vote has been passed on an obviously incomplete specification and through such blatant corruption, it should be challenged. This is the duty of anyone who values freedom and democracy - and for people intelligent enough to appreciate the importance of the the rule of law. The fact that the format was pushed through by Microsoft in particular is irrelevant to this point.
The UKUUG taking legal action over the corruption in the vote doesn't make them look like whiners. It makes them look like learned elders who are about to take a stick to a bunch of delinquents. And all power to them.
Protest against the standardization of OOXML doesn't appear technologically backwards when conducted in an appropriate forum and it portrays OOXML as the backwards step it truly is.
As the web makes it possible for more devices from more vendors to inter-operate seamlessly, along comes a format which is only really implementable by one vendor. If someone was to try this with heads or threads, they'd be totally screwed. Microsoft needed to pay to have this pass and by highlighting that at every step of the way, the more money they pour into this, the more corrupt they appear and the more they blacken their own name.
Oh nonononono. Silly little monkey.
This is not about a product. This is about a format to be implemented by anyone who can read a specification
A reasonable open standard already exists.
Using the judiciary to defeat corruption wherever it exists is entirely correct. That is one of the reasons for it's existence.
Toss pot
...but I though unobtainium's atomic number was pi.
I never said I agree with them. Just said that's the case they're attempting to make. Paying attention doesn't make me an idiot.
I understood that as soon as I read it.
No more computer for at least a month.
The slashdot summary does. TFA says that they are being sued for allowing file sharing on their infrastructure. The fact that they don't use filtering products such as (but not limited to) CopySense is evidence that they are complicit with file sharers.
I'm not saying they're not a pack of F**king idiots who are sure to lose in any justice system where the 'just' part of justice is meaningful, just pointing out that this is not exactly extortion.
Are you trying to start a religious war? Python's alright and all, but I wouldn't put Java and Python in the same category.
For one thing Python is dynamically typed and Java isn't and there are a lot of cases where I personally prefer the rigor of a language with strict typing. Or perhaps you're a bit confused between Java and JavaScript? A lot of people make that mistake.
Your comment is a funny troll, which is still a troll.
Okay, but is that more than 1 billion sold, more than 1,000,000,000 sold, more than 1,000,000,000,000 sold, more than 1,073,741,824 sold, or what?
I'm usually pretty quick to defend the Blender UI, I'm one of those people who understands how quick and powerful it really is, but this time I have to agree.
Any tutorial on video editing in Blender should be akin to a tutorial on cleaning teeth which starts with:
Otherwise, it's lying or incomplete.
I'm not going to say it's no different, but speaking as someone who is neither American or Russian, I see having to hand my laptop over to a bunch of oafs in the airport so they can go through it as more invasive than being required to register my wifi adapter. But maybe that's just me.
Yeah, you just keep telling yourself you live in the land of the free if that's what makes you feel good.
Studying the effects of high background radiation on coconuts is hardly going provide much insight into the effects on, say, human brains.
... at least not in my case ...
I use most of the gui tools on ubuntu to do configurations. Sometimes I jump into a terminal to do some config, but usually it's just to back up menu.lst or xorg.conf so I can replace it the next time an automatic update hoses them.
It's true that I prefer clicking a checkbox to typing "vi somethingjjjjjjjjjjllcwSomeSetting=thisnewvalue:wq" but I wonder, does preferring a simple graphical method of setting something over a complicated set of operations make me stupid? Or is it the person who insists that everything should only be done the hard way who is a little stupid?
I don't really know the answer, but I do know that after years of using a terminal to set everything up, having a simple graphical environment is very refreshing. If you really believe everything should be done the hard way, ditch your mouse and keyboard while the rest of us evolve.
Now that linux is going mainstream, you might have to switch to freedos.
Bye
I'm sure if the movie was sponsored by Red Hat, Sun and IBM, Iron Man would get his arse kicked by Big-Iron Man - who runs Linux of course.
Jurisdiction was the first thought that popped into my head
IANALSIIPT(I am not a lawyer specialising in international patent treaties), but it seems to me that they need to source a company prepared to perform the manouvre from a country that does not respect US patents in all their absurtity.
Said company, perhaps owned and operated by a toothless fish monger with excellent business accumen and ability to hire the right people from around the world, and existing for the sole purpose of moving one space vehicle, moves the satellite and retires very happily on US$100pcm. A small donation from the team, perhaps for Hawaiian shirt Fridays, should cover that.
Cheaper than buying a license and just a little bit cheeki^H^H^Haper.
This is the benefit of globalisation. While we in the more "advanced" countries are subject to absolute stupidity imposed by our own arrogance, there is always some old Toothless Jaun willing to do his bit for the benefit of humanity and they are more accessible than ever.
I'm all for it. Jeez, I should charge top dollar for this kind of fix.
Actually, he's not far off the truth. I always had the UID and the username/password. I just had to pick a time when your primitive "computer" will accept them. As for getting a four digit UID, why would I settle for four when I can have seven? And 1001285 is my favourite number.
As for paradoxes, I prefer the old swing paradoxes to funky ones. Bluegrass paradoxes are nice too. Remind me of home....
But I will been to use the one you will gave me next year. Did you will want it back?
There are different kinds of intelligence. Some people can solve complicated problems like getting laid but can't handle simple problems like calculating pi to 15 places using a couple of paper clips a rubber band and a slinky. This doesn't make them useless to society, and I think we should celebrate our differences.
To look at it another way, Einsein supposedly intuited a lot of his work and then proved it later. He had that kind of mind. If Einstein had been a goat herd 2000 years ago, the accepted mode of proof would have been vastly different, so proof from them rates as primitive religion now just as general relativity is the superstitious mumbo jumbo of the future. I'd take you in my time machine to prove it, but it only seats one and I know you're prone to not returning them... or will be on July 12th, 2017.
Also, Einsein was wrong about a whole lot of stuff, but that doesn't make his contribution useless. Ditto for the goat herders.
If someone does finally work it out, kill him. Until then, being open to the idea that someone who can't read or write but can play world class lawn bowls probably has as much, if not more insight into the true nature of nature than Hawking et al is a healthy perspective.
Yep.
That's why I buy Microsoft products. I'll support anyone who sticks it to the big, evil, nasty IBM.
??????!
OMG! It was terrible! There we were, me and Johnny just looking at boobs when everything went quiet. Then WHAM! Johnny's screaming and and his hard drive's thrashing around everywhere man. Then he goes quiet and I'm alone under heavy DoS right in the middle of a fricken ambush by 317337 haxorz! And there's Johnny, lying there pwned! HE GOT PWNED MAN!
ssssh man, this is /. If you're going suggest sending bees, at least make them robotic killer bees...
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if another culture will do it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do it as a return trip.
Other propulsions systems could make a round trip feasible by allowing solar powered launch. A culture that believes big, loud, exciting rockets are the only way to lift things into orbit, that will not commit any funding to alternative designs which work in computer simulations and have been around since the late nineteen eighties while supporting development of further rocket technology, that culture will fail to go much beyond the moon return.
To take the canoe example, do you think the Polynesians powered their canoes by facing backward and throwing shit overboard?
Is fractionated some kind of wierd post tensile enconjurfiverbificationization of fraction? What's wrong with divided? Or distributed may be better.
While some may think that inventing new words with more syllables makes them sound more intelligent, it just makes them sound really, really stupid.
Oh yeah, it's US defence... sorry, as you were...