"There has never been proof by any ISP that P2P is harming their businesses. Without proof, what they wish to do is nothing less than criminal."
even WITH proof... it just means they need to reevaluate their business strategy or become a thing of the past... it's called capitalism, some trades survive for generations, others don't.
Canonical are one of the big movers and shakers in the OSS world, and that they are putting so much effort into putting OSS on as many devices is possible is good to see.
Of course it could be a futile effort IF Nokia buy out Symbian and open up it's source.
why not just register a new internet account with your wife's name, then with your kids name.... by then the year suspension should be over on your first account, rinse and repeat
The law HASN'T been passed, and i'm willing to bet it won't be passed.
our Police are the most ignorant of our entire population and our Parliament has a fair bit more common sense than the USA govt... they do pass some stupid laws, just not nearly as many...
considering that the Wii costs a mere fraction of what a PS3 costs... being able to run linux means all you need is myth front end running on the Wii plus a cheap box with plenty of hard drive space and a hdtv tuner to host the myth backend and you'll still have plenty of money left over to buy games... games that are much more fun than the "multimedia driven" PS3...
the Wii's pricetag is certainly in the 21st century, the PS3's pricetag is somewhere in the realm of 24th century
"Nintendo is cracking down on mod chips and copying devices with the help of the Hong Kong government. 'The Hong Kong High Court has intervened, at Nintendo's request, to help stop a global distribution operation involving game copying devices and modification chips that can potentially be used to violate the copyrights and trademarks of Nintendo DS and Wii. On Oct. 8th, the court ordered the raid of Supreme Factory Limited facilities, through which Nintendo representatives seized more than 10,000 game copying devices and mod chips over the course of three days. The devices seized are used to copy and play Nintendo DS games backed up by their owner, not wishing to damage their expensive purchases, and to enable homebrew, and the mod chips allow the play of legally backed up Wii discs or homebrew games.'"
Seriously... you pay $70-100 for a game and then it gets damaged and u r up shit creek, mod chips enable the backing up of your valuable purchase.
Tahnkfully mod chips are still legal here in Australia
also... yes I am kidding you... if you take my instructions seriously then you are far more disturbed than I am for thinking up that solution in the first place... and should seek help
the word "heat" was in that article only once and was referring to other technology...
1. attend random funeral
2. come back late at night, dig up corpse and skin it
3. glue skin to your blow-up doll
4. ???
5. profit!
note: steps 1 and 2 can be replaced with doing the job yourself - "it puts the lotion on it's skin"
"knowingly or intentionally has sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex"
so it's ok to have sex with an unwilling member of the same sex?
interesting...
Indiana is a released felons dream state.
We only have 6 free to air stations:
ABC - which plays nothing but news, boring british shows and a few dull aussie shows that nobody but senior citizens watch
7, 9, 10: standard run of the mill stations that play aussie dramas / american tv shows and reality tv...
sbs: international channel that plays news in a few languages and also plays southpark... because 7,9,10 wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole when it first aired... bet the station execs are pissed at that decision
public access: who the hell is going to watch public access...
as you can see we don't have many stations... and with the bulk of tv now being reality tv because that is what the idiot masses wants it's no wonder that we have to wait 17 months for tv shows because there are a lot more shows out there to try and cram into less and less slots... it's only going to get worse unless we get a few more stations...
I don't even watch tv any more, i just download whatever shows I want to watch and watch them when i want to watch them...
Everyone keeps bashing on Microsoft in this article... but did anybody stop to think that if they set the price of a product at $X and the consumers were willing to pay this price instead of looking at open-source alternatives then it's the consumers own damn fault that they got ripped off.
Microsoft is NOT a monopoly, there's always an alternative if the consumer would just look past their noses they'd see it. Honestly bashing MS because they set a price they figured people would be willing to pay is just foolish... you should be bashing the people who were dumb enough to cough up the cash for MS products.
"It's about time someone decides to make a game that doesn't depend on the bleeding edge graphics, but focuses more on gameplay and fun factor."
umm... Nintendo have been doing this for years...
and has made this the major focus of the Wii... I'm surprised that Nintendo didn't go grab this guy before sony...
on my work machine (windows xp) I typically have about a dozen windows open and around 12 tabs in firefox,
typically i'll have:
2 or 3 instances of visual studio
an instance or two of VNC
Total commander (which probably has about 12 tabs open)
Firefox ( ~12 tabs 2 of which are using IE's engine (for testing purposes))
SQL Query Analyzer
Enterprise Manager
Winamp
UltraEdit(several tabs, depending on how many config files i'm fidgetting with)
if I use anything else i'll typically close it straight away after use coz otherwise the desktop becomes too damn cluttered...
which is why I use geoShell, very helpful tool...
at home, on my ubuntu/gentoo boxes I don't close any windows, just have a few on each desktop (god multiple desktops are great, why are there no desktop managers for windows that compare??? geoshells, nvidias and even microsofts desktop switching tools are all pathetic...)
on my home Windows PCs i'll typically only have a couple of windows open at a time...
Australia: It's like America, only without the schoolkids toting guns and the crowded cities, plus we have better weather and you can spend Christmas at the beach.
We don't have a political dictator like Bush, just a funny looking midget with big fuzzy eyebrows
We have a booming IT industry (at least in Perth at the moment, more jobs than people)
Oh, and we drive on the correct side of the road...
if they think that email spam has in some way diluted their brand and want to trademark the name spam, why didn't they sue Monty Python for their sketch so many years ago?
I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!
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except for my ex-wife, she was alive when i buried her.
"There has never been proof by any ISP that P2P is harming their businesses. Without proof, what they wish to do is nothing less than criminal."
even WITH proof... it just means they need to reevaluate their business strategy or become a thing of the past... it's called capitalism, some trades survive for generations, others don't.
Canonical are one of the big movers and shakers in the OSS world, and that they are putting so much effort into putting OSS on as many devices is possible is good to see. Of course it could be a futile effort IF Nokia buy out Symbian and open up it's source.
"Real problem is still TOO MANY PEOPLE."
well then stop being part of the problem and be part of the solution
commit suicide today!
why not just register a new internet account with your wife's name, then with your kids name.... by then the year suspension should be over on your first account, rinse and repeat
The law HASN'T been passed, and i'm willing to bet it won't be passed.
our Police are the most ignorant of our entire population and
our Parliament has a fair bit more common sense than the USA govt...
they do pass some stupid laws, just not nearly as many...
considering that the Wii costs a mere fraction of what a PS3 costs... being able to run linux means all you need is myth front end running on the Wii plus a cheap box with plenty of hard drive space and a hdtv tuner to host the myth backend and you'll still have plenty of money left over to buy games... games that are much more fun than the "multimedia driven" PS3...
the Wii's pricetag is certainly in the 21st century, the PS3's pricetag is somewhere in the realm of 24th century
"Nintendo is cracking down on mod chips and copying devices with the help of the Hong Kong government. 'The Hong Kong High Court has intervened, at Nintendo's request, to help stop a global distribution operation involving game copying devices and modification chips that can potentially be used to violate the copyrights and trademarks of Nintendo DS and Wii. On Oct. 8th, the court ordered the raid of Supreme Factory Limited facilities, through which Nintendo representatives seized more than 10,000 game copying devices and mod chips over the course of three days. The devices seized are used to copy and play Nintendo DS games backed up by their owner, not wishing to damage their expensive purchases, and to enable homebrew, and the mod chips allow the play of legally backed up Wii discs or homebrew games.'"
Seriously... you pay $70-100 for a game and then it gets damaged and u r up shit creek, mod chips enable the backing up of your valuable purchase.
Tahnkfully mod chips are still legal here in Australia
Piracy isn't theft, it's copyright infringement... don't buy into MAFIAA's propoganda machine.
wrong, he would have to pay them $65,534!
I for one welcome our new half man, half bear, half pig overlords! At least Al Gore will be right about something for a change...
also... yes I am kidding you... if you take my instructions seriously then you are far more disturbed than I am for thinking up that solution in the first place... and should seek help
the word "heat" was in that article only once and was referring to other technology...
RTFA
it's using infrared to detect the reflectiveness of skin, not to detect heat.
1. attend random funeral 2. come back late at night, dig up corpse and skin it 3. glue skin to your blow-up doll 4. ??? 5. profit! note: steps 1 and 2 can be replaced with doing the job yourself - "it puts the lotion on it's skin"
... and decreasing the cost from $4.7b to around $2b...
"knowingly or intentionally has sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex" so it's ok to have sex with an unwilling member of the same sex? interesting... Indiana is a released felons dream state.
the link just goes the the computerworld homepage...
and doing a search on their site for the word "battery" yeilds no results...
and upon trying to click it again the site appears to have gone down...
and here I actually wanted to RTFA
We only have 6 free to air stations: ABC - which plays nothing but news, boring british shows and a few dull aussie shows that nobody but senior citizens watch 7, 9, 10: standard run of the mill stations that play aussie dramas / american tv shows and reality tv... sbs: international channel that plays news in a few languages and also plays southpark... because 7,9,10 wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole when it first aired... bet the station execs are pissed at that decision public access: who the hell is going to watch public access... as you can see we don't have many stations... and with the bulk of tv now being reality tv because that is what the idiot masses wants it's no wonder that we have to wait 17 months for tv shows because there are a lot more shows out there to try and cram into less and less slots... it's only going to get worse unless we get a few more stations... I don't even watch tv any more, i just download whatever shows I want to watch and watch them when i want to watch them...
did anybody else read that as:
"More RAM == Better NOT"?
Everyone keeps bashing on Microsoft in this article... but did anybody stop to think that if they set the price of a product at $X and the consumers were willing to pay this price instead of looking at open-source alternatives then it's the consumers own damn fault that they got ripped off.
Microsoft is NOT a monopoly, there's always an alternative if the consumer would just look past their noses they'd see it. Honestly bashing MS because they set a price they figured people would be willing to pay is just foolish... you should be bashing the people who were dumb enough to cough up the cash for MS products.
"It's about time someone decides to make a game that doesn't depend on the bleeding edge graphics, but focuses more on gameplay and fun factor." umm... Nintendo have been doing this for years... and has made this the major focus of the Wii... I'm surprised that Nintendo didn't go grab this guy before sony...
on my work machine (windows xp) I typically have about a dozen windows open and around 12 tabs in firefox, typically i'll have: 2 or 3 instances of visual studio an instance or two of VNC Total commander (which probably has about 12 tabs open) Firefox ( ~12 tabs 2 of which are using IE's engine (for testing purposes)) SQL Query Analyzer Enterprise Manager Winamp UltraEdit(several tabs, depending on how many config files i'm fidgetting with) if I use anything else i'll typically close it straight away after use coz otherwise the desktop becomes too damn cluttered... which is why I use geoShell, very helpful tool... at home, on my ubuntu/gentoo boxes I don't close any windows, just have a few on each desktop (god multiple desktops are great, why are there no desktop managers for windows that compare??? geoshells, nvidias and even microsofts desktop switching tools are all pathetic...) on my home Windows PCs i'll typically only have a couple of windows open at a time...
so... the musicians should sue the RIAA for partnering with those that illegaly distrobution of THEIR content, blood, sweat and tears...
Australia:
It's like America, only without the schoolkids toting guns and the crowded cities, plus we have better weather and you can spend Christmas at the beach.
We don't have a political dictator like Bush, just a funny looking midget with big fuzzy eyebrows
We have a booming IT industry (at least in Perth at the moment, more jobs than people)
Oh, and we drive on the correct side of the road...
if they think that email spam has in some way diluted their brand and want to trademark the name spam, why didn't they sue Monty Python for their sketch so many years ago? I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!