No, that is not true.. You *CAN* deal with obesity and overweight problems and "beauty" problems, but you CANNOT deal with or *cure* your skin colour, or if you're missing a leg, or you have problems breathing, this is the main difference why I find it "easier" to laugh at people who are dirty, smelly, fat, lazy, or stupid - because all those can be taken care of, whereas anything you're born with, or physically stuck with is not. This is why it's NOT OK to laugh at handicapped people or people with mental retardation or anything of that kind.
Because apparently my alias "zdrux" is too short to meet their naming requirements, whic is sort of annoying, but pretty much the only thing keeping me from going that route. And also the fact that I can access my hotmail using outlook express without need for a web browser and the need to type in my login details anytime I wish to check my webmail.
Both Vista AND total new screwup that it brings fall under "news" and "technology" that you come here to see, so I don't think it's the editor's fault that Vista just seems to take the spotlight every other day on here. If it was a smooth release with not a single bug found, it probably wouldn't get my attention on slashdot, but because it keeps failing misserably and invalid keys are a HUGE problem, this is something that needs to be mentioned.
I can understand your frustration if they would post every little bug that someone finds, but nobody cares about those.. but when you're upgrading a system and realize you bought a useless coaster, and now possibly your computer is un-workable, I think the masses have the right to know.
Indeed. I also am a Canadian and have been watching in disbelief what is happening in the United States. Everything that you have said in your reply is true, and the main reason why all this bothers me is that I fear it will spread and flow over into Canada eventually. Our Canadian government has displayed positive outcomes in cases concerning the people's privacy laws and I can only hope that this reamain true in the future.
However, with Bush's strong-arm tactics, I fear that our Canadian leaders may be swayed to impose similiar law-breaking and unethical tactics on the people in Canada. I can only pray it doesn't come to this and that the situation in the U.S. improves not only for the good people living in the U.S. but also to save ourselves in Canada.
From the article
This bandwidth leveraging hasn't been a problem to date, but it is about to become a huge problem as we all embrace Internet video. When we are all grabbing one to two hours of high-quality video per day off the net, there is no way the current network infrastructure will support that level of use.
Personally I think this guy's an idiot. The more into the future you go, the more bandwidth we use, which is true - but what is also true is that RIGHT NOW this second we are using more bandwidth than we did yesterday, and the day before that.. yet I fail to see any signs of servers around the world suddenly bursting into flames because they're being flooded with packets.
This goes right along the theory of the whole internet blowing up one day because of over-use.. no wait, that IS the same theory.
From the article:
It is becoming very obvious what will happen over the next two to three years. More and more of us will be downloading movies and television shows over the net and with that our usage patterns will change. Instead of using 1-3 gigabytes per month, as most broadband Internet users have in recent years, we'll go to 1-3 gigabytes per DAY -- a 30X increase that will place a huge backbone burden on ISPs.
Hahaha, I wonder where he pulls these numbers out of? I may be using more bandwidth now than a year ago, but I doubt it's 30% more.. maybe more like 10% more (if that). The truth is that whatever our internet and bandwidth habits are, they will probably stay that way for a long time. So for example if 30% of the internet users are heavy bandwidth users, then it will most likely stay that way, even if the number of internet users grow by two-fold, only 30% of them will be heavy bandwidth users. The demand grows with the ammount of service the ISP's provide, but obviously he's not see'ing that.
Do not... repeat DO NOT... try to shave your balls with a "Gillette Fusion" razor (the one with five blades.) Why? Not like anybody on/. has any use for them. Don't worry, you're not loosing anything usefull.
...violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product'
So how far can this law be interpreted? For example, at which point in life does a computer become a "computer" ?! Is it still called a computer if it doesn't have a harddrive? Is it still considered a computer if it doesn't have a video card? What about an OS? What about a monitor? Mouse? All these things are not *necessarily* needed to run a computer, but are part of a "packagage" that 99% of the population wants. They don't have to be given a choice if they want to buy a computer with a harddrive or not, because it's "assumed" that they do.
I think this lawsuit is really a little out of this world.. this computer that you're buying is not "tied" into ANYTHING, you can delete windows and install any OS you wish and request the refund from your XP if you're so ANTI-Windows, or ANTI-pre-installed OS. And if your mother is so computer savvy that she feels confident in being able to install Linux by herself and wants to spend that hour sitting in front of her brand new computer doing nothing but making sure ths install goes right, then why the hell are you buying a computer from a company who sells it with Windows pre-installed? Why not go out and build your own if this company does not provide you with a product that suits your needs?
What this law is trying to prevent possibly is buying a car, and having to ONLY use their repair centers and fill up only at THEIR gas stations. This is NOT reffering to selling a car with or without tires because tires are part of the "full package" much like the OS. None of those things are required to run the other, but it's assumed that you'd want them.
I hope we don't start see'ing lawsuits in France that forbid selling computers all-together, because Dell is tying you into their sound-card manufacturers, their harddrive manufacturers, and their cd-rom drive manufacturers, etc...
Is it really necessary to bash this? I mean.. is anybody here going to run out and buy a PSP right this minute because of this deceptive marketing campaign?
Obviously not because we don't need some half-ass blog to tell us that a PSP is cool or uncool, we can make that judgement ourselves. Like someone else here said, the only people who will actually pay ANY attention to this are the people who are already looking to buy a PSP for x-mas and want to share their desire for the PSP with others. Anybody else will spend about 10sec. on the site and move on to something else.
Anybody ignorant enough to suddenly have the urge to buy a PSP after looking at that blog should probably go ahead and throw away their money on it, since I doubt they'd think of anything better to spend it on.
...why not just bite the bullet and download a good desktop Linux distro? It's free. It's arguably more capable than Vista.
Because Linux does not run Everquest and 99% of the other games I like to play on a regular basis. So as far as a "Conveninent home OS that everybody can use" - Windows is still king regardless of what everybody says.
If I had the luxury of having 2 or 3 system in my house, then I would be running Windows for the family, and Linux on the other 2 for myself, but untill the time comes when Linux can have the type of compatibility with the every-day apps that Microsoft provides, I don't think my family would appreciate me switching over to Linux. And that I think, is the main reason why Linux is still not on the majority of people's computers.
I`m assuming they will have alternate ways of re-activating your license once every 6 months (as it seems that's what it requires) - much like XP, you can simply phone up and activate over phone. Except this time you wouldn't be activating your client machine, you'd be activating the local server that validates your client machines.
The software, loaded with the long name of "Microsoft.Windows.Vista.Local.Activation.Server-M elindaGates" is available on several pirate Web sites. It spoofs a Key Management Service server, one of the two technologies that Microsoft debuted last month that let businesses activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista. KMS requires that at least 25 PCs be connected to a corporation's network.
All I can say is: [nelson voice]ha ha !![/nelson voice]
I suppose you are all correct. Maybe I had the wrong mind-set by trying to compare this with what I knew when I was that age. Cellphone's were still fairly rare and only available to bussiness man with deep pockets so it wasn't an issue, there were no laws about it, and nobody really cared.
How can one possibly be sure that you're not violating anybody's copyright when creating something so complicated as a console system? With thousands of different copyrights protecting hundreds of different idea's, how do you as a company protect yourself from litigation? Assuming Nintendo did not willfully violate the copyright, is there anything they could have done to prevent this, apart from going throught thousands of patents trying to see if what they're doing falls under any one of them?
I think there should be a law where you as a patent holder must warn the company that violated your copyright, at which point that company (Nintendo in this case) can either:
1. Change the design of the device and pay you royalties on the ammount of devices produced with the old design
OR
2. Continue to design the controllers in the same way, but agree on royalties, avoiding any legal costs in the first place.
In addition to feeling neglected, kids fear BlackBerrys and Treos can put their lives in jeopardy as Mom and Dad type away while driving.
I think that's rubbish, there's no way a kid under the age of 15 would spot the danger of talking on a cellphone while driving unless it was explained to him/her by their parents althought I don't see a good reason to at that age.
As for the parents sneaking away during dinner to use their blackberry's.. hmm, a little childish (pun intended) for sure and clearly shows where their priorities are placed. I doubt there's anything that urgant that comes in to your blackberry not to be able to put it away for another hour or so untill after you are done dinner with your family. Granted, you may be a doctor or surgeon who's on-call, but then again those type of calls wouldn't happen often enough to warrant the kids to complain about lack of attention (at least I hope they don't).
Ohh great, now it only takes someone to log onto their AOL account to get sued for illegal downloads. Time to disconnect now boys! (Not that any of us use AOL)
...'As the body of evidence accumulates, people can become more reassured that these devices are safe, but the final word is not there yet,' Muscat added."
That's just the problem with these surveys and tests, they are never 100% conclusive. This urban myth (or not) will go on for years and years, untill someone gets cancer from a cell-phone (or points in that direction) and then this theory will be crushed, other than that, it`ll always be taken with a grain of salt.
This is similiar to "Video games cause violence in children" - everyone will preach and put a lot of effort into trying to prove that the two are not related, and all it takes is one ignorant politician or psychologist to tie them together and everything goes down the drain.
Anybody remember the cell-phone at the gas station incident? Same thing, disproven - but the myth will hang in the air for years to come.
Ladies and gentleman, maybe it's time you start archiving all the current and future version of uTorrent incase they decide to implement "features" you don't want. Having a copy sit somewhere on CD isn't a bad idea anyway.
I have personally tried uTorrent and don't like it, and went back to Azureus. Mainly because I have gotten too used to the interface, and it's open-source project so I know what I`m getting.
But it was the way that Spyware Cleaner was marketed that attracted the Attorney General's attention in the first place. The company allegedly spammed users to advertise its product, included deceptive subject lines, failed to include an opt-out mechanism, and suggested that the product was "discounted" for a "limited time," when in reality it was always available for the same price. I`m *very* happy to see the government does not differentiate between spammers, and spammers acting as legitimate companies. To me it doesn't matter if it's your son delibatery sending me spam or your boss, you're all equally convicted of being jerks in my eyes, and I`m glad to see this court had the same point of view on this.
"By tidying up a small part of the copyright law, we believe Gowers may well be opening the floodgates to uncontrolled and unstoppable private copying and sharing from person to person, as well as format to format."
Wha.. huh? Do they really think people have been sitting under a rock all these years and haven't already thought of sharing their music either physically or electronically? Yea, I`m sure there's billions of people just WAITING for this to be legal so they can finally do it!
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No, that is not true.. You *CAN* deal with obesity and overweight problems and "beauty" problems, but you CANNOT deal with or *cure* your skin colour, or if you're missing a leg, or you have problems breathing, this is the main difference why I find it "easier" to laugh at people who are dirty, smelly, fat, lazy, or stupid - because all those can be taken care of, whereas anything you're born with, or physically stuck with is not. This is why it's NOT OK to laugh at handicapped people or people with mental retardation or anything of that kind.
Because apparently my alias "zdrux" is too short to meet their naming requirements, whic is sort of annoying, but pretty much the only thing keeping me from going that route. And also the fact that I can access my hotmail using outlook express without need for a web browser and the need to type in my login details anytime I wish to check my webmail.
I don't know if I`m missing some information here but... what in the world does DRM have anything to do with Nvidia's drivers not working in Vista?!
Customer: Does this card work with vista, right out of the box like it says on the box?
Microsoft: Yes.
Nvidia: Yes.
Reality: No.
That's the end of story, there's no IFs ANDs or BUTs about it. You paid for something that doesn't work as advertised, nothing else matters.
Both Vista AND total new screwup that it brings fall under "news" and "technology" that you come here to see, so I don't think it's the editor's fault that Vista just seems to take the spotlight every other day on here. If it was a smooth release with not a single bug found, it probably wouldn't get my attention on slashdot, but because it keeps failing misserably and invalid keys are a HUGE problem, this is something that needs to be mentioned.
I can understand your frustration if they would post every little bug that someone finds, but nobody cares about those.. but when you're upgrading a system and realize you bought a useless coaster, and now possibly your computer is un-workable, I think the masses have the right to know.
Indeed. I also am a Canadian and have been watching in disbelief what is happening in the United States. Everything that you have said in your reply is true, and the main reason why all this bothers me is that I fear it will spread and flow over into Canada eventually. Our Canadian government has displayed positive outcomes in cases concerning the people's privacy laws and I can only hope that this reamain true in the future.
However, with Bush's strong-arm tactics, I fear that our Canadian leaders may be swayed to impose similiar law-breaking and unethical tactics on the people in Canada. I can only pray it doesn't come to this and that the situation in the U.S. improves not only for the good people living in the U.S. but also to save ourselves in Canada.
This bandwidth leveraging hasn't been a problem to date, but it is about to become a huge problem as we all embrace Internet video. When we are all grabbing one to two hours of high-quality video per day off the net, there is no way the current network infrastructure will support that level of use.
Personally I think this guy's an idiot. The more into the future you go, the more bandwidth we use, which is true - but what is also true is that RIGHT NOW this second we are using more bandwidth than we did yesterday, and the day before that.. yet I fail to see any signs of servers around the world suddenly bursting into flames because they're being flooded with packets.
This goes right along the theory of the whole internet blowing up one day because of over-use.. no wait, that IS the same theory.
From the article:
It is becoming very obvious what will happen over the next two to three years. More and more of us will be downloading movies and television shows over the net and with that our usage patterns will change. Instead of using 1-3 gigabytes per month, as most broadband Internet users have in recent years, we'll go to 1-3 gigabytes per DAY -- a 30X increase that will place a huge backbone burden on ISPs.
Hahaha, I wonder where he pulls these numbers out of? I may be using more bandwidth now than a year ago, but I doubt it's 30% more.. maybe more like 10% more (if that). The truth is that whatever our internet and bandwidth habits are, they will probably stay that way for a long time. So for example if 30% of the internet users are heavy bandwidth users, then it will most likely stay that way, even if the number of internet users grow by two-fold, only 30% of them will be heavy bandwidth users. The demand grows with the ammount of service the ISP's provide, but obviously he's not see'ing that.
...violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product'So how far can this law be interpreted? For example, at which point in life does a computer become a "computer" ?! Is it still called a computer if it doesn't have a harddrive? Is it still considered a computer if it doesn't have a video card? What about an OS? What about a monitor? Mouse? All these things are not *necessarily* needed to run a computer, but are part of a "packagage" that 99% of the population wants. They don't have to be given a choice if they want to buy a computer with a harddrive or not, because it's "assumed" that they do.
I think this lawsuit is really a little out of this world.. this computer that you're buying is not "tied" into ANYTHING, you can delete windows and install any OS you wish and request the refund from your XP if you're so ANTI-Windows, or ANTI-pre-installed OS. And if your mother is so computer savvy that she feels confident in being able to install Linux by herself and wants to spend that hour sitting in front of her brand new computer doing nothing but making sure ths install goes right, then why the hell are you buying a computer from a company who sells it with Windows pre-installed? Why not go out and build your own if this company does not provide you with a product that suits your needs?
What this law is trying to prevent possibly is buying a car, and having to ONLY use their repair centers and fill up only at THEIR gas stations. This is NOT reffering to selling a car with or without tires because tires are part of the "full package" much like the OS. None of those things are required to run the other, but it's assumed that you'd want them.
I hope we don't start see'ing lawsuits in France that forbid selling computers all-together, because Dell is tying you into their sound-card manufacturers, their harddrive manufacturers, and their cd-rom drive manufacturers, etc...
Looks to me like everybody is using deceptive marketing and BS stories, see here: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/ 1411200 for the sony counterpart.
Is it really necessary to bash this? I mean.. is anybody here going to run out and buy a PSP right this minute because of this deceptive marketing campaign?
Obviously not because we don't need some half-ass blog to tell us that a PSP is cool or uncool, we can make that judgement ourselves. Like someone else here said, the only people who will actually pay ANY attention to this are the people who are already looking to buy a PSP for x-mas and want to share their desire for the PSP with others. Anybody else will spend about 10sec. on the site and move on to something else.
Anybody ignorant enough to suddenly have the urge to buy a PSP after looking at that blog should probably go ahead and throw away their money on it, since I doubt they'd think of anything better to spend it on.
My god! With so many bugs, I`m impressed that they even had the game running long enough for the judges to see what they're judging.
Boy, you have it EASY! Try explaining why the punch clock puts down 0.75 instead of "45 min." on their card, THEN it gets interesting.
Maybe you should tell him about Santa Claus while you're at it.
Because Linux does not run Everquest and 99% of the other games I like to play on a regular basis. So as far as a "Conveninent home OS that everybody can use" - Windows is still king regardless of what everybody says.
If I had the luxury of having 2 or 3 system in my house, then I would be running Windows for the family, and Linux on the other 2 for myself, but untill the time comes when Linux can have the type of compatibility with the every-day apps that Microsoft provides, I don't think my family would appreciate me switching over to Linux. And that I think, is the main reason why Linux is still not on the majority of people's computers.
I`m assuming they will have alternate ways of re-activating your license once every 6 months (as it seems that's what it requires) - much like XP, you can simply phone up and activate over phone. Except this time you wouldn't be activating your client machine, you'd be activating the local server that validates your client machines.
All I can say is: [nelson voice]ha ha !![/nelson voice]
I suppose you are all correct. Maybe I had the wrong mind-set by trying to compare this with what I knew when I was that age. Cellphone's were still fairly rare and only available to bussiness man with deep pockets so it wasn't an issue, there were no laws about it, and nobody really cared.
How can one possibly be sure that you're not violating anybody's copyright when creating something so complicated as a console system? With thousands of different copyrights protecting hundreds of different idea's, how do you as a company protect yourself from litigation? Assuming Nintendo did not willfully violate the copyright, is there anything they could have done to prevent this, apart from going throught thousands of patents trying to see if what they're doing falls under any one of them?
I think there should be a law where you as a patent holder must warn the company that violated your copyright, at which point that company (Nintendo in this case) can either:
1. Change the design of the device and pay you royalties on the ammount of devices produced with the old design
OR
2. Continue to design the controllers in the same way, but agree on royalties, avoiding any legal costs in the first place.
I think that's rubbish, there's no way a kid under the age of 15 would spot the danger of talking on a cellphone while driving unless it was explained to him/her by their parents althought I don't see a good reason to at that age.
As for the parents sneaking away during dinner to use their blackberry's.. hmm, a little childish (pun intended) for sure and clearly shows where their priorities are placed. I doubt there's anything that urgant that comes in to your blackberry not to be able to put it away for another hour or so untill after you are done dinner with your family. Granted, you may be a doctor or surgeon who's on-call, but then again those type of calls wouldn't happen often enough to warrant the kids to complain about lack of attention (at least I hope they don't).
Ohh great, now it only takes someone to log onto their AOL account to get sued for illegal downloads. Time to disconnect now boys! (Not that any of us use AOL)
...'As the body of evidence accumulates, people can become more reassured that these devices are safe, but the final word is not there yet,' Muscat added."That's just the problem with these surveys and tests, they are never 100% conclusive. This urban myth (or not) will go on for years and years, untill someone gets cancer from a cell-phone (or points in that direction) and then this theory will be crushed, other than that, it`ll always be taken with a grain of salt.
This is similiar to "Video games cause violence in children" - everyone will preach and put a lot of effort into trying to prove that the two are not related, and all it takes is one ignorant politician or psychologist to tie them together and everything goes down the drain.
Anybody remember the cell-phone at the gas station incident? Same thing, disproven - but the myth will hang in the air for years to come.
Ladies and gentleman, maybe it's time you start archiving all the current and future version of uTorrent incase they decide to implement "features" you don't want. Having a copy sit somewhere on CD isn't a bad idea anyway. I have personally tried uTorrent and don't like it, and went back to Azureus. Mainly because I have gotten too used to the interface, and it's open-source project so I know what I`m getting.
God damnit! Someone ALWAYS beats me to it!
Wha.. huh? Do they really think people have been sitting under a rock all these years and haven't already thought of sharing their music either physically or electronically? Yea, I`m sure there's billions of people just WAITING for this to be legal so they can finally do it!