Interesting point. I guess it really comes down to the language used. To broadcast (as a transitive verb) means to make something known to a large sum of people. It is not illegal to record a game and watch it at a later time. (DVR, VHS, etc) What is in question is where it is broadcasted. So, the question is, is it illegal to record via VHS a game and take it with you on your trip to X city and watch it there? Slingbox does not broadcast it for all to see, it transports it to the customer whom had the rights in the first place to watch it where every he/she may be.
I don't think this will stand up in court. Otherwise to record on an easily transportable media like VHS and DVD would be illegal.
If your cat/books/whatever else is in view of the general public, then your lack of privacy is your doing. Not Google's.
If you don't want someone seeing your cat or your books, cover your window. The street is a public place and anyone can go there are look anywhere they want. Why don't you call John Doe that takes your street to his work and tell him to stop looking around in front of your house.
Their agreement is between MLB and broadcasters. The people watching it aren't even part of the agreement. The broadcasters broadcasted the media in the consumers area, and the consumer watched it. They just choose to watch it some place other than their own home.
Who said anything about notepad? Notepad turned into Wordpad. Wordpad turned into Micrsoft Word. Apps are getting bigger not smaller. For one, I think web browsers should be written parallel allowing threads to handle embedded technologies like Flash, Silveright, Java, JavaFX, Flex, etc that are now apart of most websites.
This is kind of weak excuse. Obviously, Dell would make some notice of this upon purchasing Ubuntu. It's like when buying a car, the usually make it known if you are buying a car that uses diesel instead of gasoline.
On top of that, you usually have a choice of applications to install. You can have KOffice or OpenOffice, or just word processor like AbiWord. You usually have a myriad of choices for most applications. If you don't, it's usually because there is one app that pretty much dominates.
I like Gentoo, but if you like a smooth desktop experience; I doubt you will switch back to Gentoo. I installed Ubuntu 7 right after it came out, there is no Linux desktop that compares. I was completely blown away at how much better it is than all the other distros desktop wise.
Microsoft cited administrative overhead for not detailing the 235 Microsoft patents its chief legal counsel recently told Forbes exist in Linux and open source.
This is true! An extra 235 patents to monitor would overload their workforce that is already concentrating on the 235,000 bugs located in the first release of Vista! (May I say 135,000 of those deal with using Vista as a gaming platform)
government-backed study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, found that some teachers are reluctant to teach history lessons on the Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
While people can believe what they wish, you cannot *not* teach history because a group refuses to acknowledge the fact. That is like when the Catholic church refused to accept scientific facts that refuted what they taught and demanded that all studies cease, destroyed their work and jailed and or killed the scientist.
All people deserve to know all the facts from the beginning. Afterwards, they can decide how they use those facts. To deny them, question them, or outright accept them.
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It comes down to the mighty dollar. (or whatever currency your ship runs on)
Not only are they bucking Microsoft, they've already started bucking Intel with the addition of AMD processors. I'm more than sure that AMD's press release about ATI providing better Linux support has a boat-load to do with all the Linux noise Dell is making.
This is what I think it happening...
* Dell is seeing the market change.
* They aren't doing as well as they were.
* HP sold 60k Linux corporate desktops.
* IdeaStorm's most vocal users are screaming Linux!
* AMD made Dell an offer to get them to sell AMD products.
* AMD offered better ATI driver support for Dell's new Linux desktops and laptops.
* Dell sees a chance to use it's vendors (AMD/ATI) to make the move to Linux cheaper.
* Dell wants to become the leader in Linux desktops and laptops rather than allowing HP to do it.
* If Dell starts selling Linux, Microsoft will have to compete and drop the price of Windows.
This is a win all around for Dell and Dell's customers. In this case, Dell's win is a big win for all open source users.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
Two points here. First, he was selling the product when he said this, and secondly he was actually right in the idea of it. It just happen to be Windows and not OS/2. Microsoft attacked the general market. IBM only knew about dealing with businesses. Once Microsoft moved away from OS/2 and went full bore on Windows, OS/2's days were numbered even though OS/2 had a lot of things going for it over Windows.
I only buy Nvidia because it just runs better under Linux even though ATI is better on Windows. I happen to run both and I want the best of both worlds. My guess is this is partly because of the change of momentum towards Linux on the corporate desktop over the last year.
Some people will be sure to downplay this, but I think this is really the beginning. It will take time, but I expect that Linux desktop graphics will closely compete with the Windows desktop soon.
Nvidia, this is your wakeup call. Follow suit, or my next graphics card will ATI.
Stuff like this makes me not feel so bad that China has a government owned Disneylan.. err Shijingshan Amusement Park. http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678
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Interesting point. I guess it really comes down to the language used. To broadcast (as a transitive verb) means to make something known to a large sum of people. It is not illegal to record a game and watch it at a later time. (DVR, VHS, etc) What is in question is where it is broadcasted. So, the question is, is it illegal to record via VHS a game and take it with you on your trip to X city and watch it there? Slingbox does not broadcast it for all to see, it transports it to the customer whom had the rights in the first place to watch it where every he/she may be.
I don't think this will stand up in court. Otherwise to record on an easily transportable media like VHS and DVD would be illegal.
If your cat/books/whatever else is in view of the general public, then your lack of privacy is your doing. Not Google's.
If you don't want someone seeing your cat or your books, cover your window. The street is a public place and anyone can go there are look anywhere they want. Why don't you call John Doe that takes your street to his work and tell him to stop looking around in front of your house.
Your 15 minutes are up.
Their agreement is between MLB and broadcasters. The people watching it aren't even part of the agreement. The broadcasters broadcasted the media in the consumers area, and the consumer watched it. They just choose to watch it some place other than their own home.
OS, Office, Samba, Music Players, Directory Browsers, ...well, I'm bored.
Yes, but who is to say that all the software used in SUSE will remain GPLv2?
Who said anything about notepad? Notepad turned into Wordpad. Wordpad turned into Micrsoft Word. Apps are getting bigger not smaller. For one, I think web browsers should be written parallel allowing threads to handle embedded technologies like Flash, Silveright, Java, JavaFX, Flex, etc that are now apart of most websites.
Sounds like a zealot extremist. While I believe some, I'm more than sure someone *heard* something and is trying to get their name in lights.
Move along, nothing to see here.
There is a reason the movie Madagascar called New Jersey a cesspool.
This is kind of weak excuse. Obviously, Dell would make some notice of this upon purchasing Ubuntu. It's like when buying a car, the usually make it known if you are buying a car that uses diesel instead of gasoline.
I agree. If I go to Dell's site and select Home System->XPS->XPS410 I only get the option for Windows when it ask me to choose an operating system.
I guess I just didn't find the back page that actually offers Ubuntu.
On top of that, you usually have a choice of applications to install. You can have KOffice or OpenOffice, or just word processor like AbiWord. You usually have a myriad of choices for most applications. If you don't, it's usually because there is one app that pretty much dominates.
I like Gentoo, but if you like a smooth desktop experience; I doubt you will switch back to Gentoo. I installed Ubuntu 7 right after it came out, there is no Linux desktop that compares. I was completely blown away at how much better it is than all the other distros desktop wise.
Microsoft cited administrative overhead for not detailing the 235 Microsoft patents its chief legal counsel recently told Forbes exist in Linux and open source.
This is true! An extra 235 patents to monitor would overload their workforce that is already concentrating on the 235,000 bugs located in the first release of Vista! (May I say 135,000 of those deal with using Vista as a gaming platform)
If they start taxing Email I will just start using Gmail!
Now take that you bastards!
government-backed study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, found that some teachers are reluctant to teach history lessons on the Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
While people can believe what they wish, you cannot *not* teach history because a group refuses to acknowledge the fact. That is like when the Catholic church refused to accept scientific facts that refuted what they taught and demanded that all studies cease, destroyed their work and jailed and or killed the scientist.
All people deserve to know all the facts from the beginning. Afterwards, they can decide how they use those facts. To deny them, question them, or outright accept them.
It comes down to the mighty dollar. (or whatever currency your ship runs on)
Not only are they bucking Microsoft, they've already started bucking Intel with the addition of AMD processors. I'm more than sure that AMD's press release about ATI providing better Linux support has a boat-load to do with all the Linux noise Dell is making.
This is what I think it happening...
* Dell is seeing the market change.
* They aren't doing as well as they were.
* HP sold 60k Linux corporate desktops.
* IdeaStorm's most vocal users are screaming Linux!
* AMD made Dell an offer to get them to sell AMD products.
* AMD offered better ATI driver support for Dell's new Linux desktops and laptops.
* Dell sees a chance to use it's vendors (AMD/ATI) to make the move to Linux cheaper.
* Dell wants to become the leader in Linux desktops and laptops rather than allowing HP to do it.
* If Dell starts selling Linux, Microsoft will have to compete and drop the price of Windows.
This is a win all around for Dell and Dell's customers. In this case, Dell's win is a big win for all open source users.
Mod this up. I had 5 unused mod points yesterday because I couldn't find a worthy post that wasn't already modded up.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
Two points here. First, he was selling the product when he said this, and secondly he was actually right in the idea of it. It just happen to be Windows and not OS/2. Microsoft attacked the general market. IBM only knew about dealing with businesses. Once Microsoft moved away from OS/2 and went full bore on Windows, OS/2's days were numbered even though OS/2 had a lot of things going for it over Windows.
I beg to differ. It's not 1997 anymore. Technology has changed since then and you can in fact get full fault tolerance with proper implementation.
Is it just me or does sound like the beginnings of the SCO/IBM fiasco repeating itself?
I only buy Nvidia because it just runs better under Linux even though ATI is better on Windows. I happen to run both and I want the best of both worlds. My guess is this is partly because of the change of momentum towards Linux on the corporate desktop over the last year.
Some people will be sure to downplay this, but I think this is really the beginning. It will take time, but I expect that Linux desktop graphics will closely compete with the Windows desktop soon.
Nvidia, this is your wakeup call. Follow suit, or my next graphics card will ATI.
Isn't this what AIX did years back when they released AIX 5L? (L for Linux)
Stuff like this makes me not feel so bad that China has a government owned Disneylan.. err Shijingshan Amusement Park. http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678
That usually depends if you are looking at a x.0 or a x.1 release. :)
Your post is frivolous because you didn't read the story. She isn't suing MySpace. She is suing the university.