So because a government does something wrong, the people of the nation it governs, even those that disagree with its actions, cannot speak out against other countries doing the same thing? Even if they also speak out against their government doing it?
Yes. The artist pays for promotion, too. And CD production. And recording... In fact, I can't think of a single thing the record label claims to pay for that doesn't come out of the artist's chunk.
The answer you're looking for is no. Their animated films in the early '90s were successes because of the storytelling, which interpreted elements that both kids and their parents could enjoy. Disney assumed it was because of the animation and the musical numbers, leading to their more recent animated crapfests. Pixar kept their focus on the story, and has turned out some real masterpieces.
Heck, look at Pirates of the Carribean. No-one, not even Disney, expected it to do that well. Note the distinct lack of hype before it hit theaters, and the distinct excess after. They wrote it off as a cheapass promotion for their theme park and ignored it... With the obvious results.
Almost as impressively, we can shortcut past one of the most dangerous and expensive parts of space flight - actually lifting off the ground in the first place. If you can get up cheaply and safely (and slowly) to low orbit and go from there...
the US is a nation that obeys the Geneva Convention
I've yet to see any proof of this. Recently, US tactics seem to say that attacking civilian targets is fair play in "shock and awe" tactics as long as you claim it was an accident. And torturing innocent civilians is perfectly acceptable as long as its an outlet for frustration or they might have useful information.
They already have. IIRC, most professional recording equipment has a tax incorporated into its purchase price that goes straight into the RIAA's pockets. Most recordable media does too, now. And they're trying to get it expanded to hard disks and other forms of permanent digital storage.
Your work produced an incredible movie - congrats. The faceless mob models still looked as iffy as in the originals, but everything else was much better. Especially the other humans. Very nice job indeed!
It seem to me more and more patents are being ruled as invalid, If this is indeed the case why are they being assigned in the first place ?
Its simple. The guidelines the patent office works with say that they are to assume a patent is valid unless clear evidence to the contrary is presented. If its invalid, the courts will sort it out. This maximizes their revenue, which is based on patents approved.
Juries in patent cases, OTOH, are (or possibly were) given guidelines telling them to, if there was any doubt, assume that the patent was valid. As if it was invalid, the patent office wouldn't have granted it, right? This is why the vast majority of bogus patent challenges go to the patent-holder in the first round and the inventor (*) on appeal.
(*) - Inventor as the person who actually designed and built the device is almost never the patent-holder these days.
In other words, the farmer was assumed to know the exact genetic composition of the seeds he was planting. Why would he have known and then not proceeded to buy and use RoundUp?
I'm waiting for someone to swipe some of these Frankenseeds and create Roundup-resistant dandelions. That'll teach 'em!
That'd be a great way to make it clear to Monsato that the civilized world won't stand for their shit, no matter what they've managed to bribe the courts into saying. Unfortunately, I strongly doubt there are any biologists out there with the guts and the resources necessary to do such a thing.
Java is a pain, yes. I think its because Sun uses an absolutely ancient compiler to compile their Java releases and, so, they don't link well with Firefox, which is compiled with something a tad more modern.
As for plugins, what the heck are you talking about? I've had a problem with one or two old plugins written before the days of profile installs, but never a problem with anything recent.
Its pretty obvious what SCO's trying to do here. This had one of two objectives:
Bury the FSF in paperwork. To comply with the subpoena, they have to turn over so much material that its trivial for them to miss something. When they do, point it out as evidence of noncompliance and use that to drag them into court.
Except for the fact that Brin is a talentless hack who wouldn't know plot or characterization if they came up to him and bit him on the ass. His Uplift Trilogy just put me to sleep - it was the very worst kind of generic science fiction.
I've not once had a problem with Linux recognizing SoundBlaster-based cards, or cards from any other major manufacturer. However, this guy makes the claim and refuses to say what hardware he's using or even how he configured it.
I don't think its bias. China is, from any impartial point of view, very obviously fascist and totalitarian. This may be slowly changing, due to the influence of Hong Kong, but its hard to tell whether its changing for the better.
with charts of the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico drawn by people who had already been there.
Sounds like a pretty apt comparison to me, then. Mars is probably the second or third best-charted body in the Solar System. The top two, of course, being Earth and the moon. And as a double-bonus, there's probably not even any natives for him to enslave!
It should ideally, but doing so requires knowledge of the underlying physical network that BitTorrent just doesn't have access to. It can't tell if the slow incoming rate is because ACK packets are getting dropped, because something upstream is configured to choke traffic, because of congestion elsewheres in the network, or any number of other things.
One way to do it might be to set things up so that the client scales back on uploading as download credits accumulate, but I'm not sure how prone that would be to exploitation by less-than-ethical clients. (Though those usually get banned pretty quickly from any sort of large-scale tracker, its still an issue.)
I find that --max_upload_rate 20 is more than enough to ensure that I get a good incoming rate. My outgoing rarely goes above 15 kB/s anyway, and I generally get download rates between 20 and 75 kB/s.
Actually, I'd guess that these are more placeholder idiots before the next stage in Microsoft's attack run. These particular idiots are, after all, just repeating the statements that SCO's already been making for a year - that Free Software cannot advance without stealing code from proprietary software, that Linux is nothing original, and that Free Software is an incomplete, bastardized shadow of its proprietary cousins.
No, the real next stage is going to be patent lawsuits based around patents granted in the late '90s for tech invented in the late '70s by other people. They're going to get hyped like mad, then quietly disappear before the patents get invalidated.
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xvid's now one of the encoding formats of choice for anime fansub downloads. Given that these have exploded in popularity with the development of bittorrent and the rise in popularity of anime in the US, I'd say that's pretty damn popular.
And nobody leaves their BT clients open longer than it takes to download a file
Yup, that's right folks. The 400+ seeds you often see for hours on newly-released anime digisubs are ALL people recruited by the fansubbing groups. NONE are just regular downloaders who leave their clients open. Not one. Yes, this means that fansubbing groups must be in excess of a couple thousand people each.
Get a clue. Its regular behavior to leave a BT client open for at least an hour afterwards. Not only that, but you don't have to have a complete copy of the file to upload. BT clients exchange bits of the file, so you're uploading while you're downloading, which saves on the bandwidth provided by the clients used to "officially" seed a file. Despite what you say, in practice, BT works quite well - people are willing to be altruistic because the protocol rewards them for it.
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I think the above post just shows that "Rightists" regimes are just as effective at propaganda. China's no more "Leftists" than Anne Rand.
So because a government does something wrong, the people of the nation it governs, even those that disagree with its actions, cannot speak out against other countries doing the same thing? Even if they also speak out against their government doing it?
Yes. The artist pays for promotion, too. And CD production. And recording... In fact, I can't think of a single thing the record label claims to pay for that doesn't come out of the artist's chunk.
Best way to get this law taken off the books? Start strictly enforcing it against software companies.
The answer you're looking for is no. Their animated films in the early '90s were successes because of the storytelling, which interpreted elements that both kids and their parents could enjoy. Disney assumed it was because of the animation and the musical numbers, leading to their more recent animated crapfests. Pixar kept their focus on the story, and has turned out some real masterpieces.
Heck, look at Pirates of the Carribean. No-one, not even Disney, expected it to do that well. Note the distinct lack of hype before it hit theaters, and the distinct excess after. They wrote it off as a cheapass promotion for their theme park and ignored it... With the obvious results.
Almost as impressively, we can shortcut past one of the most dangerous and expensive parts of space flight - actually lifting off the ground in the first place. If you can get up cheaply and safely (and slowly) to low orbit and go from there...
the US is a nation that obeys the Geneva Convention
I've yet to see any proof of this. Recently, US tactics seem to say that attacking civilian targets is fair play in "shock and awe" tactics as long as you claim it was an accident. And torturing innocent civilians is perfectly acceptable as long as its an outlet for frustration or they might have useful information.
They already have. IIRC, most professional recording equipment has a tax incorporated into its purchase price that goes straight into the RIAA's pockets. Most recordable media does too, now. And they're trying to get it expanded to hard disks and other forms of permanent digital storage.
Your work produced an incredible movie - congrats. The faceless mob models still looked as iffy as in the originals, but everything else was much better. Especially the other humans. Very nice job indeed!
It seem to me more and more patents are being ruled as invalid, If this is indeed the case why are they being assigned in the first place ?
Its simple. The guidelines the patent office works with say that they are to assume a patent is valid unless clear evidence to the contrary is presented. If its invalid, the courts will sort it out. This maximizes their revenue, which is based on patents approved.
Juries in patent cases, OTOH, are (or possibly were) given guidelines telling them to, if there was any doubt, assume that the patent was valid. As if it was invalid, the patent office wouldn't have granted it, right? This is why the vast majority of bogus patent challenges go to the patent-holder in the first round and the inventor (*) on appeal.
(*) - Inventor as the person who actually designed and built the device is almost never the patent-holder these days.
In other words, the farmer was assumed to know the exact genetic composition of the seeds he was planting. Why would he have known and then not proceeded to buy and use RoundUp?
I'm waiting for someone to swipe some of these Frankenseeds and create Roundup-resistant dandelions. That'll teach 'em!
That'd be a great way to make it clear to Monsato that the civilized world won't stand for their shit, no matter what they've managed to bribe the courts into saying. Unfortunately, I strongly doubt there are any biologists out there with the guts and the resources necessary to do such a thing.
Java is a pain, yes. I think its because Sun uses an absolutely ancient compiler to compile their Java releases and, so, they don't link well with Firefox, which is compiled with something a tad more modern.
As for plugins, what the heck are you talking about? I've had a problem with one or two old plugins written before the days of profile installs, but never a problem with anything recent.
Given the leaks about Microsoft investment in SCO, this isn't quite tinfoil hat worthy. That's almost certainly the long-term strategy.
Its pretty obvious what SCO's trying to do here. This had one of two objectives:
Except for the fact that Brin is a talentless hack who wouldn't know plot or characterization if they came up to him and bit him on the ass. His Uplift Trilogy just put me to sleep - it was the very worst kind of generic science fiction.
Jar Jar IS cow dung.
I've not once had a problem with Linux recognizing SoundBlaster-based cards, or cards from any other major manufacturer. However, this guy makes the claim and refuses to say what hardware he's using or even how he configured it.
I don't think its bias. China is, from any impartial point of view, very obviously fascist and totalitarian. This may be slowly changing, due to the influence of Hong Kong, but its hard to tell whether its changing for the better.
with charts of the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico drawn by people who had already been there.
Sounds like a pretty apt comparison to me, then. Mars is probably the second or third best-charted body in the Solar System. The top two, of course, being Earth and the moon. And as a double-bonus, there's probably not even any natives for him to enslave!
It should ideally, but doing so requires knowledge of the underlying physical network that BitTorrent just doesn't have access to. It can't tell if the slow incoming rate is because ACK packets are getting dropped, because something upstream is configured to choke traffic, because of congestion elsewheres in the network, or any number of other things.
One way to do it might be to set things up so that the client scales back on uploading as download credits accumulate, but I'm not sure how prone that would be to exploitation by less-than-ethical clients. (Though those usually get banned pretty quickly from any sort of large-scale tracker, its still an issue.)
I find that --max_upload_rate 20 is more than enough to ensure that I get a good incoming rate. My outgoing rarely goes above 15 kB/s anyway, and I generally get download rates between 20 and 75 kB/s.
Actually, I'd guess that these are more placeholder idiots before the next stage in Microsoft's attack run. These particular idiots are, after all, just repeating the statements that SCO's already been making for a year - that Free Software cannot advance without stealing code from proprietary software, that Linux is nothing original, and that Free Software is an incomplete, bastardized shadow of its proprietary cousins.
No, the real next stage is going to be patent lawsuits based around patents granted in the late '90s for tech invented in the late '70s by other people. They're going to get hyped like mad, then quietly disappear before the patents get invalidated.
xvid's now one of the encoding formats of choice for anime fansub downloads. Given that these have exploded in popularity with the development of bittorrent and the rise in popularity of anime in the US, I'd say that's pretty damn popular.
And nobody leaves their BT clients open longer than it takes to download a file
Yup, that's right folks. The 400+ seeds you often see for hours on newly-released anime digisubs are ALL people recruited by the fansubbing groups. NONE are just regular downloaders who leave their clients open. Not one. Yes, this means that fansubbing groups must be in excess of a couple thousand people each.
Get a clue. Its regular behavior to leave a BT client open for at least an hour afterwards. Not only that, but you don't have to have a complete copy of the file to upload. BT clients exchange bits of the file, so you're uploading while you're downloading, which saves on the bandwidth provided by the clients used to "officially" seed a file. Despite what you say, in practice, BT works quite well - people are willing to be altruistic because the protocol rewards them for it.