Well, Disney pushed through ridiculous copyright extensions a long time before Bittorrent hit the tubes, and by the date (1998) would have been lobbying for it before Napster came to be.
Exactly. IE6 is a corporate browswer nowadays. And if anything is going to push companies into adopting IE7/8 or Firefox, it'll be blocking their access to Youtube:)
That was my first thought when I saw this story on my RSS feed. Maybe this is a small update to the product, but still, unless it also gives electric shocks or sexual favours, hardly worth a/. story.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't previous versions - 10.2 - 10.5 cost roughly $130 each? I've never needed to buy them so don't know if it was less if you were upgrading from.2 to.3 etc...
Yes, pirates should check out Amazon. I've checked it out. However, because I don't live in America, they wouldn't let me give them my money. Credit card out, mp3s selected, and bam...sorry, you're in the wrong country (nothing stopping me buying the CD from Amazon though). And the record companies wonder why they're dying...
Have a look at this research paper" for a review of how legalising prostitution in Melbourne, Australia has gone. Based on your post, you'd probably find it interesting.
On the whole, legalising the industry has made things better, but, y'know...it's still a fairly crappy industry to work in.
The second amendment was written specifically to have an armed populace so the government wouldn't get oppressive.
Speaking as a non-American, I'm interested in just when you guys are going to utilise the second amendment you're so fond of for that purpose. My personal bet is this side of never....
Just grab the RSS feed. Sure, you don't get the summary immediately, just the headline. But then, by seeing that you've already read more about the topic than most of the other people commenting:)
Yeah, for those who read comics on their computers, you might want to stop by CDisplay's site & get it before it goes. Not aware of any other Windows comic readers offhand.
Actually, Australia (or at least the Federation of, & the Constitution) was founded by lawyers & politicians, which kinda explains why there isn't a guarantee of freedom of speech. Might interfere with their livelihoods;)
Interesting aside, many people who are descended from convicts in Australia actually take pride in it - possibly a colonial equivalent of being descended from people who came across on the Mayflower?
Interesting idea. I'm waiting for a reader to be released which does for ebooks what the iPod did for mp3 players, and Apple would probably make a fairly decent one. However, history would indicate Apple would not be as open as I'd like for something like this....lit files would obviously be out, we'd probably have to use iTunes to port the books over, no replacable battery etc. So yeah. The (small) ebook reader industry could certainly use the boot up the arse that Apple would give, and it might even get the publishers to take their heads from their rears (ie not charge full price for a digital copy of a book).
Finally there seems to be some resistance to this stupid plan from people other than from nerds & libertarians. Major newspapers are against the filter (the scope of which the Governement altered after they were elected) and Telstra, the most corporate of corporations, are even telling them to take a running jump. The Communications Minister isn't doing his little scheme any favours by refusing to discuss it in Parliament. Maybe Australia can stop being the laughing stock of the internet, if only for a little while.
As the people above me have said, it was actually in the game. However, it appeared to have been dropped from the game early in development, judging from the poor quality of the mini-game. But yes, you did have to apply a 3rd party hack, and if you did that then you did it fully aware of what it would do. Complaining about it now is the height of hypocrisy, as everyone except the plaintiffs is fully aware.
Is it not possible for Yahoo to release some sort of official DRM-removing software, along the lines of FairPlay? (disclaimer - never bought DRM music so is only vaguely aware of how it works)
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Well, Disney pushed through ridiculous copyright extensions a long time before Bittorrent hit the tubes, and by the date (1998) would have been lobbying for it before Napster came to be.
Exactly. IE6 is a corporate browswer nowadays. And if anything is going to push companies into adopting IE7/8 or Firefox, it'll be blocking their access to Youtube :)
That was my first thought when I saw this story on my RSS feed. Maybe this is a small update to the product, but still, unless it also gives electric shocks or sexual favours, hardly worth a /. story.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't previous versions - 10.2 - 10.5 cost roughly $130 each? I've never needed to buy them so don't know if it was less if you were upgrading from .2 to .3 etc...
I'd get another job. Seriously, no one is owed a living.
Yes, pirates should check out Amazon. I've checked it out. However, because I don't live in America, they wouldn't let me give them my money. Credit card out, mp3s selected, and bam...sorry, you're in the wrong country (nothing stopping me buying the CD from Amazon though). And the record companies wonder why they're dying...
Have a look at this research paper" for a review of how legalising prostitution in Melbourne, Australia has gone. Based on your post, you'd probably find it interesting.
On the whole, legalising the industry has made things better, but, y'know...it's still a fairly crappy industry to work in.
No, don't think that, I just see an awful lot of gung-hoism online....bearing in mind that people do tend to talk a lot of crap on the net :)
Speaking as a non-American, I'm interested in just when you guys are going to utilise the second amendment you're so fond of for that purpose. My personal bet is this side of never....
Just grab the RSS feed. Sure, you don't get the summary immediately, just the headline. But then, by seeing that you've already read more about the topic than most of the other people commenting :)
Indeed it does. The spread spectrum transmitter is my penis.
Yeah, there's Comix for Linux which personally I prefer. Don't remember the Mac program...
Yeah, for those who read comics on their computers, you might want to stop by CDisplay's site & get it before it goes. Not aware of any other Windows comic readers offhand.
And if that happened, I don't think we'd have long to wait before Facebook handed all and any user data they had to the MPAA/RIAA...
Actually, Australia (or at least the Federation of, & the Constitution) was founded by lawyers & politicians, which kinda explains why there isn't a guarantee of freedom of speech. Might interfere with their livelihoods ;)
Interesting aside, many people who are descended from convicts in Australia actually take pride in it - possibly a colonial equivalent of being descended from people who came across on the Mayflower?
Interesting idea. I'm waiting for a reader to be released which does for ebooks what the iPod did for mp3 players, and Apple would probably make a fairly decent one. However, history would indicate Apple would not be as open as I'd like for something like this... .lit files would obviously be out, we'd probably have to use iTunes to port the books over, no replacable battery etc.
So yeah. The (small) ebook reader industry could certainly use the boot up the arse that Apple would give, and it might even get the publishers to take their heads from their rears (ie not charge full price for a digital copy of a book).
Finally there seems to be some resistance to this stupid plan from people other than from nerds & libertarians. Major newspapers are against the filter (the scope of which the Governement altered after they were elected) and Telstra, the most corporate of corporations, are even telling them to take a running jump. The Communications Minister isn't doing his little scheme any favours by refusing to discuss it in Parliament. Maybe Australia can stop being the laughing stock of the internet, if only for a little while.
Cory Doctorow's balloon?
They missed out the #1 hacker of all time, Matthew Broderick. And Eugene "The Plague" Belford...a very bad man.
Actually, no, they're future proofing their computer for Duke Nukem Forever :)
Well, that wouldn't be as cheap as it seemed...an off the shelf copy of Windows runs for more than an OEM copy, IIRC
A fair point, I should really stop giving the benefit of the doubt ;)
As the people above me have said, it was actually in the game. However, it appeared to have been dropped from the game early in development, judging from the poor quality of the mini-game. But yes, you did have to apply a 3rd party hack, and if you did that then you did it fully aware of what it would do. Complaining about it now is the height of hypocrisy, as everyone except the plaintiffs is fully aware.
Is it not possible for Yahoo to release some sort of official DRM-removing software, along the lines of FairPlay? (disclaimer - never bought DRM music so is only vaguely aware of how it works)
No, Danny Elfman cribs off Danny Elfman :) just listen to the last half dozen Tim Burton films..