So everyone calling Mississippi is at risk of being prosecuted?
No. If you aren't spoofing your information then you have no risk at all of being prosecuted. This law is about people like telemarketers who are having their caller ID information changed so that they can get around things like call blockers.
It's actually quite simple. Telemarketers have been known to do this. It's quite obvious to get caught because the people you call who see you doing the spoofing will report you to the proper authorities. It's also easy enough for the telco to find out that you are doing this. The problem is that they haven't been stopping people from doing it hence why they had to come in and pass this law.
Except that all the phones would be limited to 2g/Edge as AT&T is incompatible with the 3g bands. I'm pretty sure if he wants to go to a Nexus One, Droid or N900 he would want 3g.
How? The GP was making a dumb argument. One can make an argument using his logic that any technical improvement to filmmaking has no effect on making a bad script/actor/director better and they have little to nothing to do with storytelling as storytelling was perfectly possible without sound, color, wider aspect ratios, larger screens and higher frame rates. So by this logic we should revert back to the silent films as anything added after that point is just superfluous.
This is the same stupid logic like when people used to try to tell everyone that VHS was good enough and no one needed DVD. Now they all use the exact same argument for why it's dumb to upgrade to Blu-Ray because now they claim that DVD is good enough.
And neither did adding sound, then stereo sound, then 4 channel sound, then 6+ channel sound, adding color, changing the aspect ratio from 1.33:1 to 1.85:1 and wider, going from 16fps to 24fps nor having bigger screens. According to this logic we should just go back to the silent film era with 1:33:1 aspect ratios, no color, 16 fps frame rates, and tiny screens because all the previously listed enhancements clearly don't make the movies better.
It's nothing more than a bunch of lawyers getting rich, while consumers and even the companies hiring the lawyers get fucked, regardless of who "wins" the legal challenges.
If the companies weren't getting anything out of these lawsuits they wouldn't be filing them. They aren't just going to flush money down to toilet to enrich their lawyers. It's a convenient statement that only lawyers benefit but it's mostly bullshit.
Take a good look at the hostility that Apple is getting for its store/SDK policies and now it's patent war with HTC.
What hostility? I still see tons of people buying iPhones all the time at Best Buy and when I go into my local AT&T store. Apple's App store is still seeing tens of millions of downloads a day. Oh, you were talking about the hostility of a bunch of people on this site who aren't iPhone owners or users of the App Store instead of actual customers.
Because Linux doesn't have the apps they want? They don't want to have to relearn years of knowledge built up using Windows? That it's not as simple to switch an entire OS and migrate all your programs and data as people like you would have people believe?
I wasn't saying any religion should get preferential treatment. I was saying that no one should be getting this special exemption which is why it should have just been shut down at the first idiot who tried it. Since it wasn't you get idiots like the one in the article coming along trying to get their own exemption.
Well until the next idiot and the next idiot and so on come along and try to pull the same stunt. Sometimes it's best to just nip it in the bud before it blows up and you have tons of assholes trying to make up excuses for why they should be above a rule that everyone else but them has to follow.
A passive activism that just means that the rest of us have to deal with crappier DRM because we don't accept the premise that "either I get the product as I want it or I'm going to take it anyway"?
If it were that simple that one was free of an implied warranty by being non-commercial there would be no point in putting a disclaimer of warranty in the licenses of FOSS software. The issue, though, isn't as clear as you would like it to seem.
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So everyone calling Mississippi is at risk of being prosecuted?
No. If you aren't spoofing your information then you have no risk at all of being prosecuted. This law is about people like telemarketers who are having their caller ID information changed so that they can get around things like call blockers.
It's actually quite simple. Telemarketers have been known to do this. It's quite obvious to get caught because the people you call who see you doing the spoofing will report you to the proper authorities. It's also easy enough for the telco to find out that you are doing this. The problem is that they haven't been stopping people from doing it hence why they had to come in and pass this law.
Telcos should enforce it on their own.
Yeah and corporations should do all sorts of things they don't do. Which is why the government has to step in to make them do it.
Except that all the phones would be limited to 2g/Edge as AT&T is incompatible with the 3g bands. I'm pretty sure if he wants to go to a Nexus One, Droid or N900 he would want 3g.
And to be even cooler, why don't you whine about how people don't use "hacker" like the old 70s neckbeards did?
How? The GP was making a dumb argument. One can make an argument using his logic that any technical improvement to filmmaking has no effect on making a bad script/actor/director better and they have little to nothing to do with storytelling as storytelling was perfectly possible without sound, color, wider aspect ratios, larger screens and higher frame rates. So by this logic we should revert back to the silent films as anything added after that point is just superfluous.
This is the same stupid logic like when people used to try to tell everyone that VHS was good enough and no one needed DVD. Now they all use the exact same argument for why it's dumb to upgrade to Blu-Ray because now they claim that DVD is good enough.
Is the notion of inflation new to you?
And neither did adding sound, then stereo sound, then 4 channel sound, then 6+ channel sound, adding color, changing the aspect ratio from 1.33:1 to 1.85:1 and wider, going from 16fps to 24fps nor having bigger screens. According to this logic we should just go back to the silent film era with 1:33:1 aspect ratios, no color, 16 fps frame rates, and tiny screens because all the previously listed enhancements clearly don't make the movies better.
It's nothing more than a bunch of lawyers getting rich, while consumers and even the companies hiring the lawyers get fucked, regardless of who "wins" the legal challenges.
If the companies weren't getting anything out of these lawsuits they wouldn't be filing them. They aren't just going to flush money down to toilet to enrich their lawyers. It's a convenient statement that only lawyers benefit but it's mostly bullshit.
Take a good look at the hostility that Apple is getting for its store/SDK policies and now it's patent war with HTC.
What hostility? I still see tons of people buying iPhones all the time at Best Buy and when I go into my local AT&T store. Apple's App store is still seeing tens of millions of downloads a day. Oh, you were talking about the hostility of a bunch of people on this site who aren't iPhone owners or users of the App Store instead of actual customers.
How many modern C IDEs would even have started up with a blank file in that time?
A ton of them? I just opened up Visual Studio 2008 in 3 seconds and Borland C++ Builder in 2.
Because Linux doesn't have the apps they want? They don't want to have to relearn years of knowledge built up using Windows? That it's not as simple to switch an entire OS and migrate all your programs and data as people like you would have people believe?
I wasn't saying any religion should get preferential treatment. I was saying that no one should be getting this special exemption which is why it should have just been shut down at the first idiot who tried it. Since it wasn't you get idiots like the one in the article coming along trying to get their own exemption.
Way to show a profound ignorance of the meaning of the 1st Amendment. Bravo!! *golf clap*
It's not quite the same as this isn't a recognised religion.
Jediism was officially "recognised" as a religion back in 2001.
Well until the next idiot and the next idiot and so on come along and try to pull the same stunt. Sometimes it's best to just nip it in the bud before it blows up and you have tons of assholes trying to make up excuses for why they should be above a rule that everyone else but them has to follow.
Because sampenzus knows that 99.9% of people block idle so he posts his stories in the other sections to get page views.
Google has almost the same market share in China as Baidu.
So Google and Baidu have 130% of the market?
Except for the fact that the part doing these calculations has nothing to do with the parts of the GPU that are handling outputting to the screen?
Not every algorithm scales linearly.
I keep hearing stories about using GPUs for non-GPU computations, but has anybody here tried it?
Yes many people do it and have for years.
What does your screen look like while a program like this is running?
Why do you assume that the screen looks different.
And the fact that you'd need an electron microscope to find anything in your pants.
How is anyone who pirated the game getting this content for free? You can't even connect to their servers with a pirated copy of the game anyway.
A passive activism that just means that the rest of us have to deal with crappier DRM because we don't accept the premise that "either I get the product as I want it or I'm going to take it anyway"?
If it were that simple that one was free of an implied warranty by being non-commercial there would be no point in putting a disclaimer of warranty in the licenses of FOSS software. The issue, though, isn't as clear as you would like it to seem.