One method of guaranteeing that your old privacy policy is still enforced would be to start a new database when you change the policy. But there is no chance in hell that any company would do this willingly......
From what I've read about the two current Transmeta chips is that they were designed and tuned to run as an x86. But, I do not think that it would be terribly difficult for them to design a chip to emulate something else. It would be a DIFFERENT chip however.
Transmeta is still working on producing and marketing their current chips. Wait and see what happens after that.
How else would you propose that they organize a demonstration? There are already e-petitions, which have limited success. E-mail campaings work only a little better, email is so much easier to send, that it is not given the same importance as a telephone call or a letter through the US mail. Boycotting all music sales only proves the RIAA's position that this is hurting CD sales. This 'buycott' gives the community a chance to support their favorite band, get good music, and shows just how many people are involved in this. If you can come up with a better campaing, lets hear it!.
Well since Sealand's soverign waters are supposed to extend 18 miles and were claimed the day before England extend theirs to 12, that's kind of a moot point.
The DigitalDivas case is nothing like the other ones you are referring to. The organization is a groupe of women activists. They are help dispel some of the myths about women being online. Microsoft simply hired a woman to do the same thing, and gave it the same name.
Not so. If the world is divided up into regions, then the actual number in any one regions SHOULD not matter. I haven't had time to check the regions, so take this with a grain of salt.
Like the article suggested about buses. A flywheel would not be powerful enough to power a vehicle for any significant distance. A turbine running at a constant speed would be the main source of power, with the flywheel augmenting it when necessary. It would be very possible to divert heat from it to heat the passenger compartment.
MediaOne had something like this. But I just checked the site to make sure it was there, and it looks like they got rid of it.
It was simply a serries of drop down lists where you choose your problem, and then it asks more specific questions. At any point you can stop and ask for help from the staff. Or if you are able to pinpoint the problem they offer solutions to fix it.
What they have up now is a chat feature with an area rep. for each region. A compromise between the two might be a message board. Slashcode is more news-oriented, but UBB or OpenTopic should work well. Users would be able to post in relevant topic areas, and could even read the problems that other users have.
"If you know who's linked to you, then perhaps you know your content is valuable. (You might say) 'Hey, let's throw up a royalty, a fee for pointing to me,' " he said.
This is comming from an IBM spokesperson. Is anyone else upset? Charging for linking?
In reply to doonesbury: The idea of a school that does not offer a degree is not new. In music, the Peabody Conservatory does not offer a degree, but a certificate of attendance. All tution and board is taken care of by the school.
For Phillip: The requirements for Ars Digita U. are a little unique in requiring a bachelors degree. If the idea is to provide a first class education to those who are unable to aquire it, doesn't requiring a degree immediately exclude many people? Like the Peabody Conservatory does with music auditions, how about just picking the best people for the school? Come up with your own test to determine the skills necessary, instead of relying on degrees or even the SAT. Unless you fell that performance on SATs reflects performance in CS.
Why don't people just play nice. I mean if you are going to link to a page and you are not sure if the people want you to do so, ask them out of politeness. We shouldn't be making a law about this. I don't understand why people don't just respect other people's wishes. We don't have to make a law about this. Just because it is there is no law against it doesn't mean it is right. Respect peoples wishes when it comes to these issues. Why does our society feel obligated to determing what is o.k. to do and what is not o.k. to do by making a law for everything. Simply place nice with each other. If they don't want you to link to their site, don't out of decency. Not because there is some law against it.
We already have a law about this, it's called the DMCA! It allows copyright holders to Control access to a copyrighted work which is exactly what the deep linking argument is about. The difference is that these websites are not trying to control the access by technological means, but by suing.
Why even bother? Just release a patch to CyberPatrol that renders CPHack ineffective. Plus don't you think people would notice when the new version didn't work?
Yes, they made a mistake. There are people trying to screw them, but there are a lot who are just upset about how this has been handled. After they tried to change the way the units are sold, they should have come up with a channel for consumers to dispute the terms of service, and just eaten the loss, possibly asking consumers to return the units, if there was a clear deadline (which it appears there wasn't). They should honor all sales placed under questionable circumstances. There are plenty of people who said they'd pay the actual price of the unit, but if they're going to continue the bad business practices of screwing the mis-informed buyer, then a lot of them will just walk.
I still have some problems with the situation: The website does not say that customers will be charge for a continuing service. It only says $22 will be added to your bill. That means ONE month to me. What will happen to people who want to cancel the service? (after the deadline for continual service) Will they ask for the unit to be returned? Will they charge the acutal cost of the unit if it is not returned? Or will they just keep charging you $22 a month until they feel it's been paid off? How do they think the can deal with people who've modified them? If someone bought one without the continuing service agreement then there's nothing for Netpliance to do. Again, they're just going to have to deal with it and eat the loss.
I thought about getting one of these, and moding it for my Mom. But when the page popped up and said that they were requiring the service and didn't say for how long, I knew that they were going to do something like this. The best bet is to go to CC and pick one up yourself, and pay cash. This is not taking advantage of Netpliance, because they've decided to distribute them this way. What they should have done was what compaq and the others did, offer a rebate when selling them.
5 - MacOS X is generating about 1/10 the industry buzz of Linux and isn't even on the average buyer's radar screen.
I saw a demo of OS X just a few days ago. I must say that I was stunned at it's features. I guess what I quoted above is partially correct. If you listen to everyone talking about Linux, then there will be a lot more people. But how many of them actually get it? Most of them are just going along with it because every one else is. If they saw the capabilities of OS X, they'd be singing a different tune rather quickly.
I have been a PC guy, but after seeing OS X in action, I have to say that it really is a powerful system and should not be overlooked just because you don't like Macs.
Accross town at Ithaca there's no charge. Of course they rip students off by charging a hundred dollars to purchase a network kit (NIC, Cat 5 cable and some 'software' plus installation) but if you get your own NIC, you don't have to pay a cent. Of course they still suggest that you get their software kit, but again it's not required.
There are 5-6 thousand students on campus here, and we've got dual T3s, plus they added more bandwitdth over spring break. Napster takes up 50 percent of all network traffic at peak hours! It's gotten so bad that I've only been able to get online a few hours this weekend!
The wired article said that it was a development feature that was supposed to be disabled, and that it was going to be disabled now that they know it wasn't. Obviously they are capable of disabling it without changing the chip. Therefore even though other players use the same chip, there's no guarantee that they'll all have the hack.
I say, let's do the DeCSS all over again. Spread the program. Mirror away. Mirror in other countries. *FORCE* these people to redo their encryption, or change the method their software works.
The difference between this and DeCSS is that the Censorware companies can easily issue an 'upgrade' that renders the decrypting utility useless. They can't do that to DVD's unless they want to completely overhaul the entire industry of manufacturing discs and players. Plus they'd have to deal with the consumers who suddenly have to buy all new players.
Linux is not hard to install at all. Many of the latest versions now include graphic installers to walk you through it step by step. Some of the ones that come to mind are Redhat and Mandrake. It will most likely run fine on your Compaq. To be sure you can check out the hardware section on Linux.com. Linuxnewbie.org helped me quite a bit in getting it installed and configured correctly.
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One method of guaranteeing that your old privacy policy is still enforced would be to start a new database when you change the policy. But there is no chance in hell that any company would do this willingly......
Transmeta is still working on producing and marketing their current chips. Wait and see what happens after that.
How else would you propose that they organize a demonstration? There are already e-petitions, which have limited success. E-mail campaings work only a little better, email is so much easier to send, that it is not given the same importance as a telephone call or a letter through the US mail. Boycotting all music sales only proves the RIAA's position that this is hurting CD sales. This 'buycott' gives the community a chance to support their favorite band, get good music, and shows just how many people are involved in this. If you can come up with a better campaing, lets hear it!.
That is a great commericial!
Well since Sealand's soverign waters are supposed to extend 18 miles and were claimed the day before England extend theirs to 12, that's kind of a moot point.
The DigitalDivas case is nothing like the other ones you are referring to. The organization is a groupe of women activists. They are help dispel some of the myths about women being online. Microsoft simply hired a woman to do the same thing, and gave it the same name.
But you are still only paying for a license to the content on that DVD. They still have ownership of the content.
Not so. If the world is divided up into regions, then the actual number in any one regions SHOULD not matter. I haven't had time to check the regions, so take this with a grain of salt.
I thought they did ban the Bidder's Edge servers, but they found a way around it.
Like the article suggested about buses. A flywheel would not be powerful enough to power a vehicle for any significant distance. A turbine running at a constant speed would be the main source of power, with the flywheel augmenting it when necessary. It would be very possible to divert heat from it to heat the passenger compartment.
It was simply a serries of drop down lists where you choose your problem, and then it asks more specific questions. At any point you can stop and ask for help from the staff. Or if you are able to pinpoint the problem they offer solutions to fix it.
What they have up now is a chat feature with an area rep. for each region. A compromise between the two might be a message board. Slashcode is more news-oriented, but UBB or OpenTopic should work well. Users would be able to post in relevant topic areas, and could even read the problems that other users have.
Oops, forgot to give you the source. It's from a ZDNet article on this story.
This is comming from an IBM spokesperson. Is anyone else upset? Charging for linking?
JOhn
The idea of a school that does not offer a degree is not new. In music, the Peabody Conservatory does not offer a degree, but a certificate of attendance. All tution and board is taken care of by the school.
For Phillip:
The requirements for Ars Digita U. are a little unique in requiring a bachelors degree. If the idea is to provide a first class education to those who are unable to aquire it, doesn't requiring a degree immediately exclude many people? Like the Peabody Conservatory does with music auditions, how about just picking the best people for the school? Come up with your own test to determine the skills necessary, instead of relying on degrees or even the SAT. Unless you fell that performance on SATs reflects performance in CS.
We already have a law about this, it's called the DMCA! It allows copyright holders to Control access to a copyrighted work which is exactly what the deep linking argument is about. The difference is that these websites are not trying to control the access by technological means, but by suing.
IIRC, the story was about a guy installing linux on the company mainframe. He didn't want to push it, so he stopped at 21,000.
Why even bother? Just release a patch to CyberPatrol that renders CPHack ineffective. Plus don't you think people would notice when the new version didn't work?
I still have some problems with the situation:
The website does not say that customers will be charge for a continuing service. It only says $22 will be added to your bill. That means ONE month to me.
What will happen to people who want to cancel the service? (after the deadline for continual service) Will they ask for the unit to be returned? Will they charge the acutal cost of the unit if it is not returned? Or will they just keep charging you $22 a month until they feel it's been paid off?
How do they think the can deal with people who've modified them? If someone bought one without the continuing service agreement then there's nothing for Netpliance to do. Again, they're just going to have to deal with it and eat the loss.
I thought about getting one of these, and moding it for my Mom. But when the page popped up and said that they were requiring the service and didn't say for how long, I knew that they were going to do something like this. The best bet is to go to CC and pick one up yourself, and pay cash. This is not taking advantage of Netpliance, because they've decided to distribute them this way. What they should have done was what compaq and the others did, offer a rebate when selling them.
JOhn Lavoie
Sophomore, Ithaca College
I saw a demo of OS X just a few days ago. I must say that I was stunned at it's features. I guess what I quoted above is partially correct. If you listen to everyone talking about Linux, then there will be a lot more people. But how many of them actually get it? Most of them are just going along with it because every one else is. If they saw the capabilities of OS X, they'd be singing a different tune rather quickly.
I have been a PC guy, but after seeing OS X in action, I have to say that it really is a powerful system and should not be overlooked just because you don't like Macs.
John Lavoie
Ithaca College
There are 5-6 thousand students on campus here, and we've got dual T3s, plus they added more bandwitdth over spring break. Napster takes up 50 percent of all network traffic at peak hours! It's gotten so bad that I've only been able to get online a few hours this weekend!
JOhn Lavoie
Sophomore, Ithaca College
JOhn
Slashdot has different color schemes for different topics. Your rights online gets this color, while Apache's colors are even more offensive.
The difference between this and DeCSS is that the Censorware companies can easily issue an 'upgrade' that renders the decrypting utility useless. They can't do that to DVD's unless they want to completely overhaul the entire industry of manufacturing discs and players. Plus they'd have to deal with the consumers who suddenly have to buy all new players.
Linux is not hard to install at all. Many of the latest versions now include graphic installers to walk you through it step by step. Some of the ones that come to mind are Redhat and Mandrake. It will most likely run fine on your Compaq. To be sure you can check out the hardware section on Linux.com. Linuxnewbie.org helped me quite a bit in getting it installed and configured correctly.