AIG collapse would be bad! Except of course for the direct competitors to AIG, who managed to make smart choices, and are being screwed out of the market share that they *earned* by not being moronic in the first place.
That said, from what I understand, the feds are getting an 80% stake in AIG in exchange for the bailout, not a bad deal if they can make AIG pull through in the process.
Also, why are we talking about this? We're supposed to be mindlessly bashing the RIAA.
Why do people constantly use an argument meant to typify speech which leads to violence, injury and destruction, when attacking speech which does no such thing?
While underlying models do change (Caloric fluid for example), quantum and classical physics are a bad example of this. For the things classical physics deals with, it is still perfectly valid, still taught, and still heavily used. Quantum answers questions left by classical physics, and it gives rules in places where classical does not apply, but quantum physics is just as useless for predicting ballistic trajectories. It's like saying America's Geography replaced Europe's.
Biodiesel and diesel are *very* distant relations. Biodiesel is just a marketing name, what you really have os ethanol, which, with some minor modifications, runs just fine in a gasoline car. A diesel engine however, will not run with biodiesel with any modifications I know of. The US should be encouraging diesel still, but it should be doing so with coal liquefaction. Which also, as it happens, doesn't wreak havoc on the food prices, or us massive amounts of energy in its production, the way corn based ethanol does.
Since when has Canonical cared about free software? Principle wise at least, they've been great for the community of course, but Ubuntu has always been loaded down with non free drivers but default. If Firefox were closed source, I doubt they would care too much.
You would have a very hard time sending him to jail given that you have to prove he caused financial damages still. Breaking into systems still isn't in and of itself a crime (should change soon though).
CSS isn't really a copy protections scheme though, in fact it provides no protection at all against copying the DVD. I could easily distribute a.iso file over the internet that could then be burned to a DVD and played in a regular DVD player. I don't know of any precedent that says if DRM can legally be used to prevent space shifting but not copying though. So its definately a shakey argument.
If you are going to set up DVD ripping for a client, it might be very wise to
A) refuse to work for or sell ripping software to anyone who mentions using it for piracy, 'sharing' or probably the most common abuse, ripping rentals. Shouldn't be hard, most people actually *do* want to backup movies they really own.
B) If possible, find, or modify existing software, so that it will only work on DVDs from the region the customer is in.
Of course, you're still screwed if they try to sue you based on CSS being patented, so you may want to have a file prepared which covers the type of encryption CSS uses, when it was actually invented and who by, as well as any and all precedent that says math and non physical processes aren't patentable.
This will pretty much cover your ass, until you realize the judge your standing in front of could give a rats ass what the law says, and is more interested in punishing you for being a pirate, whether you are or not.
Standard disclaimers apply, IANAL, or a paralegal, I've not actually researched case law on this, and as I said above, the judge mat not give a shit what the law is, no matter how much on your side it is.
Superstitions are perpetuated by word of mouth though. If that cat manages to convince all the other cats to avoid the object, then it becomes superstition, especially if the original cat is still the only one that gets shocked when it goes for the object. I've heard of monkeys actually showing this behavior, but its not something I can verify.
Just because one person had shit luck after breaking a mirror, doesn't mean everyone will. On the other hand something that seems like superstition if you don't know what's going on can be very very useful. After the Tsunami in 2005, they went around to check on a bunch of unintegrated islands. Apparently few of the islanders had been killed, because they had all had it drilled into their heads that if the earth shaked, run for high ground. None of them had any legitimate reason to believe that something bad was going to happen besides old stories. They probably have hundreds of other stories that are pure bullhockey (everyone else does after all), but blind belief served them pretty damned well that one day.
Or, they can do the same thing game companies have been doing from day 1. Put a paper shield on for DRM, and just deal with the effects of piracy. Stronger DRM isn't any harder to crack, and you're wasting effort and money for something that's no more effective than requiring the disk to be inserted, and actively kills sales in the process.
PC gaming survived the last 30 years with rampant piracy, there's no reason to believe the next 30 will be any harder.
The reason this is bad for Dell is that Dell's core business model is providing machines with a custom configuration, not 3 different configs and screw you if you want something different. I'm not sure how much this will hurt them at the consumer level, but most of Dell's business is large orders for offices. Businesses are not going to like it if a sales manager has to say 'we can't do that anymore'.
Dell likes to stick Dell branded broadcom cards (which are horribly unreliable) into cheap notebooks. And more expensive, slightly less unreliable, Intel wireless cards in the more expensive offerings. The Intel one is the Linux compatible card (without involving ndiswrapper) for Dell though, which means the Linux box probably ends up having more expensive hardware at the same configuration.
I'm disappointed to see a lack of battery upgrade options as well. The big thing from the initial press releases for the mini 9 for me was going to be getting a strong battery life. Ah well, MSI or ASUS it is.
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There are still some things I'd like to see from Chrome before I'd throw out Firefox. Namely same day support for all OSes (which shouldn't be too hard if Google lets the community get involved), I want to see how well Google handles it when security flaws are found, and I want an awesome bar for it.
Niobium is a superconductor at the right temperatures, according to jewelers sites I'm looking at, you can change its color by applying an electric current, and it is used to create particle accelerators I cannot imagine geekier metal.
It's also extraordinarily hypoallergenic, and relatively common in jewelery, so you aren't likely to find complications, and she's less likely to freak out at you for not getting a precious metal.
*It is probably a bad idea to apply an electric current to a ring while it is on your finger.
Dan Rather didn't fake the Air National Guard papers. Someone else did. And then his producers hired dipshits for experts. Though the bias, if you actually read the documents, is pretty obvious, the only actual failure on Bush's part was that he didn't make it to the doctors for a physical, apparently due to trying to juggle his military duties with helping his father's campaign at the same time he was trying to get transferred to a different base. The failures to evaluate are because this transfer meant that Bush had been at a different base during the evaluation period, and the rater had no idea what his performance was like at the time. Even if these were real, they paint a fairly different picture than what Rather claimed.
Since when is Apple anything other than a Parasite? They built an OS with open source software as a base, repeatedly refuse to deal with security issues, and built a full scale monopoly around selling music that won't work on standard hardware, or for that matter, any hardware that doesn't pay Apple protection money to be AAC compatible.
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AIG collapse would be bad! Except of course for the direct competitors to AIG, who managed to make smart choices, and are being screwed out of the market share that they *earned* by not being moronic in the first place.
That said, from what I understand, the feds are getting an 80% stake in AIG in exchange for the bailout, not a bad deal if they can make AIG pull through in the process.
Also, why are we talking about this? We're supposed to be mindlessly bashing the RIAA.
So why not just use toilet roll as a capacitor?
The cylinder capacitors that handle the bigger charges most of the time pretty much look just like that if you crack them open.
you can't shout out "FIRE" and cause a panic
Why do people constantly use an argument meant to typify speech which leads to violence, injury and destruction, when attacking speech which does no such thing?
While underlying models do change (Caloric fluid for example), quantum and classical physics are a bad example of this. For the things classical physics deals with, it is still perfectly valid, still taught, and still heavily used. Quantum answers questions left by classical physics, and it gives rules in places where classical does not apply, but quantum physics is just as useless for predicting ballistic trajectories. It's like saying America's Geography replaced Europe's.
No, but it does weigh the same as a duck.
Biodiesel and diesel are *very* distant relations. Biodiesel is just a marketing name, what you really have os ethanol, which, with some minor modifications, runs just fine in a gasoline car. A diesel engine however, will not run with biodiesel with any modifications I know of. The US should be encouraging diesel still, but it should be doing so with coal liquefaction. Which also, as it happens, doesn't wreak havoc on the food prices, or us massive amounts of energy in its production, the way corn based ethanol does.
Since when has Canonical cared about free software? Principle wise at least, they've been great for the community of course, but Ubuntu has always been loaded down with non free drivers but default. If Firefox were closed source, I doubt they would care too much.
You would have a very hard time sending him to jail given that you have to prove he caused financial damages still. Breaking into systems still isn't in and of itself a crime (should change soon though).
I've... never had that problem. But then I buy cheap Chinese manufactured DVD players which probably aren't terribly compliant. Statement withdrawn.
I can move to Mars without regrets.
CSS isn't really a copy protections scheme though, in fact it provides no protection at all against copying the DVD. I could easily distribute a .iso file over the internet that could then be burned to a DVD and played in a regular DVD player. I don't know of any precedent that says if DRM can legally be used to prevent space shifting but not copying though. So its definately a shakey argument.
If you are going to set up DVD ripping for a client, it might be very wise to
A) refuse to work for or sell ripping software to anyone who mentions using it for piracy, 'sharing' or probably the most common abuse, ripping rentals. Shouldn't be hard, most people actually *do* want to backup movies they really own.
B) If possible, find, or modify existing software, so that it will only work on DVDs from the region the customer is in.
Of course, you're still screwed if they try to sue you based on CSS being patented, so you may want to have a file prepared which covers the type of encryption CSS uses, when it was actually invented and who by, as well as any and all precedent that says math and non physical processes aren't patentable.
This will pretty much cover your ass, until you realize the judge your standing in front of could give a rats ass what the law says, and is more interested in punishing you for being a pirate, whether you are or not.
Standard disclaimers apply, IANAL, or a paralegal, I've not actually researched case law on this, and as I said above, the judge mat not give a shit what the law is, no matter how much on your side it is.
Superstitions are perpetuated by word of mouth though. If that cat manages to convince all the other cats to avoid the object, then it becomes superstition, especially if the original cat is still the only one that gets shocked when it goes for the object. I've heard of monkeys actually showing this behavior, but its not something I can verify.
Just because one person had shit luck after breaking a mirror, doesn't mean everyone will. On the other hand something that seems like superstition if you don't know what's going on can be very very useful. After the Tsunami in 2005, they went around to check on a bunch of unintegrated islands. Apparently few of the islanders had been killed, because they had all had it drilled into their heads that if the earth shaked, run for high ground. None of them had any legitimate reason to believe that something bad was going to happen besides old stories. They probably have hundreds of other stories that are pure bullhockey (everyone else does after all), but blind belief served them pretty damned well that one day.
Or, they can do the same thing game companies have been doing from day 1. Put a paper shield on for DRM, and just deal with the effects of piracy. Stronger DRM isn't any harder to crack, and you're wasting effort and money for something that's no more effective than requiring the disk to be inserted, and actively kills sales in the process.
PC gaming survived the last 30 years with rampant piracy, there's no reason to believe the next 30 will be any harder.
The reason this is bad for Dell is that Dell's core business model is providing machines with a custom configuration, not 3 different configs and screw you if you want something different. I'm not sure how much this will hurt them at the consumer level, but most of Dell's business is large orders for offices. Businesses are not going to like it if a sales manager has to say 'we can't do that anymore'.
Apple's failure rate is 13% in the first year, same as Dell.
Try again.
No, the *code* is under a BSD license, one of the things about BSD style licenses is that the binaries can have whatever license you want (see OSX).
You forgot another 100 dollars for the software to decrypt the discs and actually watch the movie.
There may be a reason for that.
Dell likes to stick Dell branded broadcom cards (which are horribly unreliable) into cheap notebooks. And more expensive, slightly less unreliable, Intel wireless cards in the more expensive offerings. The Intel one is the Linux compatible card (without involving ndiswrapper) for Dell though, which means the Linux box probably ends up having more expensive hardware at the same configuration.
I'm disappointed to see a lack of battery upgrade options as well. The big thing from the initial press releases for the mini 9 for me was going to be getting a strong battery life. Ah well, MSI or ASUS it is.
There are still some things I'd like to see from Chrome before I'd throw out Firefox. Namely same day support for all OSes (which shouldn't be too hard if Google lets the community get involved), I want to see how well Google handles it when security flaws are found, and I want an awesome bar for it.
That comic is a hell of a sales pitch as far as the browser architecture goes too.
I particularly like the idea of tracking which tab is the one eating processor cycles.
Just for the record, Georgia attacked South Ossetia (Russia's ally) first.
Niobium is a superconductor at the right temperatures, according to jewelers sites I'm looking at, you can change its color by applying an electric current, and it is used to create particle accelerators I cannot imagine geekier metal.
It's also extraordinarily hypoallergenic, and relatively common in jewelery, so you aren't likely to find complications, and she's less likely to freak out at you for not getting a precious metal.
*It is probably a bad idea to apply an electric current to a ring while it is on your finger.
Nope, defcon 1 is peace, defcon 5 is launch ready
The wargames DVD commentary makes note of the mistake.
Dan Rather didn't fake the Air National Guard papers. Someone else did. And then his producers hired dipshits for experts. Though the bias, if you actually read the documents, is pretty obvious, the only actual failure on Bush's part was that he didn't make it to the doctors for a physical, apparently due to trying to juggle his military duties with helping his father's campaign at the same time he was trying to get transferred to a different base. The failures to evaluate are because this transfer meant that Bush had been at a different base during the evaluation period, and the rater had no idea what his performance was like at the time. Even if these were real, they paint a fairly different picture than what Rather claimed.
Since when is Apple anything other than a Parasite? They built an OS with open source software as a base, repeatedly refuse to deal with security issues, and built a full scale monopoly around selling music that won't work on standard hardware, or for that matter, any hardware that doesn't pay Apple protection money to be AAC compatible.