ignorant idiot. I cant believe you actually scored for that comment.
1st: the fossils and types of rocks around them prove that there was no flood but shit loads of good ol' black dust. 2nd:the animals that were saved from the great flood did not cohabit with dinosaurs (you will notice that with dinosaur fossils you find... other dinosaur fossils). in fact they appeared a long time after that. 3rd: with basic knowledge and understanding of Hebrew, English, prehistory and science, you would notice that the 2000 year old text you are referring to (which is NOT 2000 years old) is far from being "compatible" -thats a word everybody here understands:P - with today's logic. In fact, you may want to check "logic" in the dictionary.
What about NTL/virgin media ? Does their inability to prevent *people* from using their network -known to be expensive- allow them to sue *people* for theft of service? One doesnt need to attack anything to get free fast enough broadband.
inaudible to human ears ? So, if i transcode the original file to an mp3, the mp3 encoder, as usual will remove the "useless" stuff that is inaudible to human ears.... err, sorry but i think this DRM technology was cracked ages ago... Just take the free open-source ogg codec, tweak it to make sure it does not keep the inaudible watermarks (which, are, after all just another waste of disc space), and here you go.
There is one question though: Inaudible is not necessarily inaudible. We have seen that before on film as well as audio tracks. Insert a banana frame in an hour long Hollywood movie, and boost the banana market ! Reverse "kill yourself" audio track and insert it in a random emo-oriented music track and get them to kill themselves. Inserting some sort of subliminal message in an audio track and get your good old low-IQ customers to do whatever you want them to do. Like Buying Microsoft windows for example. Or not pirating movies. Or get in some sort of sect. Or whatever. I don't know much of psychology, and even the professionals only have limited knowledge, but when you have huge corporations backing it up, you can be sure the technology will be up and running legally in the US within 5 years. In Futurama, year 3000, you get "commercial breaks" in your dreams. Yeah well, it seems that all the crap "technology" - as long as it pollutes more, makes you more dependent on something, or transforms you in some sort of consuming slave- gets a higher development rate than anything else. On another hand, when its about "hey lets get rid of HIV" or "lets feed the people who don't get any food" or "lets stop inventing and selling new weapons to allow a better, more efficient killing", then, no one is there.
Universal is a French company. I hope the European union (yeah, because the European union, somehow, seems to be the only international organization that tries to protect its people from corporate dirty business) tells them to fuck off.
Lets just burn'em all down (universal, microsoft...) I'd become a terrorist, capturing Bill Gates and release him in exchange of the cancellation of this dirty trick. I could get his cheat-code list as well on how to become the richest man on earth, but thats another story:P
How can you actually be against that ? i am not american, but damn, when i was a kid my DOS games were cool, TV was cool, and at the end we were not attacking "grown-ups" in the street with a knife. Strangely i was living in a rough neighborhood though. Nowadays.... woah. Kids are more and more violent, those living in villages talk about the "hood" and their "homies".
And, btw, just spending time in front of a video game, violent or NOT, makes you physically nervous, so potentially violent. Some kids nowadays seem to live only to get the next playsation:O
In France, there is some sort of law that prevents networks from charging each others for bandwidth usage. Since ADSL exists, it has always been unlimited, i have a server there, and the limit i have is 100 mb/s (basically because of the NIC), no monthly usage limit crap. Oh and did i mention it is really cheap? For the price i pay in britain (NTL/virgin) £20 a month equivalent to 30 (or $40) in france i get 30 mb/s not 4, i get unlimited landline calls to 28 countries, not nothing, i get a few 100 channels (including MTV, discovery, BBC world, cnn, stuff that is not in french and matters) instead of the 5-only standard channels. For the same price. In the country next door. which i can ping in 46 miliseconds (35 being wasted around birmingham for some reason).
They'd better get rid of all the unrestricted porn crap and excessive advertising "technologies" (spam spyware and their friends). That would be a usefull law.
Why are we talking about windows ? We already know that it is a shitty operating system. We already know that the victims are not going to know what is going on, in fact, they wont see a difference. They are victims, born to be for the rest of their lives, so get over it !
As an end-user who does not pirate stuff and does not download any music ( i mean come on, after Pink Floyd "Meddle", nothing good happened in the music business) because i have all the records (ten years after, pink floyd, deep purple - real music-) and no movies (my GF is a director so she takes care of that), what am i supposed to do with a terabyte ? To store raw HD movies cant HDDVDs do that ? Even for a server backup i would not use it. Once the drive goes wild, you can say good bye to your business, because that's a lot of your client's data you loose there.
You guys might not know about France, but over there the students are quite bloody... Quite a shame the RIAA doesnt have any power over there, we could only see them burning alive better...
And here is why: This kind of "features" are the reason why open-source exists: Instead of being tracked, WE can "discover" the protocol they use, find out about some exploit, and use the nice, open-source, battery-life-friendly, human-rights compliant application we make out of it to localize THEM and boycott their products. Aaahhhh that feels great to tell someone to fuck off.
The open-source community will never be fractured, why ? Its just like saying the world is fractured between black and white people: the world is separated between those who have good taste in beer and those who dont. The computing world is pretty much the same: you have the big evil corporations comunity, controlling the governments, and the opensource free-thinking free-beer-recipe:P comunity which is pretty much everyone who is not a fashion victim. saying there is a fracture between people with blue eyes and those with brown eyes is complete bullshit. BSD users as well as linux users, we have all kinds in my terrorist training camp: as long as you tell them once they bombed the RIAA, Microsoft and apple's offices they will go to paradise (see the free software foundation definition), they will always be united.
This voting system is weak and broken. Patching it? perhaps, it probably needs rewriting though. The fact that your vote does not count as much as this dude from this other state is wrong. The fact that someone can actually pay you to vote for someone or whatever is totally wrong: Thats when you see that Bill Gates is actually quite a nice guy. Instead of using his shitty "products" to make propaganda of himself and paying you to vote for him, he just sends money to charity. A shame everyone is not like him. Look at RIAA, they are in control!
I am not american, however, if you dont want your rights to be stripped away from you -little by little... marketing is subtle, not brutal-, go tell those corporate fuckers what democracy is about.
Its probably good for people who just dont care a bout their health: at least, if they care about their money, now its easier to stop smoking and eat vegetables for them now. However some people are just victims of their health, i dont know much about obesity, but i thought it was DNA related. If thats the case, this move would be completely unfair for them.
First of all, Id is GPL firendly. They probably contributed more to the GPL'ed world than the DOSbox guys. I respect the Dosbox guy's work, however, i also understand that programmers and human-ran corporations make mistakes, forget to do stuff, etc.. The licenses stuff going on is pissing me off more than ever, a normal human being (lawyers are not normal human beings) in front of the GPL and its friends would shoot themselves if they had a gun. So far, it seems that they complied with the missing license, and we do not know whether they changed the code of the software or perhaps removed or not compiled parts of it they didnt need. We dont know either which compiler they used with it, meaning that comparing a gcc output with whatever they used is pointless. A simple request of releasing the code themselves for comparison would sort things out in a quick non-violent, friendly way. ID is probably the most unlikely to be GPL-friendly company out there -in the gaming world- yet they are so let's not piss them off by giving them a bad name.
"Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states 'I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act'."
Perhaps this guy should start doing his job then. Because strangely, each time MI5 (or whoever does it, the Scotland yard people), catches a terrorist, or anybody attempting to do something bad, we see it on TV, and those images we see are CCTV, which they can use as proof.
"Crime prevention" means that at the end, there is no crime, so its probably difficult for them to arrest and prosecute a long bearded guy who was seen putting a gas bottle in his car boot. As far as i know Anyone can own gas and anyone can have beard - the hair that grows naturally on your face-. However that same guy might move around, and, knowing where he is going, the secret services people or just the cops might install other devices to hear them say "I plan to get rid of the queen" or "hey lets go bomb McDonald's ! ". On another hand the same guy could have a friend who ran out of gas a mile away and just wanted to give him a hand, something one can easily see on camera and think "shit we gat the wrong guy".
In france, -i am not talking about mobile phones- you get for 30 euros a month, about USD 40, unlimited -for real- broadband around 20megs, free phonecalls to landline to about 30 countries - including for example japan, on the other side of the planet-, digital tv, and thats it. for $40. The mobile market is very different, because there arent so many mobile providers, and the networks are expensive, just like broadband used to be.
Google is entering the market -their own way- and plans to shake things up, obliging the others to go cheaper if they do not want to loose their clients. Listening to ads doesn't disturb me -adverts are not completely useless- , and i see ads everywhere: in cinemas, on the DVDs i fucking buy, on TV, on radio, and on this very same web page right now. Moreover, Google ads do not attack me with popups, visual effects "oh my god !" smiley crap sounds and all that. I am quite sure they will keep a high quality standard like they usually do.
Whether it is legal or not is not the problem, the problem obviously is in her head: knowing all that crap that's going on, i wouldnt even try to get in a cinema with a camcorder, in fact, i would rather not go to the cinema:stay at home, nobody pisses you off, you can drink, smoke weed, take your camcorder out without the cops arresting you,........ all those good things that prevent you from murdering someone at the end of the day.
Just the fact that google sees imperfections makes them the good guys:
Everything is seen as "beta", yes, however this also means: "there are bugs, we dont know where they are, but once we find them, we are gonna deal with them".
What google makes is called quality, what apple does is just called having a good time: after all they only benefit from the current patent system, why would they change it ? They take a good operating system, make it their own -without having to buy it of course- buy adding a photoshoped interface, oblige people who want to use it to buy their over-priced computers, make money, and can now afford basically anything they want.
I would like to see a patent system saying: what you do is not your own, so give your code, your idea and whatever else it is you do, and if someone abuses it (for example, i could start a company called ipple and sell apods), then its illegal. -yep as you can see i have nothing to do with the dark side of the force, also called "U.S Patent"-
There is no best patent system: One that protects too much would allow me to patent the idea of taking a piss, meaning that those who want to go to the bathroom would have to buy a license from me, or do on themselves. One that doesnt protect enough would just prevent anyone interested in something to actually invest in that thing. (a bit like paying developers to make GPL software: anyone can just take the code, do some small enhancmen ts on it (a bit of shiny paint "Apple style"), leave it free or even sell it.
As long as there will be "security", anti-copy, DRM and whatever, preventing me from using my right to copy my own stuff, i will develop, copy
and distribute software allowing me to use my "legal" freedom and right to copy whatever it is i bought. This attitude, i beleive, i the one any citizen of any country should adopt: defend your rights at all costs to protect what was built (the laws or the entire country) by those who previously died for it (the ancestors).
Preventing someone from using his right to live (aka killing this person) is illegal. Preventing this same person from using their right to copy the stuff they own is illegal too, however remains unpunished. We have the right to copy, the RIAA and co. do not have the right to prevent us from doing so. They are not justice, they are not the law. Just an organization. And now it is time for them to pay for their threats and their crimes.
I wonder how this works exactly. What if you become fat ? What if some mission:impossible fanboy decides to make a silicon replica of your face and go check your bank records, huh ? They call that security ? Before, to get someone's password, you 1: needed to know there mother's birthday or 2: Use torture. Now, You can take your replica sword from some anime and chop the guy's head off. Right.
Doesnt surprise me.
After all, those who need porn are likely to have no life, or no one in their bed. (or perhaps a fat, old wife ?).
As a man who likes his keyboard, first thing i do i some meaningless programming in such a case - doesnt really happen since a beauty lies in my bed, right now, call that after sex slashdotting -
However, the random japanese dude doesnt have such a hobby -the meaningless programming-, and goes buy a ps3 instead. Then he realises that the vibrating controls are not enough, so he goes buy whatever it is he finds to "enhance" his ps3: BLU-RAY porn. EOS
about the blu ray hddvd war stuff, honestly, i buy what is compatible with waht i have and what other people have, and none of those two are. However i wonder if compressing a video in theora/vorbis to aprox 4 or 7 gigs would be better than compressing the same video to mpg2/ac3 for the same size ? we had porn on the amiga we could store on a less-than-a-meg floppies. Probably a codec thing.
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ignorant idiot. I cant believe you actually scored for that comment.
:P - with today's logic. In fact, you may want to check "logic" in the dictionary.
1st: the fossils and types of rocks around them prove that there was no flood but shit loads of good ol' black dust.
2nd:the animals that were saved from the great flood did not cohabit with dinosaurs (you will notice that with dinosaur fossils you find... other dinosaur fossils). in fact they appeared a long time after that.
3rd: with basic knowledge and understanding of Hebrew, English, prehistory and science, you would notice that the 2000 year old text you are referring to (which is NOT 2000 years old) is far from being "compatible" -thats a word everybody here understands
What about NTL/virgin media ? Does their inability to prevent *people* from using their network -known to be expensive- allow them to sue *people* for theft of service? One doesnt need to attack anything to get free fast enough broadband.
inaudible to human ears ? So, if i transcode the original file to an mp3, the mp3 encoder, as usual will remove the "useless" stuff that is inaudible to human ears.... err, sorry but i think this DRM technology was cracked ages ago... Just take the free open-source ogg codec, tweak it to make sure it does not keep the inaudible watermarks (which, are, after all just another waste of disc space), and here you go.
:P
There is one question though: Inaudible is not necessarily inaudible. We have seen that before on film as well as audio tracks. Insert a banana frame in an hour long Hollywood movie, and boost the banana market ! Reverse "kill yourself" audio track and insert it in a random emo-oriented music track and get them to kill themselves. Inserting some sort of subliminal message in an audio track and get your good old low-IQ customers to do whatever you want them to do. Like Buying Microsoft windows for example. Or not pirating movies. Or get in some sort of sect. Or whatever. I don't know much of psychology, and even the professionals only have limited knowledge, but when you have huge corporations backing it up, you can be sure the technology will be up and running legally in the US within 5 years. In Futurama, year 3000, you get "commercial breaks" in your dreams. Yeah well, it seems that all the crap "technology" - as long as it pollutes more, makes you more dependent on something, or transforms you in some sort of consuming slave- gets a higher development rate than anything else. On another hand, when its about "hey lets get rid of HIV" or "lets feed the people who don't get any food" or "lets stop inventing and selling new weapons to allow a better, more efficient killing", then, no one is there.
Universal is a French company. I hope the European union (yeah, because the European union, somehow, seems to be the only international organization that tries to protect its people from corporate dirty business) tells them to fuck off.
Lets just burn'em all down (universal, microsoft...) I'd become a terrorist, capturing Bill Gates and release him in exchange of the cancellation of this dirty trick. I could get his cheat-code list as well on how to become the richest man on earth, but thats another story
How can you actually be against that ? i am not american, but damn, when i was a kid my DOS games were cool, TV was cool, and at the end we were not attacking "grown-ups" in the street with a knife. Strangely i was living in a rough neighborhood though. Nowadays.... woah. Kids are more and more violent, those living in villages talk about the "hood" and their "homies".
:O
And, btw, just spending time in front of a video game, violent or NOT, makes you physically nervous, so potentially violent. Some kids nowadays seem to live only to get the next playsation
In France, there is some sort of law that prevents networks from charging each others for bandwidth usage. Since ADSL exists, it has always been unlimited, i have a server there, and the limit i have is 100 mb/s (basically because of the NIC), no monthly usage limit crap. Oh and did i mention it is really cheap? For the price i pay in britain (NTL/virgin) £20 a month equivalent to 30 (or $40) in france i get 30 mb/s not 4, i get unlimited landline calls to 28 countries, not nothing, i get a few 100 channels (including MTV, discovery, BBC world, cnn, stuff that is not in french and matters) instead of the 5-only standard channels. For the same price. In the country next door. which i can ping in 46 miliseconds (35 being wasted around birmingham for some reason).
They'd better get rid of all the unrestricted porn crap and excessive advertising "technologies" (spam spyware and their friends). That would be a usefull law.
Why are we talking about windows ? We already know that it is a shitty operating system. We already know that the victims are not going to know what is going on, in fact, they wont see a difference. They are victims, born to be for the rest of their lives, so get over it !
As an end-user who does not pirate stuff and does not download any music ( i mean come on, after Pink Floyd "Meddle", nothing good happened in the music business) because i have all the records (ten years after, pink floyd, deep purple - real music-) and no movies (my GF is a director so she takes care of that), what am i supposed to do with a terabyte ? To store raw HD movies cant HDDVDs do that ? Even for a server backup i would not use it. Once the drive goes wild, you can say good bye to your business, because that's a lot of your client's data you loose there.
You guys might not know about France, but over there the students are quite bloody... Quite a shame the RIAA doesnt have any power over there, we could only see them burning alive better...
And here is why: This kind of "features" are the reason why open-source exists: Instead of being tracked, WE can "discover" the protocol they use, find out about some exploit, and use the nice, open-source, battery-life-friendly, human-rights compliant application we make out of it to localize THEM and boycott their products. Aaahhhh that feels great to tell someone to fuck off.
Now we all are doomed. And with the new Sun CPU, advertisers can display ads at an even higher frequency now.
Easy: give a bit of money and a bottle of vodka to some random russian dude, and send him to space without a space suit.
The open-source community will never be fractured, why ? Its just like saying the world is fractured between black and white people: the world is separated between those who have good taste in beer and those who dont. The computing world is pretty much the same: you have the big evil corporations comunity, controlling the governments, and the opensource free-thinking free-beer-recipe :P comunity which is pretty much everyone who is not a fashion victim. saying there is a fracture between people with blue eyes and those with brown eyes is complete bullshit. BSD users as well as linux users, we have all kinds in my terrorist training camp: as long as you tell them once they bombed the RIAA, Microsoft and apple's offices they will go to paradise (see the free software foundation definition), they will always be united.
This voting system is weak and broken. Patching it? perhaps, it probably needs rewriting though. The fact that your vote does not count as much as this dude from this other state is wrong. The fact that someone can actually pay you to vote for someone or whatever is totally wrong: Thats when you see that Bill Gates is actually quite a nice guy. Instead of using his shitty "products" to make propaganda of himself and paying you to vote for him, he just sends money to charity. A shame everyone is not like him. Look at RIAA, they are in control!
I am not american, however, if you dont want your rights to be stripped away from you -little by little... marketing is subtle, not brutal-, go tell those corporate fuckers what democracy is about.
Its probably good for people who just dont care a bout their health: at least, if they care about their money, now its easier to stop smoking and eat vegetables for them now. However some people are just victims of their health, i dont know much about obesity, but i thought it was DNA related. If thats the case, this move would be completely unfair for them.
I dont see any point in this discussion.
First of all, Id is GPL firendly. They probably contributed more to the GPL'ed world than the DOSbox guys.
I respect the Dosbox guy's work, however, i also understand that programmers and human-ran corporations make mistakes, forget to do stuff, etc..
The licenses stuff going on is pissing me off more than ever, a normal human being (lawyers are not normal human beings) in front of the GPL and its friends would shoot themselves if they had a gun.
So far, it seems that they complied with the missing license, and we do not know whether they changed the code of the software or perhaps removed or not compiled parts of it they didnt need. We dont know either which compiler they used with it, meaning that comparing a gcc output with whatever they used is pointless. A simple request of releasing the code themselves for comparison would sort things out in a quick non-violent, friendly way. ID is probably the most unlikely to be GPL-friendly company out there -in the gaming world- yet they are so let's not piss them off by giving them a bad name.
"Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states 'I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act'."
Perhaps this guy should start doing his job then. Because strangely, each time MI5 (or whoever does it, the Scotland yard people), catches a terrorist, or anybody attempting to do something bad, we see it on TV, and those images we see are CCTV, which they can use as proof.
"Crime prevention" means that at the end, there is no crime, so its probably difficult for them to arrest and prosecute a long bearded guy who was seen putting a gas bottle in his car boot. As far as i know Anyone can own gas and anyone can have beard - the hair that grows naturally on your face-. However that same guy might move around, and, knowing where he is going, the secret services people or just the cops might install other devices to hear them say "I plan to get rid of the queen" or "hey lets go bomb McDonald's ! ". On another hand the same guy could have a friend who ran out of gas a mile away and just wanted to give him a hand, something one can easily see on camera and think "shit we gat the wrong guy".
Who cares? The people of Omicron Persei VIII, rulers of the galaxy, will destroy us in about a thousand years from now.
In france, -i am not talking about mobile phones- you get for 30 euros a month, about USD 40, unlimited -for real- broadband around 20megs, free phonecalls to landline to about 30 countries - including for example japan, on the other side of the planet-, digital tv, and thats it. for $40. The mobile market is very different, because there arent so many mobile providers, and the networks are expensive, just like broadband used to be.
Google is entering the market -their own way- and plans to shake things up, obliging the others to go cheaper if they do not want to loose their clients.
Listening to ads doesn't disturb me -adverts are not completely useless- , and i see ads everywhere: in cinemas, on the DVDs i fucking buy, on TV, on radio, and on this very same web page right now. Moreover, Google ads do not attack me with popups, visual effects "oh my god !" smiley crap sounds and all that. I am quite sure they will keep a high quality standard like they usually do.
What did she take her camcorder out for ?
........ all those good things that prevent you from murdering someone at the end of the day.
Why ?
Whether it is legal or not is not the problem, the problem obviously is in her head: knowing all that crap that's going on, i wouldnt even try to get in a cinema with a camcorder, in fact, i would rather not go to the cinema:stay at home, nobody pisses you off, you can drink, smoke weed, take your camcorder out without the cops arresting you,
Sorry: I forgot to select to "plain old text" format. Shame on me :P
Just the fact that google sees imperfections makes them the good guys: Everything is seen as "beta", yes, however this also means: "there are bugs, we dont know where they are, but once we find them, we are gonna deal with them". What google makes is called quality, what apple does is just called having a good time: after all they only benefit from the current patent system, why would they change it ? They take a good operating system, make it their own -without having to buy it of course- buy adding a photoshoped interface, oblige people who want to use it to buy their over-priced computers, make money, and can now afford basically anything they want. I would like to see a patent system saying: what you do is not your own, so give your code, your idea and whatever else it is you do, and if someone abuses it (for example, i could start a company called ipple and sell apods), then its illegal. -yep as you can see i have nothing to do with the dark side of the force, also called "U.S Patent"- There is no best patent system: One that protects too much would allow me to patent the idea of taking a piss, meaning that those who want to go to the bathroom would have to buy a license from me, or do on themselves. One that doesnt protect enough would just prevent anyone interested in something to actually invest in that thing. (a bit like paying developers to make GPL software: anyone can just take the code, do some small enhancmen ts on it (a bit of shiny paint "Apple style"), leave it free or even sell it.
As long as there will be "security", anti-copy, DRM and whatever, preventing me from using my right to copy my own stuff, i will develop, copy
and distribute software allowing me to use my "legal" freedom and right to copy whatever it is i bought. This attitude, i beleive, i the one any citizen of any country should adopt: defend your rights at all costs to protect what was built (the laws or the entire country) by those who previously died for it (the ancestors).
Preventing someone from using his right to live (aka killing this person) is illegal. Preventing this same person from using their right to copy the stuff they own is illegal too, however remains unpunished. We have the right to copy, the RIAA and co. do not have the right to prevent us from doing so. They are not justice, they are not the law. Just an organization. And now it is time for them to pay for their threats and their crimes.
I wonder how this works exactly. What if you become fat ? What if some mission:impossible fanboy decides to make a silicon replica of your face and go check your bank records, huh ? They call that security ? Before, to get someone's password, you 1: needed to know there mother's birthday or 2: Use torture. Now, You can take your replica sword from some anime and chop the guy's head off. Right.
Doesnt surprise me. After all, those who need porn are likely to have no life, or no one in their bed. (or perhaps a fat, old wife ?). As a man who likes his keyboard, first thing i do i some meaningless programming in such a case - doesnt really happen since a beauty lies in my bed, right now, call that after sex slashdotting - However, the random japanese dude doesnt have such a hobby -the meaningless programming-, and goes buy a ps3 instead. Then he realises that the vibrating controls are not enough, so he goes buy whatever it is he finds to "enhance" his ps3: BLU-RAY porn. EOS about the blu ray hddvd war stuff, honestly, i buy what is compatible with waht i have and what other people have, and none of those two are. However i wonder if compressing a video in theora/vorbis to aprox 4 or 7 gigs would be better than compressing the same video to mpg2/ac3 for the same size ? we had porn on the amiga we could store on a less-than-a-meg floppies. Probably a codec thing.