So Microdoft has a way to determine that an OS is pirated, and the user must pass that service when starting the system. Just what will a (re)start of all systems together in an office do for the network-traffic, even considering the fact that they will not start all together on the same second. Starting for instance New York will have its impact on the internet due to the traffic involved.
But what will happen if our friends the crackers also named hackers find a way to take over those servers, or a way better, make their own anti-piracy-server for Microsoft, which kills just any installed Vista-system by black-screening it.
I think that most comapnies do not want to be involved whit this scenario, because their success is based on the availability of their systems, both office and servers.
May be this will be the trigger to switch to an other OS, unix-based or otherwise. Maybe we get the situation where diffferent OS-es will compete for different purposes, and will the knowledge about OS be growing due to the increased freedom to market your OS, which is only be bought when it merits the sale.
I am sorry, but you have reversed the type of the machines and their name. The V1 was a flying bomb, launched from a sled with a jet-engine, the V2 was launched by a rocket on a platform.
V1's were shot down by Hurricane's and Spitfire's while in flight. The V2 went to fast to be shot down, and also came in from a too steep an angle to intercept by the planes.
Both were relying on the gyroscopic control system you metioned, and for both the launch-phase was critical as some V1's landed near their starting place, not speeking of the spectacular crashes the V2 generated when failing to lift off.
The V2 was incidently the grandfather, hence removed, of the Apollo Saturn 5 rocket.
I think it this scenario will be the destruction of any big company. Open Source Software can have been taken by many companies, and the writers of that software can sue them for their pants. It will be fun, because it is rumoured that MS has taken the TCP/IP-stack from the *BSD tree, but having rewritten it, to see what MS will have to pay those programmers. SCO, MS, who else??
You made the music, and the makers of the apparatus delimit your rights to play it?
A good way to get them, hit them in their purse. As they are violating your rights, go sue them in court, and ask for compensation. Judges will eventually come to the conclusion that the Senate and Congress, or your local lawmaking institute, made a small mistake when creating these laws, because they are violating your rights on your own work, because they are limiting your rights outright. If they do not think twice, the makers and the legislators have to pay, because makers of the apparatus are asking for this law.
A class-law-suit against the makers of such apparati will make it economically unsound to prolong the companies, because they have to pay everybody who owns such an apparatus money, and a bankrupt company will not be able to survive in a world which is reigned by the possesion of money. The problem of lawmakers is more difficult, because you will have to prove that their actions, while in session, were paid for by the makers of the apparatus.
As I recall the regioncode is to prevent the sale of the discs outside the region. In Europe movies are generally released for the theatre as in the US the disc come at the same time on the market, a lag of about 6 to 8 months. So it is not theft to play an disc with another regioncode in ypour DVD, it is the protection of the purse of the owner which make it impossible to do so. It is also a means to control the market, because delivery of the discs is now regulated by the distributor, who do defenitly not like self-import of discs.
So is de coding of the contents of the disc. It is to prevent the viewing of the disc when you have not payed your dues to the distributor. M$ pays the RCAA (or the party who collects the duties for playing a CDVD/CD) out of the money they make for their OS, I do not know about Apple's policy, but Linux cannot do this, due to the fact that the OS is free for grabs and who would be the responsible party to pay. I do think that the payment for the player in the PC should be including the payment to the RCAA, so we do not have to use software as DeCSS, because we can then do it legally.
Better to make a set of satellites with a solar power collectors which beam the power from off space directly by UHF to a grid-convertor earthside. Build each satellite in a lower-earth orbit and then place in a geosynchronized orbit by using small plasma rockets.
Problem will be the size of the collectors, because the will have to be able to carry the all power Earth will need, and we do not want to destroy the environment by derpriving it from the sun.
Funny, but isn't the dribble a predefined action in the rules of the game?
If so, then they will have to patent-right the rules, but as they are already in the public domain, even in the Netherlands I can buy a rulebook on basketball, it is prior art, so it is not patentable.
However, the actions of the entertainment-industry, and games are entertainment for their fans, is just trying to preserve their goose, which lay their golden eggs, and eat their flesh too. They want to sell their products and at the same time to control the use by buyers of their products. Sorry, but it is physically unpossible to control the buyers action for the logical reasons, i.e. distance, time.
That they call the fair use of their products piracy, sorry for them. However, they have a valid point, copyrights are theirs and they must protect these even when the modern PC-user can copy their products on a blank medium, even when they are not able to use the data on the original medium.
I think it is a matter of ethics, which is an individual responsability to the users, and the duty of the user to exercise what he/she will do with their copy.
The manufactory of "spare parts" of a human bodyis one thing such a replicator can do, but what of the wishes of all the pairs, who want children, but cannot have them because her uterus is not able to accept the fertilized egg, because she had an hysterectomy performed, or having a child will endanger her and the child, such an apparatus will be wonderfull news.
However, everthing a men makes can be used for not so good ( or more appropiatly said evil) things.
About such things read Lois McMasters Bujold VorKosigan Saga.
Ok, but what users really want is software that is stable, easy to use and most important that the data can be exchanged to other users with no fuss at all.
It means that for data there should be a single norm which every, and I really mean every, builder/coder/developer adhers to. It means that a textprocessor will accept a file from WP, Word, Kedit, and you can complete this short list at libitum with any wordprocessor.
I call for a worldwide standard on fileformats under GPL, who seconds.
OK, maybe a flamebait, but somehow this is what I feel is really necessary and long overdue.
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"TANTSTAAFL: There ain't such thing as a free lunch" R.A. Heinlein "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"
Wordperfect was until release 5.X and may be later a program / suite which could illegally be installed by the user on a second computer AT home. They never made a fus about this practice, because WP was becoming the most used text-processor in the world, while companies paid the price of the product, while schools, students, and workers could at home use their products.
This was all changed when they were forced to rewrite their product to use MS-Windows. At first their poduct did not perform, maybe due to the fact that MS was building their own suite designed for Windows, with all the nice undocumented ways of handling things in Windows.
With Open Source Software under a good user license we see that everybody can use the programs, and new are being developed or from scratch build to perform like a well known but very expensive program/suite. The main problem is that those very expensive program/suite do generate a lot of money, for the companies involved, and I mean with the companies the shareholders, the board of directors, but also the workmen who do the real work of writing the program/suite, and last but not least the taxes which must be paid out of the profit these companies make.
To be frank, the governement will listen to those big-tax-payers, because they pay a lot. Those big-tax-payers take care of a low taxing-regime, or should do so if the governement is a wise one.
Maybe copying of software and riping the key is not a great offense, but let us make no mistake, someone is going to pay a price for it. one way or another. A company that forecloses its business will have an effect on the market, beacuse unemployment and welfare are not paid by the comapnies only but by all the taxpayers in the country/state. A recession can bankrupt a state, which will have a certain, very heavy impact on all the citizens and due to the fact that the world is rapidly becoming one global economy also on the rest of the world.
"The possibility to do something is not having the right to do that thing" is maybe one of the ethical laws of using a computer, but it applies not only to computers, but to the whole world YOU live in. It may be an outdated law, but I have not found a better one to replace it.
Sorry, a neural tube is the start of the brain, just a question of development of the tissues involved.
So, any brain grows and develops with the body. A child that is born without a brain medically speaking, which sometimes occur, has in most cases a rudimentary brain left, which sometimes is capable of performing the tasks necessary to sustain automatic life. It cannot gain intelligence, live a life of a vegetable, but is according to the law a human being, anyhow in the Netherlands. Therefore a neural tube counts
A really anonymously coward. He thinks that Europe and the people of Europe really think that America (read the USA) is superior to them. IMHO I do not think so. America has its great things, but in other aspects, well I do NOT know it for a certainity. Each continent has its history, and America has a little bit less of it; but it does not mean that they are inferior, but certainly that they are not superior, just humans.
Sorry, I am NOT an american and I do not want to be one, so what is your point????
I would like to have one of those screens in my home for my hobby, but.....
Sorry, but as a dutchman, I do NOT recall that we bombed Pearl Harbor in 1942; that were the Japanese navy, as I recall from my history-lessons. As for trusting a Netherlander ( = a Dutchman); I think it is as usual, Trust in God and in the actions of the man (woman) as YOU think is right. BTW, I do not think the Netherlands will attack any country, barring the workings of our politicians, just buy it and annex it economically:=).
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So Microdoft has a way to determine that an OS is pirated, and the user must pass that service when starting the system. Just what will a (re)start of all systems together in an office do for the network-traffic, even considering the fact that they will not start all together on the same second. Starting for instance New York will have its impact on the internet due to the traffic involved.
But what will happen if our friends the crackers also named hackers find a way to take over those servers, or a way better, make their own anti-piracy-server for Microsoft, which kills just any installed Vista-system by black-screening it.
I think that most comapnies do not want to be involved whit this scenario, because their success is based on the availability of their systems, both office and servers.
May be this will be the trigger to switch to an other OS, unix-based or otherwise. Maybe we get the situation where diffferent OS-es will compete for different purposes, and will the knowledge about OS be growing due to the increased freedom to market your OS, which is only be bought when it merits the sale.
Starnge question maybe, but are King and Hearts going to sue every stagemagician who perform his act in smoking, complete with tophat and mantle?
If I am right, that was the reason they sued Mandrake for their first logo, they should do so immediatly, for the same reason.
Strange guys, those americans
I am sorry, but you have reversed the type of the machines and their name. The V1 was a flying bomb, launched from a sled with a jet-engine, the V2 was launched by a rocket on a platform.
V1's were shot down by Hurricane's and Spitfire's while in flight. The V2 went to fast to be shot down, and also came in from a too steep an angle to intercept by the planes.
Both were relying on the gyroscopic control system you metioned, and for both the launch-phase was critical as some V1's landed near their starting place, not speeking of the spectacular crashes the V2 generated when failing to lift off.
The V2 was incidently the grandfather, hence removed, of the Apollo Saturn 5 rocket.
I think it this scenario will be the destruction of any big company. Open Source Software can have been taken by many companies, and the writers of that software can sue them for their pants. It will be fun, because it is rumoured that MS has taken the TCP/IP-stack from the *BSD tree, but having rewritten it, to see what MS will have to pay those programmers. SCO, MS, who else??
Well, I can call this misusage of said fluids, but in case of emergency I can accept this usage.
But think of this line: Well, officer, off course I have a drink with me, because I use it for my computer!
You made the music, and the makers of the apparatus delimit your rights to play it?
A good way to get them, hit them in their purse. As they are violating your rights, go sue them in court, and ask for compensation. Judges will eventually come to the conclusion that the Senate and Congress, or your local lawmaking institute, made a small mistake when creating these laws, because they are violating your rights on your own work, because they are limiting your rights outright. If they do not think twice, the makers and the legislators have to pay, because makers of the apparatus are asking for this law.
A class-law-suit against the makers of such apparati will make it economically unsound to prolong the companies, because they have to pay everybody who owns such an apparatus money, and a bankrupt company will not be able to survive in a world which is reigned by the possesion of money. The problem of lawmakers is more difficult, because you will have to prove that their actions, while in session, were paid for by the makers of the apparatus.
As I recall the regioncode is to prevent the sale of the discs outside the region. In Europe movies are generally released for the theatre as in the US the disc come at the same time on the market, a lag of about 6 to 8 months. So it is not theft to play an disc with another regioncode in ypour DVD, it is the protection of the purse of the owner which make it impossible to do so. It is also a means to control the market, because delivery of the discs is now regulated by the distributor, who do defenitly not like self-import of discs.
So is de coding of the contents of the disc. It is to prevent the viewing of the disc when you have not payed your dues to the distributor. M$ pays the RCAA (or the party who collects the duties for playing a CDVD/CD) out of the money they make for their OS, I do not know about Apple's policy, but Linux cannot do this, due to the fact that the OS is free for grabs and who would be the responsible party to pay. I do think that the payment for the player in the PC should be including the payment to the RCAA, so we do not have to use software as DeCSS, because we can then do it legally.
Better to make a set of satellites with a solar power collectors which beam the power from off space directly by UHF to a grid-convertor earthside. Build each satellite in a lower-earth orbit and then place in a geosynchronized orbit by using small plasma rockets.
Problem will be the size of the collectors, because the will have to be able to carry the all power Earth will need, and we do not want to destroy the environment by derpriving it from the sun.
There must be done some maths if it is feasable.
Funny, but isn't the dribble a predefined action in the rules of the game?
If so, then they will have to patent-right the rules, but as they are already in the public domain, even in the Netherlands I can buy a rulebook on basketball, it is prior art, so it is not patentable.
However, the actions of the entertainment-industry, and games are entertainment for their fans, is just trying to preserve their goose, which lay their golden eggs, and eat their flesh too. They want to sell their products and at the same time to control the use by buyers of their products. Sorry, but it is physically unpossible to control the buyers action for the logical reasons, i.e. distance, time.
That they call the fair use of their products piracy, sorry for them. However, they have a valid point, copyrights are theirs and they must protect these even when the modern PC-user can copy their products on a blank medium, even when they are not able to use the data on the original medium.
I think it is a matter of ethics, which is an individual responsability to the users, and the duty of the user to exercise what he/she will do with their copy.
The manufactory of "spare parts" of a human bodyis one thing such a replicator can do, but what of the wishes of all the pairs, who want children, but cannot have them because her uterus is not able to accept the fertilized egg, because she had an hysterectomy performed, or having a child will endanger her and the child, such an apparatus will be wonderfull news.
However, everthing a men makes can be used for not so good ( or more appropiatly said evil) things.
About such things read Lois McMasters Bujold VorKosigan Saga.
Ok, but what users really want is software that is stable, easy to use and most important that the data can be exchanged to other users with no fuss at all.
It means that for data there should be a single norm which every, and I really mean every, builder/coder/developer adhers to. It means that a textprocessor will accept a file from WP, Word, Kedit, and you can complete this short list at libitum with any wordprocessor.
I call for a worldwide standard on fileformats under GPL, who seconds.
OK, maybe a flamebait, but somehow this is what I feel is really necessary and long overdue.
__________________________________________
"TANTSTAAFL: There ain't such thing as a free lunch" R.A. Heinlein "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"
FYI:
Wordperfect was until release 5.X and may be later a program / suite which could illegally be installed by the user on a second computer AT home. They never made a fus about this practice, because WP was becoming the most used text-processor in the world, while companies paid the price of the product, while schools, students, and workers could at home use their products.
This was all changed when they were forced to rewrite their product to use MS-Windows. At first their poduct did not perform, maybe due to the fact that MS was building their own suite designed for Windows, with all the nice undocumented ways of handling things in Windows.
With Open Source Software under a good user license we see that everybody can use the programs, and new are being developed or from scratch build to perform like a well known but very expensive program/suite. The main problem is that those very expensive program/suite do generate a lot of money, for the companies involved, and I mean with the companies the shareholders, the board of directors, but also the workmen who do the real work of writing the program/suite, and last but not least the taxes which must be paid out of the profit these companies make.
To be frank, the governement will listen to those big-tax-payers, because they pay a lot. Those big-tax-payers take care of a low taxing-regime, or should do so if the governement is a wise one.
Maybe copying of software and riping the key is not a great offense, but let us make no mistake, someone is going to pay a price for it. one way or another. A company that forecloses its business will have an effect on the market, beacuse unemployment and welfare are not paid by the comapnies only but by all the taxpayers in the country/state. A recession can bankrupt a state, which will have a certain, very heavy impact on all the citizens and due to the fact that the world is rapidly becoming one global economy also on the rest of the world.
"The possibility to do something is not having the right to do that thing" is maybe one of the ethical laws of using a computer, but it applies not only to computers, but to the whole world YOU live in. It may be an outdated law, but I have not found a better one to replace it.
Merry Xmas and a good New Year!
Sorry, a neural tube is the start of the brain, just a question of development of the tissues involved.
So, any brain grows and develops with the body. A child that is born without a brain medically speaking, which sometimes occur, has in most cases a rudimentary brain left, which sometimes is capable of performing the tasks necessary to sustain automatic life. It cannot gain intelligence, live a life of a vegetable, but is according to the law a human being, anyhow in the Netherlands. Therefore a neural tube counts
A really anonymously coward. He thinks that Europe and the people of Europe really think that America (read the USA) is superior to them. IMHO I do not think so. America has its great things, but in other aspects, well I do NOT know it for a certainity. Each continent has its history, and America has a little bit less of it; but it does not mean that they are inferior, but certainly that they are not superior, just humans.
Sorry, I am NOT an american and I do not want to be one, so what is your point???? I would like to have one of those screens in my home for my hobby, but .....
Sorry, but as a dutchman, I do NOT recall that we bombed Pearl Harbor in 1942; that were the Japanese navy, as I recall from my history-lessons. As for trusting a Netherlander ( = a Dutchman); I think it is as usual, Trust in God and in the actions of the man (woman) as YOU think is right. BTW, I do not think the Netherlands will attack any country, barring the workings of our politicians, just buy it and annex it economically:=).