I agree fix the problem now hold the current administration accountable. Also hold the others accountable. Think of it like this. If a CEO takes money from the company and then retires and the next CEO does the same thing. Why does only the first CEO get punished for it. THEY BOTH broke the law. THEY BOTH violated the constitution. THEY BOTH need to get punished for it.
So Bush did not have warrants, neither did Clinton why does the congress not investigate every presidency back to Nixon?
Yes I am ready to be flamed on this one.
I am just saying both sides are guilty of doing this. The problem is Bush got caught. Now news is coming out that Clinton did the same thing. I am sorry justice, and the constitution for that matter, applies to both sides of the isle, Democrat and Republican.
So it is like that machine that finds the Golden Ticket in the Wonka bars. It just beeps and spits out a sheet of paper that ask "What would I do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?". But under the hood we all know it is just a midget in a tin can feeding a sheet of paper on cue.
How exactly will this work? Do the copy write holders upload their files and google analyzes them and compares them to uploaded files by its user base? If an uploaded file meets a specific threshold does it remove the file? What about parts of a show? If Fox uploads a 30 min episode of Family Guy and someone uploads a 5 min clip how is that handled. Also I thought you could use up to 30 seconds of a video/commercial/show etc. with out getting in trouble or does that just apply to educational use?
one DRM scheme became very popular, giving one player a very powerful virtual monopoly over online music sales. The label-mandated DRM now locks everyone in to that one player: Apple with their iTunes Music Store. And the only way to break this monopoly is to drop DRM, and that is exactly what is happening now.
This is until a company takes apple to court saying Apple has a monopoly on the ipod's DRM. Apple may be required to open up its DRM. Kinda like how Microsoft has to open up its protocols in Europe.
Yes but this does not make up for the STUPID user. Most people on Slashdot know what DRM is. The 15 year old girl who wants her hip-hop for her pink ipod will not. I think itunes needs a big ass message that pops up explaining what DRM is and have a "Yes I Want This" button and a "No Thanks" button and let people pick that way.
Yes competition is good. I has caused apple to lower it's price to keep a few of it's customers. It also has caused some music labels to rethink how they sell music. (I know one of them is selling music online with non-DRM).
Yes but you have to pay more money for that. It used to be all customers would be routed to the United States. After 2am cst you would then be routed to India. Dell wanted to save a buck so they laid off all the US workers and shipped the whole operation to India so they can pay them $2.50 an hour instead of the American $10.59. I think it would have been a good choice for them to keep their support in the US and let Gateway, HP, and Compaq (this was before hp bought them) move their service to India and Dell could say their whole operation is US based. But now they just provide bad tech support. Or good tech support for a fee.
It is because most computer users (geeks) do not have girlfriends. So they hurt their wrist looking at porn...well the wrist are busy doing other stuff.
Hmm. I did tech support for dell and never ran into what you speak of. To me you sound like a Linux guy just spreading some fud. But whatever works for you.
Oh so OS X took nothing from KDE, or the 1000's of developers writing code for free? Funny I always thought OS X was based off of BSD and I thought KDE and most open source software could run on BSD. Damn I never would have thought Apple wrote every line of code in OS X.
Take off the tinfoil hat man. I think people just were too lazy to update their computers. That would be why service pack 2 turned on automatic update.
Yes but Linux also had a bunch of hobbiest around the world looking at the code not getting paid to fix the problem. Microsoft has to pay its employees to fix the code. So if Microsoft has 1000 employees and say 150 or so are working on patches. Half of those are for the OS and the other half are for office. You have 75 people working on OS patches. Linux on the other hand you have a few thousand looking at the code working on a fix.
I think they were talking about how you do not have to pay for the patch. Microsoft does not have a shit load of hobbiest around the globe looking at their code and fixing it like Linux does. Microsoft has a company to run. New products to release, deadlines to meet, and investors to please. They may not release new products that a normal everyday customer may use but they do release some new products. Even if they are spin offs from competitors. Microsoft may miss deadlines but they also loose revenue. I do not think Slackware looses any money if they do not release a new version for a while.
I think Microsoft would love it if people would work for free. However they would not have FULL control of the direction of the product. So yes you have to pay $ for an OS.
That is funny. I remember my dad telling me a story about how all of Dell's financial servers were run off of Compaq Himalayas. Mostly due to the fact that Dell servers were not that good at the time. Dell required Compaq to remove all the markings off the truck that delivered the servers, off the side of the boxes, off the computers etc.
With that being said it could just be that Dell servers are not top of the line and of the few they do sell people are picking Linux because they are gaining a Linux following because of selling Linux on the desktop.
Stitching someones lips shut because you do not like what they say is one thing. Hanging a noose in the doorway of an African American persons office is another thing. I think that is what one would call a Hate crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime#United_States/ You may want to read this, and the section after.
A Hate crime is a little diffrent then shouting Nig*er is a crowded movie theater. This all falls under the same context that you have a right to yell fire, but you can not yell fire in a crowded theater.
It is not the Future of America until you can not say what you just said:) Yes the Freedom of speech is a nice thing don't you think? Or are you a foreigner who just looked up America in a text book and noticed it is mentioned a lot on slashdot.
The government can do and take what they want but they have not accomplished anything until they take away your freedom of speech and I do not see anyone coming around stitching lips shut.
You are talking about laws that have been made over 50+ years. The internet and internet gambling has only been around for at most 17 or so. Yes the laws need to be changed, so why don't you write a nice letter to your elected officials and quit bitching that some how the government is violating your copy write. It worked for prohibition it may just work in this case.
That's why I said Satellite internet sucks but maybe with some tech advances they can speed that up. I know they can not speed up the speed of light. They can compress the data. They could set up stuff like cell towers so the single does not have to travel an extra 44k miles. I was just giving an example of other directions a company could go.
How is the fastest thing in the universe slow? Or are you referring to how fast you get off when you are having sex? If that is the case the speed of light is too low:)
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I agree fix the problem now hold the current administration accountable. Also hold the others accountable. Think of it like this. If a CEO takes money from the company and then retires and the next CEO does the same thing. Why does only the first CEO get punished for it. THEY BOTH broke the law. THEY BOTH violated the constitution. THEY BOTH need to get punished for it.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping-2007-10-16.html/
some how 5c got stuck on the end. Just remove that.
While wiretapping is wrong. Both sides have done it. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping-2007-10-16.html%5C
So Bush did not have warrants, neither did Clinton why does the congress not investigate every presidency back to Nixon?
Yes I am ready to be flamed on this one.
I am just saying both sides are guilty of doing this. The problem is Bush got caught. Now news is coming out that Clinton did the same thing. I am sorry justice, and the constitution for that matter, applies to both sides of the isle, Democrat and Republican.
Umm no, but I would think you would first want to get to know the person first.
So it is like that machine that finds the Golden Ticket in the Wonka bars. It just beeps and spits out a sheet of paper that ask "What would I do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?". But under the hood we all know it is just a midget in a tin can feeding a sheet of paper on cue.
How exactly will this work? Do the copy write holders upload their files and google analyzes them and compares them to uploaded files by its user base? If an uploaded file meets a specific threshold does it remove the file? What about parts of a show? If Fox uploads a 30 min episode of Family Guy and someone uploads a 5 min clip how is that handled. Also I thought you could use up to 30 seconds of a video/commercial/show etc. with out getting in trouble or does that just apply to educational use?
Never said it would work. Or that it worked with Microsoft.
This is until a company takes apple to court saying Apple has a monopoly on the ipod's DRM. Apple may be required to open up its DRM. Kinda like how Microsoft has to open up its protocols in Europe.
Yes but this does not make up for the STUPID user. Most people on Slashdot know what DRM is. The 15 year old girl who wants her hip-hop for her pink ipod will not. I think itunes needs a big ass message that pops up explaining what DRM is and have a "Yes I Want This" button and a "No Thanks" button and let people pick that way.
Yes competition is good. I has caused apple to lower it's price to keep a few of it's customers. It also has caused some music labels to rethink how they sell music. (I know one of them is selling music online with non-DRM).
Why are they selling DRM and non-DRM for the same price? Is that sort of like:
"If you want to ride the roller coster you have to get corn holed first, or you can just get on the ride."
Yes but you have to pay more money for that. It used to be all customers would be routed to the United States. After 2am cst you would then be routed to India. Dell wanted to save a buck so they laid off all the US workers and shipped the whole operation to India so they can pay them $2.50 an hour instead of the American $10.59. I think it would have been a good choice for them to keep their support in the US and let Gateway, HP, and Compaq (this was before hp bought them) move their service to India and Dell could say their whole operation is US based. But now they just provide bad tech support. Or good tech support for a fee.
It is because most computer users (geeks) do not have girlfriends. So they hurt their wrist looking at porn...well the wrist are busy doing other stuff.
Hmm. I did tech support for dell and never ran into what you speak of. To me you sound like a Linux guy just spreading some fud. But whatever works for you.
Oh so OS X took nothing from KDE, or the 1000's of developers writing code for free? Funny I always thought OS X was based off of BSD and I thought KDE and most open source software could run on BSD. Damn I never would have thought Apple wrote every line of code in OS X.
Take off the tinfoil hat man. I think people just were too lazy to update their computers. That would be why service pack 2 turned on automatic update.
Yes but Linux also had a bunch of hobbiest around the world looking at the code not getting paid to fix the problem. Microsoft has to pay its employees to fix the code. So if Microsoft has 1000 employees and say 150 or so are working on patches. Half of those are for the OS and the other half are for office. You have 75 people working on OS patches. Linux on the other hand you have a few thousand looking at the code working on a fix.
I think they were talking about how you do not have to pay for the patch. Microsoft does not have a shit load of hobbiest around the globe looking at their code and fixing it like Linux does. Microsoft has a company to run. New products to release, deadlines to meet, and investors to please. They may not release new products that a normal everyday customer may use but they do release some new products. Even if they are spin offs from competitors. Microsoft may miss deadlines but they also loose revenue. I do not think Slackware looses any money if they do not release a new version for a while.
I think Microsoft would love it if people would work for free. However they would not have FULL control of the direction of the product. So yes you have to pay $ for an OS.
Well this was a while ago. I still do not think Dell comes close in server sales compared to HP, IBM, and Sun. When I think Dell I think desktops.
That is funny. I remember my dad telling me a story about how all of Dell's financial servers were run off of Compaq Himalayas. Mostly due to the fact that Dell servers were not that good at the time. Dell required Compaq to remove all the markings off the truck that delivered the servers, off the side of the boxes, off the computers etc.
With that being said it could just be that Dell servers are not top of the line and of the few they do sell people are picking Linux because they are gaining a Linux following because of selling Linux on the desktop.
Stitching someones lips shut because you do not like what they say is one thing. Hanging a noose in the doorway of an African American persons office is another thing. I think that is what one would call a Hate crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime#United_States/ You may want to read this, and the section after. A Hate crime is a little diffrent then shouting Nig*er is a crowded movie theater. This all falls under the same context that you have a right to yell fire, but you can not yell fire in a crowded theater.
It is not the Future of America until you can not say what you just said :) Yes the Freedom of speech is a nice thing don't you think? Or are you a foreigner who just looked up America in a text book and noticed it is mentioned a lot on slashdot.
The government can do and take what they want but they have not accomplished anything until they take away your freedom of speech and I do not see anyone coming around stitching lips shut.
You are talking about laws that have been made over 50+ years. The internet and internet gambling has only been around for at most 17 or so. Yes the laws need to be changed, so why don't you write a nice letter to your elected officials and quit bitching that some how the government is violating your copy write. It worked for prohibition it may just work in this case.
That's why I said Satellite internet sucks but maybe with some tech advances they can speed that up. I know they can not speed up the speed of light. They can compress the data. They could set up stuff like cell towers so the single does not have to travel an extra 44k miles. I was just giving an example of other directions a company could go.
How is the fastest thing in the universe slow? Or are you referring to how fast you get off when you are having sex? If that is the case the speed of light is too low :)