Top gun was partly funded by the Navy - it was basically a 90 minute recruitment video... it's not surprising it got that reaction - that was the point.
I wonder if sales of speak and spell machines went up after ET was shown?
The EM comes from the tuner not the screen, so it works with plasmas and even VCRs.
OTOH as you say they have a list... no need for the technology just find everyone without a license and visit them every now and then to make sure they haven't got a TV.
So how does it differ from truss, or even ltrace/strace? Not much detail there... just marketing blurb ('operational insights??').
It's not on solaris 9, just checked (checked solaris 8 for fun too), so can't make any real comparisons.. anything that makes solaris debugging less than a total 'mare sounds like a good idea though.
(shouldn't be too hard on solaris though... I have to do an HPUX port too - that's an OS I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy...)
GPL in libraries in problematic... eg. bits of KDE might be LGPL in theory but because they link to QT they're actually GPL (since GPL overrides all other libraries), which in turn means all kde apps must be GPL...
The 'allowed' (not legal, just an industry standard) 1 dead pixel per million pixels. The PSP doesn't even *have* 1 million pixels.
You could argue by that they're allowed 1 pixel. You definately couldn't argue for 7 on a screen that size.
(btw. the reason that's no a hard legal limit is because the cost of the item and the positioning of the pixel is taken into account in court judgements.. if you buy a £2000 LCD TV, it might well have 2 million pixels but a single white pixel smack in the middle of the screen is would enough to make it unfit for purpose).
They've been pre-selling it for 6 months beforehand *of course* there will be a lot of sales in the first week.
Let's see what happens in the future...
At the momemt there are no half decent games (only about 10 games at launch day) and movies are really expensive (£10 for a movie on a tiny screen with crap sound? Sod of..). Unless this changes fast it'll die, since the DS has hundreds of games and some of them are apparently quite good.
then I haven't had chance to play it for more than a few hours in the last 3 months.
Unfortunately you can't suspend a subscripton that you're not currently using without losing your characters (it's taken me most of the year to get my character to level 10 and I'm damned if I'm giving it up...).
Ultimately I'll probably just cancel and forget it, as it'll annoy me enough that I won't want to keep paying.
They shut down the account without any warning, were not contactable and their automated system for reinstatement did not work.
When they were finally contacted they refused to release the money for 9 days, and stated that as they have an exclusive contract with United Way they can't authorize charity payments to the red cross.
So instead they refunded all the money - *minus* all their transaction fees... so paypal made a nice tidy sum and the people in new orleans got zip.
1. Who would collect these payments? You really think a spammer in korea would pay them? The ISP? I don't use my ISPs mail system (neither do spammers, btw.) 2. Mailing lists... LKML would go bankcrupt in about a day.
When I write code I write a backend to support multiple databases. I have to if I want to sell any product.
Sqlite for the quick install 'embedded version' Mysql/Pgsql for those that use it MSDE/SQLServer for Microsoft types Oracle for large businesss. ODBC for everything else
Guess which one is the hardest to get working? Luckily Mysql support is EOL now... the license issues have killed it (can't use anything over mysql 3.23 and that doesn't have proper variable binding).
If they sold their weapons indiscriminately to anyone that asked then I don't see the problems with that. OTOH they don't (maybe in the US, but in the rest of the world there are laws stopping them).
In the same way selling a knife to an under 18 makes you liable to prosecution, etc. we have to take responsibility for what we're doing.
Yes this should be illegal. It is *not* obvious what you're signing up to when you download these ringones... it's targeted at non-technical teenagers (anyone with any technical knowledge will just download the thing for free from the internet) who are the least likely to be reading the small print.
So you're happy to keep paying for your spam, so you can keep the ability to transfer your cell phone to a landline at some unspecified point in the future, if you ever do.
Every country has number portability, but *only* the US won't let you know that you're calling a mobile so you get slammed with the higher charges.
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Top gun was partly funded by the Navy - it was basically a 90 minute recruitment video... it's not surprising it got that reaction - that was the point.
I wonder if sales of speak and spell machines went up after ET was shown?
If I was world dictator I'd have enforced sterilisation at birth and parent licenses allocated after rigorous testing.
That's probably why I should never be allowed any power...
Interesting idea.
If a remixer in the UK takes a britney spears album and uses it, WTF can the US do? Their laws don't apply here any more than our laws apply to them.
See the logical fallacy?
International law (and *especially* copyright law) simply doesn't work like that.
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The EM comes from the tuner not the screen, so it works with plasmas and even VCRs.
OTOH as you say they have a list... no need for the technology just find everyone without a license and visit them every now and then to make sure they haven't got a TV.
Isn't that just a mini?
The ipod nano is a small tubular thing...
http://members.shaw.ca/ventro2/nano_large.jpg
So how does it differ from truss, or even ltrace/strace? Not much detail there... just marketing blurb ('operational insights??').
It's not on solaris 9, just checked (checked solaris 8 for fun too), so can't make any real comparisons.. anything that makes solaris debugging less than a total 'mare sounds like a good idea though.
(shouldn't be too hard on solaris though... I have to do an HPUX port too - that's an OS I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy...)
Or LGPL.
GPL in libraries in problematic... eg. bits of KDE might be LGPL in theory but because they link to QT they're actually GPL (since GPL overrides all other libraries), which in turn means all kde apps must be GPL...
QT is quite expensive, actually (between $2600 and $5200 per developer).
They're not.
The 'allowed' (not legal, just an industry standard) 1 dead pixel per million pixels. The PSP doesn't even *have* 1 million pixels.
You could argue by that they're allowed 1 pixel. You definately couldn't argue for 7 on a screen that size.
(btw. the reason that's no a hard legal limit is because the cost of the item and the positioning of the pixel is taken into account in court judgements.. if you buy a £2000 LCD TV, it might well have 2 million pixels but a single white pixel smack in the middle of the screen is would enough to make it unfit for purpose).
They've been pre-selling it for 6 months beforehand *of course* there will be a lot of sales in the first week.
Let's see what happens in the future...
At the momemt there are no half decent games (only about 10 games at launch day) and movies are really expensive (£10 for a movie on a tiny screen with crap sound? Sod of..). Unless this changes fast it'll die, since the DS has hundreds of games and some of them are apparently quite good.
I'm the publishers dream...
I like WoW, bought it & subscribed..
then I haven't had chance to play it for more than a few hours in the last 3 months.
Unfortunately you can't suspend a subscripton that you're not currently using without losing your characters (it's taken me most of the year to get my character to level 10 and I'm damned if I'm giving it up...).
Ultimately I'll probably just cancel and forget it, as it'll annoy me enough that I won't want to keep paying.
For those of us who aren't in the US.. what's the link to the city that got hit?
I clicked on a few of the boxes but no idea where I'm looking so I keep ending up with uninhabited bits.
Co operative bank in the UK were SSLv2 only until only recently (~9 months ago IIRC), when they replaced their entire online site with a new one.
When I queried it they said it was because their version of java didn't support v3.
I change banks.
My last bank was still using SSL2 only 12 months ago, and I've not heard they've changed.
The GPL *is* a political statement.. has been for some time.
It's just that a lot of developers buy into it. I did myself for a long time.
There are plenty of other licenses - use them instead if you're not into the politics.
They shut down the account without any warning, were not contactable and their automated system for reinstatement did not work.
When they were finally contacted they refused to release the money for 9 days, and stated that as they have an exclusive contract with United Way they can't authorize charity payments to the red cross.
So instead they refunded all the money - *minus* all their transaction fees... so paypal made a nice tidy sum and the people in new orleans got zip.
Nice company.
Good luck trying to get the spammers to pay you the $500 a month...
hint: they won't.
Been tried.. wouldn't work.
1. Who would collect these payments? You really think a spammer in korea would pay them? The ISP? I don't use my ISPs mail system (neither do spammers, btw.)
2. Mailing lists... LKML would go bankcrupt in about a day.
When I write code I write a backend to support multiple databases. I have to if I want to sell any product.
Sqlite for the quick install 'embedded version'
Mysql/Pgsql for those that use it
MSDE/SQLServer for Microsoft types
Oracle for large businesss.
ODBC for everything else
Guess which one is the hardest to get working? Luckily Mysql support is EOL now... the license issues have killed it (can't use anything over mysql 3.23 and that doesn't have proper variable binding).
If they sold their weapons indiscriminately to anyone that asked then I don't see the problems with that. OTOH they don't (maybe in the US, but in the rest of the world there are laws stopping them).
In the same way selling a knife to an under 18 makes you liable to prosecution, etc. we have to take responsibility for what we're doing.
Presumably they report the offenders as they have broken the law - text spam is illegal in the UK.
Yes this should be illegal. It is *not* obvious what you're signing up to when you download these ringones... it's targeted at non-technical teenagers (anyone with any technical knowledge will just download the thing for free from the internet) who are the least likely to be reading the small print.
There are plenty of free SMS services... I've used a few.. never had any spam.. but then it's illegal to spam mobiles in this country :)
So you're happy to keep paying for your spam, so you can keep the ability to transfer your cell phone to a landline at some unspecified point in the future, if you ever do.
Every country has number portability, but *only* the US won't let you know that you're calling a mobile so you get slammed with the higher charges.