Now what will stop douchebags like Rupert Murdoch from suing an individual for millions of dollars if that individual makes a webpage with quotes having more than a few words from one of Murdoch's newspaper stories?
'So while it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally owned DVD on that individual's computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies.'
The DMCA gives big media companies expanded control over material beyond what copyright allows so that they can make more money.
It can handle very long documents just fine if you use the program appropriately.
No, it can't.
I'm extremely proficient in LaTeX and Word. I know those "powerful abilities" that you are talking about. I use them.
I had to write a 300 page book in Word (not my choice to use Word). The program is buggy as hell and those bugs start showing up heavily when your docs become big. Styles changing on their own. Margins changing on their own. My favorite bug, which took an entire night to fix, was when the @#$%ing program decided to change the font of every single one of my captions to symbol.
Near the end, I was spending more time dealing with the bugs than writing.
Hmmm how can we improve a Japaneese robot?
It can transform into a jet fighter.
It should have lots of weapons, with an activation system keyed to voice recognition so that the pilot has to needlessly scream out their name every single time they are triggered.
It needs a theme song sung by a japanese dude with a rich baritone voice and then for some reason lots of little children backing him up.
RIAA has been pushing for DRM up the ass. Asked for their view on DRM, they answer the question with another question that really had nothing to do with the original.
Electro Convulsive Therapy relies on inducing a siezure via small electric currents through the brain. There is no benefit to shocking someone for 30 minutes: the seizure can be induced in seconds. Furthermore, the patient does not need to be awake (and indeed it is better not to be awake, as anasthetic and paralytic drugs will take care of the unpleasant effects of the seizure).
So either China's psychiatry is in the dark ages, "shock therapy" is misinterpreted, or the bloggers are full of shit.
According to the CNET article, Tukwilla is pushed until 2010, and it's going to be 65nm instead of 45 nm. Since Intel has already demonstrated 32nm chips, that means Tukwilla will already be at least two generations behind when it's released. No new chip designs from Sun and Fujitsu decreasing the R&D budget. Sounds like this market is falling behind.
I found one on sale cheap. Tried it out. 8 infrared light beams that it would try to detect your hand or foot intercepting as a "high" or "low" event. Terribly useless. You couldn't play a game with it because trying to move your body to break light beams was so much slower than a handheld controller. Try to think about how fast you can move your thumb 1 cm compared to moving your your whole arm half a meter, let alone picking your foot up and moving it.
And when "RCA television" was adopted, it was market driven.
There was NO market drive to force the adoption of digital-only broadcast.
And before some knucklehead starts to say "HD," digital TV has nothing to do with HD. It had everything to do with selling off bandwidth to private corporations.
This is the first I have heard of the Tukwilla processor. With Intel not releasing a new processor in the Itanium line for such a long time, I thought they had abandoned it.
Some more enlightened governments are realizing that their electronic documents need to be in an open format so that they don't have to be chained to a vendor, or so that those documents don't die if the single vendor stops supporting it.
Even if MS fails all interoperability (which I would bet they do), at least someone could use ODF with office 2007 and 10-20 years later be able to use the spec to develop an app to recover the documents.
Just imagine the anti-floridation crowd going ballistic if anyone suggested adding Lithium to municipal water supplies.
I'd imagine alot more crowds would be going ballistic. Lithium levels to control bipolar disorder need to be controlled. Too high and they are toxic. Wouldn't it suck if someone was taking lithium salts for bipolar disorder, then went on a long hike and made sure to bring along plenty of water?
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Now what will stop douchebags like Rupert Murdoch from suing an individual for millions of dollars if that individual makes a webpage with quotes having more than a few words from one of Murdoch's newspaper stories?
The DMCA gives big media companies expanded control over material beyond what copyright allows so that they can make more money.
No, it can't.
I'm extremely proficient in LaTeX and Word. I know those "powerful abilities" that you are talking about. I use them.
I had to write a 300 page book in Word (not my choice to use Word). The program is buggy as hell and those bugs start showing up heavily when your docs become big. Styles changing on their own. Margins changing on their own. My favorite bug, which took an entire night to fix, was when the @#$%ing program decided to change the font of every single one of my captions to symbol.
Near the end, I was spending more time dealing with the bugs than writing.
Anyone who wants opera on Linux can get it easily enough by ftp or through auxilliary lightweight browser (such as Konqueror) chosen at install.
Hmmm how can we improve a Japaneese robot? It can transform into a jet fighter. It should have lots of weapons, with an activation system keyed to voice recognition so that the pilot has to needlessly scream out their name every single time they are triggered. It needs a theme song sung by a japanese dude with a rich baritone voice and then for some reason lots of little children backing him up.
God will punish (and forgive) blasphemy. God doesn't need the Irish, or anyone else for that matter, to do it for Him.
RIAA has been pushing for DRM up the ass. Asked for their view on DRM, they answer the question with another question that really had nothing to do with the original.
Electro Convulsive Therapy relies on inducing a siezure via small electric currents through the brain. There is no benefit to shocking someone for 30 minutes: the seizure can be induced in seconds. Furthermore, the patient does not need to be awake (and indeed it is better not to be awake, as anasthetic and paralytic drugs will take care of the unpleasant effects of the seizure).
So either China's psychiatry is in the dark ages, "shock therapy" is misinterpreted, or the bloggers are full of shit.
Bill Clinton killed the United States supercollider to fund this piece of shit. Twenty years later, we will have neither.
Have you ever noticed how hate mongers usually look like douchebags?
Greedo will shoot first in the games.
China is a controlled export country.
Iran is an embargoed country.
Legally, there is a big difference between the two.
So you buy Windows 7 ...
or.......
You could use Linux and spend the money you save on a a netbook.
Violation of due process is violation of human rights.
According to the CNET article, Tukwilla is pushed until 2010, and it's going to be 65nm instead of 45 nm. Since Intel has already demonstrated 32nm chips, that means Tukwilla will already be at least two generations behind when it's released. No new chip designs from Sun and Fujitsu decreasing the R&D budget. Sounds like this market is falling behind.
I found one on sale cheap. Tried it out. 8 infrared light beams that it would try to detect your hand or foot intercepting as a "high" or "low" event. Terribly useless. You couldn't play a game with it because trying to move your body to break light beams was so much slower than a handheld controller. Try to think about how fast you can move your thumb 1 cm compared to moving your your whole arm half a meter, let alone picking your foot up and moving it.
The true question is, "Can I shoot Jar Jar Binks first with these characters?"
Look at the kind of crap that the SCO Group pulled over the last six years...
There was NO market drive to force the adoption of digital-only broadcast.
And before some knucklehead starts to say "HD," digital TV has nothing to do with HD. It had everything to do with selling off bandwidth to private corporations.
I wonder if they decided that they had to put assloads of DRM in and THAT was what was broken.
This is the first I have heard of the Tukwilla processor. With Intel not releasing a new processor in the Itanium line for such a long time, I thought they had abandoned it.
What about the ground breaking experiments involving insane World of Warcraft players who stay up for several days at a time?
Get this internet users? You have been all called thieves by this guy.
Sony is a bunch of asshats. Stop buying their stuff and maybe they will go away.
Even if MS fails all interoperability (which I would bet they do), at least someone could use ODF with office 2007 and 10-20 years later be able to use the spec to develop an app to recover the documents.
Just imagine the anti-floridation crowd going ballistic if anyone suggested adding Lithium to municipal water supplies.
I'd imagine alot more crowds would be going ballistic. Lithium levels to control bipolar disorder need to be controlled. Too high and they are toxic. Wouldn't it suck if someone was taking lithium salts for bipolar disorder, then went on a long hike and made sure to bring along plenty of water?