If the government is going to make such a tenous argument as piracy funding terrorism they should at least consider other possibilities. An equally, maybe more, justifiable position is that foreign oil funds terrorism.
A coworker and I were talking about this a few weeks ago and used McDonalds as an example. I can remember when I was a kid, small fries came in a bag, small sodas were 8oz. We've traded quantity for quality. It's cheaper for McDonalds to give us more of a bad product then it is to figure out why it sucks and make it better.
Does anyone wonder why we're the fattest country in the world.
Just to put things into perspective, I've compiled a list of the top contributers to Berman and Cobles campaigns.
Howard Berman's top contributers to 2002 campaign
Walt Disney Co $31,000 AOL Time Warner $28,050 Vivendi Universal $27,591 Viacom Inc $13,000 News Corp $11,750 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $10,000 DreamWorks SKG $10,000 William Morris Agency $10,000 Gang, Tyre et al $7,000 Sony Corp of America $7,000
By industry, the TV/Movies/Music industry contributed $186,891.
Howard Coble
Assn of Trial Lawyers of America $10,000 Winston & Strawn $5,515 Recording Industry Assn of America $5,374 National Assn of Broadcasters $5,360 ASCAP $5,000 National Assn of Realtors $5,000 Teamsters Union $5,000 Wal-Mart Stores $5,000 GlaxoSmithKline $4,999 National Cable Television Assn $4,999
Does anyone really believe campaign finance reform will solve this problem?
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Although one thing they do have the Linux/KDE doesn't - apps. Specifically, Office and Photoshop. Yes you could say that Linux has equivalents but they aren't really viable alternatives. I tried using Linux only at my company for a year and couldn't do it. I'm back on NT.
Forgetting your opinion of country music, does any of this really matter? The problem with the copy protection schemes they are proposing is that unless they want to put rights management on your ears the data has to go to analog at some point.
For years, the average consumer has made analog copies of a CD. While it may not have the best sound quality, most were happy with it. If I couldn't make digital copies of CDs so what, I'll run a loopback cable into my sound card and make a one off copy that way. It's still a hell of a lot better then tape.
I think the problem primarily (I could be wrong) is that traditionally iD's games are difficult to configure under Linux.
I tried to get Quake to run under Linux, and the biggest difficulty was getting the OpenGL to work properly. I spent a few hours on it and gave up it frustration.
Contrast that to CivII CTP. This setup was a breeze. Maybe iD should team up with Loki to help them work out the distribution/setup kinks.
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You can read the whole article, you just need to sit through the ad. Big deal, Salon needs the cash.
If the government is going to make such a tenous argument as piracy funding terrorism they should at least consider other possibilities. An equally, maybe more, justifiable position is that foreign oil funds terrorism.
I've generally found this tool very useful. If you're running a Windows box then try the Proxomitron
It should actually be The National Strategy to Promote Encryption.
(In PDF - they've learned not to use Microsoft Word. :-).
Ok and how is PDF any better then Word?
A coworker and I were talking about this a few weeks ago and used McDonalds as an example. I can remember when I was a kid, small fries came in a bag, small sodas were 8oz. We've traded quantity for quality. It's cheaper for McDonalds to give us more of a bad product then it is to figure out why it sucks and make it better.
Does anyone wonder why we're the fattest country in the world.
Howard Berman's top contributers to 2002 campaign
Walt Disney Co $31,000
AOL Time Warner $28,050
Vivendi Universal $27,591
Viacom Inc $13,000
News Corp $11,750
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $10,000
DreamWorks SKG $10,000
William Morris Agency $10,000
Gang, Tyre et al $7,000
Sony Corp of America $7,000
By industry, the TV/Movies/Music industry contributed $186,891.
Howard Coble
Assn of Trial Lawyers of America $10,000
Winston & Strawn $5,515
Recording Industry Assn of America $5,374
National Assn of Broadcasters $5,360
ASCAP $5,000
National Assn of Realtors $5,000
Teamsters Union $5,000
Wal-Mart Stores $5,000
GlaxoSmithKline $4,999
National Cable Television Assn $4,999
Source Opensecrets.org
Does anyone really believe campaign finance reform will solve this problem?
Although one thing they do have the Linux/KDE doesn't - apps. Specifically, Office and Photoshop. Yes you could say that Linux has equivalents but they aren't really viable alternatives. I tried using Linux only at my company for a year and couldn't do it. I'm back on NT.
For years, the average consumer has made analog copies of a CD. While it may not have the best sound quality, most were happy with it. If I couldn't make digital copies of CDs so what, I'll run a loopback cable into my sound card and make a one off copy that way. It's still a hell of a lot better then tape.
Contrast that to CivII CTP. This setup was a breeze. Maybe iD should team up with Loki to help them work out the distribution/setup kinks.
an unknown engineer making a change that breaks the OS which no one knows about nor could ever find out about?
Yes but can you play Quake with it?