I don't believe that theft or "stealing" is something that can only be done in the physical realm. To me, stealing / theft has 2 parts:
1. A party which is not legally authorized to obtain property by the party that owning or in posession of the property has obtained it (copyright infringement is basically just this first part).
2. The party or parties which were formerly legally in posession of the property or authorized to access the property can no longer access the property. (this being the most important part).
By this definition I'd say that they are, basically stealing.
It's genuinely disappointing to see happening in other free countries because I guarantee one of the first arguments that will be made for implementing a similar scheme in Canada will start with "This system is already in place in many other countries such as Australia, etc.", then again I suppose it's equally disappointing that our country is so easily influenced by some of the precedents set by US et al.
They'll push it ahead in next year's budget like they did last year with all the controversial legislation they wanted to railroad through our "democratic" parliament. The opposition parties will make a big song and dance again and threaten to take down the government with another vote of non-confidence, the conservatives will label them as the scary monsters that don't respect Canadian democracy again, and then Stephen will ask the governor general to suspend parliament again until the opposition's alliance loses momentum and they have enough time to spread a campaign of misinformation to ensure that they would at least win a minority government again if an election was called in the vote.
I'd like to believe that and get genuinely excited about my country's democratic system, but I think it's more likely that someone with opposing interests probably just gave them a bigger bribe (campaign contribution, whatever you want to call it) and upped the ante. I suppose we should be thankful because this time it aligned with our interests?
Just wanted to quickly point out that the Xbox 360 doesn't actually do any DVD upscaling (or maybe the elite does, but I don't own one of those). Check your LCD's input signal resolution when watching a DVD, it will drop from whatever you had it at to DVD-native 480p.
The real problem here was created when developers started trying to solve the mixing issue by writing software libraries instead of a specification.
Instead of attempting to write a one size fits all sound library that would interface directly with the sound hardware and provide the direct interface for applications who wish to play sound, what they should have been done was drafting a specification for an API that contains only the most basic audio features (creation of primary / secondary audio buffers, enumerating supported device buffer formats, etc.). The driver provides the implementation for the specification. If the device driver indicates the device is capable of hardware mixing, it should use hardware mixing internally, if it doesn't, it uses software mixing internally, if supports the use of hardware buffers for secondary buffers it can do so, but this all will take place within within the driver specific implementation of the standard specification. This should have been paired with a robust generic open source driver that (hopefully) supported as many generic audio devices as possible. Using the interface exposed by the spec directly might seem a little low level, but additional software libraries could be built on top of that interface for use by applications. The important advantage if they had gone down THIS road is that the single conduit, the arbiter of all things audio in the system would've been the device driver for the sound hardware, which would reside neatly in the kernel.
That isn't a hard question to answer; they have a lot of money, and a lot of lawyers, and as such are not subject to the same law that you and I are subject to.
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Software settings are managed and enforced in Windows domains through a tool called Group Policy. Group Policy modules are nothing more than a collection of registry key settings tied into the Group Policy editor through a relatively simple script that exposes those settings in a more straightforward way. Not only does Group Policy allow you to specify target registry information and data directly, but it also allows you to deploy file system changes en masse to targeted files (like specfiying that an included file should be copied over %appdata%\mozilla\firefox\config.ini). Group Policy comes with a dandy IE module out of the box, but there's no reason any program can't be managed easily in an Windows enterprise environment if you took a few seconds to either find the I'm sure already existing GP module or created it yourself.
Furthermore, there are many tools available to convert standard executable installation into an MSI package and Firefox would be very far from alone in any enterprise in requiring this small nuisance.
Why do the options have to be exclusive? Stop thinking about it terms of storage and start thinking about it as layers in the tiered memory subsystem; CPU registers, L1 cache, L2 cache, RAM, SSD, conventional HDD.
If I were building myself a new system today I would opt for a smaller high performance SSD for my system partition and scratch / swap partition, and a lower performance high capacity conventional HDD for backups, music, movies, etc.
When was this? In the pre-TDMA analog only cell phone the size of bricks days? Wireless communications between cellphones / handsets and wireless communications infrastructure have been standardized for a long time. If the carrier you were working for was standards compliant they would have nothing to worry about, and even then, is maintaining a device compatibility list so hard?
When I first heard about Bing I laughed at the thought of people actually dropping tried and trusted Google for some kind of Microsoft re-branded Windows Live Search, then I started paying closer attention to what I was actually getting when I searched on Google.
Over the last several years I thought it was my imagination or increasing impatience that has caused my increased dissatisfaction with Google's search results but when I think about it more closely pagerank has been around for a long time and it hasn't altogether changed much. With pagerank basically being synonymous with Internet presence there has been a ton of research into gaming the algorithm and finding ways to artificially boost your website's relevance and this has basically resulted in the increasing decline of Google's search results over the last several years.
Just as an actual example I was looking into buying a guitar amp online I had heard about and I wanted to find a website I had been to before on another computer that had a database clips demoing various amps and other guitar gear but I couldn't remember the name. After getting frustrated with several Google searches yielding nothing but trash for the obvious search queries, I turned to Bing because I thought it might be worth a laugh. First result was the website I wanted from the beginning, and that pains me a lot as someone who hates most of Microsoft's products as much as anyone else around here.
Vigilante justice is wrong and it isn't hard to prove that, but the instances cited in TFA aren't really about vigilante justice as the summary would suggest. The crowd didn't find these people and punish them, it just found them. They will be subject to the same due process as anybody else accused of a crime (though I can't speak for in China). The trend worth discussing here is more akin to internet detective-work, not internet justice, and I think we can agree that internet detective-work has a stronger case than vigilante justice.
Consider that with increased peformance ads no longer have any measurable perfect on your browsing anyway, or perhaps consider many other robust ad-blocking software packages that work directly at the socket level, blocking connections to black-listed ad-serving servers below the browser.
It may be irrelevant to the discussion of which browser best suits that organization's needs, but it isn't irrelevant to the discussion of which browser is best period.
As someone who uses Opera, Chrome is inferior in many ways and I would never be willing to switch unless they are able to fill some serious gaps in features and efficiency (which yes, believe or not is not only based on your javascript score!).
If you don't need an efficient browser with the fastest network and UI performance and low resource consumption, and lowest reported vulnerabilities, feel free to continue using whatever you're using, but please also remove yourself from this comment thread.
Not only do Pulsars slow down over time but they also unpredictably and abruptly speed up. This is thought to be because of a collapse of the outer layers of the Pulsar as it gradually loses energy over time and due to the conversation of angular momentum this collapse will cause an increase in rotational velocity.
Ignore this guy, he's an RIAA shill and/or a repeat troll.
His personal blogs include "RIAA Today" and "Bachelor Survival". I think that pretty much sums it up.
Indeed. I'm what I would consider a Windows power user who has some limited experience with the Windows command line and let me tell you, being able to use a fully object-oriented interface to the entire.NET Framework from a command line beats the hell out of what any Linux shell has to offer any day of the week.
I've written power shell scripts that are capable of doing everything from updating our active directory student accounts from a spreadsheet to reporting the installed software on every computer in a domain to a text file to emailing all event log errors from a specified date to my email address, etc, the list goes on. I'm sure these things are all possible from a Linux shell, just tell me how much fun (and how many lines) it would be.
I think one of the main reasons for the exercise, or at least marching all those soldiers out there to spectate it was (ironically) to demonstrate that the robot was safe and a trustworthy (and deadly) ally on the battlefield.
2 posts to stop the gun from traversing backwards probably would sufficed, but that would have defeated the purpose of the exercise.
Indeed.
When they say these machines they are building have the potential to be more moral than human beings, yet they want to use them to fight our wars and kill people it almost seems like the same kind of logic as building a robotic horse for your cart. Building a better horse is looking at the tiniest facet of the problem.
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I don't believe that theft or "stealing" is something that can only be done in the physical realm. To me, stealing / theft has 2 parts:
1. A party which is not legally authorized to obtain property by the party that owning or in posession of the property has obtained it (copyright infringement is basically just this first part).
2. The party or parties which were formerly legally in posession of the property or authorized to access the property can no longer access the property. (this being the most important part).
By this definition I'd say that they are, basically stealing.
It's genuinely disappointing to see happening in other free countries because I guarantee one of the first arguments that will be made for implementing a similar scheme in Canada will start with "This system is already in place in many other countries such as Australia, etc.", then again I suppose it's equally disappointing that our country is so easily influenced by some of the precedents set by US et al.
They'll push it ahead in next year's budget like they did last year with all the controversial legislation they wanted to railroad through our "democratic" parliament. The opposition parties will make a big song and dance again and threaten to take down the government with another vote of non-confidence, the conservatives will label them as the scary monsters that don't respect Canadian democracy again, and then Stephen will ask the governor general to suspend parliament again until the opposition's alliance loses momentum and they have enough time to spread a campaign of misinformation to ensure that they would at least win a minority government again if an election was called in the vote.
I'd like to believe that and get genuinely excited about my country's democratic system, but I think it's more likely that someone with opposing interests probably just gave them a bigger bribe (campaign contribution, whatever you want to call it) and upped the ante. I suppose we should be thankful because this time it aligned with our interests?
Just wanted to quickly point out that the Xbox 360 doesn't actually do any DVD upscaling (or maybe the elite does, but I don't own one of those). Check your LCD's input signal resolution when watching a DVD, it will drop from whatever you had it at to DVD-native 480p.
The real problem here was created when developers started trying to solve the mixing issue by writing software libraries instead of a specification.
Instead of attempting to write a one size fits all sound library that would interface directly with the sound hardware and provide the direct interface for applications who wish to play sound, what they should have been done was drafting a specification for an API that contains only the most basic audio features (creation of primary / secondary audio buffers, enumerating supported device buffer formats, etc.). The driver provides the implementation for the specification. If the device driver indicates the device is capable of hardware mixing, it should use hardware mixing internally, if it doesn't, it uses software mixing internally, if supports the use of hardware buffers for secondary buffers it can do so, but this all will take place within within the driver specific implementation of the standard specification. This should have been paired with a robust generic open source driver that (hopefully) supported as many generic audio devices as possible. Using the interface exposed by the spec directly might seem a little low level, but additional software libraries could be built on top of that interface for use by applications. The important advantage if they had gone down THIS road is that the single conduit, the arbiter of all things audio in the system would've been the device driver for the sound hardware, which would reside neatly in the kernel.
That isn't a hard question to answer; they have a lot of money, and a lot of lawyers, and as such are not subject to the same law that you and I are subject to.
Sounds like you might be interested in my magic meteorite-warding stones. Just pop one of these babies in your pants and you'll never have to worry about meteors falling on you or your house ever again. I've had countless customers who can tell you they really work!
Software settings are managed and enforced in Windows domains through a tool called Group Policy. Group Policy modules are nothing more than a collection of registry key settings tied into the Group Policy editor through a relatively simple script that exposes those settings in a more straightforward way. Not only does Group Policy allow you to specify target registry information and data directly, but it also allows you to deploy file system changes en masse to targeted files (like specfiying that an included file should be copied over %appdata%\mozilla\firefox\config.ini). Group Policy comes with a dandy IE module out of the box, but there's no reason any program can't be managed easily in an Windows enterprise environment if you took a few seconds to either find the I'm sure already existing GP module or created it yourself.
Furthermore, there are many tools available to convert standard executable installation into an MSI package and Firefox would be very far from alone in any enterprise in requiring this small nuisance.
Why do the options have to be exclusive? Stop thinking about it terms of storage and start thinking about it as layers in the tiered memory subsystem; CPU registers, L1 cache, L2 cache, RAM, SSD, conventional HDD.
If I were building myself a new system today I would opt for a smaller high performance SSD for my system partition and scratch / swap partition, and a lower performance high capacity conventional HDD for backups, music, movies, etc.
When was this? In the pre-TDMA analog only cell phone the size of bricks days? Wireless communications between cellphones / handsets and wireless communications infrastructure have been standardized for a long time. If the carrier you were working for was standards compliant they would have nothing to worry about, and even then, is maintaining a device compatibility list so hard?
When I first heard about Bing I laughed at the thought of people actually dropping tried and trusted Google for some kind of Microsoft re-branded Windows Live Search, then I started paying closer attention to what I was actually getting when I searched on Google.
Over the last several years I thought it was my imagination or increasing impatience that has caused my increased dissatisfaction with Google's search results but when I think about it more closely pagerank has been around for a long time and it hasn't altogether changed much. With pagerank basically being synonymous with Internet presence there has been a ton of research into gaming the algorithm and finding ways to artificially boost your website's relevance and this has basically resulted in the increasing decline of Google's search results over the last several years.
Just as an actual example I was looking into buying a guitar amp online I had heard about and I wanted to find a website I had been to before on another computer that had a database clips demoing various amps and other guitar gear but I couldn't remember the name. After getting frustrated with several Google searches yielding nothing but trash for the obvious search queries, I turned to Bing because I thought it might be worth a laugh. First result was the website I wanted from the beginning, and that pains me a lot as someone who hates most of Microsoft's products as much as anyone else around here.
Although it sounds like what they're proposing here has some good ideas, the concept isn't groundbreaking. My Blackberry has an emergency callback mode and I've seen in action once. http://na.blackberry.com/eng/deliverables/1487/About_Emergency_Callback_Mode_26287_11.jsp
Vigilante justice is wrong and it isn't hard to prove that, but the instances cited in TFA aren't really about vigilante justice as the summary would suggest. The crowd didn't find these people and punish them, it just found them. They will be subject to the same due process as anybody else accused of a crime (though I can't speak for in China). The trend worth discussing here is more akin to internet detective-work, not internet justice, and I think we can agree that internet detective-work has a stronger case than vigilante justice.
10 years ago you probably wouldn't have an induction based stovetop, so if you did now then yes, the assumption that it would burn you would be false.
Oh, and furthermore we use Fortigate where I work and I'm using Opera there right now just fine.
I'm willing to bet they're probably still working kinks out with their proxy server's capacity due to high initial demand on the feature.
Consider that with increased peformance ads no longer have any measurable perfect on your browsing anyway, or perhaps consider many other robust ad-blocking software packages that work directly at the socket level, blocking connections to black-listed ad-serving servers below the browser.
It may be irrelevant to the discussion of which browser best suits that organization's needs, but it isn't irrelevant to the discussion of which browser is best period.
As someone who uses Opera, Chrome is inferior in many ways and I would never be willing to switch unless they are able to fill some serious gaps in features and efficiency (which yes, believe or not is not only based on your javascript score!). If you don't need an efficient browser with the fastest network and UI performance and low resource consumption, and lowest reported vulnerabilities, feel free to continue using whatever you're using, but please also remove yourself from this comment thread.
Not only do Pulsars slow down over time but they also unpredictably and abruptly speed up. This is thought to be because of a collapse of the outer layers of the Pulsar as it gradually loses energy over time and due to the conversation of angular momentum this collapse will cause an increase in rotational velocity.
Ignore this guy, he's an RIAA shill and/or a repeat troll. His personal blogs include "RIAA Today" and "Bachelor Survival". I think that pretty much sums it up.
Indeed. I'm what I would consider a Windows power user who has some limited experience with the Windows command line and let me tell you, being able to use a fully object-oriented interface to the entire .NET Framework from a command line beats the hell out of what any Linux shell has to offer any day of the week.
I've written power shell scripts that are capable of doing everything from updating our active directory student accounts from a spreadsheet to reporting the installed software on every computer in a domain to a text file to emailing all event log errors from a specified date to my email address, etc, the list goes on. I'm sure these things are all possible from a Linux shell, just tell me how much fun (and how many lines) it would be.
I think one of the main reasons for the exercise, or at least marching all those soldiers out there to spectate it was (ironically) to demonstrate that the robot was safe and a trustworthy (and deadly) ally on the battlefield. 2 posts to stop the gun from traversing backwards probably would sufficed, but that would have defeated the purpose of the exercise.
Indeed. When they say these machines they are building have the potential to be more moral than human beings, yet they want to use them to fight our wars and kill people it almost seems like the same kind of logic as building a robotic horse for your cart. Building a better horse is looking at the tiniest facet of the problem.