Haven't been doing Perl for too long, but I'd guess this means replace a string starting with a sequence of ?'s amd/'s and ending a number with SOH/SOH
If I got that right, I'll be so pleased with myself:)
Company A set up a subsidiary company called VDVDV. VDVDV make a very MPAA friendly player with all the bells and whistles. Company A then sets up another subsidiary called FuDVD. VDVDV supplies 100% of its DVD players to FuDVD, at near cost. FuDVD's entire business is based on modifying VDVDV DVD players to be multi region.
Company A now produces legitimate multi-region DVD players.
Ah, right. What you seem to be saying is that studios will release a product which a segment of their potential marketbase can't view for no reason at all apart from the fact that they always release it with a region code.
Most Americans would never think of buying videos from other countries.
Actually, although NTSC capable VCR's have been around for years, most Europeans wouldn't have considered buying videos from other countries. I like to think its the fact that people feel the urge to buy from overseas after having gone to the effort of getting a multi region DVD player.
Why bother? Just completely change the rules for the.us domain, or add more second level domains. I bet most of the third levels are not used by anyone anyway, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the state domains aren't either.
I think its a balance of probabilities. I think I could make quite a convincing case for having forgotten it though - It's 128 characters of random gibberish.
I suggest checking a selection of History books. There was indeed a vote. The vote was on whether or not to record official documents in German if I remember correctly.
The UN seems to agree with you according to this report from the Guardian. Not that I agree with everything the UN or the guardian have to say, but I feel they have a point.
How about a billion. How many zeros in a billion? Are you sure?
There was a time when curency was measured in US billions, and scientific measurements used English billions. The meant that an x bilion volt generator at y billion pounds didn't give x/y volts per pound.
All these new ideas like grammes/metres/secs and pounds/inches/secs. I propose we go back to a sensible set of measures - FFF firkin/furlong/fortnight.
Folowing Pizza Hut's announcements that they're funding a rocket, NASA announced that they were going to go into Pizza delivery
Joe Muldoon of Nasa said "If they can poach our territory, then we can poach theirs.", and added "'Making great pizza' is not much different from rocket science. We've already done some experiments in space based food preparation by turning Mars probes into pancakes"
Owing to the huge cost of a conventional pizza oven, suggestions are that the shuttle's heat proof coating will be replaced with Pizza, so they can be cooked on re-entry. Nasa also suggested that their delivery bikes would have rockets strapped on the back to guarentee fast delivery times. "Its not like it would make the guys any more dangerous after all", said Muldoon
NASA can be found at www.nasa.gov, but there's no way we're going to actually turn this into a link.
Person 3 isn't using my code. He still has to GPL it, because I GPL'ed my code. My decision to use the GPL affected the code that I had put no work into at all.
I believe I know the case you are talking about, and I believe in that case the FreeBSD hacker, instead of whining and claiming that he was being "forced" to use someone elses code sucked it up and wrote his own BSD licensed code,
Well, thats efficient use of time isn't it. The driver writers didn't choose to licence under the GPL. Linus did. They didn't have any choice. They were actually quite happy for the driver to be rewritten under for BSD.
I take it you haven't read Umberto Eco's Faucault's Pendulum then. Moronic logic is described with examples like All Spartans are mortal, all Greeks are mortal therefore all Spartans are Greek. My point was that a lot of moderators use this sort of back to front logic when hitting the "Troll" button, and not that that was my opinion.
Hypothetical situation - I write a piece of GPL software. It has some clever graphics code, so someone uses that code in their program. They would rather use the BSD licence, but since they use my code, they are obliged to use the GPL. They do this since they don't really care too much as long as people use their code.
Someone else is really impressed by their networking code. They decide to use that. They too are forced to release under the GPL, even though the second person wouldn't have minded if they didn't. I have managed to force the GPL on a piece of software that I had no input to.
This is based on an actual problem someone had, when they wanted to port a Linux driver to FreeBSD.
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I mean, really, what does s/^[^./?]+..\d*/\1\/\1/
/'s and ending a number with SOH/SOH
Haven't been doing Perl for too long, but I'd guess this means replace a string starting with a sequence of ?'s amd
If I got that right, I'll be so pleased with myself:)
There's always http://www.bigstar.com/
Yep. They're region locked. Although by their very nature, software patches are very easy to get hold of. Just do a web search before you buy one.
Company A set up a subsidiary company called VDVDV. VDVDV make a very MPAA friendly player with all the bells and whistles. Company A then sets up another subsidiary called FuDVD. VDVDV supplies 100% of its DVD players to FuDVD, at near cost. FuDVD's entire business is based on modifying VDVDV DVD players to be multi region.
Company A now produces legitimate multi-region DVD players.
Ah, right. What you seem to be saying is that studios will release a product which a segment of their potential marketbase can't view for no reason at all apart from the fact that they always release it with a region code.
Worryingly enough, I think you're right.
Most Americans would never think of buying videos from other countries.
Actually, although NTSC capable VCR's have been around for years, most Europeans wouldn't have considered buying videos from other countries. I like to think its the fact that people feel the urge to buy from overseas after having gone to the effort of getting a multi region DVD player.
Yeah, but it is possible to make a disc that plays on all players, or a subset. A region 0 disc will play on all players. Regional codes are optional.
Okay, so he got the time limit wrong (or at least a few ywears aout of date) the comment still stands.
Apparently they've improved from the point of view of the features recently, probably because they realised that people were importing them.
Also an anisotropic option is a lot more common in region 2.
All this thing needs now is a photocopier attached in order to copy printed materials, and all bases should be covered!
And a 2400 bps modem to download all those 5GB deCSS'ed movies that are all over the internet.
Betamax was a smaller format and offered better quality but because VHS was more popular (not sure why, anyone care to comment?)
Sony's restrictive licencing made VHS cheaper, and VHS had a longer tape format (Apparently the early betas were only 1 hour, VHS was 2)
How about a .usa TLD to try to get it right?
.us domain, or add more second level domains. I bet most of the third levels are not used by anyone anyway, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the state domains aren't either.
Why bother? Just completely change the rules for the
it showed, over 800 pages, that you have to be some kind of insane ambitious egomaniacal media whore to make it in national politics these days.
Okay, I see how this applies to Maggie Thatcher, Nixon, and Tony Blair. But Bill Clinton? John Major!?
I think its a balance of probabilities. I think I could make quite a convincing case for having forgotten it though - It's 128 characters of random gibberish.
I suggest checking a selection of History books. There was indeed a vote. The vote was on whether or not to record official documents in German if I remember correctly.
Finally we've got these rights, just a little late
In the past, we just assumed we had those rights. Written rights are only needed if they're likely to be taken away.
The UN seems to agree with you according to this report from the Guardian. Not that I agree with everything the UN or the guardian have to say, but I feel they have a point.
Um, yeah. Is a trillion 10^24 or 10^18? And what about a billiard? 10^18 or 10^15 or a cue and ball game?
Isn't area measured in football pitches?
How about a billion. How many zeros in a billion? Are you sure?
There was a time when curency was measured in US billions, and scientific measurements used English billions. The meant that an x bilion volt generator at y billion pounds didn't give x/y volts per pound.
All these new ideas like grammes/metres/secs and pounds/inches/secs. I propose we go back to a sensible set of measures - FFF firkin/furlong/fortnight.
Folowing Pizza Hut's announcements that they're funding a rocket, NASA announced that they were going to go into Pizza delivery
Joe Muldoon of Nasa said "If they can poach our territory, then we can poach theirs.", and added "'Making great pizza' is not much different from rocket science. We've already done some experiments in space based food preparation by turning Mars probes into pancakes"
Owing to the huge cost of a conventional pizza oven, suggestions are that the shuttle's heat proof coating will be replaced with Pizza, so they can be cooked on re-entry. Nasa also suggested that their delivery bikes would have rockets strapped on the back to guarentee fast delivery times. "Its not like it would make the guys any more dangerous after all", said Muldoon
NASA can be found at www.nasa.gov, but there's no way we're going to actually turn this into a link.
Person 3 isn't using my code. He still has to GPL it, because I GPL'ed my code. My decision to use the GPL affected the code that I had put no work into at all.
I believe I know the case you are talking about, and I believe in that case the FreeBSD hacker, instead of whining and claiming that he was being "forced" to use someone elses code sucked it up and wrote his own BSD licensed code,
Well, thats efficient use of time isn't it. The driver writers didn't choose to licence under the GPL. Linus did. They didn't have any choice. They were actually quite happy for the driver to be rewritten under for BSD.
I take it you haven't read Umberto Eco's Faucault's Pendulum then. Moronic logic is described with examples like All Spartans are mortal, all Greeks are mortal therefore all Spartans are Greek. My point was that a lot of moderators use this sort of back to front logic when hitting the "Troll" button, and not that that was my opinion.
Hypothetical situation - I write a piece of GPL software. It has some clever graphics code, so someone uses that code in their program. They would rather use the BSD licence, but since they use my code, they are obliged to use the GPL. They do this since they don't really care too much as long as people use their code.
Someone else is really impressed by their networking code. They decide to use that. They too are forced to release under the GPL, even though the second person wouldn't have minded if they didn't. I have managed to force the GPL on a piece of software that I had no input to.
This is based on an actual problem someone had, when they wanted to port a Linux driver to FreeBSD.