Don't bet on it. Remember DeCSS? Adobe Ebooks? You can bet that the protectionist forces in the US will go after any company that tries to sell non-compliant hardware in another country.
I do remember, but note that they can only enforce their law in the US, which is the case with DeCSS and the Ebook decoder.
"It's illegal for a company to offer for sale a device which doesn't have the DRM circuitry. Since company X is doing business in the US, they are subject to US law, and since the law doesn't say 'offer for sale in the US', then they're subject to sanctions under the law."
I doubt that a company can be on trial for buisness in other countries. If a company choose to sell DRM inside USA and non-DRM outside USA, and is procecuted one of four things will happen:
- They will stop doing buisness in the US (not likely at all) - They drag the case through the court (not likely) - They obay the US law, and stop selling non-DRM systems (some what likely) - Create an additional company for selling non-DRM systems, and they can still do buisness (most likely)
If a company is not located in USA, they will have a very good opportunity for buisness elsewhere.
One last thing though, if a company have neither office or people in USA, how can they be affected. The only way is to ban the products that are imported. This might will raise conserns in WTO, and could lead to counter bans from other countries.
The USA may not be the whole world, but it is a decent sized chunk of open source development. Sure you won't miss us?.
You forget the most basic thing about open source, that everybody can modify it. So if it becomes illegal in the US, someone outside US will probably take over the develpoment. Therefore we can continue without the US.
The law won't keep a geek from running linux. The tiny little DRM chip soldered to the motherboard will do that job.
Which DRM chip? Again you presume that everything resolves around the US. A very large portion of hardware is made outside of the US, mainly in Asia. And they are not covered by any US law, granted they will make DRM based systems for the US, and in all likelyhood non-DRM based for the rest of the world. If only DRM based systems becomes avaible, there is still time for purchase of non-DRM based system, which can easily last 10+ years. Which gives a lot of time for the DRM to be cracked and/or removed from law again. We do not even have to look that far back to see this will happen, both DVD and some CD protections have already been broken, iether at the software or hardware level.
And, most importantly, the EU is full of copynazi's too. Generally, they adopt laws about 5 years after we do. So you'll get about half a decade more freedom than we do, use it well.
They might adopt similar laws, but they are not as severe.
NWN will support 64 players per server. It is possible to travel to different servers via portals, this will enable the possibility of huge worlds. But it will not be a massive MP game, since the amount of players per server is severely limited.
It lools more like a small community playing together on a single server or exploring servers.
The EULA is seriously bad news, if you are to distribute your modules.
As for me, I plan on running a game server. Therefore I will not share the modules, as that cuts down on the chance of players cheating.
I still do not like the EULA, and I hope they change their minds with the final product, otherwise they will dampen the interrest for the module creating and sharing.
Not really, its only that a large portion of (western) people think it was a symbol only used by the Nazis. If you go to Asia or Africa it is still considered a good luck sign.
For a more indept information have a look here http://www.intelinet.org/swastika/ http://w ww.manwoman.net/swastika/index.html
An attorney for the states said they had made the decision to avoid prolonging the case after Microsoft said it needed an indefinite period of time to prepare its response.
Why didn't they at least wait until the judge made a comment about this? If MS did indeed state this, isn't a contempt of the law/judge, since MS already have stated this is impossible, and therefore should only be given a fixed time to prepare. As I remember the judge found this information rather useful for the case/ruling.
If the judge does not refuse this withdrawel of evidence, I figure the states have already lost.
How many public K-12 schools need to go into how an OS works?
Very few I would guess, but learning to use computers and how they work, takes alot more than a point and click interface. It requieres an understanding of the relation between different kinds of software (layers) and hardware.
Teaching in, say, DOS and MS Windows will not only show the differences between a prompt and a GUI, but also the strength and weaknesses of both. Case in point try to find a MSW program which can do the equ. of "dir *.doc > doc_list.txt" beside the DOS prompt.
Standard teaching (at least what I am aware of) shows the student the known ways to solve a problem, not just a single one.
Why you might ask? Because in real life there rarely is a single "correct" solution to a problem, and schools are basically about giving tools to solve the living of ones life.
GSM in Europe are limited to a maximum of 2 Watts. Though some early models (remember the 20 kg dragable phones;) could go as high as 8 Watts.
What is a bit interresting when comparing mobile phones with radios on small ships, like fishing boats. The phones transmit a maximum of 2W in pulses, while the radio can do a continious 25W.
the power degrades by 1/2 (or 3dB) every few inches
Actually the power density is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source. So when distance is doubled, the power density is reduced by ¼, or 6 dB.
As I read the article, this was in Japan, which leads to two assumed facts:
- The Japanese people often live a long way from their workplace, therefore they spend alot of time using electronic devices.
- Japan being one of the countries (most of the Asian people, sp?) which is not only using their mobile phone to great extend, by also have the most advanced feature, and cheap usage rate.
Which would make the usage a very normal thing to do, while traveling to and from work.
when one can use a cheap and long known device, a Faraday cage.
As for the train, the only area not covered is the windows, adding a fine mesh of wire (inside the glass) and connect it to the body off the train, and you have an effective mean of shutting down most of the mobile phone emmision, they only remaining is the mobile phones trying to reach a base station.
If people travel a certain amount of time, say 20 minutes or more, they are likely to turn off the mobile phone since there is no access until they get off the train. And they will save some power on the battery (not as big a problem as it used to be though).
The mouse gestures are for more than back and forward. There is also resize, refresh, close, new page,...
Besides Opera have mouse button support, right->left goes back, left->right goes forward. And the all time favorite (all browsers in Linux, that I know of) middle mouse button on a link, which opens the link in a new browser window.
Mr. Jones answered: "I don't think people buy Windows because Microsoft is a monopoly. I go to work every day to build great products that people are going to love."
What was left out of the transcript:
Mr. Jones then added: "And every night, I come home curl up in my bed, with Mr. TeddyBear, and cry until I fall asleep."
What is the problem? More money for people without access to the internet:)
IRS: "You appear to have failed in paying your taxes." Me: "My modem died and I only have a MS PassPort Credit Card, so I work for cash only." IRS:*groan*
Look at the first picture, the crocket (sp?) ball is pulled towards the magnet by the magnetic force of the magnet, on the other side you have the gravitation field off the planet Earth. It should be clear that the magnetic force is the strongest of the forces.
I seem to remember something about black holes having magnetic fields, and that they are able to escape the pull of "an object with a high enough density", if this is true then the magnetic force is stronger than the gravitational field.
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SI = The International System of Units.
Si = Silicon.
The average human hair is 0.1 millimeters wide.
The nanotubes are 100000 times thinner, which equals 1nm (1*10^-9 meter).
I agree. Though I mostly use Linux myself, I would really like to see info/news about other OS' as well.
One of them might have exactly what I need, or could be needing in the future.
(Currently missing a galaxy and lightspeed simulator.)
Don't bet on it. Remember DeCSS? Adobe Ebooks? You can bet that the protectionist forces in the US will go after any company that tries to sell non-compliant hardware in another country.
I do remember, but note that they can only enforce their law in the US, which is the case with DeCSS and the Ebook decoder.
"It's illegal for a company to offer for sale a device which doesn't have the DRM circuitry. Since company X is doing business in the US, they are subject to US law, and since the law doesn't say 'offer for sale in the US', then they're subject to sanctions under the law."
I doubt that a company can be on trial for buisness in other countries. If a company choose to sell DRM inside USA and non-DRM outside USA, and is procecuted one of four things will happen:
- They will stop doing buisness in the US (not likely at all)
- They drag the case through the court (not likely)
- They obay the US law, and stop selling non-DRM systems (some what likely)
- Create an additional company for selling non-DRM systems, and they can still do buisness (most likely)
If a company is not located in USA, they will have a very good opportunity for buisness elsewhere.
One last thing though, if a company have neither office or people in USA, how can they be affected. The only way is to ban the products that are imported. This might will raise conserns in WTO, and could lead to counter bans from other countries.
The USA may not be the whole world, but it is a decent sized chunk of open source development. Sure you won't miss us?.
You forget the most basic thing about open source, that everybody can modify it. So if it becomes illegal in the US, someone outside US will probably take over the develpoment. Therefore we can continue without the US.
The law won't keep a geek from running linux. The tiny little DRM chip soldered to the motherboard will do that job.
Which DRM chip? Again you presume that everything resolves around the US. A very large portion of hardware is made outside of the US, mainly in Asia. And they are not covered by any US law, granted they will make DRM based systems for the US, and in all likelyhood non-DRM based for the rest of the world.
If only DRM based systems becomes avaible, there is still time for purchase of non-DRM based system, which can easily last 10+ years. Which gives a lot of time for the DRM to be cracked and/or removed from law again. We do not even have to look that far back to see this will happen, both DVD and some CD protections have already been broken, iether at the software or hardware level.
And, most importantly, the EU is full of copynazi's too. Generally, they adopt laws about 5 years after we do. So you'll get about half a decade more freedom than we do, use it well.
They might adopt similar laws, but they are not as severe.
NWN will support 64 players per server. It is possible to travel to different servers via portals, this will enable the possibility of huge worlds. But it will not be a massive MP game, since the amount of players per server is severely limited.
It lools more like a small community playing together on a single server or exploring servers.
The EULA is seriously bad news, if you are to distribute your modules.
As for me, I plan on running a game server. Therefore I will not share the modules, as that cuts down on the chance of players cheating.
I still do not like the EULA, and I hope they change their minds with the final product, otherwise they will dampen the interrest for the module creating and sharing.
And from People.com they had to fire Flungpoh Woo.
Not really, its only that a large portion of (western) people think it was a symbol only used by the Nazis. If you go to Asia or Africa it is still considered a good luck sign.
w ww.manwoman.net/swastika/index.html
For a more indept information have a look here
http://www.intelinet.org/swastika/
http://
The work of a dangerously unemployed U.S. coder
Excuse me while I wet my pants and scream like a little girl.
They are a menace to society, I tell you. They should all be locked up.
Just the thought of unemployed, and least off all dangerous, coders, makes me break out in a cold sweet. Oh the horror.
An attorney for the states said they had made the decision to avoid prolonging the case after Microsoft said it needed an indefinite period of time to prepare its response.
Why didn't they at least wait until the judge made a comment about this? If MS did indeed state this, isn't a contempt of the law/judge, since MS already have stated this is impossible, and therefore should only be given a fixed time to prepare. As I remember the judge found this information rather useful for the case/ruling.
If the judge does not refuse this withdrawel of evidence, I figure the states have already lost.
Argh, this made my head hurt.
How many public K-12 schools need to go into how an OS works?
Very few I would guess, but learning to use computers and how they work, takes alot more than a point and click interface. It requieres an understanding of the relation between different kinds of software (layers) and hardware.
Teaching in, say, DOS and MS Windows will not only show the differences between a prompt and a GUI, but also the strength and weaknesses of both. Case in point try to find a MSW program which can do the equ. of "dir *.doc > doc_list.txt" beside the DOS prompt.
Standard teaching (at least what I am aware of) shows the student the known ways to solve a problem, not just a single one.
Why you might ask? Because in real life there rarely is a single "correct" solution to a problem, and schools are basically about giving tools to solve the living of ones life.
Why not the other way around to just be sure, 486s or worse.
... and any interest any student would have had.
Then you can defently get rid of the licence
Sam and Max Hit the road, was loosely based on an even wackier comic.
You cannot measure both the position and the momentum of any particle with perfect accuracy.
This describes the management at my last job, quite well. They had know idea of where they where going, but it went really fast.
Most employees jumped ship, before it was too late.
he need some fancy high tech nano stuff to get into this stage?
When I was a kid, throwing snow or water ballons inside, was more than enough.
The C64 was a damn good gaming system, still is fun to play. And way cheaper than $1800.
Lets say we both go and by a system, you a $1800 brand new gaming rig, and for me and old C64 loaded with games, for $200. Sounds fair ?
Then I still have $1600 for pizza and Coke while I enjoy my gaming, and no you can not have any.
Amature and loving it.
GSM in Europe are limited to a maximum of 2 Watts. Though some early models (remember the 20 kg dragable phones ;) could go as high as 8 Watts.
What is a bit interresting when comparing mobile phones with radios on small ships, like fishing boats. The phones transmit a maximum of 2W in pulses, while the radio can do a continious 25W.
the power degrades by 1/2 (or 3dB) every few inches
Actually the power density is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.
So when distance is doubled, the power density is reduced by ¼, or 6 dB.
As I read the article, this was in Japan, which leads to two assumed facts:
- The Japanese people often live a long way from their workplace, therefore they spend alot of time using electronic devices.
- Japan being one of the countries (most of the Asian people, sp?) which is not only using their mobile phone to great extend, by also have the most advanced feature, and cheap usage rate.
Which would make the usage a very normal thing to do, while traveling to and from work.
when one can use a cheap and long known device, a Faraday cage.
As for the train, the only area not covered is the windows, adding a fine mesh of wire (inside the glass) and connect it to the body off the train, and you have an effective mean of shutting down most of the mobile phone emmision, they only remaining is the mobile phones trying to reach a base station.
If people travel a certain amount of time, say 20 minutes or more, they are likely to turn off the mobile phone since there is no access until they get off the train. And they will save some power on the battery (not as big a problem as it used to be though).
The mouse gestures are for more than back and forward. There is also resize, refresh, close, new page,...
Besides Opera have mouse button support, right->left goes back, left->right goes forward. And the all time favorite (all browsers in Linux, that I know of) middle mouse button on a link, which opens the link in a new browser window.
Mr. Jones answered: "I don't think people buy Windows because Microsoft is a monopoly. I go to work every day to build great products that people are going to love."
What was left out of the transcript:
Mr. Jones then added: "And every night, I come home curl up in my bed, with Mr. TeddyBear, and cry until I fall asleep."
And then taxes will only be paid online.
:)
What is the problem? More money for people without access to the internet
IRS: "You appear to have failed in paying your taxes."
Me: "My modem died and I only have a MS PassPort Credit Card, so I work for cash only."
IRS:*groan*
Look at the first picture, the crocket (sp?) ball is pulled towards the magnet by the magnetic force of the magnet, on the other side you have the gravitation field off the planet Earth.
It should be clear that the magnetic force is the strongest of the forces.
I seem to remember something about black holes having magnetic fields, and that they are able to escape the pull of "an object with a high enough density", if this is true then the magnetic force is stronger than the gravitational field.
And rightly so, since milli hertz is useless for transmitting information.
In Europe the 900 MHz band is reserved for the GSM mobile phone system.