> Bootlegging videos has become a flag waving issue now?
That's not what I say, that's the title of the slashdot-article I responded to:
"U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy"
What I say is that it actually should not be a flag waving issue. If the Movie Industry has problems with Sweden, then the MI should talk to Swedens or Europes politicians, not your government.
> The reaction in other European countries when some nation goes against > consensus is similar.
You are right, and this is a big problem. The EU probably wants to become something like the "United States of Europe", but the population and some national governments don't want to. If you talk to Europeans, you will see that they like the idea of open borders (as long as they are inside of Europe), but not centralistic politics. There should have been a new european constitution, but some countries voted against it last year. That was not a vote against Europe, but against the ongoing centralization and increasing bueraucracy.
(about free movie sharing) > That kind of thinking says it is okay to drive a BMW that > I snatched from the factory because it is German.
No, that means if you were living in a country where snatching cars is allowed, it is OK to snatch a german car, as long as you don't go to germany in order to snatch it. You could snatch it from your importer and if he doesn't like it, he should talk to his government, and not Germany.
The problem is not that SCO wouldn't accept the GPL, but that they claim their non-GPL code was put in GPL projects.
The original poster might think that SCO distributed Linux under the GPL with the code they think is theirs and thus cannot revoke the GPL.
But if the code actually was stolen (which I personally don't believe) and they distributed it without knowing, then the code would not be under GPL. Just writing a GPL mark in the headers and distributing code does not make it GPL, if the original author does not agree.
No, you are wrong. If one country decides that sharing Hollywoodmovie files for free is OK, then it is ok in that country. That's democracy.
Each country can have their own IP law. It's not the USA who writes the law for the whole world, fortunately not.
After the cold war the USA possibly thought they can force everyone to do anything they want, because they were the only superpower left, and that's what they are doing.
But those times are over. The USA has proven weakness in Iraq and Afghanistan. The EU has been formed. The asian economy is rapidly growing. Now the USA is just one big player amongst others.
China is larger than the USA, and has a higher population. With the rapid economical groth they will soon surpass the USA as the number one superpower.
The USA can no longer be the dominant player in the world. They can be part of the dominant group if they join others, but I mean joining, not telling them what to do.
This starts with small things like telling Sweden to shut down Piratebay and ends in big things like telling others to invade Iraq. It didn't work out, most big european governments didn't want to go to war for mr. Bush, and those who did are in serious trouble now or have already been dropped by their voters (e.g. Spain and Italy).
I can tell you, the USA was very popular in Europe 10+ years ago, but today we are really pissed by the USAs attitude to world politics and their meddling in other countries inner affairs.
But not all hope is lost, the popularity of mr Bush and his party is shrinking in the USA. A growing number of americans seem to see how they have been misled and how they loose reputation in the world, and there will be a big change after your next elections.
Dear Mr. Bush, you can do whatever you want in your own country, your voters will tell you what they think of you in the next elections. But the rest of the world is none of your business, please keep out.
You are completely right: The Russians didn't spend tens of billions of dollars and didn't have any astronauts killed in accidents. But what you ignore: In stead they spent tens of billions of rubels and had some cosmonauts killed in accidents.
In fact Koffice only has pdf import. It's KDE who has pdf export through a pseudo printer driver, so all KDE applications including Koffice can output PDF if they can print.
When tech company Vista discovered the title for the new Windows Operating System version, company founder John Wall opened a bottle of Champagne and sait to his employees: "Well guys, we have the chance to get some million dollars from Microsoft in a settlement without having to do any work"
How does your hack work with other CPUs, eg. VIA C3, Efficeon or very old ones like 386, 486? Will the program still run? Will it be slower or faster? Maybe Intel just wanted two paths: One optimized for their newest processors, and one for everything else including old 386s.
I am writing this on a desktop-PC using the Transmeta Efficeon processor.
You can buy these at spectra. Look under Mini-ITX motherboards for the MB860.
The board fits into standart ATX-Cases with ATX powersupplies, but is smaller than ATX-Boards and has only one PCI slot. It has sound, ethernet, graphics, usb, serial,parallel onboard.
It is not very fast, but you can work comfortably with it.
But don't expect too much efficiency. It still uses around 30W under full load, including Processor and peripherals. It can work without a fan, but gets real hot then. I run it with one slow Case-Fan (5V in stead of 12V), but no CPU or Powersupplyfan.
Yes, I've seen unstable AMD systems too. But the problem is that since AMD CPUs are cheaper than Intels, they end in systems where everything is cheap.
Because for example the power supply is not related to processing speed, that's where the cheapest components are used. So a cheapish power supply not capable of maintaining a stable voltage under heavy load can make your AMD system unstable wrongfully giving AMD bad reputation.
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That murder factory already exists, it's called army.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnip kov.htm
Not all right handers are terrorists but most terrorists are right handers. Well atleast the current crop.
Not all male humans are terrorists but most terrorists are male. Well atleast the current crop.
Maybe Western Union should stop payments to male right handers.
> Bootlegging videos has become a flag waving issue now?
That's not what I say, that's the title of the slashdot-article I responded to:
"U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy"
What I say is that it actually should not be a flag waving issue. If the Movie Industry has problems with Sweden, then the MI should talk to Swedens or Europes politicians, not your government.
> The reaction in other European countries when some nation goes against
> consensus is similar.
You are right, and this is a big problem. The EU probably wants to become something like the "United States of Europe", but the population and some national governments don't want to. If you talk to Europeans, you will see that they like the idea of open borders (as long as they are inside of Europe), but not centralistic politics. There should have been a new european constitution, but some countries voted against it last year. That was not a vote against Europe, but against the ongoing centralization and increasing bueraucracy.
(about free movie sharing)
> That kind of thinking says it is okay to drive a BMW that
> I snatched from the factory because it is German.
No, that means if you were living in a country where snatching cars is allowed, it is OK to snatch a german car, as long as you don't go to germany in order to snatch it. You could snatch it from your importer and if he doesn't like it, he should talk to his government, and not Germany.
Stefan
The problem is not that SCO wouldn't accept the GPL, but that they claim their non-GPL code was put in GPL projects.
The original poster might think that SCO distributed Linux under the GPL with the code they think is theirs and thus cannot revoke the GPL.
But if the code actually was stolen (which I personally don't believe) and they distributed it without knowing, then the code would not be under GPL. Just writing a GPL mark in the headers and distributing code does not make it GPL, if the original author does not agree.
Stefan
No, you are wrong. If one country decides that sharing Hollywoodmovie files for free is OK, then it is ok in that country. That's democracy.
Each country can have their own IP law. It's not the USA who writes the law for the whole world, fortunately not.
After the cold war the USA possibly thought they can force everyone to do anything they want, because they were the only superpower left, and that's what they are doing.
But those times are over. The USA has proven weakness in Iraq and Afghanistan. The EU has been formed. The asian economy is rapidly growing. Now the USA is just one big player amongst others.
China is larger than the USA, and has a higher population. With the rapid economical groth they will soon surpass the USA as the number one superpower.
The USA can no longer be the dominant player in the world. They can be part of the dominant group if they join others, but I mean joining, not telling them what to do.
This starts with small things like telling Sweden to shut down Piratebay and ends in big things like telling others to invade Iraq. It didn't work out, most big european governments didn't want to go to war for mr. Bush, and those who did are in serious trouble now or have already been dropped by their voters (e.g. Spain and Italy).
I can tell you, the USA was very popular in Europe 10+ years ago, but today we are really pissed by the USAs attitude to world politics and their meddling in other countries inner affairs.
But not all hope is lost, the popularity of mr Bush and his party is shrinking in the USA. A growing number of americans seem to see how they have been misled and how they loose reputation in the world, and there will be a big change after your next elections.
Stefan
Dear Mr. Bush, you can do whatever you want in your own country, your voters will tell you what they think of you in the next elections. But the rest of the world is none of your business, please keep out.
Before: "If the community makes MacOS better, we sell more PPC Macs"
Now: "If the community makes MacOS run on IBM clones, we sell less Intel Macs"
And in addition, it might have to do with DRM protected media, or with third party licensed code.
You are wrong: Google carries much of the material in google cache. Only text, but also text is copyrighted.
In my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine Microsoft recommending to use a khtml-based browser in stead of IE, and now it really happened!
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/nixiegallery.html
i e.html
m ann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm
http://www.stefankneller.de/elektronik/nixiegaler
And the very best, a digital clock where the whole logic, not only the display, is built with tubes:
http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Brueg
Do you meen an appletree? An apple a day keeps Bill Gates away ;-)
You are completely right: The Russians didn't spend tens of billions of dollars and didn't have any astronauts killed in accidents. But what you ignore: In stead they spent tens of billions of rubels and had some cosmonauts killed in accidents.
In fact Koffice only has pdf import. It's KDE who has pdf export through a pseudo printer driver, so all KDE applications including Koffice can output PDF if they can print.
In reality it should read:
When tech company Vista discovered the title for the new Windows Operating System version, company founder John Wall opened a bottle of Champagne and sait to his employees: "Well guys, we have the chance to get some million dollars from Microsoft in a settlement without having to do any work"
I just run it as user nobody and had fun with it. Try it, you won't regret.
How does your hack work with other CPUs, eg. VIA C3, Efficeon or very old ones like 386, 486? Will the program still run? Will it be slower or faster? Maybe Intel just wanted two paths: One optimized for their newest processors, and one for everything else including old 386s.
Intel could just buy Freescale.
Sure, and GNU Hurd will be released real soon, too! ;-)
You can buy these at spectra. Look under Mini-ITX motherboards for the MB860.
The board fits into standart ATX-Cases with ATX powersupplies, but is smaller than ATX-Boards and has only one PCI slot. It has sound, ethernet, graphics, usb, serial,parallel onboard.
It is not very fast, but you can work comfortably with it.
But don't expect too much efficiency. It still uses around 30W under full load, including Processor and peripherals. It can work without a fan, but gets real hot then. I run it with one slow Case-Fan (5V in stead of 12V), but no CPU or Powersupplyfan.
> Something that may be ironic, is that KIPA's :)"
;-)
> current president, Hyun Jin Ko, is the former
> president of Microsoft Korea.
Former? Was he fired? This might be his revenge?
Yes, I've seen unstable AMD systems too. But the problem is that since AMD CPUs are cheaper than Intels, they end in systems where everything is cheap.
Because for example the power supply is not related to processing speed, that's where the cheapest components are used. So a cheapish power supply not capable of maintaining a stable voltage under heavy load can make your AMD system unstable wrongfully giving AMD bad reputation.
Actually, CD *IS* their format. It was Sony and Philips who developed the Compact Disc.
Perhaps you could "watch" the ads in a minimized vmware window ;-)
Stefan
Strange, if you search for macos there are 708495 hits on msn. So msn is biased, it favours alternatives over Microsoft Windows.