Your not paranoid man. They really are out to get you!
You know, THEM. Thats right, THOSE PEOPLE.
And dude, that book does not say what that web page claims it says. Don't be suckered by irresponsible conservative politicians using conspiracy theories to stir up the whackjobs against public health.
Yeah Low prices are not caused by DRM. On the contrary.
The laws of economics don't really care about legality or what not. Competition doesn't stop producing cheaper goods just because the competition is black market competition.
History has shown that as a response to piracy companies have been forced to lower prices to compete against the pirates. Windows is cheaper (or at least has cheaper editions) , there are cheaper editions of photoshop. Music on itunes is remarkably cheap (at least in Australia compared to CDs. $16AUD an album itunes vs $30 CD).
The ONLY reason these things are so cheap is because they have to provide an incentive to use them over the pirate product.
Take Microsofts approach to mass piracy in SE Asia. What did they do? They lowered the price dramatically so SE asian folk could actually afford it.
Now I do understand the angst. As an iPhone developer , it can be heartbreaking to see your app report 3x the number of deployment (jailbroken phones) then you've sold in the app store. That shit sucks, especially because iPhone apps are really god damn cheap.
But punishing honest users seem wrong to me. Dont try and manage your users rights, they don't need your management. Instead turn your users into allies and make them LOYAL to you, and they'll flip you dollars every single time.
not only that, but this sort of shit makes it harder for people who IRL actually are invested in genuine work to fight REAL hate crimes and religious and racial intolerance.
Sorry scientologists, we don't despise your members and we don't even despise your silly beliefs, we despise the evil things your organisation does to critics, ex members and dissenters.
I really hope they do open up the protocol. Lets face it , skype is the defacto standard amongst *users* of VOIP, yet people cant use common platforms like asterisk to leaverage stuff like PABX arangements and the like out of it without some *very* hackish solutions. I like SIP and as a SIP developer I sorta have to, but SIPs got a lot of problems, particularly with NAT and Firewalls that prevent it becoming as successful as Skype amongst comodity voip users, outside the ISP supplied voip solutions.
Speak for yourself. It was always obvious to me these stupid forms where far too dangerous to allow, and that was back in the mid 90s when we where first fucking around with CGI mail.
Don't assume other people share in your historical naivete.
The WSJ does produce decent news, and he's busy trying to stop that, because since he's had it, its gone down hill like hell.
Seriously, some of the best quality media comes out of the independant but govt owned sources, the BBC in the UK, ABC & SBS in Australia, the CBC in Canada and so one. Because these news sources are largely empowered (not fully so CBC & SBS, but mostly) to operate without bowing down to advertisers and big corporate interests, and LARGELY the govts have backed off from interfering with their autonomy (Oh they try, but the stations tend to resist). We actually need that. In Australia the ABC have proven their govt independence by shows like 4 Corners that have always been prepared to attack the government when it behaves badly , and interestingly in ways the commercial TV stations seem reluctant to. The SBS provides foreign and experimental programming that would never be shown by the bottom-line conscious commercial shows. And at a time when commercial TV is completely debased by ridiculous reality shows and idiotic right wing "current affairs" (usually consisting of harrassing poor people for being on welfare and the like) , the ABC provides high class drama, news, documentaries and so on.
Seriously Murdoch can go fuck himself. His shitty newspapers spread hate and fear in our community with its attacks on minorities and poor people, and he's done the same in the US with the gutteral fox news service. He's got no right to complain if nobody wants to pay for his "news". Make a non shit product and people might pay for it. Its not govt money that makes the BBC popular, its the fact that the alternatives are so fucking dismal.
"These sites represent a truly unique set of Internet assets and there is more we can be doing to make them better and more engaging for our users," said Neumeister. "We are focused on aggressively pursuing our plans for each of these sites and making opportunistic investments that will enable us to reach our objectives faster."
Later in the interview, Neurmeister demonstrated his agression by biting a chunk out of his own arm. "Thats how dedicated we are" he said, before glassing a reporter, kicking out a window and barking at the postman.
Nonsense. Nothing is failure proof. I used to work as a video technician at the DOJ and we had a case where an interview with a 12 year old rape victim, who later suicided, was lost or at least partly lost because the stupid cop didnt plug the audio into the VHS.
Fortunately another cop recorded the interview on a walkman, and the video was pieced together from that that. Which was an utter horror because walkmans dont exactly have precise timing.
But this was a SVHS analog tape and yes, it was errorprone as hell.
Also god damn Slashdot has gotten fiddly to use since it went all Ajaxy. Put the goddamn login back in the form! Retyping comments suck. fucking hell.
On the subject of low bars. Has anyone got any idea why there even exists a 32bit version of windows 7. IMHO vistas biggest failure was putting out a 32 bit version of an operating system that barely gets by with the 3gig limit that 32bit OS's can support.
And they want to do it again? C'mon microsoft. Learn one lessone and one alone from Apple. A little pain for a big gain. Kill off 32bit and legacy APIs and make a truly kick ass clean 64 bit operating system.
It'll be a hell of a long time before 128bit starts the cycle again.
You do realise that immigrants actually create more work? Folks gotta be fed. Folks gotta wear clothes. Someones gotta make that watch the immigrant wears around his arm.
Thats why economists always say that increasing immigration is a good way of fighting unemployment, because immigrants lead to jobs.
Thats more to do with PHP having excelent documentation than Pythons being poor.
I do agree the formal stuff is a bit terse, but once you've mastered the tutorial, most of pythons really just working out the modules, and they tend to be pretty well documented.
Yes it was. Kerogen is mostly derived from decomposing bacteria and plant resins.
The abiotic theory of petroleum formation is literally believed by nobody except crazy conspiracy theorists and , uh, some russians (the russians in particular just happen to be conspiracy theorists so..).
Eve pretty much nails this issue (both the 'server sharding' and the issue of persistance)
Sure you CAN go and shoot the NPC rats. But they don't really matter a whole bunch. The action is in the great wars and empires that span the universe, and they are 100% user generated.
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He's doing hardware emulation. Something as harsh as 3d gameing for CPU abuse. Java is not really a good suggestion here at all.
Your not paranoid man. They really are out to get you!
You know, THEM. Thats right, THOSE PEOPLE.
And dude, that book does not say what that web page claims it says. Don't be suckered by irresponsible conservative politicians using conspiracy theories to stir up the whackjobs against public health.
In in australia, and tethering actually activated after my upgrade today. Which is good, since I was paying for it, but it never activated under 3.0.
I guess maybe the phones are now checking rather than guessing or something.
Weird. Tethering is on my 3.1 phone. Not sure whats happening to you folks.
General menu -> Netowork ->Tethering -> On.
About says:
Network: YES OPTUS (australian carrier)
Line: Virgin Mobile
Version: 3.1 (7C144)
I'm on the developer program so maybe developers get extra goodies?
Anti-piracy activists seem to be the only people on the planet that believe monopolizing markets reduces prices and competition raises them.
Well other than the people that used to claim linux made proprietary software more expensive SOMEHOW.
Yeah Low prices are not caused by DRM. On the contrary.
The laws of economics don't really care about legality or what not. Competition doesn't stop producing cheaper goods just because the competition is black market competition.
History has shown that as a response to piracy companies have been forced to lower prices to compete against the pirates. Windows is cheaper (or at least has cheaper editions) , there are cheaper editions of photoshop. Music on itunes is remarkably cheap (at least in Australia compared to CDs. $16AUD an album itunes vs $30 CD).
The ONLY reason these things are so cheap is because they have to provide an incentive to use them over the pirate product.
Take Microsofts approach to mass piracy in SE Asia. What did they do? They lowered the price dramatically so SE asian folk could actually afford it.
Now I do understand the angst. As an iPhone developer , it can be heartbreaking to see your app report 3x the number of deployment (jailbroken phones) then you've sold in the app store. That shit sucks, especially because iPhone apps are really god damn cheap.
But punishing honest users seem wrong to me. Dont try and manage your users rights, they don't need your management. Instead turn your users into allies and make them LOYAL to you, and they'll flip you dollars every single time.
not only that, but this sort of shit makes it harder for people who IRL actually are invested in genuine work to fight REAL hate crimes and religious and racial intolerance.
Sorry scientologists, we don't despise your members and we don't even despise your silly beliefs, we despise the evil things your organisation does to critics, ex members and dissenters.
as a dedicated greenie, let me just say this sort of shit is an embarassment to the cause.
Where the fuck did they get this idea from?
I smell something a bit whiffy about all this.
AM radios causing cancer? Citations please!
I really hope they do open up the protocol. Lets face it , skype is the defacto standard amongst *users* of VOIP, yet people cant use common platforms like asterisk to leaverage stuff like PABX arangements and the like out of it without some *very* hackish solutions. I like SIP and as a SIP developer I sorta have to, but SIPs got a lot of problems, particularly with NAT and Firewalls that prevent it becoming as successful as Skype amongst comodity voip users, outside the ISP supplied voip solutions.
Pretty sure the prosecutor didn't purposefully set up to fuck up a child to the point the child committed suicide bro.
Speak for yourself. It was always obvious to me these stupid forms where far too dangerous to allow, and that was back in the mid 90s when we where first fucking around with CGI mail.
Don't assume other people share in your historical naivete.
The WSJ does produce decent news, and he's busy trying to stop that, because since he's had it, its gone down hill like hell.
Seriously, some of the best quality media comes out of the independant but govt owned sources, the BBC in the UK, ABC & SBS in Australia, the CBC in Canada and so one. Because these news sources are largely empowered (not fully so CBC & SBS, but mostly) to operate without bowing down to advertisers and big corporate interests, and LARGELY the govts have backed off from interfering with their autonomy (Oh they try, but the stations tend to resist). We actually need that. In Australia the ABC have proven their govt independence by shows like 4 Corners that have always been prepared to attack the government when it behaves badly , and interestingly in ways the commercial TV stations seem reluctant to. The SBS provides foreign and experimental programming that would never be shown by the bottom-line conscious commercial shows. And at a time when commercial TV is completely debased by ridiculous reality shows and idiotic right wing "current affairs" (usually consisting of harrassing poor people for being on welfare and the like) , the ABC provides high class drama, news, documentaries and so on.
Seriously Murdoch can go fuck himself. His shitty newspapers spread hate and fear in our community with its attacks on minorities and poor people, and he's done the same in the US with the gutteral fox news service. He's got no right to complain if nobody wants to pay for his "news". Make a non shit product and people might pay for it. Its not govt money that makes the BBC popular, its the fact that the alternatives are so fucking dismal.
thats absurd.
Surely the reproduction right refers to making a copy for others?
If it can be mushed in with the stackless patches, then it'll make eve run like a fucking gazelle.
Absolutely. If this family are not able to sue for discrimination something is *very* wrong with the legal system.
"These sites represent a truly unique set of Internet assets and there is more we can be doing to make them better and more engaging for our users," said Neumeister. "We are focused on aggressively pursuing our plans for each of these sites and making opportunistic investments that will enable us to reach our objectives faster."
Later in the interview, Neurmeister demonstrated his agression by biting a chunk out of his own arm. "Thats how dedicated we are" he said, before glassing a reporter, kicking out a window and barking at the postman.
Nonsense. Nothing is failure proof. I used to work as a video technician at the DOJ and we had a case where an interview with a 12 year old rape victim, who later suicided, was lost or at least partly lost because the stupid cop didnt plug the audio into the VHS.
Fortunately another cop recorded the interview on a walkman, and the video was pieced together from that that. Which was an utter horror because walkmans dont exactly have precise timing.
But this was a SVHS analog tape and yes, it was errorprone as hell.
Also god damn Slashdot has gotten fiddly to use since it went all Ajaxy. Put the goddamn login back in the form! Retyping comments suck. fucking hell.
On the subject of low bars. Has anyone got any idea why there even exists a 32bit version of windows 7. IMHO vistas biggest failure was putting out a 32 bit version of an operating system that barely gets by with the 3gig limit that 32bit OS's can support.
And they want to do it again? C'mon microsoft. Learn one lessone and one alone from Apple. A little pain for a big gain. Kill off 32bit and legacy APIs and make a truly kick ass clean 64 bit operating system.
It'll be a hell of a long time before 128bit starts the cycle again.
You do realise that immigrants actually create more work? Folks gotta be fed. Folks gotta wear clothes. Someones gotta make that watch the immigrant wears around his arm.
Thats why economists always say that increasing immigration is a good way of fighting unemployment, because immigrants lead to jobs.
Will red ones get me a blowjob?
Thats more to do with PHP having excelent documentation than Pythons being poor.
I do agree the formal stuff is a bit terse, but once you've mastered the tutorial, most of pythons really just working out the modules, and they tend to be pretty well documented.
Yes it was. Kerogen is mostly derived from decomposing bacteria and plant resins.
The abiotic theory of petroleum formation is literally believed by nobody except crazy conspiracy theorists and , uh, some russians (the russians in particular just happen to be conspiracy theorists so..).
If she doesn't like it we may have to kill her to save ourselves! :(
The massive pumps to keep the rising ocean at bay will need shit loads of power. And for that we need COAL!
Billions will die without it!
Eve pretty much nails this issue (both the 'server sharding' and the issue of persistance)
Sure you CAN go and shoot the NPC rats. But they don't really matter a whole bunch. The action is in the great wars and empires that span the universe, and they are 100% user generated.