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"you can already turn off cookies... blah blah blah"
This isn't about slashdotters, it's about end-users, the vast majority of which have no idea what the heck a cookie is, much less where they can be found and what they can do. The average web user only knows that if he "turns off all cookies" much of the stuff he wants to do on the net doesn't work anymore. If he elects to review each and every cookie, he ends up spending more time clicking "Accept" than actually using the web. Actually, let me correct that. The average web user doesn't even know there's a menu with "cookies" mentioned.
I think requiring web sites to expliciting notify and obtain permission to track and store personal information via cookies is not necessarily a bad thing. Not all cookies are about tracking where users go, nor about keeping personal information.
Does anybody have a link to the actual legislation? Rather than assuming what we think is going to be in it and screaming at the top of our lungs, does anybody actually know what they're proposing exactly?
This might finally make LCD panels usable for action gamers. Those of us addicted to quake/CS/UT have put off upgrading to the spiffiness of LCD's for a while because they've been utterly useless for gaming. I really would like the sharpness of an LCD on my desktop, and now I may have a good reason to get one!
Maybe it's time to rename the thing to the "Galactic Positioning System." Seriously, this thing seems to have the potential to make space probe control and navigation much easier and more accurate. It should be very interesting to see what applications come of this.
>>- The doctor could actually act, but for chrissakes - interstellar LEECHES? That's what we've come to??? Roddenberry has to be turning over in his grave.
Leeches are still used in some cases in modern medicine in America. Try to have an open (and informed) mind.
>>- the entire Vulcan lot was openly emotional, even when they denied it. For a moment I wigged and thought they were Romulans.
Vulcans are not perfect either. They all strive to achieve perfect logic, but under enough stress anybody can crack.
"It's a just a show. Get a life!"
This case brings up the interesting question not just about this particular GPL violation, but also how many other GPL violations are out there that have so far gone undetected. If these idiots (who did little to disguise their theft) went undetected until they sold their product and the rights to their product, how many other thieves have stolen GPL code and cleverly hidden the proof, while profiting from other people's hard work?
I guess we're going to go through that whole long, drawn-out discussion of TPM:It Sucked vs. TPM:I Loved It again. The way I see it, TPM was no more hokey or badly acted than ANH. The casting was about the same, maybe better than ANH. The story is still classic space opera.
I don't bother comparing the SW films to truly great moviemaking much. ANH is obviously a far inferior film when compared to the earlier 2001:A Space Odyssey. What's important about the films is the sea change they brought in the acceptance of SF in mainstream American culture, and the role it played in many of our childhoods.
Bringing TPM do DVD in such a spectacular way can only be a good thing. If you don't like the movie, you shouldn't even be wasting your time reading this thread.
Safety? What big name terrorist is going to hit a computer company convention? Sure they're pretty well known, but hardly a good target for destroying the Western world's economy or confidence. The number of attractive destruction targets that come ahead of Apple Expo number in the thousands. Why, even in Paris, I'd think there are more than a few famous landmarks that would be well publicized if they were to get destroyed. Apple Expo getting bombed would make front page news maybe, and only for one day.
If anything, we should be promoting these kind of event, not just to show that our lives continue on despite the terrorists attempts to change them, but also to help bolster the airline industry. If things don't pick up quickly, even with the gov't bailout, several of the majors may go down this year.
While cutting down on their news server costs considerably, this move could backfire on them. If a significant number of their customers actually like and use the alt.binaries groups on their news server, they'll go elsewhere for news service.
The problem with this is that since the news is no longer kept within their own network, that all that traffic is going to have to pass through their mian connection to the internet. They could end up having to spend quite a bit more on bigger pipes as a result of this.
Jeezus, have you even read any of the messages here yet? Haven't you read any of the many commentaries on this case?
It's hardly been established at all that's he's "broken the DMCA" as you put it. In fact, I challenge you to find me evidence that he has violated any part of the DMCA cited in the complaint. Until you do, just keep your mouth closed.
The other option is to open your mouth and change feet...
>>I don't believe he was arrested because of writing the code or being in the company, etc. BUT he was arrested because he gave a talk on how to circumvent the encryption *while he was in the US*.
You can believe whatever you like, or you can actually get the facts by reading the DOJ complaint against Sklyarov. The DOJ complaint only mentions Defcon 9 in passing in a few paragraphs, mostly in the context of "he's talking at this hacker convention, so we can nab him there." There is no mention whatsoever of his breaking any laws by participating or giving a talk at Defcon 9.
For me, Palm's killer app is Epocrates. There is no comparable program for WinCE with the same ease of use and speed. And yes, the database is already large enough that I feel the need for more speed. Some of the lookups (especially the drug interaction feature) are not exactly snappy anymore.
It's not the size of the city that determines how well mass transit works, but the concentration of the population and how it's distributed.
San Francisco is considerably smaller than Dallas, Houston, or LA, but mass transit is fairly successful there. The difference is the amount of sprawl seen in most of the newer American cities. SF is pretty old by US standards and is built up along the NYC/Manhattan style.
oh it exists in the us and other countries as well. apparently just not in the original poster's mind. tom's hardware and the reg has been using similar jests for ages now.
I remember my freshman physics class (for engineers) was taught by this crazy guy from Boston (whose first name was "Austin" and coincidentally taught at UT Austin). On the first day of class, he didn't say anything before he got up to write on the board:
Pi = 3
e = 3
Pi = e
It was his humorous way of knocking down the precision-loving engineering-types in our class. Answers for the tests were fine as long as the reasoning was sound and the result was within one or two factors of ten of the one he had in mind.
I pity the poor stormtrooper who has to wear the flower power colored armor...
>>Shouldn't the stormtroopers' whole body armor be in the iMac colors? Ruby, Indigo, Snow, Sage, Graphite, Tangarine, etc.
Apple not just a hardware company
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For those of you who insist on purporting that Apple makes all of it's money on hardware, I suggest you take a different look at it. My question to you is, how much money would Apple actually make selling hardware, if that hardware didn't come with the Mac OS attached to it? Would you buy an overpriced piece of hardware just because it looked cool, but had to run windows on it?
If your answer is no (as I suspect it is) then the reason you buy Apples is primarily because of the software and OS, which makes Apple primarily a software vendor who uses their software technology to sell hardware. Without the Mac OS, the Mac is just an overpriced PC encased in dayglo plastic. Sure some of the hardware touches are nice, but none of that really matters without the Mac OS.
Apple is primarily a software vendor people. Don't forget that. Just because their accounting puts most of the revenue in hardware sales doesn't mean that hardware is truly where their competitive advantage is.
I've heard this tripe for so long, it makes me ill....
I was a big time nerd in high school, when I competed in calculator speed contests which were incidentally part of a larger science and mathematics contest group. I even finished 4th in the state my senior year. Nobody even vaguely competitive used anything but HP calculators, as the infix notation calculator users got routinely destroyed.
the longer length by itself is enough to make this a better effort as the director can now put more of the details and story into the MS than the movie could ever manage.
am i the only one here who thinks that lynch's "internal monologue" technique was stupid? it breaks up the flow of the movie completely! i always thought of it as a cheater's way of expressing emotions without doing any work to try to translate those emotions into film. we might as well have the actors just sit up there and read from passages in the book then. the internal monologue thing reminds me of deanna troi in the first season where all she did was state the obvious-- "I feel pain" or "I sense confusion". just stupid.
and to those who think the new paul is whinier than luke skywalker... you need to go back and see episode 4 again. paul's not even in the same whining league. at least they picked an actor who is vaguely the same age as the character rather than more than a decade older.
another thing i like about the ms that i hated about the movie is the stillsuits. the movie's stillsuits had a completely open face. at least the ones in the ms cover mouth and nose. how am i supposed to believe that the movie's suits can conserve all that water when you're blowing out water constantly through vapors in their breaths?
the shields are actually more accurate in the miniseries, since i recall that the shields were supposed to be invisible. the movie effect was kinda neat (if a little gaudy, but hey it is lynch) but not accurate to the book at all.
Umm... try not sitting in the front row of the movie theater. The out of focus near image matched to the subject in focus at distance is a common technique, so quit whining about it.
Not only that, but i'm considerably less impresed with the stability of win2k now that i've had to low-level reformat my hard drive after the most complete and spectacular series of system crashes. admittedly, they were probably started by a video driver that wasn't "signed" by microsoft, though in common use.
the end of the series of crashes was that i could no longer boot into the os, not in safe mode, not in command line mode, even trying to reinstall from the cd resulted in an ntfs bsod. annoying. at least i have my linux partition to retrieve the data on my win2k drive before reformatting it.
(sigh, these reformats take a long time)
now my only web browser in linux. noticeably faster than ie5.x in windows, and renders beautifully. css and ssl for my online banking. one less thing to boot into windows for. konqueror and kde2 have made linux my main desktop rather than win2k. no other desktop or distribution before gave that to me before.
i guess nobody here ever uses anything by america online. the latest beta of their instant messenger client supports voice over ip. it's amazingly simple to use and gives the best voice quality and response time i've found from any similar program. when somebody on your buddy list signs on, you can just elect to start a voice chat with them as easily as a text chat. if you have access to a high speed line with windows or mac, give it a try. kinda neat. still has a little lag, which i think will be difficult to solve with the way internet packets are sent. the delay is not to bad though, not enough to seriuosly hinder conversations, but enough to make for some very brief what-seem-like-awkward pauses if you're not expecting them.
hmm.. maybe because firingsquad is a gaming web site run by Dennis Fong a.k.a. Thresh, who is regarded by all gamers as the greatest first person shooter player ever. personally, i don't expect macuser to post winbench scores either.
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"you can already turn off cookies... blah blah blah"
This isn't about slashdotters, it's about end-users, the vast majority of which have no idea what the heck a cookie is, much less where they can be found and what they can do. The average web user only knows that if he "turns off all cookies" much of the stuff he wants to do on the net doesn't work anymore. If he elects to review each and every cookie, he ends up spending more time clicking "Accept" than actually using the web. Actually, let me correct that. The average web user doesn't even know there's a menu with "cookies" mentioned.
I think requiring web sites to expliciting notify and obtain permission to track and store personal information via cookies is not necessarily a bad thing. Not all cookies are about tracking where users go, nor about keeping personal information.
Does anybody have a link to the actual legislation? Rather than assuming what we think is going to be in it and screaming at the top of our lungs, does anybody actually know what they're proposing exactly?
This might finally make LCD panels usable for action gamers. Those of us addicted to quake/CS/UT have put off upgrading to the spiffiness of LCD's for a while because they've been utterly useless for gaming. I really would like the sharpness of an LCD on my desktop, and now I may have a good reason to get one!
Maybe it's time to rename the thing to the "Galactic Positioning System." Seriously, this thing seems to have the potential to make space probe control and navigation much easier and more accurate. It should be very interesting to see what applications come of this.
>>- The doctor could actually act, but for chrissakes - interstellar LEECHES? That's what we've come to??? Roddenberry has to be turning over in his grave.
Leeches are still used in some cases in modern medicine in America. Try to have an open (and informed) mind.
>>- the entire Vulcan lot was openly emotional, even when they denied it. For a moment I wigged and thought they were Romulans.
Vulcans are not perfect either. They all strive to achieve perfect logic, but under enough stress anybody can crack.
"It's a just a show. Get a life!"
This case brings up the interesting question not just about this particular GPL violation, but also how many other GPL violations are out there that have so far gone undetected. If these idiots (who did little to disguise their theft) went undetected until they sold their product and the rights to their product, how many other thieves have stolen GPL code and cleverly hidden the proof, while profiting from other people's hard work?
Scary thought.
I guess we're going to go through that whole long, drawn-out discussion of TPM:It Sucked vs. TPM:I Loved It again. The way I see it, TPM was no more hokey or badly acted than ANH. The casting was about the same, maybe better than ANH. The story is still classic space opera.
I don't bother comparing the SW films to truly great moviemaking much. ANH is obviously a far inferior film when compared to the earlier 2001:A Space Odyssey. What's important about the films is the sea change they brought in the acceptance of SF in mainstream American culture, and the role it played in many of our childhoods.
Bringing TPM do DVD in such a spectacular way can only be a good thing. If you don't like the movie, you shouldn't even be wasting your time reading this thread.
Safety? What big name terrorist is going to hit a computer company convention? Sure they're pretty well known, but hardly a good target for destroying the Western world's economy or confidence. The number of attractive destruction targets that come ahead of Apple Expo number in the thousands. Why, even in Paris, I'd think there are more than a few famous landmarks that would be well publicized if they were to get destroyed. Apple Expo getting bombed would make front page news maybe, and only for one day.
If anything, we should be promoting these kind of event, not just to show that our lives continue on despite the terrorists attempts to change them, but also to help bolster the airline industry. If things don't pick up quickly, even with the gov't bailout, several of the majors may go down this year.
While cutting down on their news server costs considerably, this move could backfire on them. If a significant number of their customers actually like and use the alt.binaries groups on their news server, they'll go elsewhere for news service.
The problem with this is that since the news is no longer kept within their own network, that all that traffic is going to have to pass through their mian connection to the internet. They could end up having to spend quite a bit more on bigger pipes as a result of this.
Should be interesting to watch.
Right, emulate Apple. That way AMD could also develop the overwhelmingly dominant market position that Apple already has. Uh, darn...
It's hardly been established at all that's he's "broken the DMCA" as you put it. In fact, I challenge you to find me evidence that he has violated any part of the DMCA cited in the complaint. Until you do, just keep your mouth closed.
The other option is to open your mouth and change feet...
You can believe whatever you like, or you can actually get the facts by reading the DOJ complaint against Sklyarov. The DOJ complaint only mentions Defcon 9 in passing in a few paragraphs, mostly in the context of "he's talking at this hacker convention, so we can nab him there." There is no mention whatsoever of his breaking any laws by participating or giving a talk at Defcon 9.
For me, Palm's killer app is Epocrates. There is no comparable program for WinCE with the same ease of use and speed. And yes, the database is already large enough that I feel the need for more speed. Some of the lookups (especially the drug interaction feature) are not exactly snappy anymore.
It's not the size of the city that determines how well mass transit works, but the concentration of the population and how it's distributed. San Francisco is considerably smaller than Dallas, Houston, or LA, but mass transit is fairly successful there. The difference is the amount of sprawl seen in most of the newer American cities. SF is pretty old by US standards and is built up along the NYC/Manhattan style.
oh it exists in the us and other countries as well. apparently just not in the original poster's mind. tom's hardware and the reg has been using similar jests for ages now.
>>FOOL! The value of pi is 3!
I remember my freshman physics class (for engineers) was taught by this crazy guy from Boston (whose first name was "Austin" and coincidentally taught at UT Austin). On the first day of class, he didn't say anything before he got up to write on the board:
Pi = 3
e = 3
Pi = e
It was his humorous way of knocking down the precision-loving engineering-types in our class. Answers for the tests were fine as long as the reasoning was sound and the result was within one or two factors of ten of the one he had in mind.
I pity the poor stormtrooper who has to wear the flower power colored armor... >>Shouldn't the stormtroopers' whole body armor be in the iMac colors? Ruby, Indigo, Snow, Sage, Graphite, Tangarine, etc.
For those of you who insist on purporting that Apple makes all of it's money on hardware, I suggest you take a different look at it. My question to you is, how much money would Apple actually make selling hardware, if that hardware didn't come with the Mac OS attached to it? Would you buy an overpriced piece of hardware just because it looked cool, but had to run windows on it?
If your answer is no (as I suspect it is) then the reason you buy Apples is primarily because of the software and OS, which makes Apple primarily a software vendor who uses their software technology to sell hardware. Without the Mac OS, the Mac is just an overpriced PC encased in dayglo plastic. Sure some of the hardware touches are nice, but none of that really matters without the Mac OS.
Apple is primarily a software vendor people. Don't forget that. Just because their accounting puts most of the revenue in hardware sales doesn't mean that hardware is truly where their competitive advantage is.
I've heard this tripe for so long, it makes me ill....
Makes me nostalgic...
the longer length by itself is enough to make this a better effort as the director can now put more of the details and story into the MS than the movie could ever manage. am i the only one here who thinks that lynch's "internal monologue" technique was stupid? it breaks up the flow of the movie completely! i always thought of it as a cheater's way of expressing emotions without doing any work to try to translate those emotions into film. we might as well have the actors just sit up there and read from passages in the book then. the internal monologue thing reminds me of deanna troi in the first season where all she did was state the obvious-- "I feel pain" or "I sense confusion". just stupid. and to those who think the new paul is whinier than luke skywalker... you need to go back and see episode 4 again. paul's not even in the same whining league. at least they picked an actor who is vaguely the same age as the character rather than more than a decade older. another thing i like about the ms that i hated about the movie is the stillsuits. the movie's stillsuits had a completely open face. at least the ones in the ms cover mouth and nose. how am i supposed to believe that the movie's suits can conserve all that water when you're blowing out water constantly through vapors in their breaths? the shields are actually more accurate in the miniseries, since i recall that the shields were supposed to be invisible. the movie effect was kinda neat (if a little gaudy, but hey it is lynch) but not accurate to the book at all.
Umm... try not sitting in the front row of the movie theater. The out of focus near image matched to the subject in focus at distance is a common technique, so quit whining about it.
if i recall, that's the format for sonaten?
Not only that, but i'm considerably less impresed with the stability of win2k now that i've had to low-level reformat my hard drive after the most complete and spectacular series of system crashes. admittedly, they were probably started by a video driver that wasn't "signed" by microsoft, though in common use. the end of the series of crashes was that i could no longer boot into the os, not in safe mode, not in command line mode, even trying to reinstall from the cd resulted in an ntfs bsod. annoying. at least i have my linux partition to retrieve the data on my win2k drive before reformatting it. (sigh, these reformats take a long time)
now my only web browser in linux. noticeably faster than ie5.x in windows, and renders beautifully. css and ssl for my online banking. one less thing to boot into windows for. konqueror and kde2 have made linux my main desktop rather than win2k. no other desktop or distribution before gave that to me before.
i guess nobody here ever uses anything by america online. the latest beta of their instant messenger client supports voice over ip. it's amazingly simple to use and gives the best voice quality and response time i've found from any similar program. when somebody on your buddy list signs on, you can just elect to start a voice chat with them as easily as a text chat. if you have access to a high speed line with windows or mac, give it a try. kinda neat. still has a little lag, which i think will be difficult to solve with the way internet packets are sent. the delay is not to bad though, not enough to seriuosly hinder conversations, but enough to make for some very brief what-seem-like-awkward pauses if you're not expecting them.
hmm.. maybe because firingsquad is a gaming web site run by Dennis Fong a.k.a. Thresh, who is regarded by all gamers as the greatest first person shooter player ever. personally, i don't expect macuser to post winbench scores either.