Yes lets the publisher decide if I can exercise my re-sale right.
I don't know what's wrong with your reading-comprehension, but that's not what I said. I said that they ARE the ones deciding that, not that they should be.
You see the problem? With current laws it is illegal to break DRM, even for legal purposes. That means that I have to ask the publisher for everything. That is real purpose of DRM, not the strawman "piracy".
Yes, I know. You're barking up the wrong tree here.
You seem to believe that DRM can't exist with first-sale - laws, but that's not true. Even the most horrible, most draconian DRM may perfectly coexist with the laws if the publisher allows you to contact them and transfer the license to the new buyer. Ie. it's not the DRM in and of itself that is the problem, it's the publishers who refuse to do this.
You have seemingly already decided that you're going to implement DRM, so the next question you should ask yourself is: "How much am I willing to inconvenience my paying customers?" Also in similar vein is the question: "How much time am I willing to spend on a protection scheme that will be circumvented anyways?" The problem with DRM is that it doesn't stop dedicated people at all, it merely stops the "let me borrow the CD and I'll install it, too" - crowd, nothing else, and therefore it's waste of both your and your customers' resources to use much time or effort on it.
A simple install-time-only online activation is probably the best of both worlds as long as you can ensure that your activation servers are always accessible. Anything else is just a losing game.
4) Forget the lame launch, there are some genuinely cool features in there.
S Health: useless for anyone but fitness-nuts. Smart Pause: doesn't work for me because of the facial tattoo. S Voice Drive: doesn't work because Finnish. S Translator: see S Voice Drive. Audio in images: why not video instead, then?
You're going to love that you can pop in a brand-new battery.
Not me. I've never had the need to be able to exchange batteries even though I've always been a heavy user of whatever phones I've had and I've been using cell-phones since the early Ericsson NMT-ones that looked and weighed like bricks. I have had use for a removable battery in the sense that I've multiple times had to remove the battery in order to shut the phone down as it's gone and gotten itself completely locked up, not responding to even the power button, but aside from that..
A kernel all by its lonesome self doesn't really do all that much, it needs userland to become a useable OS. For example, Linux-kernel by itself would just be a Linux-kernel, nothing more, but slap uClibc and Busybox on top of it and you've suddenly got yourself a bare-bones OS. However, as the Linux-kernel is so utterly modifiable and flexible the userland can be almost anything and there is nothing about the kernel itself that somehow mandates that the userlands be in any way or form compatible with or even so much as resemble one another! So, if we are just going to slap together all the different forms of operating systems with absolutely no regard for the userland simply because their kernels are based on a similar source we should do the same for the other kernels, too, in order to be fair: slap OSX and iOS together with all the BSDs, all the Windows NT - based kernels together and so on, and then compare the numbers.
Linux, the kernel, would likely still come on top and we could all rejoice and sing Kumbaya, but... well, what would you gain at that point? What does such masturbation to the types of kernels actually give us? It says nothing about the operating systems, it says nothing about finer details like e.g. if the kernels are even compatible with one another due to modifications or anything, it's just simply a way of masturbating to the numbers.
From what I can gather you have two or more teams, each with their own base, all trying to capture points from the other teams all the while your own teammates keep yelling obscenities at you because you're not doing this or that exactly how they want, and it ends with one or the other team capturing enough points, wiping the other one out, or the players getting fed up with the constant abuse by own teammates and logging out. But really, the constant raging, belittling and abusing of own teammates is seemingly the most important thing in these games.
As the title implies, I can't stand all these DOTA/LoL-clones. They're fine if you're a pimple-faced teenager with raging hormones and the need to yell at someone, but it sure won't attract me.
Really? How many people even use Firefox for Android?
I use Opera Mobile for now, but once Firefox for Android becomes useable I won't hesitate a second to switch, Adblock Plus and automatic sync are just so good features.
So is NASCAR going to have a rash of legal suits for false takedown notices?
No, AFAIK the DMCA laws state that you lose the right to file any more DMCA takedown requests if you fail to comply with the rules -- ie. filing takedown requests in bad faith, for example, would result in you losing the right to protect your content with any future requests. It does not make you liable for monetary compensation or place you in a position for lawsuits. In addition to that, no one seems to actually honor this side of the law -- Google certainly doesn't give a flying f*ck if someone abuses the DMCA as long as they get their pretty penny.
Heads up gamers, nobody wants to watch videos of you playing games, especially not your family or coworkers who are not 60-hour-a-week gamers, so please stop sending us Youtube links, okay? I'm never going to play in the NFL and you are never going to make a living playing games in your mom's basement, deal with it.
So, you're saying that people should stop with all the NFL-videos and other sports both online and on TV because they will never become professional players themselves? Hmm, an interesting proposition. Getting all that crap out of the TV and various online services is a lofty goal, so I support this idea.
I don't feel it's as big an issue as you paint it as. I play games on a daily basis under Windows 7, generally of the highly--graphically-taxing kinds of games, and I have yet to have issues with TDR -- no hard lock-ups, not thrown to the desktop suddenly with the game-client forced to quit, no nothing.
Do this. One day your employer will call me and complain the network is slow, I will remove the thousands of ips from your firewall and be a hero. ker ching.
First of all, why would the employer be using SSH to log into servers? It's stuff IT-workers do, not the management. Secondly, why would you need to empty the whole blocklist just to unblock a single IP within a range that you know perfectly well since it's inside your network? Thirdly, why would it affect the rest of his networking if he couldn't log in via SSH? Oh, and fourth: if it actually wasn't him trying to log in via SSH then it was someone else using his IP, and that should actually tell you that there's something wrong with this picture.
Oh, and I have seen these lists that have done reverse lookups, and add names to the file rather then ips. Result? What I said in my first sentence x 10.
Denyhosts does by default not do reverse lookups and I don't imagine Fail2ban does that, either. And why would they? There is absolutely nothing to be gained from that.
The question here is incorrect. The premise is whether or not it protects the small investor. Answer is yes. What the small investor can't do is afford a law team to defend the patent. This is the crux of the entire patent problem these days.
That's not the whole answer. A small-time inventor can't protect himself/herself from patent trolls and patent-hoarding entities simply because they do not have the cash or other resources to do that. As the system stands it places the entities with huge arsenals of patents in a completely unreachable position and these small-time inventors at the rock bottom, favoring the established entities and basically telling small-time inventors not to bother at all. As such the issue is two-fold: they can't protect themselves, nor can they protect their own patents, leaving them all open and vulnerable.
Or, you know: Ignore it. With connection limiting, there's no good reason to care about the zombies out there that are randomly guessing. They won't make it in before you're dead and buried, as long as all of the passwords are good.
Well, it's wasted bandwidth. Sure, it's not much, but why bother sending back any response whatsoever when you can just outright block the IP-address and not respond at all? Atleast I have such limited outgoing bandwidth that I sure am gonna save every bit I can get.
Nitpick: that's not a technique. Those rays of light are called godrays, it says nothing about the implementation technique.
I sure am forgetting some of them, but I think this demo, with huge amounts of instancing, is mainly designed to stress the vertex pipeline of modern videocard.
I checked out the YouTube - video and, well, I see huge amounts of people complaining about the apparently-poor texture resolution of this benchmark. IMHO, these people are missing the whole point of the demo as the demo is not intended to show exceedingly impressive textures or such. The speeds at which the engine can manage to do so beautiful real-time shadows and lighting, huge, open landscape with loads of foliage, the impressively realistic fogging in certain areas and so on, these are the focus here. I certainly would trade some texture resolution for more realistic lighting and environmental effects in games if it ever came to such a choice.
You're being naive and just waiting for a disaster to happen if all you rely on is changing the default port. I, myself, use this application called Denyhosts that bans the IP-addresses that try brute-forcing passwords, and I've set it up to just ban access to any services, not only SSH, after 5 failed attempts. These days I've got thousands of IP-addresses on my hosts.deny - file and it just keeps on growing. That said, use Denyhosts or something similar if you need password authentication or just disable password auth altogether.
The computer is able to measure it's data throughput, read/write times, etc.
Network latency, seek times, sudden Windows Update that decides to start installing packages in the middle of the process.. there's a BILLION different things that could be happening, all the kinds of things that drastically alter the speeds and therefore throwing the estimate right off the table. And that's only when you're just doing straight-up file-transfer, but what if you're doing something that requires altering pre-existing files, to boot?
Basically I am saying that it is certainly possible to make a progress bar that mostly does what it's supposed to, but you're going to be writing lots and lots and lots and lots of code and using quite a bit of CPU-time just to keep updating the estimate at all times, not to mention that the bar must then always be written specific to that single application and task at hand. And to what end? A bar that shows an estimate for how long the process will take, nothing more -- all the time spent coding the bar could be used to do bugfixing, providing new features or honing existing ones and the CPU-time could be used by other programs or to, you know, do something more useful in the meantime.
Mandatory Car Analogy: I know that if my speedometer indicates 60 miles/hour, that in one minute I will have travelled one mile. That's predicting the future son!
If you were to compare this to computers then you'd have things like sudden goose swarms jumping right in front of the car at unexpected times, all 4 tires losing friction, a bunch of other drivers on a single-lane road and all fighting each other for the privilege of getting to drive as first of the line, your car suddenly starting to perform maintenance and cleaning on itself while you're trying to drive, mandatory pit stops at variable distances and you having to always perform this or that manual task when you reach one, and so on. Does it sound so easy at this point?
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Yes lets the publisher decide if I can exercise my re-sale right.
I don't know what's wrong with your reading-comprehension, but that's not what I said. I said that they ARE the ones deciding that, not that they should be.
You see the problem? With current laws it is illegal to break DRM, even for legal purposes. That means that I have to ask the publisher for everything. That is real purpose of DRM, not the strawman "piracy".
Yes, I know. You're barking up the wrong tree here.
You seem to believe that DRM can't exist with first-sale - laws, but that's not true. Even the most horrible, most draconian DRM may perfectly coexist with the laws if the publisher allows you to contact them and transfer the license to the new buyer. Ie. it's not the DRM in and of itself that is the problem, it's the publishers who refuse to do this.
You have seemingly already decided that you're going to implement DRM, so the next question you should ask yourself is: "How much am I willing to inconvenience my paying customers?" Also in similar vein is the question: "How much time am I willing to spend on a protection scheme that will be circumvented anyways?" The problem with DRM is that it doesn't stop dedicated people at all, it merely stops the "let me borrow the CD and I'll install it, too" - crowd, nothing else, and therefore it's waste of both your and your customers' resources to use much time or effort on it.
A simple install-time-only online activation is probably the best of both worlds as long as you can ensure that your activation servers are always accessible. Anything else is just a losing game.
You're blaming a broken router on these bulbs. It's not their fault that you're unable to fix your shit.
4) Forget the lame launch, there are some genuinely cool features in there.
S Health: useless for anyone but fitness-nuts. Smart Pause: doesn't work for me because of the facial tattoo. S Voice Drive: doesn't work because Finnish. S Translator: see S Voice Drive. Audio in images: why not video instead, then?
You're going to love that you can pop in a brand-new battery.
Not me. I've never had the need to be able to exchange batteries even though I've always been a heavy user of whatever phones I've had and I've been using cell-phones since the early Ericsson NMT-ones that looked and weighed like bricks. I have had use for a removable battery in the sense that I've multiple times had to remove the battery in order to shut the phone down as it's gone and gotten itself completely locked up, not responding to even the power button, but aside from that..
What? It's an X server which allows GL stuff to be rendereded accelerated. How does Xorg (with AIGLX) not fit that criteria?
AIGLX is an extension of X.org, not a display-server of its own.
It's not a display server. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIGLX
Way to miss the point of the comment.
A kernel all by its lonesome self doesn't really do all that much, it needs userland to become a useable OS. For example, Linux-kernel by itself would just be a Linux-kernel, nothing more, but slap uClibc and Busybox on top of it and you've suddenly got yourself a bare-bones OS. However, as the Linux-kernel is so utterly modifiable and flexible the userland can be almost anything and there is nothing about the kernel itself that somehow mandates that the userlands be in any way or form compatible with or even so much as resemble one another! So, if we are just going to slap together all the different forms of operating systems with absolutely no regard for the userland simply because their kernels are based on a similar source we should do the same for the other kernels, too, in order to be fair: slap OSX and iOS together with all the BSDs, all the Windows NT - based kernels together and so on, and then compare the numbers.
Linux, the kernel, would likely still come on top and we could all rejoice and sing Kumbaya, but... well, what would you gain at that point? What does such masturbation to the types of kernels actually give us? It says nothing about the operating systems, it says nothing about finer details like e.g. if the kernels are even compatible with one another due to modifications or anything, it's just simply a way of masturbating to the numbers.
From what I can gather you have two or more teams, each with their own base, all trying to capture points from the other teams all the while your own teammates keep yelling obscenities at you because you're not doing this or that exactly how they want, and it ends with one or the other team capturing enough points, wiping the other one out, or the players getting fed up with the constant abuse by own teammates and logging out. But really, the constant raging, belittling and abusing of own teammates is seemingly the most important thing in these games.
As the title implies, I can't stand all these DOTA/LoL-clones. They're fine if you're a pimple-faced teenager with raging hormones and the need to yell at someone, but it sure won't attract me.
Really? How many people even use Firefox for Android?
I use Opera Mobile for now, but once Firefox for Android becomes useable I won't hesitate a second to switch, Adblock Plus and automatic sync are just so good features.
So is NASCAR going to have a rash of legal suits for false takedown notices?
No, AFAIK the DMCA laws state that you lose the right to file any more DMCA takedown requests if you fail to comply with the rules -- ie. filing takedown requests in bad faith, for example, would result in you losing the right to protect your content with any future requests. It does not make you liable for monetary compensation or place you in a position for lawsuits. In addition to that, no one seems to actually honor this side of the law -- Google certainly doesn't give a flying f*ck if someone abuses the DMCA as long as they get their pretty penny.
Heads up gamers, nobody wants to watch videos of you playing games, especially not your family or coworkers who are not 60-hour-a-week gamers, so please stop sending us Youtube links, okay? I'm never going to play in the NFL and you are never going to make a living playing games in your mom's basement, deal with it.
So, you're saying that people should stop with all the NFL-videos and other sports both online and on TV because they will never become professional players themselves? Hmm, an interesting proposition. Getting all that crap out of the TV and various online services is a lofty goal, so I support this idea.
My guess is that a transponder on the bus triggers the charging field, so you won't be able to charge for long.
That's still plenty of free electricity for anyone willing to grab it, just hop to the bus stop if you see a bus approaching and enjoy.
I don't feel it's as big an issue as you paint it as. I play games on a daily basis under Windows 7, generally of the highly--graphically-taxing kinds of games, and I have yet to have issues with TDR -- no hard lock-ups, not thrown to the desktop suddenly with the game-client forced to quit, no nothing.
Do this. One day your employer will call me and complain the network is slow, I will remove the thousands of ips from your firewall and be a hero.
ker ching.
First of all, why would the employer be using SSH to log into servers? It's stuff IT-workers do, not the management. Secondly, why would you need to empty the whole blocklist just to unblock a single IP within a range that you know perfectly well since it's inside your network? Thirdly, why would it affect the rest of his networking if he couldn't log in via SSH? Oh, and fourth: if it actually wasn't him trying to log in via SSH then it was someone else using his IP, and that should actually tell you that there's something wrong with this picture.
Oh, and I have seen these lists that have done reverse lookups, and add names to the file rather then ips. Result? What I said in my first sentence x 10.
Denyhosts does by default not do reverse lookups and I don't imagine Fail2ban does that, either. And why would they? There is absolutely nothing to be gained from that.
The question here is incorrect. The premise is whether or not it protects the small investor. Answer is yes. What the small investor can't do is afford a law team to defend the patent. This is the crux of the entire patent problem these days.
That's not the whole answer. A small-time inventor can't protect himself/herself from patent trolls and patent-hoarding entities simply because they do not have the cash or other resources to do that. As the system stands it places the entities with huge arsenals of patents in a completely unreachable position and these small-time inventors at the rock bottom, favoring the established entities and basically telling small-time inventors not to bother at all. As such the issue is two-fold: they can't protect themselves, nor can they protect their own patents, leaving them all open and vulnerable.
Or, you know: Ignore it. With connection limiting, there's no good reason to care about the zombies out there that are randomly guessing. They won't make it in before you're dead and buried, as long as all of the passwords are good.
Well, it's wasted bandwidth. Sure, it's not much, but why bother sending back any response whatsoever when you can just outright block the IP-address and not respond at all? Atleast I have such limited outgoing bandwidth that I sure am gonna save every bit I can get.
-Godrays: For the sunrays through the trees
Nitpick: that's not a technique. Those rays of light are called godrays, it says nothing about the implementation technique.
I sure am forgetting some of them, but I think this demo, with huge amounts of instancing, is mainly designed to stress the vertex pipeline of modern videocard.
I checked out the YouTube - video and, well, I see huge amounts of people complaining about the apparently-poor texture resolution of this benchmark. IMHO, these people are missing the whole point of the demo as the demo is not intended to show exceedingly impressive textures or such. The speeds at which the engine can manage to do so beautiful real-time shadows and lighting, huge, open landscape with loads of foliage, the impressively realistic fogging in certain areas and so on, these are the focus here. I certainly would trade some texture resolution for more realistic lighting and environmental effects in games if it ever came to such a choice.
You're being naive and just waiting for a disaster to happen if all you rely on is changing the default port. I, myself, use this application called Denyhosts that bans the IP-addresses that try brute-forcing passwords, and I've set it up to just ban access to any services, not only SSH, after 5 failed attempts. These days I've got thousands of IP-addresses on my hosts.deny - file and it just keeps on growing. That said, use Denyhosts or something similar if you need password authentication or just disable password auth altogether.
Why is a man who suffers from epilepsy being allowed to drive in the first place?
You've never heard of this wonderful invention called...MEDICINE?
That reply made me laugh much more than it should have!
The computer is able to measure it's data throughput, read/write times, etc.
Network latency, seek times, sudden Windows Update that decides to start installing packages in the middle of the process.. there's a BILLION different things that could be happening, all the kinds of things that drastically alter the speeds and therefore throwing the estimate right off the table. And that's only when you're just doing straight-up file-transfer, but what if you're doing something that requires altering pre-existing files, to boot?
Basically I am saying that it is certainly possible to make a progress bar that mostly does what it's supposed to, but you're going to be writing lots and lots and lots and lots of code and using quite a bit of CPU-time just to keep updating the estimate at all times, not to mention that the bar must then always be written specific to that single application and task at hand. And to what end? A bar that shows an estimate for how long the process will take, nothing more -- all the time spent coding the bar could be used to do bugfixing, providing new features or honing existing ones and the CPU-time could be used by other programs or to, you know, do something more useful in the meantime.
Mandatory Car Analogy: I know that if my speedometer indicates 60 miles/hour, that in one minute I will have travelled one mile. That's predicting the future son!
If you were to compare this to computers then you'd have things like sudden goose swarms jumping right in front of the car at unexpected times, all 4 tires losing friction, a bunch of other drivers on a single-lane road and all fighting each other for the privilege of getting to drive as first of the line, your car suddenly starting to perform maintenance and cleaning on itself while you're trying to drive, mandatory pit stops at variable distances and you having to always perform this or that manual task when you reach one, and so on. Does it sound so easy at this point?