A version bump doesn't mean much these days, but this version is a big improvement. It's suddenly much more responsive and there's a very stylish built-in inspect tool if you press Ctrl+Shift+i. Also, Safari-style 3D transforms are implemented at last!
VGA ports might be dead, but VGA cables are alive and kicking. Ever since DVI came out I've found it all-but-impossible to find DVI cables. The only thing anyone seems to sell are DVI converters and VGA cables. My DVI monitor from BenQ came with a VGA cable in the box and a list of contents including the words "DVI cable (optional)". I'll be happy when we move onto something with more availability.
Hopefully those from other countries don't share this problem.
Anonymous? You must be mistaken - he is a member of Pseudonymous. They just like to call themselves Anonymous because, well, you can't call yourselves Pseudonymous if that's your group's actual name. It wouldn't make any sense.
It sounds like Dave is the real marketer that saved the day here. He sang praises of the controller throughout all the abuse and was very emphatic to Gabe that people need to disassociate Avenger from Ocean. At the end of it all the Avenger came out looking good despite Paul's efforts rather than because of them (well, he did absolutely nothing to protect the brand image and seems to be trying to milk this to make himself famous).
It does matter when 99% of routers only have dyndns as an option.
I very much doubt the 99% figure as I have never encountered or heard about such a router.
But that doesn't matter because the authoritative nameserver that you choose does not need to be the same as whatever people are using to make DNS queries for them to find your site.
How do you pronounce a name like that? Only stupid "free software" hippies would make a word without vowils. Who's going to use this shit if you can't even say it?
It's meant to be pronounced "cute", although I used to say "kyoo-tee" before I was aware of this.
If I have my facts straight it was called "Qt" 7 years before adopting a Free Software licence, so those hippies of yours don't actually have a monopoly on consonants.
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
Some are born communist, some achieve communism, and some have communism thrust upon them.
The hack was possible because the website was managed using PHP-MyAdmin, and this application allowed database access without a password.
That's a bit misleading. From what I gather the hack was possible because the database was configured to allow access without a password. Considering that, whether or not PHPMyAdmin is appropriate is a tiny matter by comparison. The summary makes it sound like PHPMyAdmin is to blame.
When NancyBoy the pirate enters the picture, and receives the benefit of ABCD without paying for it, he just stole $1, collectively, from the 10 people who paid to receive benefit. If NancyBoy the pirate had paid, the cost to the 11 benefit receivers would be $10/11 or approx $0.91. NancyBoy the pirate has stolen money, and permanently deprived 10 people of property.
I can confirm this. I happen to know NancyBoy, so I searched and found an obscure $10 album which had sold precisely 9 copies. I bought a copy myself and later lent it to NancyBoy for a few minutes to make a copy for himself (purely for the sake of science, I assure you. I don't condone this sort of behaviour in general). I then checked my bank balance and - lo and behold - 10c had been deducted from my account.
I told NancyBoy about the experiment and convinced him to buy a copy legally. I gave him $8.91 which, along with the $1 he had recently acquired somehow, was exactly enough for him to pay for a copy. I checked bank account again and found that it had increased by 9c.
Anyway, the point is that parent's example checks out, and that copyright infringement is theft rather than a distinct crime/illegal activity in its own right.
P.S. I keeping the name of the album and artist secret because if the pirates discovered it then it could bankrupt me.
(P.P.S. apologies to fsckmnky for the tongue-in-cheek reply. BTW, I do know that apologising ruins the effect, but that's just the way I am.)
I doubt they sent those emails to everyone. I certainly haven't received one. They may have put everyone in a big queue and trickled mails out to avoid getting blacklisted by spam filters or something, and you were near the top of the list. Or something happened and people got skipped or something.
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Because both Steam and Minecraft have a "play offline" button. Does Minecraft's "play offline" button work noticeably differently to how cos(0) described Steam's?
Well, there is the fact that Minecraft's button actually works every time. Steam's offline mode button sometimes works for me but I find that more often than not it just results in the "Error - cannot connect to Steam" message.
Wow, a whole 2% annual growth, that's just mind-blowing. Definitive proof that stealing music doesn't hurt anyone.
2% growth definitively debunks the claim is causing decline in revenues because the decline is nonexistant, despite so many factors that would lead one to expect decline even if there were no piracy whatsoever. That's the whole point. Your "stealing music doesn't hurt anyone" argument was never made - it is a strawman argument.
Say, what do you sell for a living? Cars? I'm one of the people that's been stealing cars off your lot. You're losing money? Bullshit! You're insured! And your cars suck anyway! And you're an asshole!
Baloroth did not say that stealing does not cause bereavement. He did not say that insurance makes theft or any other harmful actions become victimless. He did not assert that either theft or copyright infringement is fair because of music sucking or the exploited being assholes.
Sorry folks, here in Canada, my band is postponing our annual nationwide tour because larger venues are doing less and less live music in favour of DJ bullshit (which many of them play pirated music) so we're now competing with Juno award winners for 200-500 seat venues. We now have to book a year in advance to get the key venues to make the tour profitable.
Less scrupulous DJs cheat musicians out of royalties and their cheating puts you at a disadvantage as a secondary effect and causes all sorts of trouble for you. I get that. It sucks. We get it. This perspective is insightful but it really doesn't have much bearing on what you're trying to say (namely, that Baloroth does not know what the fuck he's talking about, as you put it). I suppose you could just be leading up to this:
So you'll have to forgive me as I break ranks with other musicians who have placated piracy advocates. We're just being polite because our reputations require it. I've done over 100,000 miles of touring, I've seen members of hit bands looking for odds jobs because their back catalog doesn't sell, I've seen the empty floors at Sony's NYC offices, I know excellent producers that are hopelessly in debt, and I know musicians that kick the shit out of current pop stars but can't get 1/10th the record deal they could have in the 80's.
This whole paragraph is built around blatantly implying that Baloroth [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominum]is a piracy advocate[/url]. He might well be, but there is no indication that he is, and it has no bearing on the strength of his argument.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians. I'm not going to pretend I can stop you from pirating music, but please shut the fuck up.
Here we go again. GP did not advocate piracy at all. Not even once. Anti-piracy sceptics and piracy advocates are not the same thing at all. You need to get that chip off your shoulder and you will find life much more bearable.
The justice system is based in the Western world on the belief that he will get a fair trial in Sweden and other similar countries - you should not be able to escape unpleasantries by crossing borders. It's not Iran he's being extradited too.
However, you should be able to "escape unpleasantries" by cooperating with the authorities as you are detained for a month at your own expense during the investigation until you are exonerated and informed by the prosecutor that the case against you has been dropped and that you are free to leave the country.
If, after all that, they try to force you back to defend yourself against the same charges all over again then you fight tooth and nail against extradition, because you have pretty much no expectation of a fair trial anymore.
Actually, OpenGL was designed with that in mind. It allows you to render to separate left and right colour buffers. That's the only thing an API really needs to support stereoscopy.
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Announcing important developments instead of arbitrary version numbers? That would have been a much better story for the front page.
A version bump doesn't mean much these days, but this version is a big improvement. It's suddenly much more responsive and there's a very stylish built-in inspect tool if you press Ctrl+Shift+i. Also, Safari-style 3D transforms are implemented at last!
They must reject a lot of people, then.
VGA ports might be dead, but VGA cables are alive and kicking. Ever since DVI came out I've found it all-but-impossible to find DVI cables. The only thing anyone seems to sell are DVI converters and VGA cables. My DVI monitor from BenQ came with a VGA cable in the box and a list of contents including the words "DVI cable (optional)". I'll be happy when we move onto something with more availability.
Hopefully those from other countries don't share this problem.
Anonymous? You must be mistaken - he is a member of Pseudonymous. They just like to call themselves Anonymous because, well, you can't call yourselves Pseudonymous if that's your group's actual name. It wouldn't make any sense.
You keep using this term "We". I do not think it means what you think it means.
I was under the impression that, by "we", Hilbert is referring to himself and his colleagues at Guru3D.
That could work. But Mike is Gabe. And Tycho's name is Jerry.
It sounds like Dave is the real marketer that saved the day here. He sang praises of the controller throughout all the abuse and was very emphatic to Gabe that people need to disassociate Avenger from Ocean. At the end of it all the Avenger came out looking good despite Paul's efforts rather than because of them (well, he did absolutely nothing to protect the brand image and seems to be trying to milk this to make himself famous).
It does matter when 99% of routers only have dyndns as an option.
I very much doubt the 99% figure as I have never encountered or heard about such a router.
But that doesn't matter because the authoritative nameserver that you choose does not need to be the same as whatever people are using to make DNS queries for them to find your site.
How do you pronounce a name like that? Only stupid "free software" hippies would make a word without vowils. Who's going to use this shit if you can't even say it?
It's meant to be pronounced "cute", although I used to say "kyoo-tee" before I was aware of this.
If I have my facts straight it was called "Qt" 7 years before adopting a Free Software licence, so those hippies of yours don't actually have a monopoly on consonants.
Wasn't webkit originally forked (or derived) from khtml, which was KDE's rendering library?
Yes, and that was made with the KDE framework, which in turn was made with Qt.
The Ouroboros lives!
Their point is that an IP is a terrible basis for an accusation. It is. It's still a good starting point for a real investigation.
.debs are on their way
You mean the spy drone is a spy?
We need to go deeper.
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
Some are born communist, some achieve communism, and some have communism thrust upon them.
The hack was possible because the website was managed using PHP-MyAdmin, and this application allowed database access without a password.
That's a bit misleading. From what I gather the hack was possible because the database was configured to allow access without a password. Considering that, whether or not PHPMyAdmin is appropriate is a tiny matter by comparison. The summary makes it sound like PHPMyAdmin is to blame.
There are 3 basic classes of consumers, not 2.
1. Those who pay for software, and use it.
2. Those who pirate software, but would pay for it if they couldn't pirate it.
3. Those who pirate software, but would not otherwise pay for it.
#3 seems to be what the Swiss decision is based on.
I agree to an extent, but that that list is not exhaustive. I can think of a few more off the top of my head:
4. Those who pirate the software and pay for it, but would not otherwise have paid for it
5. Those who pirate the software and pay for it, but would have paid for it anyway
6a. Those who pay for software but don't use it except to make and sell illegal copies
6b. Those who make and sell illegal copies without having paid
6c. Customers of #6a and #6b (special cases of #2 and #3, some of whom believe to belong to #1)
I have a vague, unsubstantiated suspicion that, excluding #6c, #2 is vastly overestimated; and that #4 and #5 may in fact collectively exceed #1.
When NancyBoy the pirate enters the picture, and receives the benefit of ABCD without paying for it, he just stole $1, collectively, from the 10 people who paid to receive benefit. If NancyBoy the pirate had paid, the cost to the 11 benefit receivers would be $10/11 or approx $0.91. NancyBoy the pirate has stolen money, and permanently deprived 10 people of property.
I can confirm this. I happen to know NancyBoy, so I searched and found an obscure $10 album which had sold precisely 9 copies. I bought a copy myself and later lent it to NancyBoy for a few minutes to make a copy for himself (purely for the sake of science, I assure you. I don't condone this sort of behaviour in general). I then checked my bank balance and - lo and behold - 10c had been deducted from my account.
I told NancyBoy about the experiment and convinced him to buy a copy legally. I gave him $8.91 which, along with the $1 he had recently acquired somehow, was exactly enough for him to pay for a copy. I checked bank account again and found that it had increased by 9c.
Anyway, the point is that parent's example checks out, and that copyright infringement is theft rather than a distinct crime/illegal activity in its own right.
P.S. I keeping the name of the album and artist secret because if the pirates discovered it then it could bankrupt me.
(P.P.S. apologies to fsckmnky for the tongue-in-cheek reply. BTW, I do know that apologising ruins the effect, but that's just the way I am.)
Maybe - or it could be that the submitter is trying to raise awareness of the source code in hopes of seeing more mods appear for Uplink.
I doubt they sent those emails to everyone. I certainly haven't received one. They may have put everyone in a big queue and trickled mails out to avoid getting blacklisted by spam filters or something, and you were near the top of the list. Or something happened and people got skipped or something.
Because both Steam and Minecraft have a "play offline" button. Does Minecraft's "play offline" button work noticeably differently to how cos(0) described Steam's?
Well, there is the fact that Minecraft's button actually works every time. Steam's offline mode button sometimes works for me but I find that more often than not it just results in the "Error - cannot connect to Steam" message.
Wow, a whole 2% annual growth, that's just mind-blowing. Definitive proof that stealing music doesn't hurt anyone.
2% growth definitively debunks the claim is causing decline in revenues because the decline is nonexistant, despite so many factors that would lead one to expect decline even if there were no piracy whatsoever. That's the whole point. Your "stealing music doesn't hurt anyone" argument was never made - it is a strawman argument.
Say, what do you sell for a living? Cars? I'm one of the people that's been stealing cars off your lot. You're losing money? Bullshit! You're insured! And your cars suck anyway! And you're an asshole!
Baloroth did not say that stealing does not cause bereavement. He did not say that insurance makes theft or any other harmful actions become victimless. He did not assert that either theft or copyright infringement is fair because of music sucking or the exploited being assholes.
Sorry folks, here in Canada, my band is postponing our annual nationwide tour because larger venues are doing less and less live music in favour of DJ bullshit (which many of them play pirated music) so we're now competing with Juno award winners for 200-500 seat venues. We now have to book a year in advance to get the key venues to make the tour profitable.
Less scrupulous DJs cheat musicians out of royalties and their cheating puts you at a disadvantage as a secondary effect and causes all sorts of trouble for you. I get that. It sucks. We get it. This perspective is insightful but it really doesn't have much bearing on what you're trying to say (namely, that Baloroth does not know what the fuck he's talking about, as you put it). I suppose you could just be leading up to this:
So you'll have to forgive me as I break ranks with other musicians who have placated piracy advocates. We're just being polite because our reputations require it. I've done over 100,000 miles of touring, I've seen members of hit bands looking for odds jobs because their back catalog doesn't sell, I've seen the empty floors at Sony's NYC offices, I know excellent producers that are hopelessly in debt, and I know musicians that kick the shit out of current pop stars but can't get 1/10th the record deal they could have in the 80's.
This whole paragraph is built around blatantly implying that Baloroth [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominum]is a piracy advocate[/url]. He might well be, but there is no indication that he is, and it has no bearing on the strength of his argument.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians. I'm not going to pretend I can stop you from pirating music, but please shut the fuck up.
Here we go again. GP did not advocate piracy at all. Not even once. Anti-piracy sceptics and piracy advocates are not the same thing at all. You need to get that chip off your shoulder and you will find life much more bearable.
Parsing, not rendering. Does fbcon parse font files? Or is that done in user space?
The justice system is based in the Western world on the belief that he will get a fair trial in Sweden and other similar countries - you should not be able to escape unpleasantries by crossing borders. It's not Iran he's being extradited too.
However, you should be able to "escape unpleasantries" by cooperating with the authorities as you are detained for a month at your own expense during the investigation until you are exonerated and informed by the prosecutor that the case against you has been dropped and that you are free to leave the country.
If, after all that, they try to force you back to defend yourself against the same charges all over again then you fight tooth and nail against extradition, because you have pretty much no expectation of a fair trial anymore.
Actually, OpenGL was designed with that in mind. It allows you to render to separate left and right colour buffers. That's the only thing an API really needs to support stereoscopy.