Come on dude. No one trusts the government now. Government serves its own interest in the name of preserving its power. The government has, in the past, rigged data (apple juice, red dye to name a few) for political purposes. Everyone (I hope ) knows this. I fear the day people start by saying they trust the government.
: Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through.
Government sponsored *anything* is not thought through. Government never does anything efficently (expect war, maybe).
A throughly thought through program would have found ways to have the private sector (ie employers) take on those rolls.
While I am glad to see, finally, a significant embrace of linux and open source, having a government support it in that manner goes against the concepts and ideals of the open source community.
I'm mad, not so much as the movie was copied to DVD before its release it the theater, but at the movie executives who want to take away my right to watch movies with my PC.
The execs say that there is problem with people copying movies. But illegal movie (and music) distribution is happening inside the industry not in my home. But their solution is to take away my abilities and regulate me.
That makes no sense. The executives need to worry about their own folks instead of trying to pass laws that make it wrong for me to rip my movie or cd to my harddrive.
I failed to see much said about compatibility issues. I know, for example, promise cards may not work with computers using a Nvida chipset for video (keeps me from using them). I would like to know what compatiblity issues those other cards have.
I'm waiting to buy a PDA. I dont want to carry around more stuff. Once PDAs and cellphones are built into the same unit, then I will use it. I like the idea of the PDA and I am willing to change my work style of make sure I use it. But I can't stand the thought of carrying two devices.
I know there are a couple of models already available in the US that have both the PDA and cellphone together. However, the PDA OSes and features are out of date. And they dont work well all of the time
I wrote my own email client and I added rules to it. One part of the rules is if the email address is not from someone I know (ie: I know their email address(es)), then it may be subject to automatic deletion from the server.
Most of my email gets filtered into a junk folder where its later given a quick glance to make sure I am accidently losing an email that I really wanted to keep.
I don't mind that MS makes a large profit on the operating system because use much of those proceeds go to develop other products, like Enterprise Studio. In fact, if they did not make such large profit on the OS, the development tools could cost thousands more than what the tools currently cost.
I do mind that MS makes poor products. I do mind that they refuse to open the OS (especially for security reviews). And I do mind that they are willing to sell my privacy to the recording artists.
Computers have been built into stereo equipment for years. Pop open a proscan cd changer and you'll find a serial port which you can log in as root. Most stereo equipment runs embedded linux or BeOS. Shockingly more are starting to have Windows now that harddrives are getting added to the systems.
I used to write software for stereo components for Escient Labs, who had major OEM agreements with RCA, Harmon Kardon, and (more recently) Compaq (now HP). It was quite the cool experience to see all of my favorite hi-fi systems run linux.
You have to side with the consumer on this one. What the consumer is doing is modifying something they bought for their own personal benefit (if you will). It harms no one. I am able to watch the movies as the director intended. I am not obligated or forced to watch the movie they edited.
Whereas, the studios want to regulate and dictate what I can or cannot do with something I own.
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And I loved it. It was not cordless but it did have the gyro in it. Saved my wrists at times.
It took a little getting use to but it worked really. Unfortunately my cat chewed the cable and the mouse no longer worked after that. I should have chewed the cat for that one.
if the government released the source code with the program, then I might be inclined to install it. I would want to know what they are doing before running it.
DVD will win in the end except in post production houses. Why? 1) DVD cost significantly less for the comsumer; 2) DVD already has significant market penetration
Why are the studios big about D-VHS? 1) Because it wears out; 2) Even though its digital its stored on tape and therefore copies can suffer from signal degragation.
The RIAA and media companies are using this idea that people of violating copy rights to mask the real objective of their proposed legislation.
Their real goal, is to force independant artists (musicians, videographers, filmmakers) to have to use the big name media companies to get their work to market. The big companies cannot stand the fact that independant artists can produce Hollywood grade material and get it to market without them.
That's what this is really about. They've chosen to use the copyright issue because they feel the general audience (consumers) can understand such a topic but that consumers would not support such drastic measures if the truth was known.
The people that will feel the suffering the most should all of this crap pass with be those independant artists you find at places like Atom Films or MP3
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Come on dude. No one trusts the government now. Government serves its own interest in the name of preserving its power. The government has, in the past, rigged data (apple juice, red dye to name a few) for political purposes. Everyone (I hope ) knows this. I fear the day people start by saying they trust the government.
: Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through.
Government sponsored *anything* is not thought through. Government never does anything efficently (expect war, maybe).
A throughly thought through program would have found ways to have the private sector (ie employers) take on those rolls.
While I am glad to see, finally, a significant embrace of linux and open source, having a government support it in that manner goes against the concepts and ideals of the open source community.
the egg from alien.
NASA has several space shuttles, which just sit idle in between mission ramp ups.
Couldn't NASA just park of these babies on the ISS in place of the Russion vehicle?
I'm mad, not so much as the movie was copied to DVD before its release it the theater, but at the movie executives who want to take away my right to watch movies with my PC.
The execs say that there is problem with people copying movies. But illegal movie (and music) distribution is happening inside the industry not in my home. But their solution is to take away my abilities and regulate me.
That makes no sense. The executives need to worry about their own folks instead of trying to pass laws that make it wrong for me to rip my movie or cd to my harddrive.
I failed to see much said about compatibility issues. I know, for example, promise cards may not work with computers using a Nvida chipset for video (keeps me from using them). I would like to know what compatiblity issues those other cards have.
I'm waiting to buy a PDA. I dont want to carry around more stuff. Once PDAs and cellphones are built into the same unit, then I will use it. I like the idea of the PDA and I am willing to change my work style of make sure I use it. But I can't stand the thought of carrying two devices.
I know there are a couple of models already available in the US that have both the PDA and cellphone together. However, the PDA OSes and features are out of date. And they dont work well all of the time
I wrote my own email client and I added rules to it. One part of the rules is if the email address is not from someone I know (ie: I know their email address(es)), then it may be subject to automatic deletion from the server.
Most of my email gets filtered into a junk folder where its later given a quick glance to make sure I am accidently losing an email that I really wanted to keep.
I don't mind that MS makes a large profit on the operating system because use much of those proceeds go to develop other products, like Enterprise Studio. In fact, if they did not make such large profit on the OS, the development tools could cost thousands more than what the tools currently cost.
I do mind that MS makes poor products. I do mind that they refuse to open the OS (especially for security reviews). And I do mind that they are willing to sell my privacy to the recording artists.
What ever happened to privacy and innocent until proven guily and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures?
Computers have been built into stereo equipment for years. Pop open a proscan cd changer and you'll find a serial port which you can log in as root. Most stereo equipment runs embedded linux or BeOS. Shockingly more are starting to have Windows now that harddrives are getting added to the systems.
I used to write software for stereo components for Escient Labs, who had major OEM agreements with RCA, Harmon Kardon, and (more recently) Compaq (now HP). It was quite the cool experience to see all of my favorite hi-fi systems run linux.
You have to side with the consumer on this one. What the consumer is doing is modifying something they bought for their own personal benefit (if you will). It harms no one. I am able to watch the movies as the director intended. I am not obligated or forced to watch the movie they edited.
Whereas, the studios want to regulate and dictate what I can or cannot do with something I own.
And I loved it. It was not cordless but it did have the gyro in it. Saved my wrists at times.
It took a little getting use to but it worked really. Unfortunately my cat chewed the cable and the mouse no longer worked after that. I should have chewed the cat for that one.
if the government released the source code with the program, then I might be inclined to install it. I would want to know what they are doing before running it.
I've been playing video games since the mid80s. And I have probably played everyday for several hours. And on weekends, all day long.
DVD will win in the end except in post production houses. Why? 1) DVD cost significantly less for the comsumer; 2) DVD already has significant market penetration
Why are the studios big about D-VHS? 1) Because it wears out; 2) Even though its digital its stored on tape and therefore copies can suffer from signal degragation.
The RIAA and media companies are using this idea that people of violating copy rights to mask the real objective of their proposed legislation.
Their real goal, is to force independant artists (musicians, videographers, filmmakers) to have to use the big name media companies to get their work to market. The big companies cannot stand the fact that independant artists can produce Hollywood grade material and get it to market without them.
That's what this is really about. They've chosen to use the copyright issue because they feel the general audience (consumers) can understand
such a topic but that consumers would not support such drastic measures if the truth was known.
The people that will feel the suffering the most should all of this crap pass with be those independant artists you find at places like Atom Films or MP3
At least when this version was released, the code was included and it provided some security. Whos whats happened in PGP after NA took control of it.
At least with Intels option, market conditions can more quickly adapt. Thus, when everyone quits buying the hardware, intel can quit making it.
If it becomes law, as hollywad wants, the requirement will never go away.