1) Guy wants publicity for his idiotic service. 2) How would it supposedly work under patents?
How would commercial software work? The BSA dude saying that they couldn't go after pirates was correct. Sure, this would end the GPL, but it would mean that the only protection for any source code is trade secret law.
That's interesting. If this guy is advocating increasing the scope of patents, then this is all fucked up, but otherwise I simply can't imagine the way he wants software to work.
And of course it won't happen, the court will leave this kind of decision to congress.
Most people listen to shitty music. If I had your friends, I'd probably feel the same way. (If genre is a big deal for you, then you may have a similar problem.)
Several of my friends have incredibly fantastic music collections, and they all keep growing. Mostly thanks to Aquarius Records.
In Full Spectrum Warrior, another gov't produced video game, if any of your squad members die, you fail the mission and start the mission over or at a save point.
I don't understand why cameras with big sensors need to be SLR. Are there professional grade cameras with interchangable lenses that don't depend on the optical viewfinder?
Are there semi-compact digital cameras with high quality lenses and big sensors?
Why does every digital camera have a crappy motor-driven zoom? Aren't there others out there that would prefer a normal (no-zoom) lens? Isn't a motor-driven zoom totally useless?
Are there decent digital cameras with decent macro lenses?
Yeah, I want to know how they skirt felony hacking charges too. Did they specially word the Patriot Act to avoid making these people criminals? How come they aren't considered terrorists?
it wouldn't produce unbiased or universally applicable reviews any significantly more often than advertising-based sources do.
I think the advertising complaints are due to a few standout crappy sites. Gamespy and IGN are completely, 100%, worthless shills. I have never once visited their sites without regretting it. Penny Arcade is advertising supported, and I find every single one of their articles to be worth reading. But when people are complaining about advertiser bias, they're talking about IGN and not Penny Arcade.
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What I find odd about HD-DVD fans is that while they ignore the lower storage capacities, they love to focus on codecs. It's possible to run you favorite codec on any storage media, why settle for a crappier medium to do it?
You seem to be responding to some other comment. I don't give a flying fuck which format is adopted. Whatsisbucket said that he didn't think an HD movie could be done in 15GB, and I pointed out that he might be wrong.
The few movies released in HD on DVD compressed and using VC9 are not full HD resolution. You think and extra 6 GB is going to get you there all the way???
Yes. Haven't you been paying attention to your Apple PR?
H.264 to the rescue:
As shown in a preview at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in April, video encoded at full high definition resolution (1920x1080 24p) was played back between 6.8 and 8 Mbps on a dual-processor Power Mac® G5 delivering full HD quality at up to half the data rate of MPEG-2.
They say it's good enough that "at today's SD DVD data rates, H.264/AVC can deliver full HD." So yes, I think they can do it in 15GB.
You aren't making sense. I don't see what difference it makes if we talk about doors or foundations. As far as I can tell, my points stand, unless you can explain wtf you are talking about.
No, no, no. Unfortunately, we don't get to pick an arbitrary fitness evaluation. If spyware does damage to our network infrastructure, and yet delivers the most advertising, spamming and phishing revenue, it is fit as spyware.
You put up clotheslines that run from your back yard through your doorways to your front yard.
Now you want locking doors on your house, and you are complaining that you'll have to take down your clotheslines.
If you don't want doors on your house, don't install the service pack. The only reason that Microsoft is in the wrong, here, is that they built houses without doors in the first place. The reason that we are at fault, here, is because we accepted receipt of this idiotic operating system in the first place.
But Microsoft is not at fault for saying that your clothesline running through the middle of your house is incompatible with the new doors we're going to get.
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1) Guy wants publicity for his idiotic service.
2) How would it supposedly work under patents?
How would commercial software work? The BSA dude saying that they couldn't go after pirates was correct. Sure, this would end the GPL, but it would mean that the only protection for any source code is trade secret law.
That's interesting. If this guy is advocating increasing the scope of patents, then this is all fucked up, but otherwise I simply can't imagine the way he wants software to work.
And of course it won't happen, the court will leave this kind of decision to congress.
Most people listen to shitty music. If I had your friends, I'd probably feel the same way. (If genre is a big deal for you, then you may have a similar problem.)
Several of my friends have incredibly fantastic music collections, and they all keep growing. Mostly thanks to Aquarius Records.
But then again, how often does one swap out that many songs on and off a DAP?
Every time I go to a friend's house.
In Full Spectrum Warrior, another gov't produced video game, if any of your squad members die, you fail the mission and start the mission over or at a save point.
No one is allowed to die.
Yes, these are absolutely designed to recruit.
Man, that Epson R-D1 sounds rad.
Thank you. Especially for the long answer.
And by professional grade, I mean not professional grade. Pro-am, hobbiest, whatever. I guess the pros use medium format digital backs or whatever.
Hate to be an annoyance:
I don't understand why cameras with big sensors need to be SLR. Are there professional grade cameras with interchangable lenses that don't depend on the optical viewfinder?
Are there semi-compact digital cameras with high quality lenses and big sensors?
Why does every digital camera have a crappy motor-driven zoom? Aren't there others out there that would prefer a normal (no-zoom) lens? Isn't a motor-driven zoom totally useless?
Are there decent digital cameras with decent macro lenses?
The definition of a fact is that it can be backed up by evidence.
No, it decidedly is not.
If a claim can't be backed up by evidence, its not a fact.
Think about that real hard.
Yes, yes it could be a fact.
Yeah, I want to know how they skirt felony hacking charges too. Did they specially word the Patriot Act to avoid making these people criminals? How come they aren't considered terrorists?
It's worse than that. A coworker of mine had spyware that redirected all her network connections through their proprietary network stack.
No uninstallers available, so we had Spybot uninstall it.
No networking.
Format, reinstall. And this is without downloading any screensavers or someshit. Just via holes in IE.
and fell down the slippery slope even more, delving into porn and other kinda shady areas which I won't go into, at which point I decided to resign
More detail please? If it's some kind of "trade secret", that's all the more reason to spill the beans, and let the rest of us clean up this bullshit.
And this is obviously completely different from the East, where landlords do not burn down buildings for the insurance money.
it wouldn't produce unbiased or universally applicable reviews any significantly more often than advertising-based sources do.
I think the advertising complaints are due to a few standout crappy sites. Gamespy and IGN are completely, 100%, worthless shills. I have never once visited their sites without regretting it. Penny Arcade is advertising supported, and I find every single one of their articles to be worth reading. But when people are complaining about advertiser bias, they're talking about IGN and not Penny Arcade.
(See subject.)
(The JKII thing was pretty good though.)
What I find odd about HD-DVD fans is that while they ignore the lower storage capacities, they love to focus on codecs. It's possible to run you favorite codec on any storage media, why settle for a crappier medium to do it?
You seem to be responding to some other comment. I don't give a flying fuck which format is adopted. Whatsisbucket said that he didn't think an HD movie could be done in 15GB, and I pointed out that he might be wrong.
So what's your point?
Yes. Haven't you been paying attention to your Apple PR?
H.264 to the rescue:They say it's good enough that "at today's SD DVD data rates, H.264/AVC can deliver full HD." So yes, I think they can do it in 15GB.
2. TDK has developed a scratch-free surface for Blu-ray DVD's.
Don't worry, the MPAA (via Orrin) would illegalize TDK's scratch-free surface in seconds.
You aren't making sense. I don't see what difference it makes if we talk about doors or foundations. As far as I can tell, my points stand, unless you can explain wtf you are talking about.
That's what I was trying to say. I was disagreeing with whatshisbucket's assertion that network damage was a negative trait.
Maybe the linked debian-hurd list is one of those still-living mailing lists. I bet most hurd developers are on it...
No, no, no. Unfortunately, we don't get to pick an arbitrary fitness evaluation. If spyware does damage to our network infrastructure, and yet delivers the most advertising, spamming and phishing revenue, it is fit as spyware.
This biome sucks.
Whatever.
Your contractor didn't build doors on your house.
You put up clotheslines that run from your back yard through your doorways to your front yard.
Now you want locking doors on your house, and you are complaining that you'll have to take down your clotheslines.
If you don't want doors on your house, don't install the service pack. The only reason that Microsoft is in the wrong, here, is that they built houses without doors in the first place. The reason that we are at fault, here, is because we accepted receipt of this idiotic operating system in the first place.
But Microsoft is not at fault for saying that your clothesline running through the middle of your house is incompatible with the new doors we're going to get.
Woo, mixed metaphors.
why does running of the application, which actually accomlishes something, must be compromise to enable the OS to run better?
Because those applications depend on poor security. Break them. They shouldn't work.