How about the millions of lcd tvs sold with the HD Ready logo that don't have HDCP? How about the HDCP tvs tested that lost sync many times and had to start over. You scenario is bullcrap and the only reason why you shit it out here is because you don't have any idea what you are writing about. This is NOT dvd. The technology behind all these new "features" seems to be very complicated and we are still far from interoperation between devices from different companies like a Sony player with a Samsung display. Then there is Blueray AND HD...
So the new copy protection sheme is supposed to keep professinal pirates (the guys that copy the movie and then sell th ecopies in large quantities) from gaining a copy? Gimme a break!
And it is supposed to be a hurdle to those "release groups" (the guys that compete with each other to be the fastest to release a movie to the p2p networks)? Yeah, right!
This hole (and there will be others) is another prove that there is no protection against those two groups. They will simply find another way.
But it puts a major obstacle in the way of paying customers that just want to watch movies. The movie studios don't realize it because there is no pressure from an alternative. That is also called a monopoly. And who is going to break it up? The movie industry and the record industry both seem to need a little "help" to get some competition back into their respective markets.
Not all muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are muslims.
To the average American. But it is simply not true: The conflict in Sri Lanka is heating up (Hindu vs. Buddhists), they have siucide attacks (one side accuses the other) and blow up busses.
The average American probabley also has never heard of the Basque conflict in norther Spain. Then there is Indonesia with Muslim vs. Christians. And all sorts of terror going on. Have you checked on the DRC lately? When child soldiers whipe out another village some would speak of rebel attacks, but what is the difference between a rebel and a terrorist when they take out civillian targets?
There was a terror attack by foreing terrorists on American soil. Unfortunately it took many lives in a single stroke. But you get this number of people about every other week in the DRC. So it actually is not such a big deal when you look at the whole world. But for the average American the whole world consists of 50 states. And the threat to the US was and is blown way out of propotion by DC and the media. Thanks to that the US budget is also blown way out of propotion threatening the dollar and the world economy and those little things like Guantanmo, torture, Patriot Act, NSA spygames, you name it.
Thank you for reinforcing another one of my beloved stereotypes.
You spend 150 to 200 bucks on the machine and 50 on the crt or 150 on the lcd. If you use Ubuntu you can even save the 50 bucks for XP.
You get a total of 200 to 350 bucks minus the printer. I would use something that you can refill. Old sturdy inkjets or laser printers that now have cheap cartridges come to mind. You should really be able to stay below 400 in total and installing ubuntu is easier than to install windows nowdays. Especially because a computer illiterate would have problems installing all the anti spyware tools.
Does Slashdot get money for advertisements for Apple machines? Seeing how much they charge for a machine I suppose they have the spare money.
Prices are very low on ebay. For someone selling stuff on an auction site you never know how much you are going to make on an item. But you can be sure of one thing. Ebay will make more on that sale than you will.
If they can't survive a slashdotting of their front page, how are they going stream large media files to an audience big enough that the revenue share we would get would is an amount greater than a couple cents?
Maybe he was a little immature, but I remember many kids that made little drawings of blowing up their school or killing the teachers that they didn't like. A very good friend of mine wrote a funny poem when he graduated in which he described torture methods for teachers. He liked many of his teachers. This was art and a way to vent some of his fruststrations he had with stupid teachers.
Unfortunately it is not that simple. I am not saying that it is very important to step up environmental efforts (but game theory suggests we won't), but afaik a lot of CO2 is sucked up by the ocean. Studies in woods have also shown that more woods don't really take up all that much CO2. There is still so much that we don't understand. That's why it is so easy for scientists paid by the industrial sector to take apart global warming studies. The matter is VERY complex and we still understand very little about it. While independent scientists can generally agree on the human factor in global warming it is very easy to argue against it if that is your aim. Even claims that global warming is not happening at all are not far enough off that you wouldn't loose all your credibility by publishing such a study and getting a little grant from Bush and the likes.
Please keep this guy modded up. I was going to post this answer myself, since this is such a no brainer. Even if someone would be asking these small Linux distributions to provide the source code they could point to upstream and mail their changes.
Boeing was at its best when there was competition. I think the Boeing 747 was/is the greatest airplane ever designed. Now only 2 state sponsored (Boeing with military contracts, Airbus with direct subsidy) remain. Monopolies seem to be such a huge drag and waste so much money it is not even funny. I am European and even though the new shiny Airbus 380 is pretty interesting technology wise I cringe every time I have to think of the billions of subsidies that went into it.
Because Opera actually has competition. I strongly believe that OSS would still be FAR behind commercial offerings if there had been any competition in the os and/or office markets. Monopolies are not only bad, because they charge higher prices (as they teach in economics) but also because they seem to bring innovation to a screeching halt. MS Office 2007 will be the first upgrade to Office that will change anything notable from Office 97. And there has been no major change to the gui of 95 or the core of NT, both of which are more than 12 years old. The only thing Microsoft did was merge those. And that was planned for 1999 and already was two years late. My grandma still can't use computers.
I am sure if there had been competition in the OS market we would have flying cars by now. - Well, maybe not flying cars, but maybe some gui that my grandma could use.
I don't know where the CIA world factbook gets its facts, and I usually defend China on Slashdot as well. You just need to know one little thing about facts and China. Communists excel at writing their own reports. And the Chinese communists have trained rather well. I saw a nice documentary on TV about making wine in China. On a certain field one can make a certain amount of wine. That amoung was expected (and announced) in the first year of operation. The French specialists that were there to help to set it up were ignored in very imporant crop handeling issues all along and because of that and because you never get the full amount the first year anyways they predicted an amount of wine about 1/20 the amount the Chinese were expecting. They turned out to be right. So the operator just bought the wine somewhere else and put the right sticker on the bottles. After all half the financing came from the state. Failure to fulfill quotas not allowed.
How exactly do you govern more than a billion people? I don't know, do you? But don't trust any "facts" from China.
So if someone fakes my email address in their spam I get burnt for it? I have some 3-letter email addresses that I registered way back then with what has now become one of the largest free internet mail providers in Germany. Nowdays I get a lot of returns on those, because spammers tried to spam an email address that does not exist any more faking my email address as theirs and the server is requiered to send an error message.
Glad I am not with godaddy. Otherwise I should delete those accounts.
Even worse if I had a popular domain name.
Would they block hotmail.com too, because they send so much spam?
Affirmative Action is REALLY bad. The problem is, if you really do some research on it you will find out that there simply is no other viable solution. Kinda like democracy (bad system, but no alternative).
What drove me to Linux was the support. I had a problem with Windows and couldn't even get to the people that would have been able to help me. With Linux if I have a problem I track it down and send a bug report. Granted, not all respond, but a lot of stuff got (and gets) fixed.
We have almost used up earth. So we should quickly find a new place where we can drive our SUVs and be undisturbed by little children begging for food.
I dunno, but I had an old laptop that I brought into the cs department and they did't support Linux for connecting to the net. So I booted up Win98 to gain access and it was rooted in no time. I don't know what hit it, but I had to do a reinstall (I didn't have a software firewall on for some reason. Now I know better).
This is so far from reality it is not even funny. Special ops are no superman. They need gear, a team and more teams alongside them. One team, much less one man going in to kill some foreign leader or free hostages is movie crap. Nice picture in TFA though.
The panic that followed it was. The paranoia is. It gets used for all kinds of shit, but is still paranoia. Please adivce your fellow citizen that 9/11 (while being pretty symbolic) was not an attack on America. It was simply a terrorist attack. Those do happen quite often. Not with the same grave results, but for on a much more frequent schedule for example in Israel.
Watching what has happened to the US I think the terrorists have achieved a lot of things. And that shouldn't have happened, because terrorists shouldn't achieve anything IMHO. Best would have been if airport security would have gone up a little and the cockpits would have gotten seals that no one can a) shoot b) talk through. But a lot of stuff has happened that was explained by the attacks that actually doesn't have anything to do with them.
I have come to loathe everyting related to 9/11. Absolutely anything.
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How about the millions of lcd tvs sold with the HD Ready logo that don't have HDCP? How about the HDCP tvs tested that lost sync many times and had to start over. You scenario is bullcrap and the only reason why you shit it out here is because you don't have any idea what you are writing about. This is NOT dvd. The technology behind all these new "features" seems to be very complicated and we are still far from interoperation between devices from different companies like a Sony player with a Samsung display. Then there is Blueray AND HD ...
So the new copy protection sheme is supposed to keep professinal pirates (the guys that copy the movie and then sell th ecopies in large quantities) from gaining a copy? Gimme a break!
And it is supposed to be a hurdle to those "release groups" (the guys that compete with each other to be the fastest to release a movie to the p2p networks)? Yeah, right!
This hole (and there will be others) is another prove that there is no protection against those two groups. They will simply find another way.
But it puts a major obstacle in the way of paying customers that just want to watch movies. The movie studios don't realize it because there is no pressure from an alternative. That is also called a monopoly. And who is going to break it up? The movie industry and the record industry both seem to need a little "help" to get some competition back into their respective markets.
Not all muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are muslims.
To the average American. But it is simply not true: The conflict in Sri Lanka is heating up (Hindu vs. Buddhists), they have siucide attacks (one side accuses the other) and blow up busses.
The average American probabley also has never heard of the Basque conflict in norther Spain. Then there is Indonesia with Muslim vs. Christians. And all sorts of terror going on. Have you checked on the DRC lately? When child soldiers whipe out another village some would speak of rebel attacks, but what is the difference between a rebel and a terrorist when they take out civillian targets?
There was a terror attack by foreing terrorists on American soil. Unfortunately it took many lives in a single stroke. But you get this number of people about every other week in the DRC. So it actually is not such a big deal when you look at the whole world. But for the average American the whole world consists of 50 states. And the threat to the US was and is blown way out of propotion by DC and the media. Thanks to that the US budget is also blown way out of propotion threatening the dollar and the world economy and those little things like Guantanmo, torture, Patriot Act, NSA spygames, you name it.
Thank you for reinforcing another one of my beloved stereotypes.
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You spend 150 to 200 bucks on the machine and 50 on the crt or 150 on the lcd. If you use Ubuntu you can even save the 50 bucks for XP.
You get a total of 200 to 350 bucks minus the printer. I would use something that you can refill. Old sturdy inkjets or laser printers that now have cheap cartridges come to mind. You should really be able to stay below 400 in total and installing ubuntu is easier than to install windows nowdays. Especially because a computer illiterate would have problems installing all the anti spyware tools.
Does Slashdot get money for advertisements for Apple machines? Seeing how much they charge for a machine I suppose they have the spare money.
If this catches on he should be careful that he won't get shot by some people that might not like smart people or meaningful discussions in DC
Prices are very low on ebay. For someone selling stuff on an auction site you never know how much you are going to make on an item. But you can be sure of one thing. Ebay will make more on that sale than you will.
I don't know who the speaker of the house is, but I don't think this guy is in any way worse than the guy currently in office or the other guy.
If they can't survive a slashdotting of their front page, how are they going stream large media files to an audience big enough that the revenue share we would get would is an amount greater than a couple cents?
Maybe he was a little immature, but I remember many kids that made little drawings of blowing up their school or killing the teachers that they didn't like. A very good friend of mine wrote a funny poem when he graduated in which he described torture methods for teachers. He liked many of his teachers. This was art and a way to vent some of his fruststrations he had with stupid teachers.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Unfortunately it is not that simple. I am not saying that it is very important to step up environmental efforts (but game theory suggests we won't), but afaik a lot of CO2 is sucked up by the ocean. Studies in woods have also shown that more woods don't really take up all that much CO2. There is still so much that we don't understand. That's why it is so easy for scientists paid by the industrial sector to take apart global warming studies. The matter is VERY complex and we still understand very little about it. While independent scientists can generally agree on the human factor in global warming it is very easy to argue against it if that is your aim. Even claims that global warming is not happening at all are not far enough off that you wouldn't loose all your credibility by publishing such a study and getting a little grant from Bush and the likes.
Please keep this guy modded up. I was going to post this answer myself, since this is such a no brainer. Even if someone would be asking these small Linux distributions to provide the source code they could point to upstream and mail their changes.
Boeing was at its best when there was competition. I think the Boeing 747 was/is the greatest airplane ever designed. Now only 2 state sponsored (Boeing with military contracts, Airbus with direct subsidy) remain. Monopolies seem to be such a huge drag and waste so much money it is not even funny. I am European and even though the new shiny Airbus 380 is pretty interesting technology wise I cringe every time I have to think of the billions of subsidies that went into it.
Because Opera actually has competition. I strongly believe that OSS would still be FAR behind commercial offerings if there had been any competition in the os and/or office markets. Monopolies are not only bad, because they charge higher prices (as they teach in economics) but also because they seem to bring innovation to a screeching halt. MS Office 2007 will be the first upgrade to Office that will change anything notable from Office 97. And there has been no major change to the gui of 95 or the core of NT, both of which are more than 12 years old. The only thing Microsoft did was merge those. And that was planned for 1999 and already was two years late. My grandma still can't use computers.
I am sure if there had been competition in the OS market we would have flying cars by now. - Well, maybe not flying cars, but maybe some gui that my grandma could use.
I don't know where the CIA world factbook gets its facts, and I usually defend China on Slashdot as well. You just need to know one little thing about facts and China. Communists excel at writing their own reports. And the Chinese communists have trained rather well. I saw a nice documentary on TV about making wine in China. On a certain field one can make a certain amount of wine. That amoung was expected (and announced) in the first year of operation. The French specialists that were there to help to set it up were ignored in very imporant crop handeling issues all along and because of that and because you never get the full amount the first year anyways they predicted an amount of wine about 1/20 the amount the Chinese were expecting. They turned out to be right. So the operator just bought the wine somewhere else and put the right sticker on the bottles. After all half the financing came from the state. Failure to fulfill quotas not allowed.
How exactly do you govern more than a billion people? I don't know, do you? But don't trust any "facts" from China.
So if someone fakes my email address in their spam I get burnt for it? I have some 3-letter email addresses that I registered way back then with what has now become one of the largest free internet mail providers in Germany. Nowdays I get a lot of returns on those, because spammers tried to spam an email address that does not exist any more faking my email address as theirs and the server is requiered to send an error message.
Glad I am not with godaddy. Otherwise I should delete those accounts.
Even worse if I had a popular domain name.
Would they block hotmail.com too, because they send so much spam?
Affirmative Action is REALLY bad. The problem is, if you really do some research on it you will find out that there simply is no other viable solution. Kinda like democracy (bad system, but no alternative).
What they want is further protection just for them, not to give up their patents.
What drove me to Linux was the support. I had a problem with Windows and couldn't even get to the people that would have been able to help me. With Linux if I have a problem I track it down and send a bug report. Granted, not all respond, but a lot of stuff got (and gets) fixed.
We have almost used up earth. So we should quickly find a new place where we can drive our SUVs and be undisturbed by little children begging for food.
I dunno, but I had an old laptop that I brought into the cs department and they did't support Linux for connecting to the net. So I booted up Win98 to gain access and it was rooted in no time. I don't know what hit it, but I had to do a reinstall (I didn't have a software firewall on for some reason. Now I know better).
Yahoo would be very happy with Google pulling out. Less competition in that very important market!
It is...
James Bond?
This is so far from reality it is not even funny. Special ops are no superman. They need gear, a team and more teams alongside them. One team, much less one man going in to kill some foreign leader or free hostages is movie crap. Nice picture in TFA though.
The panic that followed it was. The paranoia is. It gets used for all kinds of shit, but is still paranoia. Please adivce your fellow citizen that 9/11 (while being pretty symbolic) was not an attack on America. It was simply a terrorist attack. Those do happen quite often. Not with the same grave results, but for on a much more frequent schedule for example in Israel.
Watching what has happened to the US I think the terrorists have achieved a lot of things. And that shouldn't have happened, because terrorists shouldn't achieve anything IMHO. Best would have been if airport security would have gone up a little and the cockpits would have gotten seals that no one can a) shoot b) talk through. But a lot of stuff has happened that was explained by the attacks that actually doesn't have anything to do with them.
I have come to loathe everyting related to 9/11. Absolutely anything.
allofmp3 offered to pay (in complience with local law), but they refused so they can bitch better about it