The law may be on this guy's side, but I don't envy him one bit. He's in for a lonely fight.
Yup and this proves the importance, but labourious process, of getting all work dated by post. The idea here is that you send your work in an envelope to yourself, and never open the envelope, until you need to prove evidence. Well, at least this is what I have read as a recommondation, but I don't know how this holds up for real. Are there other approaches to be able to provide dated evidence of when your artwork was created?
Although this may be a little extreme, I am not sure many Americans would be willing to play a game if it were only in German or Spanish. Certainly there are a good number that would be willing to put up with Japanese texts in imports which aren't available in a localised version, but this hardly represents the majority.
Irrespective of what laws may be passed in Quebec, or elsewhere, I am already seeing a slow move to translate some of the more popular titles. Like films, it would appear that games companies recognise there is some value in allowing players to play in their own language.
I think we just need to put all this in perspective, and take it cool. Its not as if they are saying that only titles in French can be sold.
I'm sorry, if NASA wants to give in, then fine, but at this point Colbert has reached the level of 4Chan for these pranks.
So am I, but on the other hand if this gets the space station back into the mind of the general public, they there may just be an up side, and a lesson learnt.
And how much are the Macs with features compared to the lower priced notebooks? You know, the ones with fewer features that I don't need/want?
If you don't need/want those features or don't want to spend the money, then I have simple solution: don't buy a Mac - its your choice. I choose not buy a Dell for other reasons, and that is my choice.
Or maybe he just wants an iMac without the internals;) I just don't get how it can be an iMac without the screen, since the all-in-one solution is exactly what it is all about.
Just of interest you can buy all the parts here: Apple Palace.
in fact so many that the choice itself could be the problem. Manufacturers can't see a single other format they could settle on that everyone else will agree to so they choose the lowest common denominator - FAT.
True, but this is where someone has to find something that offers something equivalent and easily implementable. Of course, the sad reality is that waiting for the patent to expire might just be the easiest solution - BTW does anyone know when the patents expire?
ZFS looks like an interesting possibility, but I am not sure whether it is compact enough for embedded environments and whether Sun is asking for any royalties? The other issue with ZFS is that there is currently no Windows implementation - not even read only.
I wish TomTom had fought this; the FAT patents are utter nonsense. But patent fights are notoriously expensive, so I understand why TomTom did this instead. In the long term, I hope that software patents get eliminated [dwheeler.com], but that will have to wait for another day.
What really need to happen is something similar to what happened to the GIF file format. In that case it was decided to develop a new image file format called PNG. There is room for doing the same thing with the file system. Although FAT is common, if everyone could agree an open alternative, and then encourage hardware manufacturers to provide the necessary drivers to Windows users, then we could finally move forward.
I see a time when phone companies accept that there is much value in the data as the phone service. Actually, I already see this happening with phone companies offering wi-fi hotspots. In the meantime phone companies are going to drag their feet to maximise revenue from the existing system.
As bandwidth costs go down, it may work out to be cheaper in cities to install wi-fi locations, than installing cell phone towers, but until there are proper meshes we are unlikley to see this really work for moving phones. I often wonder whether IPv6 could solve part of the problem here? I would see each cell phone with its own unique IP address hoping from hotspot to hotspot.
OpenCL is low leve enough that it's certainly possible to write code that works on other hardware in theory while being far too slow to do anything useful in practice.
Well if NVidia makes a sub-par implementation for competing cards, then NVidia can concentrate their efforts a cross-platform solution, while the competitor's cards are perceived as sub par. NVidia ever gets asked why they didn't do a better implementation, they could then argue this was just a token gesture and not an all out effort. In the meantime OpenCL gets picked up by games developers and NVidia gets a lead while the competition realises they have some catching up to do.
This is sneaky, but the competitors only have themselves to blame if they don't recognise where things are going.
thanks, but i was not trolling. i actually knew about the whole "bittorrent broadcasts your ip" thing, but i forgot. my main question remains: how does someone know if i downloaded an mp3 without using bittorrent?
All Nintendo would need to do is create a DVD channel and pass on the cost to the people interested. At the same time Nintendo may have other priorities, so this would take a back seat.
By making you pay the difference on top of the ETF if you don't cough the phone up, perhaps? Is there a clause that allows for that in the contract?
If they do do that, then I hope that they are clear with what the costs are. Then again, given everything else they are hiding, I doubt they will do that.
Routers and firewalls are different devices. It just happens that a NAT router approximates a stateful firewall, but that's not the best or only way to do it.
Certainly, but when is comes to the home market or the small business market, the ideal device is something that does both. Anyone selling an IPv6 router for the home market would be mad not to include a basic firewall. Given the existence of ip6fw, it is just a question of providing the appropriate web UI.
Does anyone have a list of current networking hardware that is IPv6 ready? Specifically I am interested in any gateway/routers that support IPv6 out of the box, in the sub-$200 category.
I know about DD-WRT, but I don't want to have spend time hacking my router.
I was on a contract at a company in Chester who actually disabled the shut down functionality in hundreds of XP machines. The reason overnight updates. crazy the cost of electricity
Are these the same type of techies who insist on disabling local admin access on the machines of software developers?
Honestly this is really not necessary. Windows allows you to push the updates to the desktop and then bug the user to restart the machine. Sure this takes 10 minutes out of the employee's schedule, but there is a good likely hood that that they will have to break for coffee, cigarette, toilet or whatever else sometime in the day.
There is always Wake on LAN. If they don't know what this is, then it you just have bad admins.
Given that some programmable universal remotes are around $400 and an iPod Touch goes for around $230, I think that while the universal remote may not be dead yet, it is certainly time for a price adjustment.
Can you specify the IPv6 subnet anywhere and does it do radv? Can I use it to tunnel to a service such as sixxs.net?
I am willing to accept that there is a huge abyss between engineering and anyone who is likely to answer the e-mails at Linksys. If you can provide me info that Linksys can't I would be interested, so this can be documented.
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The law may be on this guy's side, but I don't envy him one bit. He's in for a lonely fight.
Yup and this proves the importance, but labourious process, of getting all work dated by post. The idea here is that you send your work in an envelope to yourself, and never open the envelope, until you need to prove evidence. Well, at least this is what I have read as a recommondation, but I don't know how this holds up for real. Are there other approaches to be able to provide dated evidence of when your artwork was created?
Although this may be a little extreme, I am not sure many Americans would be willing to play a game if it were only in German or Spanish. Certainly there are a good number that would be willing to put up with Japanese texts in imports which aren't available in a localised version, but this hardly represents the majority.
Irrespective of what laws may be passed in Quebec, or elsewhere, I am already seeing a slow move to translate some of the more popular titles. Like films, it would appear that games companies recognise there is some value in allowing players to play in their own language.
I think we just need to put all this in perspective, and take it cool. Its not as if they are saying that only titles in French can be sold.
look at the date the article was published.
I did, but also read the article. This is actually a very plausible solution and could well be in place. Now to ask the author to come clean.
I just use mtr in the first place.
I just use rm -rf / , though it never seems to give the same result ;)
I'm sorry, if NASA wants to give in, then fine, but at this point Colbert has reached the level of 4Chan for these pranks.
So am I, but on the other hand if this gets the space station back into the mind of the general public, they there may just be an up side, and a lesson learnt.
And Opera scores 85/100 on Acid3.
I just see wonderfully amazingly colours when I do the acid test - woah man, that really is a buzz, I should do that more often.
And how much are the Macs with features compared to the lower priced notebooks? You know, the ones with fewer features that I don't need/want?
If you don't need/want those features or don't want to spend the money, then I have simple solution: don't buy a Mac - its your choice. I choose not buy a Dell for other reasons, and that is my choice.
How is a mac mini different from what you want?
Or maybe he just wants an iMac without the internals ;) I just don't get how it can be an iMac without the screen, since the all-in-one solution is exactly what it is all about.
Just of interest you can buy all the parts here: Apple Palace.
Why do we elect these bozos as our leaders?
Because everyone else doesn't want to be in politics?
in fact so many that the choice itself could be the problem. Manufacturers can't see a single other format they could settle on that everyone else will agree to so they choose the lowest common denominator - FAT.
True, but this is where someone has to find something that offers something equivalent and easily implementable. Of course, the sad reality is that waiting for the patent to expire might just be the easiest solution - BTW does anyone know when the patents expire?
ZFS looks like an interesting possibility, but I am not sure whether it is compact enough for embedded environments and whether Sun is asking for any royalties? The other issue with ZFS is that there is currently no Windows implementation - not even read only.
I wish TomTom had fought this; the FAT patents are utter nonsense. But patent fights are notoriously expensive, so I understand why TomTom did this instead. In the long term, I hope that software patents get eliminated [dwheeler.com], but that will have to wait for another day.
What really need to happen is something similar to what happened to the GIF file format. In that case it was decided to develop a new image file format called PNG. There is room for doing the same thing with the file system. Although FAT is common, if everyone could agree an open alternative, and then encourage hardware manufacturers to provide the necessary drivers to Windows users, then we could finally move forward.
I see a time when phone companies accept that there is much value in the data as the phone service. Actually, I already see this happening with phone companies offering wi-fi hotspots. In the meantime phone companies are going to drag their feet to maximise revenue from the existing system.
As bandwidth costs go down, it may work out to be cheaper in cities to install wi-fi locations, than installing cell phone towers, but until there are proper meshes we are unlikley to see this really work for moving phones. I often wonder whether IPv6 could solve part of the problem here? I would see each cell phone with its own unique IP address hoping from hotspot to hotspot.
OpenCL is low leve enough that it's certainly possible to write code that works on other hardware in theory while being far too slow to do anything useful in practice.
Well if NVidia makes a sub-par implementation for competing cards, then NVidia can concentrate their efforts a cross-platform solution, while the competitor's cards are perceived as sub par. NVidia ever gets asked why they didn't do a better implementation, they could then argue this was just a token gesture and not an all out effort. In the meantime OpenCL gets picked up by games developers and NVidia gets a lead while the competition realises they have some catching up to do.
This is sneaky, but the competitors only have themselves to blame if they don't recognise where things are going.
thanks, but i was not trolling. i actually knew about the whole "bittorrent broadcasts your ip" thing, but i forgot. my main question remains: how does someone know if i downloaded an mp3 without using bittorrent?
Different protocol.
Here is a counter article at Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/app-store-refunds-will-not-bankrupt-developers.ars
All Nintendo would need to do is create a DVD channel and pass on the cost to the people interested. At the same time Nintendo may have other priorities, so this would take a back seat.
By making you pay the difference on top of the ETF if you don't cough the phone up, perhaps? Is there a clause that allows for that in the contract?
If they do do that, then I hope that they are clear with what the costs are. Then again, given everything else they are hiding, I doubt they will do that.
Routers and firewalls are different devices. It just happens that a NAT router approximates a stateful firewall, but that's not the best or only way to do it.
Certainly, but when is comes to the home market or the small business market, the ideal device is something that does both. Anyone selling an IPv6 router for the home market would be mad not to include a basic firewall. Given the existence of ip6fw, it is just a question of providing the appropriate web UI.
No joke. It's just a firmware upload.
And making sure your router can support a third-party firmware.
Does anyone have a list of current networking hardware that is IPv6 ready? Specifically I am interested in any gateway/routers that support IPv6 out of the box, in the sub-$200 category.
I know about DD-WRT, but I don't want to have spend time hacking my router.
I was on a contract at a company in Chester who actually disabled the shut down functionality in hundreds of XP machines. The reason overnight updates. crazy the cost of electricity
Are these the same type of techies who insist on disabling local admin access on the machines of software developers?
Honestly this is really not necessary. Windows allows you to push the updates to the desktop and then bug the user to restart the machine. Sure this takes 10 minutes out of the employee's schedule, but there is a good likely hood that that they will have to break for coffee, cigarette, toilet or whatever else sometime in the day.
There is always Wake on LAN. If they don't know what this is, then it you just have bad admins.
I wonder whether this will simply mean that cops will be stationed at the lights again?
Given that some programmable universal remotes are around $400 and an iPod Touch goes for around $230, I think that while the universal remote may not be dead yet, it is certainly time for a price adjustment.
Seems like every other day now a new crazy law is put in place, just to be repealed a week later. What is this, a circus?
Lets take a comparative approach to this:
Circus: has people jumping through hoops
Government: has people jumping through hoops
Circus: clowns are involved
Government: people act as clowns
Circus: charges for entry
Government: charges taxes
Circus: some people are frightened by the clowns
Government: some people are frightened by the people acting acting as clowns
I can quite understand the misunderstanding.
Can you specify the IPv6 subnet anywhere and does it do radv? Can I use it to tunnel to a service such as sixxs.net?
I am willing to accept that there is a huge abyss between engineering and anyone who is likely to answer the e-mails at Linksys. If you can provide me info that Linksys can't I would be interested, so this can be documented.