It is just like making murder and rape illegal. The happen still, but happen much less.
Abortion laws punish those who are willing to perform abortions, not so much those who get them. If abortion were illegal and I was a pregnant teenager, I wouldn't hesitate to seek an abortion because of questions of legality but rather because of questions of safety. Where abortion is illegal the penalty for seeking one is the risk of accidental death - not what I would call justice. Furthermore, the effect of making something illegal is to make fewer people willing to do it, which is effective in preventing murder and rape. In the case of abortion, though, those willing to do it illegally simply get more business when it's made illegal.
Most current games are CPU-limited, even with the best video cards.
It stands to reason that games are MORE likely to be CPU-limited if you ARE running the best possible video card and your video settings are on the low side. So CPU can be important if you're running top of the line, for a gamer if it's a choice between 1GHz/Radeon9700 and 3GHz/GF2, it goes to the video card.
Sometimes, redesigns work out (Mozilla), and sometimes... they don't.
But how many years was it that Mozilla was a bloated crashy piece of shit? Netscape released the code in March 1998 and we finally got a usable browser around early 2001 (0.9.0 was May 2001) and there was plenty bitching in between about how the project would never turn out anything useful. I believe we started seeing early winamp3 builds in late 2000 so maybe they'll put out something good late this year. One can always hope.
It'd be nice if Phoenix and Mozilla would acquire that ability. For some reason the developers' stated position is that it won't happen anytime soon, but one can always vote for the bug anyway.
Actually I do wonder about this. In general CARTS were bullet proof things. How easy is it going to be to find less trivially download sized old PSX games in 10 years, is there any project to dump these now while the CDs nearly work?
i doubt that'll be a problem given how easy they are to pirate (and play on an emulator even if you don't own a modchipped psx.) harddrives keep getting bigger, it won't be as long as you'd think before people are sharing the entire catalog of psx games on p2p like they do now for MAME. ok, at.5GB or so per game it'll be a while, but it's not too awfully hard to find most games today anyway.
I will be amazed if I see your server's still around in a few days, once the umich admins see this traffic spike to your address... and so utterly utterly illegal! you got balls doing this I gotta say. Plus, that file's 3.2GB?? good lord.
If production cost so much, you certainly wouldn't see smalltime artists selling their (pressed, studio-recorded) cds while playing bars. There's something seriously inefficient about the majors' way of doing business if not-particularly-loaded individuals can afford to publish their music while major labels take a loss if an album only brings in, say, $300,000 gross.
Perhaps what you're missing is that it's rare for ANY person to be civilly or criminally prosecuted for the actions of a corporation. The disincentive for corporations to do illegal things is almost always a fine or lawsuit against the corporation itself - part of the miracle called "limited liability." Owners' (shareholders') and only consequence when their company behaves badly is that their stock is devalued; CEOs stand to lose their jobs if the consequences to the shareholders are bad enough.
I believe what the original poster was getting at was that this system of punishment for misbehaving corporations is often an ineffective deterrent to bad behavior; it would be better if those responsible for the bad decisions were punished as individuals more often.
btw I don't think he specifically said it was the CEO of Dow that should be punished.
So lets say as an example of the kind of gun used to shoot up an entire school, someone brings an AK into school, but it's not a REAL gun, just a SCALE MODEL, the FORM of a gun without the FUNCTION, and it wouldn't have bullets in it anyway so it's not dangerous, so you gotta just think of the risk to the children, and don't worry about it otherwise, and anyway why wouldn't they just sneak in a box cutter disguised as a nail clipper if they wanted to kill people? And anyway, objects aren't GOOD or BAD, cause you'd need an infinite list of objects, or you could just say "weapons" aren't allowed like most schools do.... christ man, off the caffeine and Plato, they don't mix. quit putting the "pretentious" in "pseudo-intellectual," ya know?
Don't know if it's just their morals...
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How many ads for cigarettes and booze do you typically see online? Not that many compared to the amount you see for porn. You can't transmit alcohol and smokes over data connections, and most people are too impatient to wait for their liquor to be FedExed. Probably google would lose a lot more revenue by ditching porn ads than they have for cigs/alcohol.
Scroll bars are on the wrong (right) side, so using NeXT's wonderful Miller column browser becomes an awkward back and forth burlesque for broad directory structures w/ lots of entries
Scrolling should be done via mouse wheel or arrows/pgup/pgdown, and the scrollbar should be on the right so as not to accidentally click it when trying to manipulate directory items. The only places I see left-side scrollbars are on old nasty X apps.:p
You don't know how to replace the engine on your car? And you admit it, in public??
You can't cook Indian food? Read the freaking manual, a hundred-million people do it every day.
Gave up on learning to draw? Are you physically handicapped?
Probably 95% of first-world inhabitants find they need to read and write fluently in order to get along day to day, and 95% of those find they don't need more than rudimentary computer or math skills. They ARE optional, much moreso than language skills. Go ahead and feel superior, but other people have other optional skills that you don't.
Licensing Divx.com's technology for inclusion in hardware is legally a pretty safe bet. Using a less proprietary, more versatile decoder (one based off ffmpeg/libavcodec, for instance) one would have to work out mpeg4 licensing with MPEG-LA, but $.25 per decoder shouldn't be much of a barrier for a hardware manufacturer.
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Nothing's preventing this decoder from working with WMA that's put in an OGG container (though why anyone would put WMA in an.ogg is beyond me.) Also since this doesn't encode WMAs I don't see how it's encouraging more people to use.avi over.ogg or the mpeg4 container.
.avi is certainly entrenched (look at the sheer amount of tools for working with it: most DVD rippers would be lost without virtualdub, for instance.) But I don't see how this is any more confirmation of that.
WMA isn't the codec of choice for encoding your CD and movie rips, but there is content that's only available in WMA for whatever reason. What's so tough about that?
Can't exactly use BSD for this purpose since if you license the software to one company as BSD they're free to pass it around to others, American-based or not and paying or not. Some kind of proprietary license would work fine.
Bingo. For many operations the CLI will be slightly faster than the GUI, but for ones like these the GUI makes up for the other 9 out of 10 operations. One really needs to have a choice on each OS. Windows pisses me off for having a crippled command line, Linux drives me nuts with Konq/Nautilus slow and crashy (course, Windows Explorer doesn't exhibit model behavior either.)
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It is just like making murder and rape illegal. The happen still, but happen much less.
Abortion laws punish those who are willing to perform abortions, not so much those who get them. If abortion were illegal and I was a pregnant teenager, I wouldn't hesitate to seek an abortion because of questions of legality but rather because of questions of safety. Where abortion is illegal the penalty for seeking one is the risk of accidental death - not what I would call justice. Furthermore, the effect of making something illegal is to make fewer people willing to do it, which is effective in preventing murder and rape. In the case of abortion, though, those willing to do it illegally simply get more business when it's made illegal.
Most current games are CPU-limited, even with the best video cards.
It stands to reason that games are MORE likely to be CPU-limited if you ARE running the best possible video card and your video settings are on the low side. So CPU can be important if you're running top of the line, for a gamer if it's a choice between 1GHz/Radeon9700 and 3GHz/GF2, it goes to the video card.
Sometimes, redesigns work out (Mozilla), and sometimes... they don't.
But how many years was it that Mozilla was a bloated crashy piece of shit? Netscape released the code in March 1998 and we finally got a usable browser around early 2001 (0.9.0 was May 2001) and there was plenty bitching in between about how the project would never turn out anything useful. I believe we started seeing early winamp3 builds in late 2000 so maybe they'll put out something good late this year. One can always hope.
It'd be nice if Phoenix and Mozilla would acquire that ability. For some reason the developers' stated position is that it won't happen anytime soon, but one can always vote for the bug anyway.
Actually I do wonder about this. In general CARTS were bullet proof things. How easy is it going to be to find less trivially download sized old PSX games in 10 years, is there any project to dump these now while the CDs nearly work?
.5GB or so per game it'll be a while, but it's not too awfully hard to find most games today anyway.
i doubt that'll be a problem given how easy they are to pirate (and play on an emulator even if you don't own a modchipped psx.) harddrives keep getting bigger, it won't be as long as you'd think before people are sharing the entire catalog of psx games on p2p like they do now for MAME. ok, at
I will be amazed if I see your server's still around in a few days, once the umich admins see this traffic spike to your address... and so utterly utterly illegal! you got balls doing this I gotta say. Plus, that file's 3.2GB?? good lord.
If production cost so much, you certainly wouldn't see smalltime artists selling their (pressed, studio-recorded) cds while playing bars. There's something seriously inefficient about the majors' way of doing business if not-particularly-loaded individuals can afford to publish their music while major labels take a loss if an album only brings in, say, $300,000 gross.
To be fair, installed Phoenix is 11-12mb. Still not bad, for a browser with quite a bit more functionality (from what I hear) than Safari.
Some would say it's already dead. In any case, Spybot Search and Destroy is better for now.
Perhaps what you're missing is that it's rare for ANY person to be civilly or criminally prosecuted for the actions of a corporation. The disincentive for corporations to do illegal things is almost always a fine or lawsuit against the corporation itself - part of the miracle called "limited liability." Owners' (shareholders') and only consequence when their company behaves badly is that their stock is devalued; CEOs stand to lose their jobs if the consequences to the shareholders are bad enough.
I believe what the original poster was getting at was that this system of punishment for misbehaving corporations is often an ineffective deterrent to bad behavior; it would be better if those responsible for the bad decisions were punished as individuals more often.
btw I don't think he specifically said it was the CEO of Dow that should be punished.
obviously.
So lets say as an example of the kind of gun used to shoot up an entire school, someone brings an AK into school, but it's not a REAL gun, just a SCALE MODEL, the FORM of a gun without the FUNCTION, and it wouldn't have bullets in it anyway so it's not dangerous, so you gotta just think of the risk to the children, and don't worry about it otherwise, and anyway why wouldn't they just sneak in a box cutter disguised as a nail clipper if they wanted to kill people? And anyway, objects aren't GOOD or BAD, cause you'd need an infinite list of objects, or you could just say "weapons" aren't allowed like most schools do.... christ man, off the caffeine and Plato, they don't mix. quit putting the "pretentious" in "pseudo-intellectual," ya know?
How many ads for cigarettes and booze do you typically see online? Not that many compared to the amount you see for porn. You can't transmit alcohol and smokes over data connections, and most people are too impatient to wait for their liquor to be FedExed. Probably google would lose a lot more revenue by ditching porn ads than they have for cigs/alcohol.
Scroll bars are on the wrong (right) side, so using NeXT's wonderful Miller column browser becomes an awkward back and forth burlesque for broad directory structures w/ lots of entries
:p
Scrolling should be done via mouse wheel or arrows/pgup/pgdown, and the scrollbar should be on the right so as not to accidentally click it when trying to manipulate directory items. The only places I see left-side scrollbars are on old nasty X apps.
You don't know how to replace the engine on your car? And you admit it, in public??
You can't cook Indian food? Read the freaking manual, a hundred-million people do it every day.
Gave up on learning to draw? Are you physically handicapped?
Probably 95% of first-world inhabitants find they need to read and write fluently in order to get along day to day, and 95% of those find they don't need more than rudimentary computer or math skills. They ARE optional, much moreso than language skills. Go ahead and feel superior, but other people have other optional skills that you don't.
Licensing Divx.com's technology for inclusion in hardware is legally a pretty safe bet. Using a less proprietary, more versatile decoder (one based off ffmpeg/libavcodec, for instance) one would have to work out mpeg4 licensing with MPEG-LA, but $.25 per decoder shouldn't be much of a barrier for a hardware manufacturer.
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Someone go look it up and post it!
... cause obviously the USA is the least fucked up place in the world.
There's too many things wrong with what you just said; you can't possibly be for real.
WMA isn't the codec of choice for encoding your CD and movie rips, but there is content that's only available in WMA for whatever reason. What's so tough about that?
but then it would hardly be the BSD license...
Can't exactly use BSD for this purpose since if you license the software to one company as BSD they're free to pass it around to others, American-based or not and paying or not. Some kind of proprietary license would work fine.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Translation: The DRM problem is impossible.
God sure doesn't beat around the bush!
Bingo. For many operations the CLI will be slightly faster than the GUI, but for ones like these the GUI makes up for the other 9 out of 10 operations. One really needs to have a choice on each OS. Windows pisses me off for having a crippled command line, Linux drives me nuts with Konq/Nautilus slow and crashy (course, Windows Explorer doesn't exhibit model behavior either.)