Salvage rights usually go to the first person/company that can bring an object from the wreck to the surface. Governments supercede this sometimes, though. For example, the US Navy and US Air Force still claim ownership of all sunken aircraft. The Air Force is a little more forgiving, but the Navy will take whatever aircraft you raise from the bottom. If you don't notify them, raise a wreck, restore it, and then they find out--too bad. They'll take the plane and you'll be out all that $.
Even if the Russian Government doesn't exercise whatever rights they have on the wreck you can be sure that there will be a LOT of salvage boats in the general area of the return point in February, ready to move in as soon as possible.
I would say that the public has not entirely accepted the region code lock-outs or CSS protection on DVDs. Reference De-CSS stories and stories about the Apex (and other) DVD player that allows you to disable all copy protection schemes if you want to see what I am talking about.
Frankly, I could care less if Diamond takes it in the shorts for deploying a flawed product. That's just capitalism in action.
Here's an ethical question for you: Is it ok to help big businesses take away our freedoms so they can increase their profits?
You shouldn't be helping to validate a technology that takes away the rights of individuals for the sake of corporations and their shareholders.
How will a circumventable system, "annoy the heck out of people"? What problems will it cause if someone who can defeat the SDMI watermark exercises his rights for fair use and copies his digital music to a non-approved player. HOw does that at all interfere with someone who uses SDMI watermarked music in SDMI approved players? The only people I see that scenario annoying are the members of the RIAA.
If SDMI isn't going to work the best thing for it is to let it die. Your discussion has not touched at all on the issue of fair use. Are you just going on with the assumption that due to the actions of the RIAA, the MPAA, and the words in the DMCA that we should all just assume that fair use is dead? Preventing me from using a piece of copyrighted media (be it audio, text, images, or movies) any legal way I want -- in accordance to fair use laws -- isn't moral, ethical, or legal.
Has anyone done drivers for any of the Intel 1mb wireless towers or even the HPNA boards from various manufacturers that get 10mb over regular twisted pair phone lines?
I have three machines hooked together into one box that has a DSL connection. It's all done using D-Link HPNA stuff. Unfortunately everything has to run Windows currently because I have not found any Linux drivers for these boards. Anyone know of a solution?
The whole concept of "throwing a vote away" is pretty much akin to FUD in my mind. Why do you ask the question? Are you implying that if he doesn't vote for the same candidate you are that he is wasting a vote? Are you implying that if he doesn't vote for a front-runner he is wasting a vote?
A vote is a person's choice. Making a decision should never be considered wasteful.
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Working in a game company I can say that we would not be swayed to support Glide wrappers, with or without 3dfx's blessing. Telling a customer that in order to use it they have to install an unsupported driver layer written by some unknown person, just in order to get the game to run, would pretty much be suicide.
See the little button marked "customize" in the search panel? Try clicking that and changing the settings sometime. You can up to nine (9) different search engines to use and also set the priority in which they are searched.
Absolutely! The move to 65K colors seems kind of dumb to me at this point in time. The screen only has 25,600 pixels on it. So even if you used one unique color for each pixel on screen you would have 39,936 colors left unused. Since most normal artwork doesn't use 1 discreet color for each pixel, the color space for this device will be massively underutilized until such a time as the resolution of the screen increases.
Because MP3.COM was rebroadcasting copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright holders. They were profiting (in ad banner sales, if nothing else) from someone else's work without paying the owners of said work.
Radio stations rebroadcast, but they pay fees to the music labels for the rights to do so. MP3.com wasn't doing anything like that.
I remember seeing a drawing table/screen the size of a drafting table at SIGGRAPH a few years ago. It was in the Alias/Wavefront booth and they were running Alias Sketch on it. Quite cool.
Yes, this is off-topic, but the question came up last night and this is about a wireless system on Linux, so here goes...
Do drivers exist, or are they being worked on, for any of the myriad home-networking systems you can buy off the shelf these days? I was looking at the Intel Anypoint 1.6Mbps USB towers. They also have 10Mbps PCI cards that use the 2nd twisted pair in a phone jack--but I have two phone lines so that is out.
Diamond also has home wireless and supposedly Dell is marketing some wireless PCI cards now. All of these ship with Win9x drivers. I'm wanting to run Linux on the computer where the cable modem will come in and then go wireless from there to 2-3 Win9x boxes. Is there any way to do this currently?
I'm not worried about people that are smart enough to run a proxy server. Those people will already realize that the advertisement links in my posts (when viewed on Deja) are not links I embedded.
I'm more worried about the average-joe Internet surfer who uses Deja and suddenly thinks I'm pushing some adult-toy store's inventory because I happened to use the words "vegetable oil" and "battery operated" in the same post.
I was in Indy last weekend. I was staying near Circle Center Mall downtown, so I frequented the Sega Gameworks there a few times. They had all of the racing games in one area, all of the rail-shooters (Virtua Cop II, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, etc...) all grouped together, and then the various other games (Star Wars Trilogy, Crazy Taxi, Alpine Racer, etc...) all off by themselves.
I subconciously noticed the segregation, but I didn't bother to think why it might have been done that way. Now I know.
Odd. Guidescope for Windows (http://www.guidescope.com/) correctly blocks the ads without blocking the icons. I never told Guidescope how to handle Slashdot--it just did it.
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The projected 1,000,000 on that date. They delivered 500,000. The other .5 million have been delayed because of component shortages.
So, yes, there was a delay.
X-Men was a Fox release.
Whoops, my mistake. I saw the 2k1 and just assumed Madden.
What can I say? I work for EA...
The Saturn was not inovative. It was three mismatched logic boards strung together with a long of jumpers and extra wires.
You can play NFL2001 on the PC, N64, Dreamcast, PSX, and PSX2. It's not a Dreamcast exclusive.
Salvage rights usually go to the first person/company that can bring an object from the wreck to the surface. Governments supercede this sometimes, though. For example, the US Navy and US Air Force still claim ownership of all sunken aircraft. The Air Force is a little more forgiving, but the Navy will take whatever aircraft you raise from the bottom. If you don't notify them, raise a wreck, restore it, and then they find out--too bad. They'll take the plane and you'll be out all that $.
Even if the Russian Government doesn't exercise whatever rights they have on the wreck you can be sure that there will be a LOT of salvage boats in the general area of the return point in February, ready to move in as soon as possible.
I would say that the public has not entirely accepted the region code lock-outs or CSS protection on DVDs. Reference De-CSS stories and stories about the Apex (and other) DVD player that allows you to disable all copy protection schemes if you want to see what I am talking about.
Frankly, I could care less if Diamond takes it in the shorts for deploying a flawed product. That's just capitalism in action.
Here's an ethical question for you: Is it ok to help big businesses take away our freedoms so they can increase their profits?
You shouldn't be helping to validate a technology that takes away the rights of individuals for the sake of corporations and their shareholders.
How will a circumventable system, "annoy the heck out of people"? What problems will it cause if someone who can defeat the SDMI watermark exercises his rights for fair use and copies his digital music to a non-approved player. HOw does that at all interfere with someone who uses SDMI watermarked music in SDMI approved players? The only people I see that scenario annoying are the members of the RIAA.
If SDMI isn't going to work the best thing for it is to let it die. Your discussion has not touched at all on the issue of fair use. Are you just going on with the assumption that due to the actions of the RIAA, the MPAA, and the words in the DMCA that we should all just assume that fair use is dead? Preventing me from using a piece of copyrighted media (be it audio, text, images, or movies) any legal way I want -- in accordance to fair use laws -- isn't moral, ethical, or legal.
Has anyone done drivers for any of the Intel 1mb wireless towers or even the HPNA boards from various manufacturers that get 10mb over regular twisted pair phone lines?
I have three machines hooked together into one box that has a DSL connection. It's all done using D-Link HPNA stuff. Unfortunately everything has to run Windows currently because I have not found any Linux drivers for these boards. Anyone know of a solution?
The whole concept of "throwing a vote away" is pretty much akin to FUD in my mind. Why do you ask the question? Are you implying that if he doesn't vote for the same candidate you are that he is wasting a vote? Are you implying that if he doesn't vote for a front-runner he is wasting a vote?
A vote is a person's choice. Making a decision should never be considered wasteful.
Working in a game company I can say that we would not be swayed to support Glide wrappers, with or without 3dfx's blessing. Telling a customer that in order to use it they have to install an unsupported driver layer written by some unknown person, just in order to get the game to run, would pretty much be suicide.
The tech support calls would be nightmarish, too.
See the little button marked "customize" in the search panel? Try clicking that and changing the settings sometime. You can up to nine (9) different search engines to use and also set the priority in which they are searched.
Absolutely! The move to 65K colors seems kind of dumb to me at this point in time. The screen only has 25,600 pixels on it. So even if you used one unique color for each pixel on screen you would have 39,936 colors left unused. Since most normal artwork doesn't use 1 discreet color for each pixel, the color space for this device will be massively underutilized until such a time as the resolution of the screen increases.
Keeping one copy of a song on their servers, but serving it to >1 person at a time is closer to broadcasting than giving your friend a pirated tape.
Because MP3.COM was rebroadcasting copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright holders. They were profiting (in ad banner sales, if nothing else) from someone else's work without paying the owners of said work.
Radio stations rebroadcast, but they pay fees to the music labels for the rights to do so. MP3.com wasn't doing anything like that.
Do you really believe that EQ is pushing terrain data down your pipe in real-time as you play?
Why dream? The technology has been available for years.
Wacom LCD Tablets
I remember seeing a drawing table/screen the size of a drafting table at SIGGRAPH a few years ago. It was in the Alias/Wavefront booth and they were running Alias Sketch on it. Quite cool.
Yes, this is off-topic, but the question came up last night and this is about a wireless system on Linux, so here goes...
Do drivers exist, or are they being worked on, for any of the myriad home-networking systems you can buy off the shelf these days? I was looking at the Intel Anypoint 1.6Mbps USB towers. They also have 10Mbps PCI cards that use the 2nd twisted pair in a phone jack--but I have two phone lines so that is out.
Diamond also has home wireless and supposedly Dell is marketing some wireless PCI cards now. All of these ship with Win9x drivers. I'm wanting to run Linux on the computer where the cable modem will come in and then go wireless from there to 2-3 Win9x boxes. Is there any way to do this currently?
And all of what you just said concerns an article about a 2D cel animation software package exactly how?
It doesn't say anywhere in the press release that this is going to be an MMPRPG. It's a box RPG.
I'm not worried about people that are smart enough to run a proxy server. Those people will already realize that the advertisement links in my posts (when viewed on Deja) are not links I embedded.
I'm more worried about the average-joe Internet surfer who uses Deja and suddenly thinks I'm pushing some adult-toy store's inventory because I happened to use the words "vegetable oil" and "battery operated" in the same post.
I was in Indy last weekend. I was staying near Circle Center Mall downtown, so I frequented the Sega Gameworks there a few times. They had all of the racing games in one area, all of the rail-shooters (Virtua Cop II, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, etc...) all grouped together, and then the various other games (Star Wars Trilogy, Crazy Taxi, Alpine Racer, etc...) all off by themselves.
I subconciously noticed the segregation, but I didn't bother to think why it might have been done that way. Now I know.
Because this isn't for PC users. This is for the masses.
1) Open box
2) Remove console
3) Attach to television
4) Plug in
5) Insert game CD
6) Turn on
Fast booting, no hardware configuration, etc... The same reasons anyone buys a game console.
No it's not.
In most all localities (talking US here) it's against the law to not have a security fence around your pool
Unless a lot of new legislation was passed while I was asleep last night it is still perfectly legal to have lax security on your server.
You can also turn off "FTP Folder views" in the options page.
Odd. Guidescope for Windows (http://www.guidescope.com/) correctly blocks the ads without blocking the icons. I never told Guidescope how to handle Slashdot--it just did it.