Does that really makes a difference? Is dell support for windows so great to start with? (you cannot get support from ms, you got to get it from dell!)
As for the money: paying MS or not paying MS(licnesefree os). What would be more profit?
(b) viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routines related to "hacking" or "cracking" or which damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
The whole point i use a vmware box for is to test suspect software for such behaviour because it is easely reset and can be simply firewalled and because it really cannot touch te data on my day to day machine.
we can blame microsoft for this since they dropped the QOS api there was in windows 2000. Now we have to wait for ipv6 to become the standard because that one does have an option for quality of service buildin.
Well, reading the licence on the cd should not believed. Hypothacally I would be able to create a cd containing Oracle and stamp a gpl licence notification on it. Am i allowed to distribute it then.I do not think so. So the lady was correct.
The other way arround happens also by the way. Some gpl software gets retagged by someone who thinks he can getaway with it. You cannot sell that one because you do not have a valid licence for the software. (even if you say you have. )
It is not that they are judged by a judge now, they just had their servers seized for searches i suppose. In a year or so they will be releases without any consquences to the owners. This is the scenario that has happended before.
It goes like this: the local MPAA agency tips off that there is an international organization that makes millions in copying their data and selling it. Local cops seize the servers. After a year they discover there were only some advertising sponsered hobbiest (well you can earn quite a lot by the advertisements on a popular server, but that is a different story) and the servers are returned. 8 out of 10 hobbyist do not like this and do not start again. mpaa-people 1-0.
In the meantime the p2p networks go more underground to avoid such things and the reall illegal (kiddy porn, terrrorist and long haired hippies) can use those anonymous networks as well. All thanks to the hunting of the copyright kartel.:X
Ok, now some real information. The first news i read was from raratium. That also describes that the razorback site also proviede other services.
The ed2k network will keep running, since there are plenty of other servers, even if this will hurt search a bit. The server software developer was associated with the rasorback servers, so i hope he is not affect too much by this. Kad is running quite stable now and even without ed2k servers the emule client (but not sharezae, mldonkey and other yet ) will survive. The kad network was invented so that the server network did not affect the ed2k network too much . servers gave limits like a max of 200 shareable files (not enough).
Oracle did that for a reason, and it's not because they like to collect database companies.
For big compagnies that now use oracle that is a good enough reason to stay using the expense oracle database (or the recent free XE edition. Switching to one of the free db backaneds (inno/libdb) does not change the dependabilty on oracle so why would one change for that reason?
Your reason are still valid for mysql user, but for oracle users it is good to stay at oracle in the long run since oracle seems to collect all of the free alternatives.
Sure, the paper trail might lead back to him, but if you're going to buy an SSL cert, either you don't care or you've already got someone else's credit card number
IS the certificate not just saying: I vouch for this user that he really is "mountain america". But then it seems that there is not a valid address at all in the whois and the ssl details. Shouldn't they at least verify that there is a good physical address availble? SO they are accountable for what is going on?
This is one rare story where there is not a missing poll option but the entire poll is missing.
Let me give it a try for fovrite poll options. *ZX 80/81 or spectrum fanboy. *C 64 or VIC20 *PC 8088 / 80286 or anything with a control alt delete *ATARI XL 800 (or some other 6502 cpu) *MSX (or some other Z80 clone) *AMIGA *Apple (I , ][ , lisa or mac) *i still use a abacus.
You should try one of the TI99/4A simulators as well (google them, i am too lazy now). Now you can finaly try the speech simultor, the one thing you could never buy in your days because it was far too expensive.
There is trademark law. That say you call you produckt xxx and nobody else can call themself xxx. If you would make a movie and call it the "the revenge of bittorent" Bram would let his lawyers loose on you only for the name.
Then there is copyright law. If you would publish a movie in the cinema called "the revenge of bittorent" you would have to sue bittorent users of violating your copyright by distirbuting the movie over the BT network.
There is also patent law, but that is not involved here. (...YET....)
If (big if) gsx server is made available royaltee free is it possible to create images that can be played back by the free vmplayer? Does it not make vmware professional (desktop) obsolete?
That is the key phrase(but you have to look literally). The point is that you need to test the output of the benchmarks, not just look at the frame rates. You can create a REAL FAST benchmark by not implementing some api functions. The output might look reasonable, but if you zoom into some edges you might find additional oddities. That is the main point what is mising in this benchmark.
Rememeber driver writers made some unacceptable shortcuts in the past to increase performance.
a billion is way beyond cool. Do you even understand how much a billion is. for a Billion dollar you could buy your own small counltr, a billion bricks build a tower that is unbelieveable big. And so on.
but that billion is the thing that is most interresting. the other part is just statistics that are just fun, nothing more.
Take a look at the pictures again. Yup there are 115 Mega pixes for sure, but these are not numbers you can compare with your typical digital camara. This just a case of counting the pixels.
You can see the scanning lines in a lot of the pictures and they are not a result of the art, but from techincal shortcomings. The time distortion effect is nice however.
This is about patents, the word software or algoritms is not spoken once. You know what that means.
another keyword that is used is "areas for harmonisation".
Harmonisation with what? I think with the international community has som attention, specially to their best friend, the US. and gues what: you can patent everything there.
After an inmense prestation the spaceship was drawn in hyperspace. No distance was actually coverd in this first experiment, but everyone wonderd why the spaceship came back with a frog on board. Could it be that the magnetic hyperspace is actually occupied by Frogs?
Without mincing words: We had significant quality of use issues with this computer.
First and most obviously, we started having problems with our optical mouse. Sometimes it would wildly fly across the screen, other times we had trouble controlling it. Those of you who have ever tried to use an optical mouse on a shiny surface know what I'm talking about.
The reason why (and I can't believe I'm typing this) was that the mouse pad that Dell provided was too shiny and reflective to be used with their own, branded, optical mouse.
It's no longer a tech support urban legend. We have a documented case of a computer mouse pad being "broken."
Basically the article says the hardware is OK, but the preinstalled stuff sucks.
Some computer security specialists suggest at least one basic approach that might allow e-mail recipients to learn right away that a communique appearing to come from a company like Amazon.com actually originated somewhere in the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia or any of the other places that law enforcement officials say are hot spots for phishing scams. "It strikes me that this is just a failure of most e-mail systems to reveal the history of an e-mail," said Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer in computer cryptography who is the chief security officer of Sun Microsystems. "You could post a warning flag indicating that the 'from' address doesn't seem consistent with the path history."
I have yet too see an applcation that does (only) this. And "8 out of 10 collegues here (in the IT) don't have a clue what a "path" in a e-mail is.
Anyway the gist of the article was in the start that some phisher used a fake-emial address where the from was NOT faked, but contained a small alteration that does not show at first. Since no anti-spam/anti-phissher can protect against that ou leave the people who run the most up to date anti-spam will beleive the mail is trusted. Even the journalist has problems to explain that a technical solution is not the final solution.
by the way: you americans do not have to worry so much since you seem to care so much for privacy.
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Does that really makes a difference? Is dell support for windows so great to start with? (you cannot get support from ms, you got to get it from dell!)
As for the money: paying MS or not paying MS(licnesefree os). What would be more profit?
from the conditions...
(b) viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routines related to "hacking" or "cracking" or which damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
The whole point i use a vmware box for is to test suspect software for such behaviour because it is easely reset and can be simply firewalled and because it really cannot touch te data on my day to day machine.
But you cannot retag the licence.
we can blame microsoft for this since they dropped the QOS api there was in windows 2000. Now we have to wait for ipv6 to become the standard because that one does have an option for quality of service buildin.
Well, reading the licence on the cd should not believed. Hypothacally I would be able to create a cd containing Oracle and stamp a gpl licence notification on it. Am i allowed to distribute it then.I do not think so. So the lady was correct.
The other way arround happens also by the way. Some gpl software gets retagged by someone who thinks he can getaway with it. You cannot sell that one because you do not have a valid licence for the software. (even if you say you have. )
No web 2.0 without paying a royalty to our new overlords!
It is not that they are judged by a judge now, they just had their servers seized for searches i suppose. In a year or so they will be releases without any consquences to the owners. This is the scenario that has happended before.
:X
It goes like this: the local MPAA agency tips off that there is an international organization that makes millions in copying their data and selling it. Local cops seize the servers. After a year they discover there were only some advertising sponsered hobbiest (well you can earn quite a lot by the advertisements on a popular server, but that is a different story) and the servers are returned. 8 out of 10 hobbyist do not like this and do not start again. mpaa-people 1-0.
In the meantime the p2p networks go more underground to avoid such things and the reall illegal (kiddy porn, terrrorist and long haired hippies) can use those anonymous networks as well. All thanks to the hunting of the copyright kartel.
Ok, now some real information. The first news i read was from raratium. That also describes that the razorback site also proviede other services.
The ed2k network will keep running, since there are plenty of other servers, even if this will hurt search a bit. The server software developer was associated with the rasorback servers, so i hope he is not affect too much by this. Kad is running quite stable now and even without ed2k servers the emule client (but not sharezae, mldonkey and other yet ) will survive. The kad network was invented so that the server network did not affect the ed2k network too much . servers gave limits like a max of 200 shareable files (not enough).
leuk_he ( emulemorph.sourceforge.net )
Espscially when nobody is reading the support and all you get are canned responses.
added dfjlkdsjflksdjfsl for lameness filter......
Oracle did that for a reason, and it's not because they like to collect database companies.
For big compagnies that now use oracle that is a good enough reason to stay using the expense oracle database (or the recent free XE edition. Switching to one of the free db backaneds (inno/libdb) does not change the dependabilty on oracle so why would one change for that reason?
Your reason are still valid for mysql user, but for oracle users it is good to stay at oracle in the long run since oracle seems to collect all of the free alternatives.
Sure, the paper trail might lead back to him, but if you're going to buy an SSL cert, either you don't care or you've already got someone else's credit card number
IS the certificate not just saying: I vouch for this user that he really is "mountain america". But then it seems that there is not a valid address at all in the whois and the ssl details. Shouldn't they at least verify that there is a good physical address availble? SO they are accountable for what is going on?
This is one rare story where there is not a missing poll option but the entire poll is missing.
Let me give it a try for fovrite poll options.
*ZX 80/81 or spectrum fanboy.
*C 64 or VIC20
*PC 8088 / 80286 or anything with a control alt delete
*ATARI XL 800 (or some other 6502 cpu)
*MSX (or some other Z80 clone)
*AMIGA
*Apple (I , ][ , lisa or mac)
*i still use a abacus.
You should try one of the TI99/4A simulators as well (google them, i am too lazy now). Now you can finaly try the speech simultor, the one thing you could never buy in your days because it was far too expensive.
Classic example: Apple computer and Apple records.
Worst example ever:
-Apple sued Apple.
-Computer Apple now also distributes music with (apple) iTunes.
No, there is no intellectual property law.
There is trademark law. That say you call you produckt xxx and nobody else can call themself xxx. If you would make a movie and call it the "the revenge of bittorent" Bram would let his lawyers loose on you only for the name.
Then there is copyright law. If you would publish a movie in the cinema called "the revenge of bittorent" you would have to sue bittorent users of violating your copyright by distirbuting the movie over the BT network.
There is also patent law, but that is not involved here. (...YET....)
Anyway, the lawyer win.
If (big if) gsx server is made available royaltee free is it possible to create images that can be played back by the free vmplayer? Does it not make vmware professional (desktop) obsolete?
That is done with morse, that is something different. Morse will still be used by radio amateurs.
Some of the tests look really weird.
That is the key phrase(but you have to look literally). The point is that you need to test the output of the benchmarks, not just look at the frame rates. You can create a REAL FAST benchmark by not implementing some api functions. The output might look reasonable, but if you zoom into some edges you might find additional oddities. That is the main point what is mising in this benchmark.
Rememeber driver writers made some unacceptable shortcuts in the past to increase performance.
a billion is way beyond cool. Do you even understand how much a billion is. for a Billion dollar you could buy your own small counltr, a billion bricks build a tower that is unbelieveable big. And so on.
but that billion is the thing that is most interresting. the other part is just statistics that are just fun, nothing more.
Take a look at the pictures again. Yup there are 115 Mega pixes for sure, but these are not numbers you can compare with your typical digital camara. This just a case of counting the pixels.
You can see the scanning lines in a lot of the pictures and they are not a result of the art, but from techincal shortcomings. The time distortion effect is nice however.
You are quite right. Let me go in detail:
This is about patents, the word software or algoritms is not spoken once. You know what that means.
another keyword that is used is "areas for harmonisation".
Harmonisation with what? I think with the international community has som attention, specially to their best friend, the US. and gues what: you can patent everything there.
They are killing mouse. I feel a small disturbance in the force.
(anyone up for any THHTTG quotes?)
After an inmense prestation the spaceship was drawn in hyperspace. No distance was actually coverd in this first experiment, but everyone wonderd why the spaceship came back with a frog on board. Could it be that the magnetic hyperspace is actually occupied by Frogs?
8)
Be afread, very afraid.
You ask for wiskey buy may end up with sheep or haggis.
AC, with an logged ip.
(for those too lazy to read the article:)
"My mouse pad is broken."
Without mincing words: We had significant quality of use issues with this computer.
First and most obviously, we started having problems with our optical mouse. Sometimes it would wildly fly across the screen, other times we had trouble controlling it. Those of you who have ever tried to use an optical mouse on a shiny surface know what I'm talking about.
The reason why (and I can't believe I'm typing this) was that the mouse pad that Dell provided was too shiny and reflective to be used with their own, branded, optical mouse.
It's no longer a tech support urban legend. We have a documented case of a computer mouse pad being "broken."
Basically the article says the hardware is OK, but the preinstalled stuff sucks.
als form the article:
Some computer security specialists suggest at least one basic approach that might allow e-mail recipients to learn right away that a communique appearing to come from a company like Amazon.com actually originated somewhere in the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia or any of the other places that law enforcement officials say are hot spots for phishing scams. "It strikes me that this is just a failure of most e-mail systems to reveal the history of an e-mail," said Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer in computer cryptography who is the chief security officer of Sun Microsystems. "You could post a warning flag indicating that the 'from' address doesn't seem consistent with the path history."
I have yet too see an applcation that does (only) this. And "8 out of 10 collegues here (in the IT) don't have a clue what a "path" in a e-mail is.
Anyway the gist of the article was in the start that some phisher used a fake-emial address where the from was NOT faked, but contained a small alteration that does not show at first. Since no anti-spam/anti-phissher can protect against that ou leave the people who run the most up to date anti-spam will beleive the mail is trusted. Even the journalist has problems to explain that a technical solution is not the final solution.
by the way: you americans do not have to worry so much since you seem to care so much for privacy.