1) It's not a "text message" but an SMS
2) It's not trendy, it's out-of-fashion
3) You don't need a modern mobile phone, as even the crappy D-AMPS, and all the GSM phones include it for years (couldn't find an exact date, 1993, iirc), as this page can show you.
Read the ETSI documents available to the public to learn more about it.
PS: This is a really bad time to talk about mobile telephony because this happens.
...to the UK. This is getting very very stupid. There already was tax on blank audio tapes, which makes more sense, but is still very stupid. Like Torrey Hoffman (Azog) said, if I paid a tax for copying music, I should be allowed to copy the music and not be charged.
If they are to use the same kind of practice as with the tapes, you could have thousands at home, and not be sued or anything. Depenalized, not Legalized.
And if this law is to pass the Parliement, I reckon they would give money to Celine Dion and Notre-Dame-de-Paris (aka "the French Plague"). That pisses me off.
You did not understand the thing at all... The problem is to forbid the sale of DVDs or Video Tapes while the film is still in the theatres and the following 6 months. So lemme look, what is it protecting ? The American movie industry, not the French one. Just tell me where in the world you could find a DVD of a french movie while it's still in the theatres, huh ?
That means that superstores can't sell the DVD of the film while it's still in the theatres. That sounds quite reasonable to me...
This is not news, it's already been on Slashdot I guess. This codec is from AT&T's labs. For a really new image codec, check Ulli's website: http://ulli.linuxave.net/fiasco/. It would be nice to add FIASCO! support to the GIMP and gdk-pixbuf for example...
First of all, to all people saying "and if some dude wants to buy this Nazi book ?" Are you allowed to buy pedophilia books in the US ? No, the french law makes Nazi items and propaganda illegal. It is a crime, like having pedophilia...
What would you say if some Yahoo was selling cocain or heroin ? Just the exact same thing. And the only thing I don't understand is why Yahoo is authorizing this in the first place. What the fuck, none of you had history lessons some day ?
I also get free software all the time, but I usually have to ask for it. I write for a french Linux magazine, and I usually ask for distributions to the different Linux companies, like Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, etc.
I made a really bad review of SuSe for PPC, and it was crap (it still is), wrote it, and didn't get a word about this bad review from SuSe.
I use Debian, but have been using Redhat-alike for years, so I don't give a shit about a distributor telling me what I should say about its software. And if somebody's trying to buy my review, I would point it out in the next issue, and they go down to hell.
That's it, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. You got this in my country.
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solusthewizard, please, take a look at the map. (hint: between Britain and Ireland) So, the Isle of Man is part of Europe, you see...
2) It's not trendy, it's out-of-fashion
3) You don't need a modern mobile phone, as even the crappy D-AMPS, and all the GSM phones include it for years (couldn't find an exact date, 1993, iirc), as this page can show you.
Read the ETSI documents available to the public to learn more about it.
PS: This is a really bad time to talk about mobile telephony because this happens.
If they are to use the same kind of practice as with the tapes, you could have thousands at home, and not be sued or anything. Depenalized, not Legalized.
And if this law is to pass the Parliement, I reckon they would give money to Celine Dion and Notre-Dame-de-Paris (aka "the French Plague"). That pisses me off.
You did not understand the thing at all... The problem is to forbid the sale of DVDs or Video Tapes while the film is still in the theatres and the following 6 months. So lemme look, what is it protecting ? The American movie industry, not the French one. Just tell me where in the world you could find a DVD of a french movie while it's still in the theatres, huh ?
That means that superstores can't sell the DVD of the film while it's still in the theatres. That sounds quite reasonable to me...
This is not news, it's already been on Slashdot I guess. This codec is from AT&T's labs. For a really new image codec, check Ulli's website: http://ulli.linuxave.net/fiasco/. It would be nice to add FIASCO! support to the GIMP and gdk-pixbuf for example...
What would you say if some Yahoo was selling cocain or heroin ? Just the exact same thing. And the only thing I don't understand is why Yahoo is authorizing this in the first place. What the fuck, none of you had history lessons some day ?
I also get free software all the time, but I usually have to ask for it. I write for a french Linux magazine, and I usually ask for distributions to the different Linux companies, like Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, etc.
I made a really bad review of SuSe for PPC, and it was crap (it still is), wrote it, and didn't get a word about this bad review from SuSe.
I use Debian, but have been using Redhat-alike for years, so I don't give a shit about a distributor telling me what I should say about its software. And if somebody's trying to buy my review, I would point it out in the next issue, and they go down to hell.
That's it, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. You got this in my country.