10000 sounds like a lot but spammers send out millions. Amazon will send out several times that many emails, and a popular social networking site will send out millions. Skyrock has a thousand times as many users as hadopi wants to send emails.
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So just use these alternate addresses.
Easier said than done. I doubt my ISP knows my yahoo email address. They could work it out but they're not going to do so on the whim of a third party.
I do agree though that they're quite entitled to block certain addresses, especially if they can reasonably argue that it's in the best interests of their customer.
I think that would have happened anyway. MS did nothing with IE for years. Mozilla was evolving pretty rapidly and was soon clearly the better browser. But even without Mozilla, Google would have released a browser eventually since they have a vested interest in making sure that Microsoft don't control the web.
They can make such a rule if they choose to, but should go about some reasonable means of handling the transition to the new rule. However, it doesn't look like they have.
They're changing the rules, pretty arbitrarily because they want the useful 2 letter domains. I think we have every right to call them out on this, both to protest and to draw attention to it so as to warn others.
Yes, we are cheap. We've come to expect an increasing resolution at a decreasing price. Prices are falling but there's a sudden leap at the high end and the high end doesn't seem to be as high as we'd expect by now - at least vertically. Last time I bought a monitor many years ago, I don't think any of them were limited to anything as low as 768 vertical lines.
Yes, it's possible, and usually possible to get it delivered to ones work address, and while some of us prefer them, I guess going to a brick and mortar store is not essential.
But the choice is limited, availability is not that great, and prices are high. You end up paying double for that small amount of extra screen space.
Best Buy have increased the price of the PS3 by $30. The basic principle of comeptition is that that anyone else can choose to undercut them and see more sales or match price and gain more money per sale.
The question was about students - a group who typically do have plenty of free time and few commitments.
Switching to the games industry from another career is a different matter altogether, although anyone with software development experience should be able to spend a few hours a week learning games development techniques, those without will be in the same position as anyone else planning on a major career change.
The main goal is to learn, and to have something to show prospective employers. If you care about game development you'll already be doing this. You're doing it for your own amusement so platform doesn't matter so much.
Seems unlikely the police would go to such efforts if that's all it was. You'd need some sort of complaint or probable cause to initiate the investigation in the first place.
No it's not worth pointing it out because it's really not true. The Queen signed RIPA into law but this was after it was drafted by the elected government, and passed by the elected parliament (and by the non-elected Lords).
Not if the people didn't want to 'ruin' (as long as we continue to use worthless artificial currency, at least) their country (as in, their country, not a politicians).
But people (collectively) are stupid. As a group they can make a decision that none of them would be daft enough to make on their own. But even if they do manage to avoid doing this, how do they make the right decision? Politicians have advisors who are experts in their fields.
There is no guarantee (far from it) that they will actually carry out their promises.
You can work on past performance, or plausibility of their promises, or their past record in other careers. Sadly, as observed, people are stupid, and trust politicians even after they lie.
We haven't tried much else, including my suggestion. Also, what I suggested was, in fact, a democracy. It was just closer to a direct democracy than anything else.
California has something approaching that. Various people have commented on the problems, so Google "California direct democracy budget" for a selection.
This is an idealised situation. There's no way to ensure that the politicians obey us either and I assumed that was a proposed ideal situation. If the politicians did what the people wanted they'd eliminate taxes and double spending.
The idea is that since it's the peoples' county, we should select our leaders from the people choosing those who are the most able and most determined to make the place better for the people. The problem is that democracy turns out not to be a very good way of doing this, and its only saving grace is that it's better than anythng else we've tried.
At 100km in an aircraft, you need to fly at orbital velocities just to stay aloft, so effectively you need a spacecraft instead.
Never understood this. Surely this makes the Kármán line different for a flying brick like the Space Shuttle orbiter than it is for something with high lift to weight ratio like a glider or U2.
They're public servants, not public slaves, so they should serve rather than obey. The crucial difference is that they should actually use some judgement. A good servant will prevent his master from doing something stupid.
This does seem to be Daily Mail misleading reporting. The two points are unrelated but puting them in the ame place suggests cause and effect. The response from the MP was very likely in response to a much more generic question. The newspaper is unable to report on anything without adding some sort of sensationalism.
So people have fallen for a troll. This was the intent of the report in the first place.
The record companies were not willing to provide music in an easily copied format at the time. They were incredibly stuck in the old ways of doing things and thought they could control piracy. Okay - the presence or absence of DRM made no difference. There was no need to crack Fairplay since it was simply easier to rip from CD.
Still, you are right. Steve Jobs was a very canny businessman who realised that by providing the DRM, the record companies would licence to him, giving him a period of exclusivity while everyone else rushes to implement some sort of DRM, and providing lock-in for iPod owners.
It can't be that simple. The Prius uses a mechanical transmission , and all electric would appear to be a lot more obvious than the unusual setup in a Prius.
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10000 sounds like a lot but spammers send out millions. Amazon will send out several times that many emails, and a popular social networking site will send out millions. Skyrock has a thousand times as many users as hadopi wants to send emails.
Also:
So just use these alternate addresses.
Easier said than done. I doubt my ISP knows my yahoo email address. They could work it out but they're not going to do so on the whim of a third party.
I do agree though that they're quite entitled to block certain addresses, especially if they can reasonably argue that it's in the best interests of their customer.
10000 a day is nothing for any company. It averages 7 emails per minute.
I think that would have happened anyway. MS did nothing with IE for years. Mozilla was evolving pretty rapidly and was soon clearly the better browser. But even without Mozilla, Google would have released a browser eventually since they have a vested interest in making sure that Microsoft don't control the web.
They have their own internet. It just happens that it's connected to various other internets to form one big internet.
They can make such a rule if they choose to, but should go about some reasonable means of handling the transition to the new rule. However, it doesn't look like they have.
They're changing the rules, pretty arbitrarily because they want the useful 2 letter domains. I think we have every right to call them out on this, both to protest and to draw attention to it so as to warn others.
I'm pretty certain that games for my Amiga were considerably cheaper than those on the Sega Mega Drive.
Yes, we are cheap. We've come to expect an increasing resolution at a decreasing price. Prices are falling but there's a sudden leap at the high end and the high end doesn't seem to be as high as we'd expect by now - at least vertically. Last time I bought a monitor many years ago, I don't think any of them were limited to anything as low as 768 vertical lines.
Yes, it's possible, and usually possible to get it delivered to ones work address, and while some of us prefer them, I guess going to a brick and mortar store is not essential.
But the choice is limited, availability is not that great, and prices are high. You end up paying double for that small amount of extra screen space.
Best Buy have increased the price of the PS3 by $30. The basic principle of comeptition is that that anyone else can choose to undercut them and see more sales or match price and gain more money per sale.
The question was about students - a group who typically do have plenty of free time and few commitments.
Switching to the games industry from another career is a different matter altogether, although anyone with software development experience should be able to spend a few hours a week learning games development techniques, those without will be in the same position as anyone else planning on a major career change.
You don't. That's not the point.
The main goal is to learn, and to have something to show prospective employers. If you care about game development you'll already be doing this. You're doing it for your own amusement so platform doesn't matter so much.
Seems unlikely the police would go to such efforts if that's all it was. You'd need some sort of complaint or probable cause to initiate the investigation in the first place.
No it's not worth pointing it out because it's really not true. The Queen signed RIPA into law but this was after it was drafted by the elected government, and passed by the elected parliament (and by the non-elected Lords).
Not if the people didn't want to 'ruin' (as long as we continue to use worthless artificial currency, at least) their country (as in, their country, not a politicians).
But people (collectively) are stupid. As a group they can make a decision that none of them would be daft enough to make on their own. But even if they do manage to avoid doing this, how do they make the right decision? Politicians have advisors who are experts in their fields.
There is no guarantee (far from it) that they will actually carry out their promises.
You can work on past performance, or plausibility of their promises, or their past record in other careers. Sadly, as observed, people are stupid, and trust politicians even after they lie.
We haven't tried much else, including my suggestion. Also, what I suggested was, in fact, a democracy. It was just closer to a direct democracy than anything else.
California has something approaching that. Various people have commented on the problems, so Google "California direct democracy budget" for a selection.
This is an idealised situation. There's no way to ensure that the politicians obey us either and I assumed that was a proposed ideal situation. If the politicians did what the people wanted they'd eliminate taxes and double spending. The idea is that since it's the peoples' county, we should select our leaders from the people choosing those who are the most able and most determined to make the place better for the people. The problem is that democracy turns out not to be a very good way of doing this, and its only saving grace is that it's better than anythng else we've tried.
As opposed to the usual error free billing errors?
At 100km in an aircraft, you need to fly at orbital velocities just to stay aloft, so effectively you need a spacecraft instead.
Never understood this. Surely this makes the Kármán line different for a flying brick like the Space Shuttle orbiter than it is for something with high lift to weight ratio like a glider or U2.
They're public servants, not public slaves, so they should serve rather than obey. The crucial difference is that they should actually use some judgement. A good servant will prevent his master from doing something stupid.
This does seem to be Daily Mail misleading reporting. The two points are unrelated but puting them in the ame place suggests cause and effect. The response from the MP was very likely in response to a much more generic question. The newspaper is unable to report on anything without adding some sort of sensationalism.
So people have fallen for a troll. This was the intent of the report in the first place.
There are no canons on ships involved.
So? Seriously, the term piracy in the sense of unauthorised copy predates copyright! Some words have more than one meaning.
You just needed to add a keyboard and a floppy disk drive and you had an Amiga!
I'd guess for digital cinema projectors. They're based on horizontal resolution of 2048 or 4096, and 2.35:1 is a common aspect ratio.
The record companies were not willing to provide music in an easily copied format at the time. They were incredibly stuck in the old ways of doing things and thought they could control piracy. Okay - the presence or absence of DRM made no difference. There was no need to crack Fairplay since it was simply easier to rip from CD.
Still, you are right. Steve Jobs was a very canny businessman who realised that by providing the DRM, the record companies would licence to him, giving him a period of exclusivity while everyone else rushes to implement some sort of DRM, and providing lock-in for iPod owners.
It can't be that simple. The Prius uses a mechanical transmission , and all electric would appear to be a lot more obvious than the unusual setup in a Prius.