This won't be relevant until it is as efficient as LCD displays. Currently, LCDs consume almost no power, while LEDs chug away (relatively speaking; anyone have a watt reading on a standard LED?).
"Joe Sixpack and Vinny Bagadonuts [don't] care about [the] DMCA, freedom or anything like that. As long as the football game will be broadcast on time they're happy."
Well, it's time to MAKE them care, by making them aware of the impact that the DMCA will have on their lives. It might turn out that Joe Sixpack downloads his favorite Elvis Costello tunes from Napster because his LP's are scratched beyond recognition. And what if he wanted to get DVD soon, but didn't want to worry about the MPAA charging him a flat rate to play the movie? Then he should start caring about how the DMCA will affect his life.
One of the major reasons why I hate the DMCA is because of how it became law: a joint venture between the MPAA, RIAA, and the government. In no way was this act approved by the US citizens. The very fact that the DMCA will become law soon flies in the face of this passage of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
From the consent of governed. Now, did we give any consent to have the DMCA passed into law? NO. Were any referendums held to study public opinion on this issue? NO.
The DMCA IS destructive of the ends established in the Declaration, and it is our right to abolish the DMCA. It is not only our right, but now it is our responsibility to eliminate the DMCA. The DMCA will affect our happiness in the future; we will become drones, being forced by the MPAA to shell out X amount of dollars to watch a pre-recorded movie for Y amount of time. Even worse, the RIAA might soon mandate that we pay for FM radio by the minute. I fear that this idea (or a similar incarnation) isn't far off.
Do I sound a little like Henry David Thoreau? Good! It's nice to know that I'm the only remaining Transcendentalist in the US.
"...And since this creates less bankruptcy -- it is better for the average consumer."
How? How is it better for the average consumer when he has to pump a quarter into his DVD player every time he wants to watch chapter 13 of The Matrix? Isn't this creating MORE bankruptcy? Oh yeah, I forgot, the MPAA only sees things in its own favor. It hates us consumers and denounces all of us as hackers (even the innocent soccer moms and paper pushers).
It's time to dissolve the MPAA. It has become one large, capitalist, xenophobic entity that doesn't want to lose a cent from its bottom line. The funny part is, it's listed as a non-profit organization (hence, the http://www.mpaa.org), when, in fact, it is making an inhuman profit from making the consumers suffer. The MPAA should at least be castigated for abusing the.org TLD, just as The College Board should be castigated as well.
"Give 'em a break -- it happens to the best of us."
Not until they prove to me that I can spend more than $20 on their product and be 100% satisfied. Until then, I stand as an RHCV (RedHat Certified Victim).
Everyone bring their hacked Cue:Cats to Washington! Show your defiance of the DMCA and the pay-per-use mentality! And when more pay-per-use hardware gets released, hack and tweak those and flaunt it on the steps of the Capitol!
If we prove that the DMCA cannot possibly be upheld without major losses on the government's part, then it could be repealed. One historic example is Prohibition. There were just too many gangsters, moonshiners, and bootleggers keeping the flow of alcohol constant, so the government repealed the Prohibition amendment. It's time we do the same to the DMCA, because the DMCA itself is infringing on the First Amendment and all the intent behind it. The DMCA is an Orwellian attempt to keep the majority of entertainment content in the hands of the filthy-rich media giants.
It's time to begin the revolution against the DMCA.
If you're only working in one resolution all the time, then LCD should be fine. However, if you're like me and use more than two different resolutions that don't exactly match (GLQuake at 640, Q2 at 1024, Q3 at 800, ZDOOM at 512, with a desktop at 1024), then stay with CRT.
If I got a laptop with 1024, then I'd have to play all my games at 512 to avoid a conflict between native resolution and current resolution. Sure, some panels have anti-aliasing, but that's only good for the standard 640x400 text-mode instances; at 800x600 it looks ghastly. I'm sure this problem is insignificant for a flat panel which can handle 1920x1440, but how much would that cost? My guess is about $2,500, as much as an entire system.
...mojo piracy. Men all over the world will wake up with a strange, dull pain "down there", and will soon discover, "Someone's stolen my mojo!" Austin Powers all over again.
...though my 6.2 CD is currently serving as a coaster, along with the second disc of UT and the Daikatana CD halves (yes, I whipped out a pair of wire cutters and cut my Daikatana CD; I plan on mailing the fragments [along with a strongly worded letter] to John Romero).
6.2 was annoyingly unstable; GNOME kept crashing, I couldn't makefile anything, smbclient wouldn't logon to my Win2K tower, et cetera, et cetera. I just got sick of it fast.
...and doesn't RH70 have USB support? I don't know for sure (I wash my hands of RedHat), so go ahead and tell me (no, no, not all of you, homo flamiens!)
"So we didn't do so well on quality control. Sorry, just keep waiting for 7.1." I would have expected as much from a software company which is overly concerned with product launch execution. When will we have a distro that will place its concerns on a bug-free distro? Oh yeah, now I remember the answer: NEVER.
The sysadmin could easily deny access to SMTP servers, thereby preventing you to send e-mail. They could then claim that they're not inconvencing you; after all, you can still use your POP3/IMAP server to read e-mail.
...after all, you do work for the government; seeing government bandwidth being chewed up by frivolous cavorting by government employees is a disgrace and a public relations disaster waiting to happen. However, most of this happens at big businesses where the cubicle makes a great hiding spot for the employee to go check out their e-mail or chat with that guy in the next building.
I'm glad to see this display of morality by a government employee; however, I wish that I'd seen the same from someone higher up in the government ladder (Slick Willy).
"Bosses usually dont and if they do they wouldnt know how to set up the nescessary listening apps (tcp, udp)."
Ah, but this is why the sysadmin at a company is usually a corporate brown-noser. This way, the CEO can hire him to go muck-raking on the server transfer logs. If there's some connections to a Yahoo server, or AIM packets discovered floating around, then it's time to start spying!
If anything is found, then the CEO can either cite non-disclosure or work ethic, depending on the situation.
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Uhh, "Nero 1337 5kr1p7 k1dd13 est."
Nero is a 1337 5kr1p7 k1dd13. Cool!Stop flaming, we all caught it now.
My head's gonna explode!
This won't be relevant until it is as efficient as LCD displays. Currently, LCDs consume almost no power, while LEDs chug away (relatively speaking; anyone have a watt reading on a standard LED?).
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." The MPAA and RIAA have forgotten all about Prohibition. Time to repeat history.
Check them out! They even have an opinion on Netscape (not to mention a recording of Booger's trophy-winning belch from ROTN1!)
Well, it's time to MAKE them care, by making them aware of the impact that the DMCA will have on their lives. It might turn out that Joe Sixpack downloads his favorite Elvis Costello tunes from Napster because his LP's are scratched beyond recognition. And what if he wanted to get DVD soon, but didn't want to worry about the MPAA charging him a flat rate to play the movie? Then he should start caring about how the DMCA will affect his life.
One of the major reasons why I hate the DMCA is because of how it became law: a joint venture between the MPAA, RIAA, and the government. In no way was this act approved by the US citizens. The very fact that the DMCA will become law soon flies in the face of this passage of the Declaration of Independence:
From the consent of governed. Now, did we give any consent to have the DMCA passed into law? NO. Were any referendums held to study public opinion on this issue? NO.
The DMCA IS destructive of the ends established in the Declaration, and it is our right to abolish the DMCA. It is not only our right, but now it is our responsibility to eliminate the DMCA. The DMCA will affect our happiness in the future; we will become drones, being forced by the MPAA to shell out X amount of dollars to watch a pre-recorded movie for Y amount of time. Even worse, the RIAA might soon mandate that we pay for FM radio by the minute. I fear that this idea (or a similar incarnation) isn't far off.
Do I sound a little like Henry David Thoreau? Good! It's nice to know that I'm the only remaining Transcendentalist in the US.
How? How is it better for the average consumer when he has to pump a quarter into his DVD player every time he wants to watch chapter 13 of The Matrix? Isn't this creating MORE bankruptcy? Oh yeah, I forgot, the MPAA only sees things in its own favor. It hates us consumers and denounces all of us as hackers (even the innocent soccer moms and paper pushers).
It's time to dissolve the MPAA. It has become one large, capitalist, xenophobic entity that doesn't want to lose a cent from its bottom line. The funny part is, it's listed as a non-profit organization (hence, the http://www.mpaa.org), when, in fact, it is making an inhuman profit from making the consumers suffer. The MPAA should at least be castigated for abusing the .org TLD, just as The College Board should be castigated as well.
Not until they prove to me that I can spend more than $20 on their product and be 100% satisfied. Until then, I stand as an RHCV (RedHat Certified Victim).
Everyone bring their hacked Cue:Cats to Washington! Show your defiance of the DMCA and the pay-per-use mentality! And when more pay-per-use hardware gets released, hack and tweak those and flaunt it on the steps of the Capitol!
It's time to begin the revolution against the DMCA.
If I got a laptop with 1024, then I'd have to play all my games at 512 to avoid a conflict between native resolution and current resolution. Sure, some panels have anti-aliasing, but that's only good for the standard 640x400 text-mode instances; at 800x600 it looks ghastly. I'm sure this problem is insignificant for a flat panel which can handle 1920x1440, but how much would that cost? My guess is about $2,500, as much as an entire system.
...mojo piracy. Men all over the world will wake up with a strange, dull pain "down there", and will soon discover, "Someone's stolen my mojo!" Austin Powers all over again.
6.2 was annoyingly unstable; GNOME kept crashing, I couldn't makefile anything, smbclient wouldn't logon to my Win2K tower, et cetera, et cetera. I just got sick of it fast.
...and doesn't RH70 have USB support? I don't know for sure (I wash my hands of RedHat), so go ahead and tell me (no, no, not all of you, homo flamiens!)
It's true: Bob Abooey is nothing more than a posting script. How else could that comment body stay the same week after week, month after month?
"So we didn't do so well on quality control. Sorry, just keep waiting for 7.1." I would have expected as much from a software company which is overly concerned with product launch execution. When will we have a distro that will place its concerns on a bug-free distro? Oh yeah, now I remember the answer: NEVER.
Seriously, anyone have a genus/species name for trolls?
...not including this one. Just shows how inflammatory Intel articles can be just by having the word "Intel."
That moderator was about as inept as a perl script doing the same job. Or was that a perl script that modded me down?
8 so far, including this one. :-)
Even the login screen is on SSL, and mine snapped right to 128-bit! Now that's a great e-mail server!
The sysadmin could easily deny access to SMTP servers, thereby preventing you to send e-mail. They could then claim that they're not inconvencing you; after all, you can still use your POP3/IMAP server to read e-mail.
I'm glad to see this display of morality by a government employee; however, I wish that I'd seen the same from someone higher up in the government ladder (Slick Willy).
Ah, but this is why the sysadmin at a company is usually a corporate brown-noser. This way, the CEO can hire him to go muck-raking on the server transfer logs. If there's some connections to a Yahoo server, or AIM packets discovered floating around, then it's time to start spying!
If anything is found, then the CEO can either cite non-disclosure or work ethic, depending on the situation.