2. Having sex, creating babies, who later grow up to break the law - will that make the parents liable?
I don't know where you live, but where I do, until the children are of age (18 in france), their parents are legally responsible for their acts. So yes, they are liable.
You clearly misread my post. I said that the version I have isn't capable of displaying bold text. I said nothing about yours. Of course, I don't think Apple capable of putting out a browser not capable of that. Mine, on my Windows - legit mind you and up to date - doesn't though.
As for non-compliant pages, Google doesn't work. That was the first page I tested Safari with... and almost the last one.
If you consider that the only version I've downloaded isn't even capable of displaying bold text, I'd say Safari on Windows may one day become the third browser, but we're nowhere close to that right now.
Given it's more or less the way our eye lens works, I'd say God (or Darwin, pick your choice) got the precedence over there. Just because it's written in a SciFi book doesn't quite mean it's new.
You obviously don't know MCE 2005 very well. And you misunderstood the original poster's assessment. Let's get there point by point:
- Do you have a Web interface for your schedule, program listings, videos, ecc..? The fact that you can develop one doesn't make it available. So this is and remains a NO.
- Does it cut commercials? My bad, plugins may be able to do that. Fast forward doesn't count as Yes here...
- Can it rip DVDs? Nope, nope. So there is no way anyone can say 'Yes' to that. So not "All" the points were supported by MCE 2005.
- Can it play HD Quicktime trailers? (although there may be ways to do it) Granted
- Can it use DVB-T, DVB-S, analog and cable at the same time? Nope, nope. The fact that a custom app on windows can play the media doesn't mean MCE does. MCE needs tuners that are configured THE SAME. You can't have a tuner on analog cable and one on DVB-T for example. MCE2005 TV module does support only ONE type of tuner at a given time.
- Can you transcode your recordings from MPEG2 to something else? You CANNOT transcode an already recorded show into another format. Plus the options in MCE2005 allow only to tune the bitrate, nothing else.
- Can you grab channel listings using xmltv? (although there is a built-in EPG) Well...
- Can you edit the videos using your remote? Nope, nope.
All in al it looks like you misunderstood the original poster's point. All these features ARE NOT available in MCE2005. I doubt they are in MCE Vista, but I'd like to be enlightened if some are.
I don't know about MCE Vista, but for MCE 2005 I'd answer no to :
- Do you have a Web interface for your schedule, program listings, videos, ecc..? - Does it cut commercials? - Can it rip DVDs? - Can it play HD Quicktime trailers? (although there may be ways to do it) - Can it use DVB-T, DVB-S, analog and cable at the same time? - Can you transcode your recordings from MPEG2 to something else? - Can you grab channel listings using xmltv? (although there is a built-in EPG) - Can you edit the videos using your remote?
Are you saying Vista MCE solves ALL of that ? ALL of it ?
That's very good! So that hackers need to hack this one server and modify a tiny javascript file to screw up thousands of websites... It looks as if security was overlooked in your reasoning. Damn hackers !
IMHO, as as much as I hate the DMCA and all the crap related, I think even a moderately stupid judge would see a difference between displaying a number while claiming it is the key to some copy-protection algorithm and displaying a number claiming it is nothing more than a number that serves a purpose that is unrelated to any copy-protection stuff.
They won't be taught by this. Because the more they do it the more their business will fail and the more they'll be confident that piracy is the source of it all. Why? Because while they kill their own horse, piracy will raise accordingly.
And all in all, that is exactly what they are doing: Killing music by making it less and less interesting at every move they make. The entertainment industry is very wide nowadays and music is just a fragment of it, even if still big. But let them go forward with all their crap. Music will drown until they learn their lesson and cut the crap. If you will sell something to the people, you'd better make it the more attractive! It sounds so stupid, and yet, they still don't get that very simplistic idea right...
The thing is, the french actually had better tanks, just didn't know how to use them. Ah ah! No! They knew, but they didn't use them because the stupid military that guarded the tanks refused to give it to the troops without a written order from the ministry of defense, and everybody there was long gone to find safety in the south of France.
Really, I'm french so I may be biaised, but this war, we lost it alone and on our own. Lazy and unprepared were two reasons for the army to fail, but unmotivated was also a huge one. No one wanted to fight, and the higher you went in the army's hierarchy, the less they were prepared to fight. Actually, some even thought the germans were freeing them from the very unloved government while others saw the germans as saviors from the communist threat.
Really, no one wanted to fight, and some generals didn't even want to win at all! Not very surprising we lost;-)
The parent's point is that a line of 10 Vs is as wide as a line of 10 As. So if a line of 5 "VA" is as wide, it basically means they don't invade each other. Do you mean to say those three lines are not the same width on your system ?
Then it just means one thing: You might look at two different fonts... Because your systems (OS, Browser) might just be different...
Maybe where you live it is the case. In France, it is opened 7AM to 10PM IIRC. At least it was at the time, I spent enough time trying to call them at at 1AM to know.
I'm not that much of a MS hater myself, and yet I moved to Linux a few month ago (both at work and home). The reason is that there were things that really pissed me off in MS's offering.
I have a legit XP copy at home and am a bit of a tweaker. Lately I bought a faulty Mobo that gave me quite a bit of trouble to diagnos. Windows would break when I installed SP2, not before on that one. I reinstalled windows dozens of times in that occasion, and every single one of these times I had to call MS to activate my fucking copy. And if you're out of the support hours, no luck. You can't do it.
This, along with other things made me real mad. Plus a couple of viruses.
Oh well, vista won't even recognize any of my DVD players (They're RPC-1). What should I buy it for ?
These new codecs (Ogg and AAC) perform *much* better than MP3 at a much lower bitrate (64kbps and down). But for 128kbps and up, they are all more or less equivalent.
There is always a catch, however. Let's take an example of a 1MP camera, taking a picture at 1/100th of a second. Each CCD can acquire light for a full 1/100th of a second. But each one is small and as such, not very sensitive.
Let's say this new 1 pixel camera is set-up to take a picture of 1MP at 1/100th of a second. Each one of the 1M mirrors will reflect its light on the CCD for... (1/100)/1000000 th of a second, because only one pixel (of the final image) can be recorded at a time. So yes, the new sensor will be more sensitive. And it better be ! 1 000 000 times to be correct (for 1MP pictures.)
Dude, HD content has been out in the wild (and on torrent) for some time now. Just not from HD-DVD, but from HDTV broadcast. A 2 hour movie with 5.1 AC3 soundtrack fits just fine on a DVD5 with H.264 codec.
This is a fairly lame example. If you don't want anyone to claim ownership of something in the public domain, the solution is simple: Backup you damn drives. Releasing under the GPL (or any other license for that matter) is in no way a guarantee that your code will be safe. Keeping a copy in a safe is a much better one.
How are you going to prove that company X Y or Z infringed on your GPL license if you don't have your own copy to provide?
Macsyma source code wouldn't have been lost if their author didn't lose it!!! End of story.
Derivative works, now, are another matter altogether.
Can you honestly tell me that you know at least ONE news outlet for which facts matter? I live in France and used to live in the U.S. and I am still waiting for one.
Slashdot Mirror
Googling "9/11/2001" gets 790,000 hits. Would you guess that even in 1997, it was > 0 ?
2. Having sex, creating babies, who later grow up to break the law - will that make the parents liable?
I don't know where you live, but where I do, until the children are of age (18 in france), their parents are legally responsible for their acts. So yes, they are liable.
And AT LAST, Internet Explorer is back to where it belongs: A nice tool to download Firefox. ;-)
You clearly misread my post. I said that the version I have isn't capable of displaying bold text. I said nothing about yours. Of course, I don't think Apple capable of putting out a browser not capable of that. Mine, on my Windows - legit mind you and up to date - doesn't though.
As for non-compliant pages, Google doesn't work. That was the first page I tested Safari with... and almost the last one.
If you consider that the only version I've downloaded isn't even capable of displaying bold text, I'd say Safari on Windows may one day become the third browser, but we're nowhere close to that right now.
Given it's more or less the way our eye lens works, I'd say God (or Darwin, pick your choice) got the precedence over there. Just because it's written in a SciFi book doesn't quite mean it's new.
You obviously don't know MCE 2005 very well. And you misunderstood the original poster's assessment. Let's get there point by point:
- Do you have a Web interface for your schedule, program listings, videos, ecc..?
The fact that you can develop one doesn't make it available. So this is and remains a NO.
- Does it cut commercials?
My bad, plugins may be able to do that. Fast forward doesn't count as Yes here...
- Can it rip DVDs?
Nope, nope. So there is no way anyone can say 'Yes' to that. So not "All" the points were supported by MCE 2005.
- Can it play HD Quicktime trailers? (although there may be ways to do it)
Granted
- Can it use DVB-T, DVB-S, analog and cable at the same time?
Nope, nope. The fact that a custom app on windows can play the media doesn't mean MCE does. MCE needs tuners that are configured THE SAME. You can't have a tuner on analog cable and one on DVB-T for example. MCE2005 TV module does support only ONE type of tuner at a given time.
- Can you transcode your recordings from MPEG2 to something else?
You CANNOT transcode an already recorded show into another format. Plus the options in MCE2005 allow only to tune the bitrate, nothing else.
- Can you grab channel listings using xmltv? (although there is a built-in EPG)
Well...
- Can you edit the videos using your remote?
Nope, nope.
All in al it looks like you misunderstood the original poster's point. All these features ARE NOT available in MCE2005. I doubt they are in MCE Vista, but I'd like to be enlightened if some are.
I don't know about MCE Vista, but for MCE 2005 I'd answer no to :
- Do you have a Web interface for your schedule, program listings, videos, ecc..?
- Does it cut commercials?
- Can it rip DVDs?
- Can it play HD Quicktime trailers? (although there may be ways to do it)
- Can it use DVB-T, DVB-S, analog and cable at the same time?
- Can you transcode your recordings from MPEG2 to something else?
- Can you grab channel listings using xmltv? (although there is a built-in EPG)
- Can you edit the videos using your remote?
Are you saying Vista MCE solves ALL of that ? ALL of it ?
That's very good! So that hackers need to hack this one server and modify a tiny javascript file to screw up thousands of websites... It looks as if security was overlooked in your reasoning. Damn hackers !
IMHO, as as much as I hate the DMCA and all the crap related, I think even a moderately stupid judge would see a difference between displaying a number while claiming it is the key to some copy-protection algorithm and displaying a number claiming it is nothing more than a number that serves a purpose that is unrelated to any copy-protection stuff.
Don't you think?
They won't be taught by this. Because the more they do it the more their business will fail and the more they'll be confident that piracy is the source of it all. Why? Because while they kill their own horse, piracy will raise accordingly.
And all in all, that is exactly what they are doing: Killing music by making it less and less interesting at every move they make. The entertainment industry is very wide nowadays and music is just a fragment of it, even if still big. But let them go forward with all their crap. Music will drown until they learn their lesson and cut the crap. If you will sell something to the people, you'd better make it the more attractive! It sounds so stupid, and yet, they still don't get that very simplistic idea right...
Oh well...
The thing is, the french actually had better tanks, just didn't know how to use them.
;-)
Ah ah! No! They knew, but they didn't use them because the stupid military that guarded the tanks refused to give it to the troops without a written order from the ministry of defense, and everybody there was long gone to find safety in the south of France.
Really, I'm french so I may be biaised, but this war, we lost it alone and on our own. Lazy and unprepared were two reasons for the army to fail, but unmotivated was also a huge one. No one wanted to fight, and the higher you went in the army's hierarchy, the less they were prepared to fight. Actually, some even thought the germans were freeing them from the very unloved government while others saw the germans as saviors from the communist threat.
Really, no one wanted to fight, and some generals didn't even want to win at all! Not very surprising we lost
The parent's point is that a line of 10 Vs is as wide as a line of 10 As. So if a line of 5 "VA" is as wide, it basically means they don't invade each other. Do you mean to say those three lines are not the same width on your system ?
Then it just means one thing: You might look at two different fonts... Because your systems (OS, Browser) might just be different...
Maybe where you live it is the case. In France, it is opened 7AM to 10PM IIRC. At least it was at the time, I spent enough time trying to call them at at 1AM to know.
Maybe in the US. Not in France.
I'm not that much of a MS hater myself, and yet I moved to Linux a few month ago (both at work and home). The reason is that there were things that really pissed me off in MS's offering.
I have a legit XP copy at home and am a bit of a tweaker. Lately I bought a faulty Mobo that gave me quite a bit of trouble to diagnos. Windows would break when I installed SP2, not before on that one. I reinstalled windows dozens of times in that occasion, and every single one of these times I had to call MS to activate my fucking copy. And if you're out of the support hours, no luck. You can't do it.
This, along with other things made me real mad. Plus a couple of viruses.
Oh well, vista won't even recognize any of my DVD players (They're RPC-1). What should I buy it for ?
These new codecs (Ogg and AAC) perform *much* better than MP3 at a much lower bitrate (64kbps and down). But for 128kbps and up, they are all more or less equivalent.
To be fair, I don't believe Israel has been in existence for 100 years just yet.
There is always a catch, however. Let's take an example of a 1MP camera, taking a picture at 1/100th of a second. Each CCD can acquire light for a full 1/100th of a second. But each one is small and as such, not very sensitive.
... (1/100)/1000000 th of a second, because only one pixel (of the final image) can be recorded at a time. So yes, the new sensor will be more sensitive. And it better be ! 1 000 000 times to be correct (for 1MP pictures.)
Let's say this new 1 pixel camera is set-up to take a picture of 1MP at 1/100th of a second. Each one of the 1M mirrors will reflect its light on the CCD for
Dude, HD content has been out in the wild (and on torrent) for some time now. Just not from HD-DVD, but from HDTV broadcast. A 2 hour movie with 5.1 AC3 soundtrack fits just fine on a DVD5 with H.264 codec.
This is a well-known fact.
Hmmm. Do you really need an answer to that?
This is a fairly lame example. If you don't want anyone to claim ownership of something in the public domain, the solution is simple: Backup you damn drives. Releasing under the GPL (or any other license for that matter) is in no way a guarantee that your code will be safe. Keeping a copy in a safe is a much better one.
How are you going to prove that company X Y or Z infringed on your GPL license if you don't have your own copy to provide?
Macsyma source code wouldn't have been lost if their author didn't lose it!!! End of story.
Derivative works, now, are another matter altogether.
So if I find a piece of code with written on top : "This is the list of requirements you must meet to distribute this (and you can ignore the rest)"
I am not able to ignore the rest ?
Because that's pretty much what the BSD license says.
If any other news outlet
Can you honestly tell me that you know at least ONE news outlet for which facts matter? I live in France and used to live in the U.S. and I am still waiting for one.
In other words, security through obscurity. When it's so simple to just mask the offending area... Go figure.