I have tried "Reload" and "Shift Reload" looking at the logs of my webserver and I saw the same crap... IE is still not downloading straight but asking for an updated version.
You own the DVD, but all the devices in which you can play them (legally) have paid a patent to the MPAA. Without this patent, it is illegal to distribute a piece of technology (soft/hard ware) that allow anyone to play a DVD.
IANAL, but technically, it is not illegal for you to write a program that decrypt the CSS encoding, but it is illegal to distribute it or to help others to do so, which kind of defies the pourpose.... everyone would have to write their own software to read their DVDs on GNU/Linux;-)
Well, it is obviously illegal to play a DVD on your linux box. Even through you own: * Linux * The hardware * The DVD
It is still illegal to watch a DVD on your box because the MPAA guys didn't grant a license to any software vendor that release a software DVD player for Linux. What is illegal is actually to circumvent the CSS encoding of DVDs without paying for it.
No wonder you don't remember what it is, you've probably never know. Comparing JPG and GIF is a little bit like comparing my Van (I have three kids) and your Porsche (You're single). Different formats for different uses.
Try to fit my whole family in your Porsche and you'll see why GIF cannot be surpassed (or replaced) by JPG.
Giving that they are going to use RFIDs for their inventory, I seriously doubt that one guy is going to go over the store and scan all the RFIDs from a 2 inch distance. If it can't be read from a reasonnable distance, there is no point in having it wireless.
But I guess we will see. I think of it like CD-ROM drives. The first 1X released were blamed for two things: 1. Bad access time, because the CD techology is based on CLV and that didn't suit a good access time. It was seen as a major blocker that would neve be solved. 2. Slow transfer rate. We now have 52x drives.
Nothing is impossible, and I think it would be cool for the stores to have a reader that can read from a reasonnable distance. And if they need it, they'll do it.
And if SCO wins, it'll send a message to the world that you can't trust any GPLed product
Indeed. That would be true, so in this case, that would be the right message.
Let's imagine that SCO wins and SCO has a case. That means that IBM did a bad thing and did put a GPLed product in a bad legal situation! If they could do it, anyone else can do it, so the GPLed products are not to be trusted.
To be honest, the GPL is paying right now the "open" part of the license. Open means anyone can grab anything in it, including piece of their own code... Who can tell if UnixWare/AIX/Solaris/Windows violates another license (GPL or other) ???? This is closed source software!!
Do you have your TV in the middle of your living room or next to a wall? Next to a wall, that would require a reader that can read through a wall at a distance of 30 inches (and not 30 feet).
My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong, folks) is that any device with enough computer horsepower to decode Windows Media audio has enough horsepower to decode Vorbis
You are wrong, but not the way you think. That may very well be true, but it will have no (and I mean no as in none) impact on the acceptance of Ogg Vorbis.
You're living in a dream my friend, where everyone is beautiful and the birds sing every morning. We'll see if it comes true.
If SCO can prove that IBM violated their contract, say, in 1999, then the contract between SCO and IBM is declared invalid since 1999. And all the licenses sold during this period of time (1999-today) are illegal as well.
See, you don't have to "sign" something that allow the other party to invalidate the contract. The contract is valid if both parties respect it. Broken otherwise.
Well, it does turn out that even with the legal problems around GIF, PNG had a tough time making its way through. So I think it's really hard top believe that without the legal fuss PNG is going to emerge...
10 meters is more than enough for anyone to track ALL THE RFIDs that I have in my house. From the outside. Just for fun, just to know what I have inside.
I usually like to show what I own only to the people I allow in my house, but maybe you don't care about that, then you certainly don't need to whine about RFIDs.
On the same basis, I know that barcodes are virtually the same thing, they're just not wireless.
The only thing that would make me mad is if they actually embed the RFIDs in the product itself... Barcodes can usually be found on the packaging, and I would be fine with that (except for the notable exception of books. I would hate for anyone to be able to tell what I'm reading just by scanning my house)
A little how you can tell which IP is a class A or B. There would be ranges assigned to every big manufacturer and you can bet numbers between 1222554789646 and 552145698421 will be SONY. If there is more than 10 items within this range in a house, that's probably worth breaking in...
On the other hand it could even be easier. If I go to WalMart and see the big screen SONY TV with the number (Yes I have my reader with me) 123456789, and the none next to it is 123456987, I can probably assume than any number between these is a SONY TV.
Unless they give the RFIDs one by one randomly it'll be pretty easy to figure out.
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they have a very short range
Technically, they don't have a range since it's a passive device. The reader has a short range. But who prevents someone to make a reader with a greater range?
they can easily be removed if you find them
If they can be easily removed, then I'll just do that and walk out the store. Point is: They will not be easy to remove, they will not be easy to find (and miniaturisation will not help). That's the whole point of using the device to track thieves!
they probably can be disabled remotely
No comments. We don't know.
and they can certainly be killed by EMP or something similar.
Is the machine cheap if I have to buy one ?
For everyone else in the supply chain the benfits are almost incredible: automatic inventory tracking among them. I worked in an auto parts warehouse during school, and a system like this would have saved them an unreal amount of money.
We're not denying the benefits of the system, just pointing out how it could be abused.
1. Your credit card info is attached in their DB to all products you have purchased. SO when you enter a store (and you wear RFID tags) they can tell all your buyer history.
2. People from *outside* your house will be able to tell *EVERYTHING* that is inside. Magic of wireless... Technology freaks will drive around the neighborhoods with RFID readers to detect a 70" TV, or any other expensive stuff interesting to rob.
Let's say for example that each transmission take 1/10th of a second, the transmission for n packets takes n*2/10th of a second.
With fast TCP, you will have: Packet 1 -------> Packet 2 -------> Ack 1 <------ Ack 2 <------
Since your PC doesn't wait for the Ack 1 before sending packet 2, Ack1 and Packet2 are transmitted at the same time.
Here to transmit n packets, it'll take (n+1)/10th of a second.
Still very far from the 6000 ratio they are talking about in the article, but that part was probably just FUD.
To get back to the point: In order to finish your download you have to have recieved ALL the Ack packets, so nothing changes compared to good old TCP. The thing is that you use the full-duplex capacity of your card...
Hello !?! Microsoft incorporating Java in one of its products without a 10 year lawsuit before hand!
Over Bill's dead body!
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I agree. This news made my day - finally, it was almost the end, it was time!!
I was really wondering: After IBM, Linus, Linux users, I was wondering what would be next. Novell was all too obvious for me to see it I guess.
Probably a couple of next targets will be as simple as those (MS, Sun, Dell who knows?) and then they will start suing _real_ big fishes: US gov, Copyright laws, you know, real stuff.
Then they'll sue Mother Earth itself and there will be only one thing left to sue: $DEITY
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I have tried "Reload" and "Shift Reload" looking at the logs of my webserver and I saw the same crap... IE is still not downloading straight but asking for an updated version.
This was on PC, I don't know about Macs...
The FBI is on its way, watch out!
You own the DVD, but all the devices in which you can play them (legally) have paid a patent to the MPAA. Without this patent, it is illegal to distribute a piece of technology (soft/hard ware) that allow anyone to play a DVD.
;-)
IANAL, but technically, it is not illegal for you to write a program that decrypt the CSS encoding, but it is illegal to distribute it or to help others to do so, which kind of defies the pourpose.... everyone would have to write their own software to read their DVDs on GNU/Linux
Do you mean: Has DeCSS been declared illegal already?
I think that's the whole point of the DMCA, so they'll get to it. Though I have to say I don't know for sure...
Well, it is obviously illegal to play a DVD on your linux box. Even through you own:
* Linux
* The hardware
* The DVD
It is still illegal to watch a DVD on your box because the MPAA guys didn't grant a license to any software vendor that release a software DVD player for Linux. What is illegal is actually to circumvent the CSS encoding of DVDs without paying for it.
Its utility was long ago surpassed by JPG
No wonder you don't remember what it is, you've probably never know. Comparing JPG and GIF is a little bit like comparing my Van (I have three kids) and your Porsche (You're single). Different formats for different uses.
Try to fit my whole family in your Porsche and you'll see why GIF cannot be surpassed (or replaced) by JPG.
change in the way record companies think
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Words like "change" and "think" cannot be used in a sentence along with "record companies".
Then what's the point of having an RFID that is wireless ?
Giving that they are going to use RFIDs for their inventory, I seriously doubt that one guy is going to go over the store and scan all the RFIDs from a 2 inch distance. If it can't be read from a reasonnable distance, there is no point in having it wireless.
But I guess we will see. I think of it like CD-ROM drives. The first 1X released were blamed for two things:
1. Bad access time, because the CD techology is based on CLV and that didn't suit a good access time. It was seen as a major blocker that would neve be solved.
2. Slow transfer rate. We now have 52x drives.
Nothing is impossible, and I think it would be cool for the stores to have a reader that can read from a reasonnable distance. And if they need it, they'll do it.
And if SCO wins, it'll send a message to the world that you can't trust any GPLed product
Indeed. That would be true, so in this case, that would be the right message.
Let's imagine that SCO wins and SCO has a case. That means that IBM did a bad thing and did put a GPLed product in a bad legal situation! If they could do it, anyone else can do it, so the GPLed products are not to be trusted.
To be honest, the GPL is paying right now the "open" part of the license. Open means anyone can grab anything in it, including piece of their own code... Who can tell if UnixWare/AIX/Solaris/Windows violates another license (GPL or other) ???? This is closed source software!!
Do you have your TV in the middle of your living room or next to a wall? Next to a wall, that would require a reader that can read through a wall at a distance of 30 inches (and not 30 feet).
Or you could use Ogg Vorbis and no lawyers will try to collect money from you, even if you make a bunch of money.
Or you could use Ogg Vorbis and have 80% of your users not able to play your files.
I guess that's just another choice.
My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong, folks) is that any device with enough computer horsepower to decode Windows Media audio has enough horsepower to decode Vorbis
You are wrong, but not the way you think. That may very well be true, but it will have no (and I mean no as in none) impact on the acceptance of Ogg Vorbis.
You're living in a dream my friend, where everyone is beautiful and the birds sing every morning. We'll see if it comes true.
Your reasonning is flawed.
If SCO can prove that IBM violated their contract, say, in 1999, then the contract between SCO and IBM is declared invalid since 1999. And all the licenses sold during this period of time (1999-today) are illegal as well.
See, you don't have to "sign" something that allow the other party to invalidate the contract. The contract is valid if both parties respect it. Broken otherwise.
Microsoft did it already and nobody remembers about it, or so it seems....
IBM has done something about that already...
We always talk about SCO, SCO, SCO but I realized I have no clue about what IBM's response is...
Anyone ?
Well, it does turn out that even with the legal problems around GIF, PNG had a tough time making its way through. So I think it's really hard top believe that without the legal fuss PNG is going to emerge...
Though I'd like it.
10 meters is more than enough for anyone to track ALL THE RFIDs that I have in my house. From the outside. Just for fun, just to know what I have inside.
I usually like to show what I own only to the people I allow in my house, but maybe you don't care about that, then you certainly don't need to whine about RFIDs.
On the same basis, I know that barcodes are virtually the same thing, they're just not wireless.
The only thing that would make me mad is if they actually embed the RFIDs in the product itself... Barcodes can usually be found on the packaging, and I would be fine with that (except for the notable exception of books. I would hate for anyone to be able to tell what I'm reading just by scanning my house)
A little how you can tell which IP is a class A or B. There would be ranges assigned to every big manufacturer and you can bet numbers between 1222554789646 and 552145698421 will be SONY. If there is more than 10 items within this range in a house, that's probably worth breaking in...
On the other hand it could even be easier. If I go to WalMart and see the big screen SONY TV with the number (Yes I have my reader with me) 123456789, and the none next to it is 123456987, I can probably assume than any number between these is a SONY TV.
Unless they give the RFIDs one by one randomly it'll be pretty easy to figure out.
they have a very short range
Technically, they don't have a range since it's a passive device. The reader has a short range. But who prevents someone to make a reader with a greater range?
they can easily be removed if you find them
If they can be easily removed, then I'll just do that and walk out the store. Point is: They will not be easy to remove, they will not be easy to find (and miniaturisation will not help). That's the whole point of using the device to track thieves!
they probably can be disabled remotely
No comments. We don't know.
and they can certainly be killed by EMP or something similar.
Is the machine cheap if I have to buy one ?
For everyone else in the supply chain the benfits are almost incredible: automatic inventory tracking among them. I worked in an auto parts warehouse during school, and a system like this would have saved them an unreal amount of money.
We're not denying the benefits of the system, just pointing out how it could be abused.
The problem is double:
1. Your credit card info is attached in their DB to all products you have purchased. SO when you enter a store (and you wear RFID tags) they can tell all your buyer history.
2. People from *outside* your house will be able to tell *EVERYTHING* that is inside. Magic of wireless... Technology freaks will drive around the neighborhoods with RFID readers to detect a 70" TV, or any other expensive stuff interesting to rob.
And then I'll gave to pay big bucks for it right? And I'll find it normal...
Life sucks.
As I see it (hard to say because the article wasn't exactly technical), here is how it's going to work:
Slow TCP:
Packet 1
------->
Ack 1
<------
Packet 2
------->
Ack 2
<------
Let's say for example that each transmission take 1/10th of a second, the transmission for n packets takes n*2/10th of a second.
With fast TCP, you will have:
Packet 1
------->
Packet 2
------->
Ack 1
<------
Ack 2
<------
Since your PC doesn't wait for the Ack 1 before sending packet 2, Ack1 and Packet2 are transmitted at the same time.
Here to transmit n packets, it'll take (n+1)/10th of a second.
Still very far from the 6000 ratio they are talking about in the article, but that part was probably just FUD.
To get back to the point: In order to finish your download you have to have recieved ALL the Ack packets, so nothing changes compared to good old TCP. The thing is that you use the full-duplex capacity of your card...
From the article: no J2ME
Hello !?! Microsoft incorporating Java in one of its products without a 10 year lawsuit before hand!
Over Bill's dead body!
I agree. This news made my day - finally, it was almost the end, it was time!!
I was really wondering: After IBM, Linus, Linux users, I was wondering what would be next. Novell was all too obvious for me to see it I guess.
Probably a couple of next targets will be as simple as those (MS, Sun, Dell who knows?) and then they will start suing _real_ big fishes: US gov, Copyright laws, you know, real stuff.
Then they'll sue Mother Earth itself and there will be only one thing left to sue: $DEITY
Then we'll get all screwed!