Your totally missing the point. I'm saying that if they had provided a way to play movies on DVD we wouldn't have put so much energy into trying to crack it. Sure someday it probably would have happen. But it provided a motivation.
If the industry had simply given the linux community a way to play DVDs all of this may have been avoided. The movie industry has only theirself to blame, and punishing their consumers for it is not the way to go.
Accually it takes approximatly 2 petrabytes from what I've read to store all sensery inputs and all other memory (the things that we thought but didn't nessesarly have inputted) for a human for an average lifespan. 67 assuming 1 bit per molecule 6.02e23/2^50/8= about 67 million so you could store 67 million lifespans. APPROXIMATLY in a mole...... shrugs.. thats not that much.. really windows 2050 will take atleast that. (even then.. imagine the load time.. though I guess you would buy memory preloaded with windows just never let it loose its power... assuming of course it works like that..)
But for now 1. I can buy a DVD movie for around $15 bucks. 2. I can buy a CD-R disk for around $20 bucks. 3. Said disk might become a coaster. 4. Said disk is better used as a backup medium. ($20/4.5GB) more expensive than tape.. but its random access. 5. I can spend the entire afternoon burning said disk. 6. I can spend a few minutes buying/renting said disk. 7. I don't belive you can play said disk directly from your HD.. meaning you have to burn them first... Though this may not be true for Linux as you can mount an.iso... or whatever its called in DVD land.
No, your thinking about GNU=(G)NU is (N)ot (U)nix LINUX simply is a take off from the name Linus and the word Unix.. Linus accually originally called it something based on minux.. though I forget, but the ftp site owners choose to call the directory it was stored in LINUX and the name sticked. Though it is sorta a backrym (an acronym created after the fact) like BASIC which was just indented to be a "Basic" programming language.. after the fact people said.. hmmmmm. that must stand for something and came up with some acronym.. of which I've currently blocked from memory, but I'm sure you could look up:)
SO smarty pants. What DOES it stand for HM HM!!! TELL ME WHY DON'T YOU! hehehe I feel better now.
Maby it stands for When Its Neat to Eat.
TOP TEN LIST of things WINE could stand for.
10. Where Is Nuke Exploding 9. Whats In Norms Email 8. Windows Is Normally Exploding 7. Windows Is Not Evolving 6. Why Is Norm Everlasting 5. Who is Norm Everybody? 4. What Is miNe problEm. 3. WINdows crashEd 2. WINdows cashEd And the number one..possible choice of things WINE could stand for 1... Wine Is Not an Emulator
You could only crack 1 signature at a time... and I don't know if 1 vote is worth that amount of time. And I would hope there should be a way of changing it periodically.. in real life (so they can conferm that you really are... you)
Well yea, and ICQ:) if I could get those two working right (sorry but kicq is still crap) I'd say goodbye to windows forever, welll after a found a good minesweeper clone:)
No... duh assign everyone a digital signiture. Even cooler if this digital signature decoded in some way to reviel something unique but non private about you IE fingerprints or something. But I digress, assigned non mandatory (aka only used for serious/legal documents not like the SSN's have become) digital signature would be be perfect solutions to such problems.
While I don't think he quite knows what a fad means. I think his implications of it being the next new thing will fad. As I one time the telephone was the next new thing and everyone was raving about it. And in a weird sort of way, the initial hype was a fad, and eventually everything calmed down, and it was simply "the telephone" and the next new generation will most likly having been born with the internet, simply think of it as "the internet". To them it will likly be nothing more, and nothing less. They may even have less interest in it than most of the previous generation, as it was something radically new and exciting for us it will just be something that has always been to them.
Personally I feel that this was either 1.) Toshiba has some really horrible laywers who don't understand the American legal system. Suppositivly they settled because they feared as much as a 90 billion suit if it went to court. Seriously I don't care how wacked the judge/jury was I couldn't see it being much more than the settlement. 2.) The lawsuit wasn't really about the floppy drive at all. The guy had some really sensative information concerning something to do with Toshiba and blackmailed them for 2 billion. What better way to explain such a payment to the IRS.
Yes but even as a non newbie. I cried when in the actual install (booting from cd) partition program made me enter cylinder ranges as opposed to MB (sure it dynamically told me the MB it would take as I typed. but geez.. come on)
Yea, I also like the fact that you can edit the dns entries on them for your domain. I have a domain through Hurricane Electric. And all I use them for is dns routing. As my ip changes occasionally and I don't have the ability of running a dns server. Note: I wouldn't suggest something like this is your ip changes constently aka dialup/cable modem.
But the point is say I wanted to search for the word yahoo on lycos. I couldn't. Accually you can type 'yahoo' and it will search its database for 'yahoo', note "yahoo" will still return the annoying page. So what I think is that the broken link was supposed to send you on to accually search for the word yahoo. But it just returns the same thing.
Whoa geez.. thats completely not what I wrote:( how embarrasing I meant cout "Please enter # of PE credits taken per year"; cin PE if (PE = 10) cout "Please shoot on sight."; else cout "A loving caring citizen of the community.";
Whoa, the last 13 paragraphs of that article are repeated twice. Whats scary is it still reads ok. Obviously someone had a loss for words.. But on another note, I wonder how this program was made. cout > PE if (PE = 10) cout "Please shoot on sight."; else cout "A loving caring citizen of the community.";
Well accually, don't you remember amazons thing a few months ago of providing agregate information on company employees book buying habits. At first they insisted there will not be an opt out option. The thing appeared on slashdot, we yelled and screamed about how this was a privacy violation, it eventually got into a few mainstream media stores, and people where protesting amazon left and right. Now you have the option to opt out. One would think Amazon has learned its lesson already, or atleast pays attention to slashdot. Hope for a recanter by monday!:)
Sue the patent office? Accually I asked a lawyer friend of mine about this a few weeks (ok not an accual lawyer but he's in his last year of law school so he knows plenty). It was stated by him that government entities have soverignty and basically can not be sued unless they want to, which is effectivly never. Remember the thing on slashdot the other week about states not having to conform to copyright, its the same general reason. Well accually you can sue government, but at any point in time they can state soverigty, and the case will instantly be dismissed unless its a case of civil rights or a few other such things, and even then you have to get the federal government to step in.
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Your totally missing the point. I'm saying that if they had provided a way to play movies on DVD we wouldn't have put so much energy into trying to crack it. Sure someday it probably would have happen. But it provided a motivation.
HEHEHE meant to say DVD-R... I try and pay atmost 1.50 for a cd-r disk.. and even that I consider expensive
If the industry had simply given the linux community a way to play DVDs all of this may have been avoided. The movie industry has only theirself to blame, and punishing their consumers for it is not the way to go.
numbers are at 92% and 8% now.. (as of 6:46 EST)
looks like the slashdot effect is working!!!
Accually it takes approximatly 2 petrabytes from what I've read to store all sensery inputs and all other memory (the things that we thought but didn't nessesarly have inputted) for a human for an average lifespan. 67
assuming 1 bit per molecule 6.02e23/2^50/8=
about 67 million
so you could store 67 million lifespans. APPROXIMATLY
in a mole...... shrugs.. thats not that much.. really windows 2050 will take atleast that. (even then.. imagine the load time.. though I guess you would buy memory preloaded with windows just never let it loose its power... assuming of course it works like that..)
But for now .. Though this may not be true for Linux as you can mount an .iso... or whatever its called in DVD land.
1. I can buy a DVD movie for around $15 bucks.
2. I can buy a CD-R disk for around $20 bucks.
3. Said disk might become a coaster.
4. Said disk is better used as a backup medium.
($20/4.5GB) more expensive than tape.. but its random access.
5. I can spend the entire afternoon burning said disk.
6. I can spend a few minutes buying/renting said disk.
7. I don't belive you can play said disk directly from your HD.. meaning you have to burn them first.
No, your thinking about GNU=(G)NU is (N)ot (U)nix :)
LINUX simply is a take off from the name Linus and the word Unix.. Linus accually originally called it something based on minux.. though I forget, but the ftp site owners choose to call the directory it was stored in LINUX and the name sticked. Though it is sorta a backrym (an acronym created after the fact) like BASIC which was just indented to be a "Basic" programming language.. after the fact people said.. hmmmmm. that must stand for something and came up with some acronym.. of which I've currently blocked from memory, but I'm sure you could look up
*RUNS SCREAMING INTO THE NIGHT*
SO smarty pants. What DOES it stand for HM HM!!! TELL ME WHY DON'T YOU! hehehe I feel better now.
Maby it stands for When Its Neat to Eat.
TOP TEN LIST of things WINE could stand for.
10. Where Is Nuke Exploding
9. Whats In Norms Email
8. Windows Is Normally Exploding
7. Windows Is Not Evolving
6. Why Is Norm Everlasting
5. Who is Norm Everybody?
4. What Is miNe problEm.
3. WINdows crashEd
2. WINdows cashEd
And the number one..possible choice of things WINE could stand for
1... Wine Is Not an Emulator
You could only crack 1 signature at a time... and I don't know if 1 vote is worth that amount of time. And I would hope there should be a way of changing it periodically.. in real life (so they can conferm that you really are... you)
Well yea, and ICQ :) if I could get those two working right (sorry but kicq is still crap) I'd say goodbye to windows forever, welll after a found a good minesweeper clone :)
No... duh assign everyone a digital signiture. Even cooler if this digital signature decoded in some way to reviel something unique but non private about you IE fingerprints or something. But I digress, assigned non mandatory (aka only used for serious/legal documents not like the SSN's have become) digital signature would be be perfect solutions to such problems.
Choosy Perverts Choose .GIF!!
(yes I know its pronounces gif as in gift without the t.. but I don't care)
While I don't think he quite knows what a fad means. I think his implications of it being the next new thing will fad. As I one time the telephone was the next new thing and everyone was raving about it. And in a weird sort of way, the initial hype was a fad, and eventually everything calmed down, and it was simply "the telephone" and the next new generation will most likly having been born with the internet, simply think of it as "the internet". To them it will likly be nothing more, and nothing less. They may even have less interest in it than most of the previous generation, as it was something radically new and exciting for us it will just be something that has always been to them.
Personally I feel that this was either
1.) Toshiba has some really horrible laywers who don't understand the American legal system. Suppositivly they settled because they feared as much as a 90 billion suit if it went to court. Seriously I don't care how wacked the judge/jury was I couldn't see it being much more than the settlement.
2.) The lawsuit wasn't really about the floppy drive at all. The guy had some really sensative information concerning something to do with Toshiba and blackmailed them for 2 billion. What better way to explain such a payment to the IRS.
Yes but even as a non newbie. I cried when in the actual install (booting from cd) partition program made me enter cylinder ranges as opposed to MB (sure it dynamically told me the MB it would take as I typed. but geez.. come on)
Yea, I also like the fact that you can edit the dns entries on them for your domain. I have a domain through Hurricane Electric. And all I use them for is dns routing. As my ip changes occasionally and I don't have the ability of running a dns server. Note: I wouldn't suggest something like this is your ip changes constently aka dialup/cable modem.
But the point is say I wanted to search for the word yahoo on lycos. I couldn't. Accually you can type 'yahoo' and it will search its database for 'yahoo', note "yahoo" will still return the annoying page.
So what I think is that the broken link was supposed to send you on to accually search for the word yahoo. But it just returns the same thing.
HHE much better source code. I'm just embarrased that I didn't notice how previewing strips your code.. :(
Whoa geez.. thats completely not what I wrote :( how embarrasing I meant cout "Please enter # of PE credits taken per year"; cin PE if (PE = 10) cout "Please shoot on sight."; else cout "A loving caring citizen of the community.";
Whoa, the last 13 paragraphs of that article are repeated twice. Whats scary is it still reads ok. Obviously someone had a loss for words.. But on another note, I wonder how this program was made.
cout > PE
if (PE = 10)
cout "Please shoot on sight.";
else
cout "A loving caring citizen of the community.";
Rob really needs to put a "Background" section in slashdot. As a referense to finding Robs fav background images of all time.
Well accually, don't you remember amazons thing a few months ago of providing agregate information on company employees book buying habits. At first they insisted there will not be an opt out option. The thing appeared on slashdot, we yelled and screamed about how this was a privacy violation, it eventually got into a few mainstream media stores, and people where protesting amazon left and right. Now you have the option to opt out. One would think Amazon has learned its lesson already, or atleast pays attention to slashdot. Hope for a recanter by monday! :)
As I'm no in the mood to type it again.
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but basically because of government soverignty you can't sue government entities.
Or how bout a mysterious investment from the slashdot foundation to pay for some legal fees :) heheh
Sue the patent office? Accually I asked a lawyer friend of mine about this a few weeks (ok not an accual lawyer but he's in his last year of law school so he knows plenty). It was stated by him that government entities have soverignty and basically can not be sued unless they want to, which is effectivly never. Remember the thing on slashdot the other week about states not having to conform to copyright, its the same general reason. Well accually you can sue government, but at any point in time they can state soverigty, and the case will instantly be dismissed unless its a case of civil rights or a few other such things, and even then you have to get the federal government to step in.