bought a copy of the linux/ps2 cd and brought it here? Now, what I don't know about linux could fill the library of congress but if linux is so uber why hasn't someone just ported it to US ps2's?
ps: If the answer involves a part of the Sony distro that is closed, please tell me to shut up.(don't forget reverse engineering!)
The only thing I didn't like about the article is that after reading it, I got the impression that Sklyarov is the person repsonsible for the programmer. I don't know if Elcomsoft is incorporated or not but (I think) that alone would clear him from being personally responsible for the ebook processor. Even if it isnt there surely has to be another person who is equally liable for the program. I don't know shit about programming but I do know that unless it's a homebrewed app it's always written in teams. And even if it was written only by him, the COO, or even whoever gave him the ok to persue it is more responsible for this (bs) violation then Sklyarov! Anyway, it's obvious he's being targeted, that's all I'm trying to say.
You know you're in a bad position when a large group of people say that despite your service being free it still sucks. Could you imagine the heat MS would be getting if they charged for Hotmail?
IANAP(programmer) but so what if MS doesn't write a samba (compliant) file system driver. Why not just write one or install one? That is possible isn't it?
So it was my understanding that fair use can go out the window at any time, regardless of DMCA. Am I incorrect in my understanding?
You are incorrect. If they put a shrink wrap license on a CD saying you're not even allowed to listen to it it's the UCITA that gives shrink wrap (and click-through) licences their teeth, not the DMCA or any copyright law already on the books.
What the net needs are smarter users. It's not the amount of information that traverses it that is important, it's the ability to sift through it with an educated, objective mind. Joe Sixpack needs to be elevated and then you'll really start seeing some happenin things being done with the net (not on it). The way I see it, our kids are gonna lead the revolution that changes the way/.'ers see the net, not us.
Please, whatever you do, don't quote any laws...
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cuz, cuz... then the article would have some standing in that place we call reality.
I honestly think that if someone posted that article here as a comment it would have merit b/c it's just a comment. Saying MS is bad/evil is fun/great/perhaps even accurate. Saying what they should and shouldn't do is also good for debate but imploring the Gov't to penalize a business....All you people saying/. should be journalistically responsible should point your flame throwers at sivalley.com
Think about it, you ask the gov't today to tell MS it can't release an OS really means, "Write a law so MS can't do X (assuming there isn't one on the books already." Does MS violate any privacy laws with XP? I dunno and after having read the article I still dont! MS is possibly guilty of being immoral for XP (I say possibly cuz I haven't touched WinXP) but being criminally liable to the point of injuction? Either tell me why or STFU.
Since I only lurk the ars forums I wanted to encourage anyone here who likes what Ars has to offer, to offer their support by subscribing to Ars.
Everyone (including me) hates to hear how IP owners are bearing down on users to squeeze out every dime from their users. Ars will go offline before that crew sells out so show some support if you dig their site (plz).
If you're talking about their Windows support then I would say that their end user support is trash but if you have a corp account (I work for what you'd consider a tiny enterprise) like I do I'd think you'd be happy. Most conversations go like this: me: It's broke and I can't fix it. Supp Guy: Ok a new one's out the door. Me:You da man!
The other cool thing most of their Corp Acc Mgrs are some of the coolest/nicest ppl I've ever worked with.
Having said all that, I've never had to use their RH support but I know that they have it outsourced so your beef isn't with Dell (not really anyway) it's with whomever they outsourced.
even though you provide some great examples, just be glad there's no ePaq. The better thing is that if it hasn't happened already it prob wont. E-anything drives me apeshit!
I remember watching Northern Exposure when I was about 13 and there was this episode where Chris Stevens dates this mathematician chic and she talks about a string of eight 8's. Years later when I read about a Pi search engine I tried it and was actually surprised to see it worked.
Right now I own a PS2 and the only reason I don't regret buying it is cuz of the promise of MGS2. The demo rocks btw
Nintendo as a software house makes games that kids under 12 absolutly love. They aren't always the most complicated but they are easy to play which is very important. It won't be specs that win the battle it'll be the fun-factor of the games they release and I think Nintendo still knows how to do that.
The way they make trailers these days, it'd have to be hollywood size to get them away from a nascar race on the toob.
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I have to say I agree with everything you said but this:
"Think of every person like Sklyarov out there who might get detained now, and think about how those other corporations will use Adobe's bait-n-switch tactic in the future...
To that I would ask that you keep in mind the moves and shakes made by corps against 'anonymous posters' slandering them on yahoo and some other places. The paralell between the two scenarios is that corps leveraged an interpretation out of the courts to out these people so they could be fired (assaulted) but eventually a judge came up with three (or was it 5) relatively good points of criteria and more are following suit. My point is that despite their dense attitudes towards technology overall, evetually (there's that word again) they catch on. People will get screwed between then and now but afterall, democracy is a slow process.
You know what the great thing about computers are? The fact that (almost) anything that can be claimed about them can be proven (or refuted). With facts (gasp)
IOW if someone is posting a fact and you believe it to be true when it really isnt its your fault not theirs. If it was an opinion, you still have the choice of agreeing (or not) but no matter who the messenger was if it made you think a little you might even come away with something new (albeit useless:) .
Take anything on the net with a grain of salt. Actually make that two or three.
I have to admit, even though a specialized distro is not really a new concept I'm quite intrigued. Imagine that instead of selling a card that plugs into a PC (as it's sometimes done now), a company could sell an entire PC with a home brewed Linux distro. Obviously the price would be higher but that kind of custimization could lead to some really interesting setup from a professional perspective. Kinda like the embedded concept but scaled a lot higher!
You know, that argument is really a bunch of shit. How do you explain that the Orioles spend almost as much and get no results (~$115 Mil)? What about the Mets (~$110)? With a couple of exceptions like Mussina and Knobs, some of their best players came up through the Yankee farm system (Soriano, Pettite, Jeter). They use their money to bring in names, but they use more of their money to keep the players that are producing.
Your post is awfully narrow minded. If not for the content of it then for the Go Red Sox part!:) Go Yanks BTW!!!
I'm only kidding but you saying we're wasting money on sports research is the same as those rednecks who say NASA is the black hole of money. Why do I say that? Well, my sister-in-law had to have arthroscopic surgery on her knee after a skiing snafu and she is 100% back after only 6 months. Where do you think they perfected that technique? Why are those sneakers you wear into work everyday so comfy? When we send food to Africa how do you think we know how to pack as much nutrition into as small a package as possible? Those are only the tip of the ice berg (thats my excuse for being unable to come up with anything else:) ) but sports research does have a realistic ROI in at least some cases.
Honestly, when I posted I had this in mind. MS' plan for converting Hotmail from BSD to Win2k. They at least tried and I read it and thought it was cool that they would document a project like that for all to see. The scale, the scope, the clusters....gurgle gurgle.:)
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ps: If the answer involves a part of the Sony distro that is closed, please tell me to shut up.(don't forget reverse engineering!)
This is the RC3, so it says on the page where I found it
two links!
to change their name to Attack the of the Alien BFP Clones just to piss everyone off
1 down, 1 more to go.
The only thing I didn't like about the article is that after reading it, I got the impression that Sklyarov is the person repsonsible for the programmer. I don't know if Elcomsoft is incorporated or not but (I think) that alone would clear him from being personally responsible for the ebook processor. Even if it isnt there surely has to be another person who is equally liable for the program. I don't know shit about programming but I do know that unless it's a homebrewed app it's always written in teams. And even if it was written only by him, the COO, or even whoever gave him the ok to persue it is more responsible for this (bs) violation then Sklyarov! Anyway, it's obvious he's being targeted, that's all I'm trying to say.
You know you're in a bad position when a large group of people say that despite your service being free it still sucks. Could you imagine the heat MS would be getting if they charged for Hotmail?
Or Adobe will call the FBI up on yo ass!
IANAP(programmer) but so what if MS doesn't write a samba (compliant) file system driver. Why not just write one or install one? That is possible isn't it?
So it was my understanding that fair use can go out the window at any time, regardless of DMCA. Am I incorrect in my understanding?
You are incorrect. If they put a shrink wrap license on a CD saying you're not even allowed to listen to it it's the UCITA that gives shrink wrap (and click-through) licences their teeth, not the DMCA or any copyright law already on the books.
What the net needs are smarter users. It's not the amount of information that traverses it that is important, it's the ability to sift through it with an educated, objective mind. Joe Sixpack needs to be elevated and then you'll really start seeing some happenin things being done with the net (not on it). The way I see it, our kids are gonna lead the revolution that changes the way /.'ers see the net, not us.
cuz, cuz... then the article would have some standing in that place we call reality.
/. should be journalistically responsible should point your flame throwers at sivalley.com
I honestly think that if someone posted that article here as a comment it would have merit b/c it's just a comment. Saying MS is bad/evil is fun/great/perhaps even accurate. Saying what they should and shouldn't do is also good for debate but imploring the Gov't to penalize a business....All you people saying
Think about it, you ask the gov't today to tell MS it can't release an OS really means, "Write a law so MS can't do X (assuming there isn't one on the books already." Does MS violate any privacy laws with XP? I dunno and after having read the article I still dont! MS is possibly guilty of being immoral for XP (I say possibly cuz I haven't touched WinXP) but being criminally liable to the point of injuction? Either tell me why or STFU.
Since I only lurk the ars forums I wanted to encourage anyone here who likes what Ars has to offer, to offer their support by subscribing to Ars.
Everyone (including me) hates to hear how IP owners are bearing down on users to squeeze out every dime from their users. Ars will go offline before that crew sells out so show some support if you dig their site (plz).
reverse-angle.goatse.youknowtherest
If you're talking about their Windows support then I would say that their end user support is trash but if you have a corp account (I work for what you'd consider a tiny enterprise) like I do I'd think you'd be happy. Most conversations go like this:
me: It's broke and I can't fix it.
Supp Guy: Ok a new one's out the door.
Me:You da man!
The other cool thing most of their Corp Acc Mgrs are some of the coolest/nicest ppl I've ever worked with.
Having said all that, I've never had to use their RH support but I know that they have it outsourced so your beef isn't with Dell (not really anyway) it's with whomever they outsourced.
even though you provide some great examples, just be glad there's no ePaq. The better thing is that if it hasn't happened already it prob wont. E-anything drives me apeshit!
I remember watching Northern Exposure when I was about 13 and there was this episode where Chris Stevens dates this mathematician chic and she talks about a string of eight 8's. Years later when I read about a Pi search engine I tried it and was actually surprised to see it worked.
/. = useless posts.
alcohol +
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The cosmic kind. Not the /. kind
:)
You'd better hope he doesn't moderate!
It's The Games Stupid! (derivative of KISS)
Right now I own a PS2 and the only reason I don't regret buying it is cuz of the promise of MGS2. The demo rocks btw
Nintendo as a software house makes games that kids under 12 absolutly love. They aren't always the most complicated but they are easy to play which is very important. It won't be specs that win the battle it'll be the fun-factor of the games they release and I think Nintendo still knows how to do that.
The way they make trailers these days, it'd have to be hollywood size to get them away from a nascar race on the toob.
:o)
I have to say I agree with everything you said but this:
"Think of every person like Sklyarov out there who might get detained now, and think about how those other corporations will use Adobe's bait-n-switch tactic in the future...
To that I would ask that you keep in mind the moves and shakes made by corps against 'anonymous posters' slandering them on yahoo and some other places. The paralell between the two scenarios is that corps leveraged an interpretation out of the courts to out these people so they could be fired (assaulted) but eventually a judge came up with three (or was it 5) relatively good points of criteria and more are following suit. My point is that despite their dense attitudes towards technology overall, evetually (there's that word again) they catch on. People will get screwed between then and now but afterall, democracy is a slow process.
You know what the great thing about computers are? The fact that (almost) anything that can be claimed about them can be proven (or refuted). With facts (gasp)
:) .
IOW if someone is posting a fact and you believe it to be true when it really isnt its your fault not theirs. If it was an opinion, you still have the choice of agreeing (or not) but no matter who the messenger was if it made you think a little you might even come away with something new (albeit useless
Take anything on the net with a grain of salt. Actually make that two or three.
I have to admit, even though a specialized distro is not really a new concept I'm quite intrigued. Imagine that instead of selling a card that plugs into a PC (as it's sometimes done now), a company could sell an entire PC with a home brewed Linux distro. Obviously the price would be higher but that kind of custimization could lead to some really interesting setup from a professional perspective. Kinda like the embedded concept but scaled a lot higher!
You know, that argument is really a bunch of shit. How do you explain that the Orioles spend almost as much and get no results (~$115 Mil)? What about the Mets (~$110)? With a couple of exceptions like Mussina and Knobs, some of their best players came up through the Yankee farm system (Soriano, Pettite, Jeter). They use their money to bring in names, but they use more of their money to keep the players that are producing.
Your post is awfully narrow minded. If not for the content of it then for the Go Red Sox part! :) Go Yanks BTW!!!
:) ) but sports research does have a realistic ROI in at least some cases.
I'm only kidding but you saying we're wasting money on sports research is the same as those rednecks who say NASA is the black hole of money. Why do I say that? Well, my sister-in-law had to have arthroscopic surgery on her knee after a skiing snafu and she is 100% back after only 6 months. Where do you think they perfected that technique? Why are those sneakers you wear into work everyday so comfy? When we send food to Africa how do you think we know how to pack as much nutrition into as small a package as possible? Those are only the tip of the ice berg (thats my excuse for being unable to come up with anything else
Honestly, when I posted I had this in mind. MS' plan for converting Hotmail from BSD to Win2k. They at least tried and I read it and thought it was cool that they would document a project like that for all to see. The scale, the scope, the clusters....gurgle gurgle. :)
kill-istrator, it just sounds more funner! :)