Did anyone read the linked-to material? They are saying that putting *copyrighted* materials in a shared folder is illegal. Not just sharing any files. I'm no defender of RIAA, but let's try to get a fact straight.
Every modern windows installation has an administrative C$ shared out by default. Does this mean that everyone with even a single mp3 anywhere on their c: drive will get sued? Will Microsoft get sued for inducing copyright infringment?
A secret filter inside the box dismisses some data as useless and collects only relevant data according to the confidential criteria that can be programmed into the software
Who wants to bet the secret filter might end up being/.*/
You also have banks and customers checking balances and statements all the time. If there was a requirement to have voter verified printed receipts that were put into a box after you voted so any recounts could use the printed receipt, I'm sure that Diebold voting machines would suddenly become as accurate and reliable as their ATM machines.
Prince of Persia: not an online game, but still was succesful. Which was also released on console first.
I seem to recall my copy of the first Prince of Persia having requirements for such as: 8086/8 4Mhz, DOS 3.0, 384K, CGA (or Hercules with a CGA emulator prog), and Joystick(optional).
After the original release for the Apple II computer and IBM PC, Prince of Persia was ported to a wide range of platforms, including the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, NES, Game Boy, SNES and Sega Genesis.
Amazon is offering Firefly-The Complete Series and Serenity for $47
Sounds like an Amazon bundling rip-off to me.
Firefly, the complete series---Price: $29.96 Serenity, widescreen edition--Price: $16.98
The total comes out to: $43.94 Both the bundle and these two products(on one order) qualify for free shipping, so there's no extra shipping costs.
I guess there are people still out there that think *all* bundles are going to save them money.
Probably not, because they aren't disciminating based upon the content. Postal mail still has common carrier status, despite different levels of service.
I think this is a little different. With USPS, you are paying a little more to have your letter *delivered* faster to someone else. I'm pretty sure the USPS would get in trouble if they charged you to *receive* a letter from someone else faster.
OF COURSE Linux demands more updates, there's simply more software to patch! And that's not a good thing. It means you spend more time patching Linux boxes than Windows boxes.
To compare the systems, you would have to make it fair by taking your base windows installation, then adding: Microsoft office, Nero, Winamp, Realplayer, your favorite email program, Windvd, musicmatch(for ripping mp3s), visual studio, aim, yim, icq(or gaim), some antivirus, Java RTE, assorted macromedia plugins, winrar, an image editing program(not mspaint), Apple quicktime, a *good* text editor, vnc, a good firewall with blocking/redirection rules equivalent to iptables, and a web server.
Now, how long will it take an administrator on a windows box to find out if there are updates for each of those programs, download, and apply those updates with all the required reboots(because MS doesn't know how to stop and reload a service) AND make sure they don't interact badly with each other.
It takes a while. I've run into situations where there's an update for MS office that updates some dll that some other program requires an older version. I've also had updates for a program downgrade a dll that I had previously upgraded. But since the registry entry says patch kbxxxx is applied, it's impossible to go to windows update and get the patch again, and almost as hard to find the individual package and force it to re-install rather than just checking the registry and exiting.
Most linux distributions take care of all this for you. They do the job of checking with the authors of each package they produce and updating the package if necessary. I doubt MS will ever do anything like this.
Why does everyone keep saying this is an illegal war? Doesn't anyone do *any* research for themselves? It cannot be an illegal war if congress drafted a resolution of war and voted/passed the resolution.
IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION 107th CONGRESS 2d Session H. J. RES. 114 October 10, 2002 JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Here's the headline of the results of the vote from CNN showing that the authorization for war passed:
In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq.
And if you like to say your favorite congressional member [is|was always against] the war, please check that they didn't vote for the war.
Support is probably the primary issue why Dell cant realistically start flogging Linux boxes to the general populace
Now, I've owned a couple of Dell computers(you'll notice owned is past tense) and I've had to call support. The support script goes something like this: Me: My computer keeps bluescreening with a stop 7B Support: Wow, that's strange. I haven't heard of a 7B code before. Have you rebooted? Me: Yes, several times. Support: Well, lets try it again while I'm on the phone Me: <rebooting>..Nope, still the same. Support: Ok, try shutting down and unplugging the power cord for 5 minutes Me: <????> 5 minutes pass..nope, didn't work. Support: hmm, well I guess you'll have to put in the restore disk. Be sure you've backed every thing up. Me: *crap!* I can't backup if I can't get into windows. Ok, thanks for your "help" Support: No problem! We here at Dell value your business and appreciate any comments you wish to make. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate my service? Me:
And the problem I had...It was something to do with upgrading the *included* Roxio software to easy cd creator 5. Result: 15-20 minutes on hold, and 10 with the 'support' tech didn't fix the problem, but 5 minutes of searching on google got me the answer I was looking for.
So support for a Linux, FreeDOS, or non-windows OS is exactly the same and costs nothing extra, except maybe a %s/[Ww]indows/Linux/g
Companies get in trouble for flooding the marketplace with a product, how is artificially restricting supply to drive up demand and price any different?
And most journalists aren't responsible to anyone either. The editor just makes sure the story flows and will sell newspapers. Not counting the real hits you get from googling "false AP stories" or looking at http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/06/company_corr ect.html , I run out of fingers and toes counting the number of incorrect stories about tech companies and their products that have run on CNet, ZiffDavis, and other "real" news sites with "real" journalists in the past year.
This really makes my head spin. It's his law and even he isn't sure how the definitions should work. You'd think a sponsor of the bill might have an opinion about something like that.
NASA has big archives of space data, and they're only going to get bigger - the next generation of earth observing satellites are expected to generate 4 petabytes/year. That's 4 * 10**15, folks - think 8,000 500 GB drives. Per year. For at least the next ten years. One year is on the order of the size of Google's web cache.
Current archives are merely huge, and off-the-shelf databases are having trouble indexing it all - I've heard of a database holding just metadata (date/time, geographic extent, data type, resolution, format, etc.) for millions of observations where queries were taking tens of seconds, and this was with top-of-the-line commercial database software with all the spatial search bells and whistles.
If anybody can come up with a better way to store and index this stuff, it's Google.
I'm sure the editors read/. It's just that after working with so many computer components, the lead solder from the circuit boards is causing alzheimer's.
I don't want to worry about installing or developing my own tools. Meet me. Joe Consumer.
And that cool, new fiddy-cent ringtone and J-Lo background you want? Sorry, you can't get it from cheap-ringtones.com, you MUST buy it from www.expensive.verizon.com. You don't have to be an engineer to want to install stuff on your cellphone.
Would someone here please make some sense of this?
Because they don't spend $15-$20/hour for several hundred tech support people. They spend $0.15-$0.20 an hour for about 6 outsourced guys and 1 email autoresponder that tells you to 'insert the restore cd and reboot'
If you went to the page, it's not OpenOffice writer/calc/web/etc, it's Luxuriousity writer/calc/web. No where on any of the pages does it say anything about them being OSS products. I'd bet that they don't and/or won't offer the source. I would also put money on them trying to sue you under the DMCA if you offered the 'Luxuriousity' writer program for download on another site, even though the GNU license specifically allows you to "You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2)".
BTW, if anybody has info on the specifics of the car-searching case(s) I've mentioned above, please share!
Jan 25 article allowing dogs to be the "probable cause" Wouldn't this be almost the same as using an infrared camera to see through the walls of your home to see what you're doing?
Stan: C'mon, Pip! Say it! Say "Please hit me!"! Pip: But, if I say that, you'll hit me! Stan: No! I'm gonna hit you if you DON'T say it! If you say "Please hit me!", I won't hit you! Pip: Please hit me! Stan: Alright! (Hits Pip.) Pip: OW! Stan: Alright! Let's try this again.
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Every modern windows installation has an administrative C$ shared out by default. Does this mean that everyone with even a single mp3 anywhere on their c: drive will get sued? Will Microsoft get sued for inducing copyright infringment?
Who wants to bet the secret filter might end up being
And considering they do ATMs that are secure....
You also have banks and customers checking balances and statements all the time. If there was a requirement to have voter verified printed receipts that were put into a box after you voted so any recounts could use the printed receipt, I'm sure that Diebold voting machines would suddenly become as accurate and reliable as their ATM machines.
What ever happened to free and OPEN elections?
Can't you just make a copy of the fixed gdi32.dll from a working windows machine?
I seem to recall my copy of the first Prince of Persia having requirements for such as:
8086/8 4Mhz, DOS 3.0, 384K, CGA (or Hercules with a CGA emulator prog), and Joystick(optional).
After the original release for the Apple II computer and IBM PC, Prince of Persia was ported to a wide range of platforms, including the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, NES, Game Boy, SNES and Sega Genesis.
No, I just might not be using the best ones
You know what I'd like to see? Where's the top 10 search keywords for Google Images?
And so I don't have to ask again, Where are the top 10 search keywords for Google Images for people with SafeSearch turned off?
Sounds like an Amazon bundling rip-off to me.
Firefly, the complete series---Price: $29.96
Serenity, widescreen edition--Price: $16.98
The total comes out to: $43.94
Both the bundle and these two products(on one order) qualify for free shipping, so there's no extra shipping costs.
I guess there are people still out there that think *all* bundles are going to save them money.
I think this is a little different. With USPS, you are paying a little more to have your letter *delivered* faster to someone else.
I'm pretty sure the USPS would get in trouble if they charged you to *receive* a letter from someone else faster.
To compare the systems, you would have to make it fair by taking your base windows installation, then adding:
Microsoft office, Nero, Winamp, Realplayer, your favorite email program, Windvd, musicmatch(for ripping mp3s), visual studio, aim, yim, icq(or gaim), some antivirus, Java RTE, assorted macromedia plugins, winrar, an image editing program(not mspaint), Apple quicktime, a *good* text editor, vnc, a good firewall with blocking/redirection rules equivalent to iptables, and a web server.
Now, how long will it take an administrator on a windows box to find out if there are updates for each of those programs, download, and apply those updates with all the required reboots(because MS doesn't know how to stop and reload a service) AND make sure they don't interact badly with each other.
It takes a while. I've run into situations where there's an update for MS office that updates some dll that some other program requires an older version. I've also had updates for a program downgrade a dll that I had previously upgraded. But since the registry entry says patch kbxxxx is applied, it's impossible to go to windows update and get the patch again, and almost as hard to find the individual package and force it to re-install rather than just checking the registry and exiting.
Most linux distributions take care of all this for you. They do the job of checking with the authors of each package they produce and updating the package if necessary. I doubt MS will ever do anything like this.
It cannot be an illegal war if congress drafted a resolution of war and voted/passed the resolution.
Here's the resolution that authorized the war:
Here's the headline of the results of the vote from CNN showing that the authorization for war passed:
And if you like to say your favorite congressional member [is|was always against] the war, please check that they didn't vote for the war.
Now, I've owned a couple of Dell computers(you'll notice owned is past tense) and I've had to call support. The support script goes something like this:
Me: My computer keeps bluescreening with a stop 7B
Support: Wow, that's strange. I haven't heard of a 7B code before. Have you rebooted?
Me: Yes, several times.
Support: Well, lets try it again while I'm on the phone
Me: <rebooting>..Nope, still the same.
Support: Ok, try shutting down and unplugging the power cord for 5 minutes
Me: <????> 5 minutes pass..nope, didn't work.
Support: hmm, well I guess you'll have to put in the restore disk. Be sure you've backed every thing up.
Me: *crap!* I can't backup if I can't get into windows. Ok, thanks for your "help"
Support: No problem! We here at Dell value your business and appreciate any comments you wish to make. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate my service?
Me:
And the problem I had...It was something to do with upgrading the *included* Roxio software to easy cd creator 5.
Result: 15-20 minutes on hold, and 10 with the 'support' tech didn't fix the problem, but 5 minutes of searching on google got me the answer I was looking for.
So support for a Linux, FreeDOS, or non-windows OS is exactly the same and costs nothing extra, except maybe a %s/[Ww]indows/Linux/g
Companies get in trouble for flooding the marketplace with a product, how is artificially restricting supply to drive up demand and price any different?
And most journalists aren't responsible to anyone either. The editor just makes sure the story flows and will sell newspapers. Not counting the real hits you get from googling "false AP stories" or looking at http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/06/company_corr ect.html , I run out of fingers and toes counting the number of incorrect stories about tech companies and their products that have run on CNet, ZiffDavis, and other "real" news sites with "real" journalists in the past year.
This really makes my head spin. It's his law and even he isn't sure how the definitions should work. You'd think a sponsor of the bill might have an opinion about something like that.
5 years from now the only studios left will be Jobz Recording and Big Ball Records
And I'm sure they'll remember what the RIAA is trying to do today.
NASA has big archives of space data, and they're only going to get bigger - the next generation of earth observing satellites are expected to generate 4 petabytes/year. That's 4 * 10**15, folks - think 8,000 500 GB drives. Per year. For at least the next ten years. One year is on the order of the size of Google's web cache.
Current archives are merely huge, and off-the-shelf databases are having trouble indexing it all - I've heard of a database holding just metadata (date/time, geographic extent, data type, resolution, format, etc.) for millions of observations where queries were taking tens of seconds, and this was with top-of-the-line commercial database software with all the spatial search bells and whistles.
If anybody can come up with a better way to store and index this stuff, it's Google.
I'm sure the editors read /.
It's just that after working with so many computer components, the lead solder from the circuit boards is causing alzheimer's.
And that cool, new fiddy-cent ringtone and J-Lo background you want? Sorry, you can't get it from cheap-ringtones.com, you MUST buy it from www.expensive.verizon.com.
You don't have to be an engineer to want to install stuff on your cellphone.
No they didn't. They had better quality, but I wanted VHS because that's what was at the rental store.
For a short time they did, but it started getting "buggy" and crashed a lot once MS came out with IE.
Nope. All the people I knew wanted on CompuServe. It was da'shit because you had real newsgroups and better games.
Can't really say much about this, but all the people I asked when I got started on Linux(2.0.x kernel) said Slackware.
Because they don't spend $15-$20/hour for several hundred tech support people. They spend $0.15-$0.20 an hour for about 6 outsourced guys and 1 email autoresponder that tells you to 'insert the restore cd and reboot'
If you went to the page, it's not OpenOffice writer/calc/web/etc, it's Luxuriousity writer/calc/web. No where on any of the pages does it say anything about them being OSS products.
I'd bet that they don't and/or won't offer the source. I would also put money on them trying to sue you under the DMCA if you offered the 'Luxuriousity' writer program for download on another site, even though the GNU license specifically allows you to "You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2)".
Jan 25 article allowing dogs to be the "probable cause"
Wouldn't this be almost the same as using an infrared camera to see through the walls of your home to see what you're doing?
Sounds like:
Stan: C'mon, Pip! Say it! Say "Please hit me!"!
Pip: But, if I say that, you'll hit me!
Stan: No! I'm gonna hit you if you DON'T say it! If you say "Please hit me!", I won't hit you!
Pip: Please hit me!
Stan: Alright! (Hits Pip.)
Pip: OW!
Stan: Alright! Let's try this again.