That does not answer the question. The question was what harm does extending the copyright to Mickey Mouse do, no what harm could occur if Disney was the inventor of the Santa Claus character and we were extending the copyright on it.
People become fanboys to defend their choice of a system, and by extension their intelligence. They also do it to try to ensure their choice does not die a painful death as seen by Sega consoles and Voodoo video cards. Of course neither the PS2 or GameCube are in danger of disappearing so they don't need rabid blind support.
The XBox does not have the hardware features to act as a competitor to the Tivo, for example the HD is too small and there is no video capture. Producing a second box that combines the functionality of the XBox and their Ultimate TV might be a worth it but having all your entertainment served by one box would cause problems if anything broke or you wanted to upgrade one feature.
If the RIAA have some reasonable proof of wrongndoing by Kazaa they can get a court order forcing Kazaa to turn off all information including source code as they can examine it. You cannot hide illegal activity behind a closed door.
Why use a virus to retaliate? Using a virus would just mean infected people fleeing south into South Korea or north to China or Russia infecting those countries. The US likely wouldn't even use nuclear weapons to response they would use the army.
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This is exactly what Sony and all other console companies are doing. The model of the console industry is to sell the consoles at a loss and charge the developers money for each game they sell. If you buy an X-Box game MS gets $10, if you buy a PS2 game Sony gets $10. If you buy a console and only play one game on it the console maker lost a lot of money.
This is what's happening. Documents with macros have a flag set when they are saved. If the user has Load Documents with Macros turned off Excel etc. will not load the documents. But if the documents has macros and the flag is reset using a hex editor the macros will load because only the flag is checked. You cannot assume that the only way to change the contents of a document is via an application, a hex editor works just as well.
The internet has been widely popular for about 5 to 10 years depending on how you look at it. Where's some examples of bands doing this. Why didn't Courtney Love start by distributing her music for love instead of signing with a label?
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They are going to pull a cable suspended between two tugs underneath the sub to break the tension.
The article repeats the idea that just because MS Media Player cannot do MP3s the whole format is somehow disabled by Windows.
Windows XP has been designed to help the movie and music businesses by degrading the quality of the MP3 music-file format that currently fuels the world's music-sharing systems like Napster
Media Player never had full support for MP3s but MP3 tools can be written to support XP. On a review on Firingsquad.com
The bottom line here was that I was free to completely ignore Media Player 8 and use Music Match just like I could on any other Windows 95 or 98 machine.
CDs were produced long before the idea of ripping and MP3s were mainstream. There is absolutely no obligation on the part of the music company to produce CDs that allow easy ripping or backing up. (Stopping a person from trying is another matter). At worst they can be accussed of producing CDs that don't follow spec but have the CD techology label on them.
To do anything with raw sockets they need to hack the box first. Its not like RAW SOCKETS = NO SECURITY. It's just that Gibson is ranting about raw sockets because he needs the attention.
It was called the HARP - High Altitude Research Project and was done in the 60's. In the 70's Bull designed cannons for South Africa which dramatically outrange anything NATO has. He then worked for Iraq to build the SuperGun before he was killed. I don't think they used HARP to launch satellites, you would have a huge acceration problem with that also.
I doubt the AOL users will be the problem. Most of them likely have no idea what an IP address is and wouldn't notice if AOL switched to IPv6. The trickey part is convincing AOL itself to switch.
It's likely an ActiveX control that acts as a local proxy changing the HTML stream before it gets rendered in the main IE HTML control. If Mozilla had a huge market share I'm sure the people making this software would target that also.
While the marginal cost of an additional ebook sale is nearly zero (excluding payment processing costs) it is wrong to say manufacturing cost is essentially zero when considering all sales. You have the author's advance, editor, proofreading, cover artist, any internal art (maps, illustrations). None of this is reduced with ebooks. You can cut out the middle man - the book store and save the 50% cut that goes to them however which is what Baen is doing with their ebooks.
But if you use Passport on a public terminal that has a keystroke logger installed the person who put it there now has access to your Passport account and can do anything with it. If somebody captures my Slashdot password its a minor issue, e-mail - more important, password for my on-line banking - very important. Passport should allow your to have multiple levels of security.
What is so hard about respecting a miminal request by the publishers of the article? Just register a name with them and read it off of their site. The more people do things like this (repost entire articles) the more likely the NY Times is going to stop providing articles on their web site.
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That does not answer the question. The question was what harm does extending the copyright to Mickey Mouse do, no what harm could occur if Disney was the inventor of the Santa Claus character and we were extending the copyright on it.
People become fanboys to defend their choice of a system, and by extension their intelligence. They also do it to try to ensure their choice does not die a painful death as seen by Sega consoles and Voodoo video cards. Of course neither the PS2 or GameCube are in danger of disappearing so they don't need rabid blind support.
The XBox does not have the hardware features to act as a competitor to the Tivo, for example the HD is too small and there is no video capture. Producing a second box that combines the functionality of the XBox and their Ultimate TV might be a worth it but having all your entertainment served by one box would cause problems if anything broke or you wanted to upgrade one feature.
If the RIAA have some reasonable proof of wrongndoing by Kazaa they can get a court order forcing Kazaa to turn off all information including source code as they can examine it. You cannot hide illegal activity behind a closed door.
I've had an ATM running OS/2 freeze on me while my bank card was in it and that was in the mid 90's. I guess even OS/2 was not that stable.
If a MS programmer said "God, I hate that GPL crap" as he copied code from the Linux Kernel into some MS program what would your reaction be?
Why use a virus to retaliate? Using a virus would just mean infected people fleeing south into South Korea or north to China or Russia infecting those countries. The US likely wouldn't even use nuclear weapons to response they would use the army.
This is exactly what Sony and all other console companies are doing. The model of the console industry is to sell the consoles at a loss and charge the developers money for each game they sell. If you buy an X-Box game MS gets $10, if you buy a PS2 game Sony gets $10. If you buy a console and only play one game on it the console maker lost a lot of money.
Looked like a lot of questions about females as a percentage of the MS board (not many). Any comparable stats for Linux based companies?
Better send the police to break up Apple and Sun, they make hardware and software and in the case of Sun have a very large percentage of the market.
This is what's happening. Documents with macros have a flag set when they are saved. If the user has Load Documents with Macros turned off Excel etc. will not load the documents. But if the documents has macros and the flag is reset using a hex editor the macros will load because only the flag is checked. You cannot assume that the only way to change the contents of a document is via an application, a hex editor works just as well.
The internet has been widely popular for about 5 to 10 years depending on how you look at it. Where's some examples of bands doing this. Why didn't Courtney Love start by distributing her music for love instead of signing with a label?
They are going to pull a cable suspended between two tugs underneath the sub to break the tension.
Windows XP has been designed to help the movie and music businesses by degrading the quality of the MP3 music-file format that currently fuels the world's music-sharing systems like Napster
Media Player never had full support for MP3s but MP3 tools can be written to support XP. On a review on Firingsquad.com
The bottom line here was that I was free to completely ignore Media Player 8 and use Music Match just like I could on any other Windows 95 or 98 machine.
Screw you, with your deporation ideas. Israelis has a home, its called Israel.
CDs were produced long before the idea of ripping and MP3s were mainstream. There is absolutely no obligation on the part of the music company to produce CDs that allow easy ripping or backing up. (Stopping a person from trying is another matter). At worst they can be accussed of producing CDs that don't follow spec but have the CD techology label on them.
To do anything with raw sockets they need to hack the box first. Its not like RAW SOCKETS = NO SECURITY. It's just that Gibson is ranting about raw sockets because he needs the attention.
It was called the HARP - High Altitude Research Project and was done in the 60's. In the 70's Bull designed cannons for South Africa which dramatically outrange anything NATO has. He then worked for Iraq to build the SuperGun before he was killed. I don't think they used HARP to launch satellites, you would have a huge acceration problem with that also.
I doubt the AOL users will be the problem. Most of them likely have no idea what an IP address is and wouldn't notice if AOL switched to IPv6. The trickey part is convincing AOL itself to switch.
It was Nintendo that had a delay. The GameCube was pushed back.
It's likely an ActiveX control that acts as a local proxy changing the HTML stream before it gets rendered in the main IE HTML control. If Mozilla had a huge market share I'm sure the people making this software would target that also.
They are smaller so the device is smaller. You cannot fold a cd after all.
While the marginal cost of an additional ebook sale is nearly zero (excluding payment processing costs) it is wrong to say manufacturing cost is essentially zero when considering all sales. You have the author's advance, editor, proofreading, cover artist, any internal art (maps, illustrations). None of this is reduced with ebooks. You can cut out the middle man - the book store and save the 50% cut that goes to them however which is what Baen is doing with their ebooks.
But if you use Passport on a public terminal that has a keystroke logger installed the person who put it there now has access to your Passport account and can do anything with it. If somebody captures my Slashdot password its a minor issue, e-mail - more important, password for my on-line banking - very important. Passport should allow your to have multiple levels of security.
What is so hard about respecting a miminal request by the publishers of the article? Just register a name with them and read it off of their site. The more people do things like this (repost entire articles) the more likely the NY Times is going to stop providing articles on their web site.