Since you think this is such a marvellous plan, how about this... Dutch / European IP law works quite well and hasn't as of yet created the mess that the USPTO has for you. I think we should send some Dutch advisors over and tell the American companies exactly how they should apply *our* IP laws as universal guidelines. This will be very beneficial, especially for European companies who have a head start. I'm sure that will be very well recived over there, right?!? No?!? What a surprise...
Ouch;-) Flame hurt, just a bit... Still need to, I have some tools that I need to port to Unixware.
The company SCO sucks, but the product was not bad at the time. OpenServer 5.0.2 is from 1996, it was miles ahead of then-Linux 1.2.13 or so. Which I also ran from the old Yggdrasil compilations;-)
No, I'm running the latest available to beta testers (which I've been since 1994 or so), build 5112, downloaded strait from Redmond.
Vista will make better use of the GPU if that GPU supports the functions requested by Vista. If you use an older card like my Matrox it uses the same old technology as XP. In fact I'm running with the Matrox XP drivers, as Vista doesn't recognise the card by itself. Dual screen DVI setup with two Neovo X17 TFT's running at 1280x1024 each. Works like a charm..
I'm typing this from my Vista beta install on a 3-year old Dell Dimension 4400, P4 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM and a Matrox P750 VGA card. Hardly a high-end PC these days. Even this first beta, it's been running well so far, does a lot better on suspend/resume than XP did for me and doesn't seem sluggish. Sure you'll be able to get more bells and whistles up and running on faster hardware, but I have no complaints this far..
Before you flame me for being a MS zealot, the Vista machine is next to my Slackware 10.1 box and my really old Pentium 166 that is installing SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 as I type this. Computers are fun, regardless of the OS they run..
I've checked some of the historical temperature curves and even in the last 2000 years there's been times (50 years or more) that were warmer than today. Still, even here in Holland where we are below sea level and in times there were no sophisticated dikes, people survived and the Netherlands didn't disappear..
I'm convinced that the human race is making a negative impact on environment, but I'm not so sure all the doom scenario's about flooding are so real.
Sure, this is something no-one has done before, and in some friggin way someone will dream up some use for this.
But what on earth gives anyone the right to reserve any stupid "thing you can do" for him/herself. How is "I though of that first so you owe me money" fair to the human race?!? How is this beneficial to society? Somehow this stupidity should be stopped!
There's hardly any hardware available to read these tapes anymore. Proprietary format, ancient tape drives and undocumented data formats make this a huge problem.
There's roads to just about everywhere too. Be innovative and use those for broadband instead of using huge antenna arrays to try and pipe data through.
If Google really did this, then they broke their vow to be a 'good' company. They vowed they were not out to hurt anyone. Broadband over Power Lines hurts everyone involved with radio, be it emergency services or ham radio folkes. BPL is *evil*
If only this would happen... I have written to many of the MEP's involved. Most don't even respond. Others appear to be either blonde or bought... Let's all keep our fingers crossed that common sense prevails.
Sure you can get the sounds digitised. But you do need to know and/or document what all the beeps/whirs on that tape are for. You can read the tones with any decent audio capture program, but if you don't know how the data is written it's useless.
Better yet, a couple generations from now people might not even realise it's computer data and think it's horribly mutilated music (think hardcore metal...)
This isn't a USA-only problem. Similar pencil pusher idiots are trying to get ISPs in The Netherlands to store *ALL DATA* including e-mail, web traffic, P2P et al for 3 years!
Just the disk systems required to do so will contribute significantly to global warming...
Guess what I'm typing this message on?!? Yep, a Model M. Totally indestructable.
If, and only if, it would ever start failing by undefined gue from multiple types of 15-year old food, I'm sure I can just dunk it in a bucket of soapy water and get another 15 years out of it.
This type of 'the meaning is obvious' is what causes Mars expeditions to fail. Just because you and I and many others have been abusing the term 'Kilo' for many years doesn't make it right to continue to do so.
Marketing sucks, I'll give you that. But this time it's not their fault.
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That would be true if this "tax" is supposed to support the welfare state. Instead it's there to subsidise the record companies who lobby to get these ludicrous taxes in place. They use the artist's benefits as an excuse, but in the mean time forget to mention that it's *them* who write killer contracts for the artists when those are no match in negotiations yet.
The same record companies refuse to acknowledge that their over-inflated profit rates from an ancient distribution model are about to melt away. So they revert to these outrageous methodes to extort money from customers and businesses *THAT ARE NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS*. They use the incredible money-pile they collected over the years to make that possible.
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Since you think this is such a marvellous plan, how about this... Dutch / European IP law works quite well and hasn't as of yet created the mess that the USPTO has for you. I think we should send some Dutch advisors over and tell the American companies exactly how they should apply *our* IP laws as universal guidelines. This will be very beneficial, especially for European companies who have a head start. I'm sure that will be very well recived over there, right?!? No?!? What a surprise...
... of die fijne Amerikanen dan ook van ons verlangen dat we alles in het Engels doen, of zouden ze dan zelf alle wereldtalen gaan leren?
Ik voel me steeds veiliger met Bush en consorte in het zadel... NOT!
The article tells that the last release was Windows XP in 2001, now Vista will be 2006... I don't see how that qualifies as upgrade cycle.
Anyone here still running a Linux kernel from 2001 on their desktop ?!? I doubt it..
Ouch ;-) Flame hurt, just a bit... Still need to, I have some tools that I need to port to Unixware.
;-)
The company SCO sucks, but the product was not bad at the time. OpenServer 5.0.2 is from 1996, it was miles ahead of then-Linux 1.2.13 or so. Which I also ran from the old Yggdrasil compilations
No, I'm running the latest available to beta testers (which I've been since 1994 or so), build 5112, downloaded strait from Redmond.
Vista will make better use of the GPU if that GPU supports the functions requested by Vista. If you use an older card like my Matrox it uses the same old technology as XP. In fact I'm running with the Matrox XP drivers, as Vista doesn't recognise the card by itself. Dual screen DVI setup with two Neovo X17 TFT's running at 1280x1024 each. Works like a charm..
I'm typing this from my Vista beta install on a 3-year old Dell Dimension 4400, P4 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM and a Matrox P750 VGA card. Hardly a high-end PC these days. Even this first beta, it's been running well so far, does a lot better on suspend/resume than XP did for me and doesn't seem sluggish. Sure you'll be able to get more bells and whistles up and running on faster hardware, but I have no complaints this far..
Before you flame me for being a MS zealot, the Vista machine is next to my Slackware 10.1 box and my really old Pentium 166 that is installing SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 as I type this. Computers are fun, regardless of the OS they run..
It does..
I've checked some of the historical temperature curves and even in the last 2000 years there's been times (50 years or more) that were warmer than today. Still, even here in Holland where we are below sea level and in times there were no sophisticated dikes, people survived and the Netherlands didn't disappear..
I'm convinced that the human race is making a negative impact on environment, but I'm not so sure all the doom scenario's about flooding are so real.
Ehh.. Up yours?!?
Most likely users are trying the IE7 beta to find out what's new.
Sure, this is something no-one has done before, and in some friggin way someone will dream up some use for this.
But what on earth gives anyone the right to reserve any stupid "thing you can do" for him/herself. How is "I though of that first so you owe me money" fair to the human race?!? How is this beneficial to society? Somehow this stupidity should be stopped!
... It equals their handicap
.. a bug in her firmware causes her to short circuit and self-destruct in a blazing fire.
There's hardly any hardware available to read these tapes anymore. Proprietary format, ancient tape drives and undocumented data formats make this a huge problem.
... if that transmitter would have an output a little higher, say 1.21 GigaWatt, then we could just leap to another time where aliens are here!
Now where did I put my Flux capacitor...
I'm puzzled by the whole hoopla of transparancy. Besides being a 'cool feature', how does it help me in becoming more productive?
There's roads to just about everywhere too. Be innovative and use those for broadband instead of using huge antenna arrays to try and pipe data through.
If Google really did this, then they broke their vow to be a 'good' company. They vowed they were not out to hurt anyone. Broadband over Power Lines hurts everyone involved with radio, be it emergency services or ham radio folkes. BPL is *evil*
If only this would happen... I have written to many of the MEP's involved. Most don't even respond. Others appear to be either blonde or bought... Let's all keep our fingers crossed that common sense prevails.
Sure you can get the sounds digitised. But you do need to know and/or document what all the beeps/whirs on that tape are for. You can read the tones with any decent audio capture program, but if you don't know how the data is written it's useless.
Better yet, a couple generations from now people might not even realise it's computer data and think it's horribly mutilated music (think hardcore metal...)
I would be very interested to know how they find ways to hop the Great Firewall of China twice...
This isn't a USA-only problem. Similar pencil pusher idiots are trying to get ISPs in The Netherlands to store *ALL DATA* including e-mail, web traffic, P2P et al for 3 years!
Just the disk systems required to do so will contribute significantly to global warming...
No you can't. I just patented mining operations on Titan... And all other extra-terrestrial planets and moons. Yes, it's a broad patent. Sue me..
Guess what I'm typing this message on?!? Yep, a Model M. Totally indestructable.
If, and only if, it would ever start failing by undefined gue from multiple types of 15-year old food, I'm sure I can just dunk it in a bucket of soapy water and get another 15 years out of it.
This type of 'the meaning is obvious' is what causes Mars expeditions to fail. Just because you and I and many others have been abusing the term 'Kilo' for many years doesn't make it right to continue to do so.
Marketing sucks, I'll give you that. But this time it's not their fault.
That would be true if this "tax" is supposed to support the welfare state. Instead it's there to subsidise the record companies who lobby to get these ludicrous taxes in place. They use the artist's benefits as an excuse, but in the mean time forget to mention that it's *them* who write killer contracts for the artists when those are no match in negotiations yet.
The same record companies refuse to acknowledge that their over-inflated profit rates from an ancient distribution model are about to melt away. So they revert to these outrageous methodes to extort money from customers and businesses *THAT ARE NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS*. They use the incredible money-pile they collected over the years to make that possible.