And that's why I now just purchase in bulk mostly from Germany. (because there's a decent online store shipping here there)
It doesn't suck too much for me, but it sure sucks for Swedish companies.
It's their problem and issue to take with our government though. Hopefully they have more money than me to handle these things. I just can't understand how they can introduce such an obviously bad and anti-competitive idea for our business in this area. Do they believe we can only purchase disks from our own country??
Isn't the problem for the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" that they claim their book is fact?
Here's the foreword I've seen: "all descriptions of art work, architectural works, documents, and holy rituals matches the reality"
Needless to say, this isn't a claim that the entire book is fact. I think it's careful dodging of the introduced fantasy and speculation though. He does describe the Louvre correctly, doesn't he? He does describe various real world cathedrals with pretty good accuracy, right? The Mona Lisa picture?
However, what he doesn't say is that "the interpretations of the symbolism is fact, and so is the understanding of da Vinci's paintings, and the Holy Grail", and that's what the bulk of the book talks about, far more attention is given to these things than what he claims are fact.
My problem with it is that it's really just "local". It barely has any global support at all. Try showing Madrid, Tokyo, and many other major cities for example.
If the service is done right, I think it would still be interesting, as if there's one thing I've learnt from free sites like e.g. CNET's music.download.com, it's that currently marketed crap is far from having an advantage over music made by enthusiasts. Make the service structured with content beyond the basic music tracks, along with abilities to directly support the artists behind the music, and thinks could be quite interesting.
However, I still don't quite understand what advantage such a service would have over a simple web site doing the same.
Yes, the same minister also pushing for aggressive surveillance of crime suspects -- of course to stop terrorism. Because Sweden is such a horribly obvious target for terrorists, you know. He's got a "no" from the Swedish Council of Legislation already due to the privacy issues involved, but think it will still get through soon enough and will continue to push for this, using his best G W Bush impression.
Or just be satisfied with.NET 1.1. It's not like it's just a tiny bugged framework anyway. We stuck around with VC++ 6 for ages, skipping both VS.NET 2002 and most of 2003, and just now catches on. Unsurprisingly, we had no trouble sticking with VC++ 6 for all that time, and I have no doubts we'll stick with.NET 2.0 for quite long.
Funny that with Google, if you download copyrighted stuff (and by far most is) found by using its search engine, you're the infringing entity, but if you download copyrighted stuff (and by far most is) found by using a BitTorrent site, the site is the infringing entity.
But the MPAA thinks that this text (BT-style SHA1 hash): da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 could describe an illegal file and is enough to be copyright infrigement if it does!! Or something like that...
Allah bailar la bamba Para bailar la bamba Se necesita una poca de gracia a Una poca de gracia para mi para ti ya Arriba y arriba ay arriba y arriba por ti ser
In a world where both types of software exist, greater discernment is required on the part of the enforcers. I hope this is the beginning of the end of any automatic assumption that sharing software with your neighbour must be a crime.
Yes, something really needs to be done here to reduce the confusion!
We must expand on current Free vs free terminology for this: - Free = Libre (free to spread) - free = Gratis (free to aquire) - Freee = Commercial (free to charge for)
The same is true of our star programmer. The very idea that time > skill is alien.
Then play another game without this mantra? Guild Wars is having a much greater focus on skills > time for example. Why complain about WoW here? Is the poster assuming we hadn't notice WoW rewards time spent playing a lot? Gee...
I can't recall any special successful lawsuits over DVD region coding bypassing through a remote control lately, if they sent any lawsuits at all about this. This despite it being pretty common. Would a company producing DVD / HD-DVD drives really violate anything like the DMCA if they had all protective features like HDCP intact, but let the user manually disable them via techniques hushed about and leaked from unofficial souces, a bit like I believe it works today with regular DVD drives and zone check disabling? I have local video stores that can take a drive they sell and "fix" it so it's region free if a user wants it.
Where did you get that list? According to Neowin's recent news, it's more like this: - Windows Starter 2007 - Windows Vista Home Basic - Windows Vista Home Basic N - Windows Vista Home Premium - Windows Vista Business - Windows Vista Business N - Windows Vista Ultimate - Windows Vista Enterprise
No Basic/Premium of Business, and there's no "Corporate" listed there.
Anyway, it's still 8.:-) And I agree it's too many. It confuses more than it clarifies. When Joe User gets to decide, is he a Basic or Premium home user? Do a company need a Business edition or an Enterprise edition? The problem seem to be that you need to study feature lists and compare to know for sure what you need. I'd rather see just a Home vs Pro vs Ultimate (being the Home + Pro merge). Three editions (or more if you count N editions which Microsoft must do).
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And that's why I now just purchase in bulk mostly from Germany.
(because there's a decent online store shipping here there)
It doesn't suck too much for me, but it sure sucks for Swedish companies.
It's their problem and issue to take with our government though. Hopefully they have more money than me to handle these things. I just can't understand how they can introduce such an obviously bad and anti-competitive idea for our business in this area. Do they believe we can only purchase disks from our own country??
Mistook your comment of being about the da Vinci code, as it's such a common criticism of the book. :-(
:-)
Note to self -- Don't post at 2 am.
Isn't the problem for the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" that they claim their book is fact?
Here's the foreword I've seen:
"all descriptions of art work, architectural works, documents, and holy rituals matches the reality"
Needless to say, this isn't a claim that the entire book is fact. I think it's careful dodging of the introduced fantasy and speculation though. He does describe the Louvre correctly, doesn't he? He does describe various real world cathedrals with pretty good accuracy, right? The Mona Lisa picture?
However, what he doesn't say is that "the interpretations of the symbolism is fact, and so is the understanding of da Vinci's paintings, and the Holy Grail", and that's what the bulk of the book talks about, far more attention is given to these things than what he claims are fact.
My problem with it is that it's really just "local". It barely has any global support at all. Try showing Madrid, Tokyo, and many other major cities for example.
I suppose it's the Vista Ultimate Edition that will double as the Vista Pirate Edition.
By far most material Google indexes and shows previews of is copyrighted.
You get text fragments of copyrighted content as part of textual searches.
You get reduced-size images as part of image searches.
If the former falls under fair use, and reduced images generally do as well, why wouldn't it this time?
And the obvious follow up question is: why not if they want it?
Or maybe media companies just don't want a working online model instead of overloaded Akamai servers?
If the service is done right, I think it would still be interesting, as if there's one thing I've learnt from free sites like e.g. CNET's music.download.com, it's that currently marketed crap is far from having an advantage over music made by enthusiasts. Make the service structured with content beyond the basic music tracks, along with abilities to directly support the artists behind the music, and thinks could be quite interesting.
However, I still don't quite understand what advantage such a service would have over a simple web site doing the same.
You must be new here. On Slashdot, you get modded +5 Funny for pulling these jokes!
Yes, the same minister also pushing for aggressive surveillance of crime suspects -- of course to stop terrorism. Because Sweden is such a horribly obvious target for terrorists, you know. He's got a "no" from the Swedish Council of Legislation already due to the privacy issues involved, but think it will still get through soon enough and will continue to push for this, using his best G W Bush impression.
Just keep buying and paying $$'s...
.NET 1.1. It's not like it's just a tiny bugged framework anyway. We stuck around with VC++ 6 for ages, skipping both VS.NET 2002 and most of 2003, and just now catches on. Unsurprisingly, we had no trouble sticking with VC++ 6 for all that time, and I have no doubts we'll stick with .NET 2.0 for quite long.
Or just be satisfied with
Hello!! You can do all your programming in Notepad or any text editor...Would you do that??
No, you pick one of the better editors he suggested. Why on Earth would you do it in Notepad and what's your point?
Yeah, like these EVIL Google guys!
Funny that with Google, if you download copyrighted stuff (and by far most is) found by using its search engine, you're the infringing entity, but if you download copyrighted stuff (and by far most is) found by using a BitTorrent site, the site is the infringing entity.
But the MPAA thinks that this text (BT-style SHA1 hash): da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 could describe an illegal file and is enough to be copyright infrigement if it does!! Or something like that...
I have a better one , insert underscores
:-(
Allah bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
a Una poca de gracia para mi para ti
ya Arriba y arriba
ay arriba y arriba por ti ser
Al__lah _bailar ___la ba_mb__a_
__Pa_ra bail___ar _la b__am_ba
God that got boring quick.
it is no longer a significant target for abuse.
Wow! It stopped being that the day after the complaints!? What a coincidence!
In a world where both types of software exist, greater discernment is required on the part of the enforcers. I hope this is the beginning of the end of any automatic assumption that sharing software with your neighbour must be a crime.
Yes, something really needs to be done here to reduce the confusion!
We must expand on current Free vs free terminology for this:
- Free = Libre (free to spread)
- free = Gratis (free to aquire)
- Freee = Commercial (free to charge for)
Now that's a short "article".
It doesn't even tell how shark free the oceans were before human influences.
A phonebook lists names, not filenames. From Mr. Johnson can you infer pedophile? Now how about boyzcocks.mpg?
If you believe criminals name their files to blatantly obvious things like this, you're horribly naïve.
These servers hosted far from exclusively only illegal content.
The same is true of our star programmer. The very idea that time > skill is alien.
Then play another game without this mantra? Guild Wars is having a much greater focus on skills > time for example. Why complain about WoW here? Is the poster assuming we hadn't notice WoW rewards time spent playing a lot? Gee...
So is google.org going to start by shutting down or opening up google.cn?
Option 1 = Chinese government win.
Option 2 = Google blocked => Chinese government win.
I can't recall any special successful lawsuits over DVD region coding bypassing through a remote control lately, if they sent any lawsuits at all about this. This despite it being pretty common. Would a company producing DVD / HD-DVD drives really violate anything like the DMCA if they had all protective features like HDCP intact, but let the user manually disable them via techniques hushed about and leaked from unofficial souces, a bit like I believe it works today with regular DVD drives and zone check disabling? I have local video stores that can take a drive they sell and "fix" it so it's region free if a user wants it.
Where did you get that list? According to Neowin's recent news, it's more like this:
:-) And I agree it's too many. It confuses more than it clarifies. When Joe User gets to decide, is he a Basic or Premium home user? Do a company need a Business edition or an Enterprise edition? The problem seem to be that you need to study feature lists and compare to know for sure what you need. I'd rather see just a Home vs Pro vs Ultimate (being the Home + Pro merge). Three editions (or more if you count N editions which Microsoft must do).
- Windows Starter 2007
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Windows Vista Home Basic N
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Business N
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- Windows Vista Enterprise
No Basic/Premium of Business, and there's no "Corporate" listed there.
Anyway, it's still 8.
There is, yes, but there isn't as much as mp3, which should influence its chance to succeed it slightly.