It wouldn't be double jeopardy anyway as that only applies to criminal cases, not civil suits. You may be thinking of res judicata, which means that one can have only one trial for claims arising from one transaction or occurrence. Pretty sure that means she's boned.
No need for an accept button. You all saw my comment, thus it was loaded into each of your computers' memories.
You all owe me tenmillionbux. Unless you have a hot sister, cousin, mother, or daughter. Pix pls.
By this time tomorrow, I shall be the richest person on the face of the Earth. I finally figured out Step 2, long thought to be lost forever to the dust of history.
berashith: Very nice parody of the face that nobody reads EULAs. So much so that I'll bend the EULA for you - you only owe me fivemillionbux. Deal of the century!
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ("EULA") FOR COMMENT POSTED BY LOCALH (SLASHDOT UID 28506) By loading this comment into your computer's memory via any means, you agree to privately contact LocalH ("me") to arrange payment of $10,000,000 in unmarked bills or 99.999% pure gold (or any combination thereof), in person and by yourself, with no hidden surveillance devices or contact with any outside individual (children under the age of 5 are exempted, so that you may care for them if necessary during our transaction). Failure to do so is a violation of this EULA. The transaction shall be videotaped by me to ensure your compliance with the terms found within EULA. You shall also agree to waive your right and/or ability to initiate any recovery proceedings against me, including but not limited to arbitration, lawsuit, theft, and/or murder. You shall also agree to securely erase any evidence of our transaction from your possession in any form whatsoever, using industry-standard secure wiping technology. If you violate this EULA in any way, you shall be liable for an additional $10,000,000 for each individual violation, payable in unmarked bills or 99.999% pure gold (or any combination thereof). Violations of this EULA shall also entitle me to have sexual intercourse with any female related to you (females under the age of consent in your jurisdiction are exempt to prevent violation of the law), with or without protection, at my discretion. This may be waived if you are female, and if I desire sexual intercourse with you. Failure to comply with the sexual intercourse term of this EULA will entitle me to have a forcible orgy with all of your sisters (or cousins if you are an only child).
COMMENT It's not illegal to flash CFW at all, certainly not if you're the USAF and Sony sends you official CFW.
Or are you one of the people who equate "EULA-violating" with "illegal"? If so, then it's illegal not to send me my ten million bucks, damnit. You better hope your sister's hot, for your sake (and your cousins' sakes).
If Microsoft hypothetically bought out Mozilla and bundled Firefox instead of IE, you'd start seeing those numbers shift towards Firefox users. The real issue is simply that the people who are not as net-savvy (and thus possessing less knowledge about internet risks) tend to use the browser that is shipped with the OS. I would posit that the numbers would be somewhat different in areas where users are presented with a browser ballot.
They should do a similar study of only Mac users who use Safari. I would posit that the numbers would be higher with Safari than with Firefox or Chrome (albeit maybe not quite as high as with IE, due to market share). I realize they covered Safari, but they list no breakdown of OS, so it's possible that some of that includes users of Safari on Windows.
The form factor is still in use today, see HDCAM and HDCAM SR. Some HDCAM VTRs can playback Digital Betacam tapes, and VTRs for the other Betacam-based formats tend to be able to playback at least some of the older formats. HDCAM to this very day uses the exact same form factor as the original consumer Betamax format (albeit with more robust internals designed for the rougher treatment inherent in a day-to-day production environment). Good machines, too. I spent years working with the PVW-2800 and to this day can still perform an insert edit like I never stopped doing it.
They got away with it in the '80s and '90s because they actually made good hardware and the concept of interoperability barely existed.
Not quite, remember Betamax? That was a fairly large case of interoperability- or at least support- being an issue, and Sony *not* getting away with it.
Betamax turned into [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam]Betacam[/url] and dominated the professional market in ways JVC only dreamed of.
Not to invalidate your point about Sony and proprietary media. The PS2 Memory Cards are glaring examples, easily supporting higher capacities (when properly designed) but Sony only ever released 8MB cards officially (even still, a brand new one is something like $20 at retail?).
There is a larger question here as well - should gov't even be allowed to pass NEW laws at all? I don't think so.
The problem isn't new laws, it's that they exceed their authorization to pass laws covering certain things. The Interstate Commerce Clause basically turned into the legal equivalent of a rootkit when it can cover activities that are fully intrastate, merely because they can "affect" interstate actions. That little bit of legal wrangling pretty much guts the 9th and 10th, from a practical standpoint. If a person is too "self-sufficient", that means they are affecting the interstate market for various things and must be stopped (see Wickard v Filburn).
Hence the [sic] (for that and the fact that he called me a "shrill":)
The guy's post was pretty effin retarded anyway, the smartest part of it was when he said that "format shifting and backups are fair use", too bad it was irrelevant since the post I was replying to suggested to "sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy".
Nope, since I never stated anything about the 1571's "convenience", merely the default power-up state of the drive absent any external influence (which is not modifiable without burning new ROMs, since the drive does not store any settings or state when powered off).
With the C128 even, the 1571 gave no benefits "by default", to be technically accurate. It doesn't do anything special until the C128 sends a fast serial request. One could include this in "by default", since it happens with no user interaction, but that doesn't change my initial agreement that the 1571 offers no real benefit by default, without requiring the user explicitly invoke 1571 mode. Even considering the point another poster made about reliability, the 1541-II offers much of the same hardware quality without the 1571-specific features.
Note that I am not bashing the 1571 by any means. Counting the one in my C128D, I've owned three 1571s throughout my life and they've all been damn good drives. C128+1571+double-sided formatting = very nice productivity system, especially with the programs available to harness the VDC chip. Commodore was pretty good with user-friendliness back in those days. Look at how well they handled C64 compatibility - even accounting for the C128-only registers that are still accessible from C64 mode, they did a really good job with making C64 mode look and work like a real C64 for almost all people. AFAIK, the only C64 cartridge that wouldn't work was the CP/M cart, which was kinda moot with the C128 able to run CP/M out of the box. Even the Magic Voice, which outright abused the C64's expansion port lines (and thus doesn't work properly on a C128 normally) works if you explicitly boot in C64 mode by holding the C= key. Without the presence of the Z80 to handle system bootup, this would not have been possible. Very ingenious engineers, those guys. Bil Herd et al. are technological geniuses.
"By default" is basically the same thing as "out-of-box experience", as I'm reading it here. Yes, the 1571 was a lot more reliable than the 1541 (so was the 1541-II, however). Let me qualify the statement a bit to make it more accurate.
By default, the 1571 has no advantage over the 1541-II for C64 users. C128 users do benefit the most of anyone when in C128 mode, and users of any other IEC-based machines benefit when explicitly commanding the drive to switch to 1571 mode.
You also mention speed advantages, something that absolutely requires either a C128 or a modified C64 in order to utilize fast IEC. A stock C64 can not, AFAIK, transfer data at fast IEC speeds.
I know, right? I recently got accused of being an "RIAA shrill [sic]" just for espousing the thought that it is immoral to rip your movie collection then sell/give away/trash the originals.
The fact that I still know exactly what that does, and what colors those poke values represent, almost brings a tear to my eye, literally. I pretty much owe my entire current way to life to the C64. If there was ever a product that deserved to succeed and carry on but didn't....sigh.
By default, the 1571 powers up in 1541 mode, so the GP was correct. Unless used with a C128 in C128 mode, you must manually set the drive to 1571 mode to access double-sided disks (the command to be sent to the command channel was "U0>M1"). Then you can format the disk and get 1328 blocks free instead of the standard 664. The drive must be in 1571 mode to access files on both sides, although AFAIK files physically stored on the front side of the disk will be accessible even in 1541 mode.
There is most likely a "sweet spot" where you are not too close to the car in front of you from a safety perspective, but there's still not enough space for a dickhead to swerve in front.
Format shifting and backups are fair use. Fuck off RIAA shrill
I fail to see how my comment makes me an "RIAA shrill", whatever the hell that is. I never stated whether I agreed with the present situation. Let's talk you through it, since you're obviously too dense to read properly:
Absolutely. Rip it to your format of choice, and put the discs in a box in the garage... in case you have a HD failure and need to re-rip them or want to re-rip them in a different format later.
This is the former. This is illegal, by definition, unless you're exclusively ripping discs that have no encryption (which do exist but won't be the lion's share of any movie collection). This is not immoral, however - you purchased the media and are making use of duplication for personal use, not for distribution. This is "format shifting and backups".
Alternatively, sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy.
This is the latter. This is illegal since it includes the former. It is also immoral in that you don't have legitimate rights to retain your backups if you "sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping".
Please note that I refer to movies here, with regards to legality. There are plenty of software tools, very widespread and popular ones, to meet the OP's needs with regards to audio CDs, and they are never illegal to rip as they don't have encryption.
Please also note that I have downloaded/acquired pirated software and media for many years now. I don't claim to be on the right side of morality when I get my free shit. Must be nice to use your single-digit count of brain cells to get angry at someone who isn't the enemy. ^_^
Hitachi & Sony working with Apple on 4-inch iOS device, iPad 4 to see new display technology
Hitachi and Sony are reported to have teamed up to supply Apple with 4-inch LCD displays for an unspecified iOS device that will hit the market in 2012. Meanwhile, Apple is also said to be working on a fundamentally distinct display technology for the iPad 4.
Meanwhile, macotakara.jp also cites the same sources as saying that an unspecified Taiwanese company will soon be "providing LCD technology faces" to Apple for a "fundamentally changed" iPad 4 that will be manufactured by a new process.
The only mention of the iPad 3 is a reference to a WSJ article.
ISPs should not be making the decision to cut a customer off based on the content they are retrieving and distributing, but only if they are attacking the network or otherwise trying to harm the network itself (or if there is a court order to disconnect a specific customer). What next, some ISP gets all "morality police" and starts banning customers for accessing porn, illegal drug information, or even political/social material that someone with authority at the ISP decided they didn't want to pass across their wires?
It'd be like the phone company disconnecting your service because you like to call phone sex lines, or the postal service refusing to deliver your mail because you subscribe to skin mags.
The more connections that are open, the greater the chance for bufferbloat to come into play. It's not really so much "inherent drain" as it is "shitty router implementations" but nonetheless, it can be a factor.
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Like the old saying "even a broken clock is right twice a day", sometimes even loons are right. That doesn't make RMS any less of a nasty douche.
It wouldn't be double jeopardy anyway as that only applies to criminal cases, not civil suits. You may be thinking of res judicata, which means that one can have only one trial for claims arising from one transaction or occurrence. Pretty sure that means she's boned.
Misandry is not an acceptable substitute for misogyny.
You are generous, kind sir. For that, you now have the right to load my comment into your computer's memory again at no additional charge.
No need for an accept button. You all saw my comment, thus it was loaded into each of your computers' memories.
You all owe me tenmillionbux. Unless you have a hot sister, cousin, mother, or daughter. Pix pls.
By this time tomorrow, I shall be the richest person on the face of the Earth. I finally figured out Step 2, long thought to be lost forever to the dust of history.
berashith: Very nice parody of the face that nobody reads EULAs. So much so that I'll bend the EULA for you - you only owe me fivemillionbux. Deal of the century!
y helo thar mr may MASSIVE DENNACE
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ("EULA") FOR COMMENT POSTED BY LOCALH (SLASHDOT UID 28506)
By loading this comment into your computer's memory via any means, you agree to privately contact LocalH ("me") to arrange payment of $10,000,000 in unmarked bills or 99.999% pure gold (or any combination thereof), in person and by yourself, with no hidden surveillance devices or contact with any outside individual (children under the age of 5 are exempted, so that you may care for them if necessary during our transaction). Failure to do so is a violation of this EULA. The transaction shall be videotaped by me to ensure your compliance with the terms found within EULA. You shall also agree to waive your right and/or ability to initiate any recovery proceedings against me, including but not limited to arbitration, lawsuit, theft, and/or murder. You shall also agree to securely erase any evidence of our transaction from your possession in any form whatsoever, using industry-standard secure wiping technology. If you violate this EULA in any way, you shall be liable for an additional $10,000,000 for each individual violation, payable in unmarked bills or 99.999% pure gold (or any combination thereof). Violations of this EULA shall also entitle me to have sexual intercourse with any female related to you (females under the age of consent in your jurisdiction are exempt to prevent violation of the law), with or without protection, at my discretion. This may be waived if you are female, and if I desire sexual intercourse with you. Failure to comply with the sexual intercourse term of this EULA will entitle me to have a forcible orgy with all of your sisters (or cousins if you are an only child).
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It's not illegal to flash CFW at all, certainly not if you're the USAF and Sony sends you official CFW.
Or are you one of the people who equate "EULA-violating" with "illegal"? If so, then it's illegal not to send me my ten million bucks, damnit. You better hope your sister's hot, for your sake (and your cousins' sakes).
If Microsoft hypothetically bought out Mozilla and bundled Firefox instead of IE, you'd start seeing those numbers shift towards Firefox users. The real issue is simply that the people who are not as net-savvy (and thus possessing less knowledge about internet risks) tend to use the browser that is shipped with the OS. I would posit that the numbers would be somewhat different in areas where users are presented with a browser ballot.
They should do a similar study of only Mac users who use Safari. I would posit that the numbers would be higher with Safari than with Firefox or Chrome (albeit maybe not quite as high as with IE, due to market share). I realize they covered Safari, but they list no breakdown of OS, so it's possible that some of that includes users of Safari on Windows.
News flash: A 120 lb woman is not overweight unless she's a midget.
The form factor is still in use today, see HDCAM and HDCAM SR. Some HDCAM VTRs can playback Digital Betacam tapes, and VTRs for the other Betacam-based formats tend to be able to playback at least some of the older formats. HDCAM to this very day uses the exact same form factor as the original consumer Betamax format (albeit with more robust internals designed for the rougher treatment inherent in a day-to-day production environment). Good machines, too. I spent years working with the PVW-2800 and to this day can still perform an insert edit like I never stopped doing it.
They got away with it in the '80s and '90s because they actually made good hardware and the concept of interoperability barely existed.
Not quite, remember Betamax? That was a fairly large case of interoperability- or at least support- being an issue, and Sony *not* getting away with it.
Betamax turned into [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam]Betacam[/url] and dominated the professional market in ways JVC only dreamed of.
Not to invalidate your point about Sony and proprietary media. The PS2 Memory Cards are glaring examples, easily supporting higher capacities (when properly designed) but Sony only ever released 8MB cards officially (even still, a brand new one is something like $20 at retail?).
There is a larger question here as well - should gov't even be allowed to pass NEW laws at all? I don't think so.
The problem isn't new laws, it's that they exceed their authorization to pass laws covering certain things. The Interstate Commerce Clause basically turned into the legal equivalent of a rootkit when it can cover activities that are fully intrastate, merely because they can "affect" interstate actions. That little bit of legal wrangling pretty much guts the 9th and 10th, from a practical standpoint. If a person is too "self-sufficient", that means they are affecting the interstate market for various things and must be stopped (see Wickard v Filburn).
Hence the [sic] (for that and the fact that he called me a "shrill" :)
The guy's post was pretty effin retarded anyway, the smartest part of it was when he said that "format shifting and backups are fair use", too bad it was irrelevant since the post I was replying to suggested to "sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy".
Nope, since I never stated anything about the 1571's "convenience", merely the default power-up state of the drive absent any external influence (which is not modifiable without burning new ROMs, since the drive does not store any settings or state when powered off).
With the C128 even, the 1571 gave no benefits "by default", to be technically accurate. It doesn't do anything special until the C128 sends a fast serial request. One could include this in "by default", since it happens with no user interaction, but that doesn't change my initial agreement that the 1571 offers no real benefit by default, without requiring the user explicitly invoke 1571 mode. Even considering the point another poster made about reliability, the 1541-II offers much of the same hardware quality without the 1571-specific features.
Note that I am not bashing the 1571 by any means. Counting the one in my C128D, I've owned three 1571s throughout my life and they've all been damn good drives. C128+1571+double-sided formatting = very nice productivity system, especially with the programs available to harness the VDC chip. Commodore was pretty good with user-friendliness back in those days. Look at how well they handled C64 compatibility - even accounting for the C128-only registers that are still accessible from C64 mode, they did a really good job with making C64 mode look and work like a real C64 for almost all people. AFAIK, the only C64 cartridge that wouldn't work was the CP/M cart, which was kinda moot with the C128 able to run CP/M out of the box. Even the Magic Voice, which outright abused the C64's expansion port lines (and thus doesn't work properly on a C128 normally) works if you explicitly boot in C64 mode by holding the C= key. Without the presence of the Z80 to handle system bootup, this would not have been possible. Very ingenious engineers, those guys. Bil Herd et al. are technological geniuses.
"By default" is basically the same thing as "out-of-box experience", as I'm reading it here. Yes, the 1571 was a lot more reliable than the 1541 (so was the 1541-II, however). Let me qualify the statement a bit to make it more accurate.
By default, the 1571 has no advantage over the 1541-II for C64 users. C128 users do benefit the most of anyone when in C128 mode, and users of any other IEC-based machines benefit when explicitly commanding the drive to switch to 1571 mode.
You also mention speed advantages, something that absolutely requires either a C128 or a modified C64 in order to utilize fast IEC. A stock C64 can not, AFAIK, transfer data at fast IEC speeds.
I know, right? I recently got accused of being an "RIAA shrill [sic]" just for espousing the thought that it is immoral to rip your movie collection then sell/give away/trash the originals.
The fact that I still know exactly what that does, and what colors those poke values represent, almost brings a tear to my eye, literally. I pretty much owe my entire current way to life to the C64. If there was ever a product that deserved to succeed and carry on but didn't....sigh.
Commercially, the C64 was a huge success worldwide. According to Wikipedia (and cited), the C64 is the best-selling single computer of all time. Here's a blog post with some heavy analysis of the numbers.
By default, the 1571 powers up in 1541 mode, so the GP was correct. Unless used with a C128 in C128 mode, you must manually set the drive to 1571 mode to access double-sided disks (the command to be sent to the command channel was "U0>M1"). Then you can format the disk and get 1328 blocks free instead of the standard 664. The drive must be in 1571 mode to access files on both sides, although AFAIK files physically stored on the front side of the disk will be accessible even in 1541 mode.
There is most likely a "sweet spot" where you are not too close to the car in front of you from a safety perspective, but there's still not enough space for a dickhead to swerve in front.
Windows 4 through 94, hell. What about Windows 99 through Windows 2000? 1,901 versions is a huge gap.
Lucky ass. I only get 5 points when I get them. I think the lower your UID, the more points you generally get.
BULLSHIT
Format shifting and backups are fair use. Fuck off RIAA shrill
I fail to see how my comment makes me an "RIAA shrill", whatever the hell that is. I never stated whether I agreed with the present situation. Let's talk you through it, since you're obviously too dense to read properly:
Absolutely. Rip it to your format of choice, and put the discs in a box in the garage... in case you have a HD failure and need to re-rip them or want to re-rip them in a different format later.
This is the former. This is illegal, by definition, unless you're exclusively ripping discs that have no encryption (which do exist but won't be the lion's share of any movie collection). This is not immoral, however - you purchased the media and are making use of duplication for personal use, not for distribution. This is "format shifting and backups".
Alternatively, sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping and when you need another copy buy/download another copy.
This is the latter. This is illegal since it includes the former. It is also immoral in that you don't have legitimate rights to retain your backups if you "sell/give away/throw out the discs after ripping".
Please note that I refer to movies here, with regards to legality. There are plenty of software tools, very widespread and popular ones, to meet the OP's needs with regards to audio CDs, and they are never illegal to rip as they don't have encryption.
Please also note that I have downloaded/acquired pirated software and media for many years now. I don't claim to be on the right side of morality when I get my free shit. Must be nice to use your single-digit count of brain cells to get angry at someone who isn't the enemy. ^_^
Hitachi & Sony working with Apple on 4-inch iOS device, iPad 4 to see new display technology
Hitachi and Sony are reported to have teamed up to supply Apple with 4-inch LCD displays for an unspecified iOS device that will hit the market in 2012. Meanwhile, Apple is also said to be working on a fundamentally distinct display technology for the iPad 4.
Meanwhile, macotakara.jp also cites the same sources as saying that an unspecified Taiwanese company will soon be "providing LCD technology faces" to Apple for a "fundamentally changed" iPad 4 that will be manufactured by a new process.
The only mention of the iPad 3 is a reference to a WSJ article.
ISPs should not be making the decision to cut a customer off based on the content they are retrieving and distributing, but only if they are attacking the network or otherwise trying to harm the network itself (or if there is a court order to disconnect a specific customer). What next, some ISP gets all "morality police" and starts banning customers for accessing porn, illegal drug information, or even political/social material that someone with authority at the ISP decided they didn't want to pass across their wires?
It'd be like the phone company disconnecting your service because you like to call phone sex lines, or the postal service refusing to deliver your mail because you subscribe to skin mags.
The more connections that are open, the greater the chance for bufferbloat to come into play. It's not really so much "inherent drain" as it is "shitty router implementations" but nonetheless, it can be a factor.