Why is it suddenly incorrect for hard drives when, except for 1.44MB diskettes, the advertised capacity of most mainstream disk formats (at least for 8-bit micros) was correctly identified in the binary units? You're telling me that Windows should display sizes for floppies in different units than hard drives? That 720KB diskettes should report at 737KiB?
Political speech? You're sorely, sorely mistaken. Next time try actually reading the words of the first amendment and not taking what some loony tells you at face value.
The kernel will NEVER move to GPLv3. Userspace, maybe, but the kernel will ALWAYS be GPLv2. And one can always fork the userspace tools before they go GPLv3, just like X.org did with XFree86 when they changed license.
But said media players aren't designed for playing video that came from a DVD, they are generic video players. They don't decrypt CSS in the first play, so this amendment won't affect them. It's the enduser that decides to rip a DVD and transcode it, and this amendment won't affect them either.
This is solely designed to go after Kaleidescape. I hope the DVD CCA gets their collective balls handed to them on a plate.
"1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny. 2. an instance of this. 3. Archaic. something stolen."
"wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another"
That implies that you must remove an item from it's lawful possessor for it to be theft.
What you're referring to is actually called copyright infringement. I'm not arguing whether it's moral or not, I'm simply trying to prevent the common trend to mislead people by framing the discussion as if we were talking about "theft", which is simply not true. If it were actually theft then it would be handled as larceny, not under it's own set of statutes.
"An article on the 1up site tells the story of Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison, and Bill Rusch working at the Sanders Associates company on a little game called Pong."
Um, Baer & co didn't develop "Pong". They developed a generic tennis game that was similar to Pong, which was developed by Bushnell & co. Sure, they got the basic idea from Baer, but they made it their own (for example, more detailed graphics, on-screen scoring). If I remember the videos I've seen correctly, Baer's version allowed you to move your paddle towards and away from the net, unlike Pong.
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Yeah, slight correction, I wrote KiB when I shouldn't have. I haven't woke up fully yet.
Why is it suddenly incorrect for hard drives when, except for 1.44MB diskettes, the advertised capacity of most mainstream disk formats (at least for 8-bit micros) was correctly identified in the binary units? You're telling me that Windows should display sizes for floppies in different units than hard drives? That 720KB diskettes should report at 737KiB?
Political speech? You're sorely, sorely mistaken. Next time try actually reading the words of the first amendment and not taking what some loony tells you at face value.
I pegged it as a USENET troll by the line breaks.
A fan.
Ok, are you unable to read or did you purposfully ignore that to further your own argument?
To be fair, the GP didn't advocate that the GGP commit suicide, merely that they cut their dick off.
No, Aristocrats are the ones who fuck and suck and fist their wife's neck.
Offtopic? OFF FUCKING TOPIC? What I wrote DIRECTLY regards the linked article, how could it be any MORE on-topic?
/. need meta-meta-moderation to counteract trolls in metamod.
I think
They don't even know how to caption their photos correctly - the man pictured on the left is Freddie Wong, not David Briers aka wuLFe.
The kernel will NEVER move to GPLv3. Userspace, maybe, but the kernel will ALWAYS be GPLv2. And one can always fork the userspace tools before they go GPLv3, just like X.org did with XFree86 when they changed license.
So once a genre has been created, no other game in that genre can ever be innovative? Please.
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Clinton was a rapist? Funny, I could have sworn that he merely had consensual oral sex with a White House intern.
But said media players aren't designed for playing video that came from a DVD, they are generic video players. They don't decrypt CSS in the first play, so this amendment won't affect them. It's the enduser that decides to rip a DVD and transcode it, and this amendment won't affect them either.
This is solely designed to go after Kaleidescape. I hope the DVD CCA gets their collective balls handed to them on a plate.
And it was completely false anyway, they never actively worked to break 1-2-3.
Fucking awesome, I got 70% Funny mods, and I wasn't even trying to be funny.
Doesn't matter, I still got modded to +5.
And yes, I know I misused "it's". It's been a long day. Deal with it.
It's not hand-waving and rationalization, it's a matter of definitions.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theft
"1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.
2. an instance of this.
3. Archaic. something stolen."
"wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another"
That implies that you must remove an item from it's lawful possessor for it to be theft.
What you're referring to is actually called copyright infringement. I'm not arguing whether it's moral or not, I'm simply trying to prevent the common trend to mislead people by framing the discussion as if we were talking about "theft", which is simply not true. If it were actually theft then it would be handled as larceny, not under it's own set of statutes.
You're wrong.
You know, it runs on Windows too.
Notice they specifically said "GNU/Linux".
No, if /. was really one person you'd say "wow, that person is fucked in the head", since one person can't be a "den of fags".
Yes, I'm pedantic today. Deal with it.
"An article on the 1up site tells the story of Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison, and Bill Rusch working at the Sanders Associates company on a little game called Pong."
Um, Baer & co didn't develop "Pong". They developed a generic tennis game that was similar to Pong, which was developed by Bushnell & co. Sure, they got the basic idea from Baer, but they made it their own (for example, more detailed graphics, on-screen scoring). If I remember the videos I've seen correctly, Baer's version allowed you to move your paddle towards and away from the net, unlike Pong.
You're wrong. And my ID is lower than yours so I'm right by default.