the UI is no more difficult than Maya or lightwave. All of these kinds of apps are simply really stinking hard to use to begin with because of the complexity you are looking at.
Gotta say I disagree. Just because something is complex doesn't mean that it can't be presented in a simple fashion.
I've used many, many 3D programs, from Sculpt-Animate-4D through Caligari, Imagine, Lightwave, Milkscape, and many others. Blender has the worst interface I've ever used. Caligari was second-worst (even with the instructional videotape that came in the box.) The easiest was Lightwave.
IPv6 uses 256-bit numbers broken into 32-bit chunks.
If you check, I think you'll find that IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses, and 16-bit "chunks".
Next thing you know, this guy will be telling us they're building more tubes.
Considering that your understanding of IPV6 is about as accurate as his of IPV4, I was going to write some snarky comment. But I think I'll just leave this as is.:o)
I realize that the DMCA doesn't extend outside of the USA, but could Skype use it to block this software/information in the US?
Think about it - your conversation could arguably considered copyrighted information (as it's being recorded) - and the Skype protocol "effectively" protects it from being played back.
Could the DMCA be a large hammer that Skype could use to prevent competing products from entering the US market?
Attempts by fundamentalist members of the Screen Actors Guild to "cure" it by exposing Neophiles to good-looking and expressive actors have so far been unsuccessful.
Well duh - they should be making them watch the last two Matrix movies instead.
Of course they can. Assign a value of $X to the copyright of a single product, then the EU just assumes the copyright for it in lieu of the debt, and releases it at no charge. Seizure of assets happens all the time with real property - why is it so hard to think that it could happen with virtual property?
What happens when Microsoft did comply, how can you just take that back.
If MS paid the fine, do you think that the EU will be giving the money back if/when they comply?
It's a punishment, they're not supposed to get it back.
I can run a mixed Windows and Linux system in either a flat TCP/IP network or a Microsoft style Active Directory. I can even use a Linux box as the DC. How exactly does that not mean "interoperability"?
Because MS does everything in its' power to make it not interoperate.
because offering a peek at the goddamned source code didn't go far enough, right?
No, it didn't. Not when the "peek" meant that you can't actually fscking use anything you might learn from it. If the "offer" didn't include a draconian NDA, then it might have come close.
What great MS spin you have there. You must work for the justice department.
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You're right. Maybe if it was about robots that turned into buildings.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Wasn't the line supposed to be "I don't get it"?
Man, just like a techie to overengineer something. That seems like a real lot of work.
:)
My solution?
Baseball cards in the spokes.
Have you SEEN some of the things people do with games, taking them 'out of the box'?
:o)
Usually they just put them in the console.
Microsoft continues to violate even those terms with seeming impunity
What do you expect when the only punishment for violation is an additional two years of "probation"
the UI is no more difficult than Maya or lightwave. All of these kinds of apps are simply really stinking hard to use to begin with because of the complexity you are looking at.
Gotta say I disagree. Just because something is complex doesn't mean that it can't be presented in a simple fashion.
I've used many, many 3D programs, from Sculpt-Animate-4D through Caligari, Imagine, Lightwave, Milkscape, and many others. Blender has the worst interface I've ever used. Caligari was second-worst (even with the instructional videotape that came in the box.) The easiest was Lightwave.
IPv6 uses 256-bit numbers broken into 32-bit chunks.
:o)
If you check, I think you'll find that IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses, and 16-bit "chunks".
Next thing you know, this guy will be telling us they're building more tubes.
Considering that your understanding of IPV6 is about as accurate as his of IPV4, I was going to write some snarky comment. But I think I'll just leave this as is.
Odds are good that if he's found a hole, others have as well, and are misusing it.
Isn't that why the black hats are pissed too?
The odds aren't "good" - they're 100%.
The DMCA explicitly protects your right to reverse-engineer for the purposes of interoperability.
The reverse-engineering clause has many exceptions - not the least of which is "non-infringing uses"
And as a previous poster pointed out, it interoperability didn't stop the MPAA suits against DeCSS.
I realize that the DMCA doesn't extend outside of the USA, but could Skype use it to block this software/information in the US?
Think about it - your conversation could arguably considered copyrighted information (as it's being recorded) - and the Skype protocol "effectively" protects it from being played back.
Could the DMCA be a large hammer that Skype could use to prevent competing products from entering the US market?
the simple, eligent graphics of yor
:o)
Wasn't Yor a text-adventure?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07
From the article summary:
Congratulations - you've taken the
This does the exact opposite of what the ruling is trying to fix.
I wouldn't say it does the exact opposite, but you're right about it not reducing MS's monopoly.
My argument wasn't that it's something they would do, but something they could do.
Attempts by fundamentalist members of the Screen Actors Guild to "cure" it by exposing Neophiles to good-looking and expressive actors have so far been unsuccessful.
Well duh - they should be making them watch the last two Matrix movies instead.
They can't really declare it freeware.
Of course they can. Assign a value of $X to the copyright of a single product, then the EU just assumes the copyright for it in lieu of the debt, and releases it at no charge. Seizure of assets happens all the time with real property - why is it so hard to think that it could happen with virtual property?
What happens when Microsoft did comply, how can you just take that back.
If MS paid the fine, do you think that the EU will be giving the money back if/when they comply?
It's a punishment, they're not supposed to get it back.
Two sentances. I imagine, were I a perl coder, I could have done it in half of one
:o)
Yeah, but nobody else would be able to understand it.
Sorry, didn't know there's an "IBM Linux"
There isn't - but please tell me how that has any impact on IBM being a Linux vendor.
IBM is also a Windows vendor - but there's no "IBM Windows".
In fact there are thousands of Windows vendors. Are you implying that each one of them has their own Windows distribution?
What does this say about the largest and most successful Linux vendor out there?
It doesn't really say anything about it, why?
Its a time signal/timestamp that gets transmitted [...] If the time signal is encrypted it may become a DMCA matter in US.
Umm, so you're claiming that a timestamp can be copyrighted?
There are *WAY* more than enough jobs.
Just because your country's leaders are flushing your economy down the toilet, don't assume that everybody else is in the same boat.
What about if he used a kryptonite condom?
(cue scene from Mallrats.)
Oh come on - surely you're not implying that spammers lie are you?
Ken Lay memorial urinal has a nice ring to it
Replace the cakes once in awhile, I'm sure it'll go away.
Guy buys a computer, brings back the mouse, claiming it's defective.
Rather than haggling with him, we just exchange it with another.
Next day, he comes back, saying this one is dead too. Take him over to a computer, plug his mouse in, and it works perfectly. "It seems to be OK."
He says "yeah, but watch this," then proceeds to wave the mouse in the air. "See - it doesn't work when you lift it off the table."
I can run a mixed Windows and Linux system in either a flat TCP/IP network or a Microsoft style Active Directory. I can even use a Linux box as the DC. How exactly does that not mean "interoperability"?
Because MS does everything in its' power to make it not interoperate.
because offering a peek at the goddamned source code didn't go far enough, right?
No, it didn't. Not when the "peek" meant that you can't actually fscking use anything you might learn from it. If the "offer" didn't include a draconian NDA, then it might have come close.
What great MS spin you have there. You must work for the justice department.