Macromedia is responsible for the Macrovision, a pernicious technology of the 80's which not only cost the whole old video market (and the more recent dvd one) a whole lot of money but which has killed much user comodities. Just for this; Macromedia deserves to be extinct. They prone the killing of user commodities for the sake of corporative interests with very low efficiency. Screw them, let them die!
I say this because I remember been asked to help a group of students in the start of the 90's. In a student project where they wanted just to add a 5 seconds scene from a movie to the climax of their "montage". I couldn't help at the time because the scene was at the peek of the Macrovision effect. It was too late to find another appropriate scene, the poor guy never heard of copy protection before and he was up all night to find that one scene.
This evil technology prevented young students from expressing themselves and just because of it I say DRM in any form sucks so much it's dangerous.
Wouldn't be possible to make a proprietary code which use a selective set of files from a GPL package without modifying it? resulting in a binary which isn't recognized as the original.
It's actually possible and I don't see how this could be a violation of the GPL and I wouldn't see how an outsider can tell right from wrong, I would find it quite arrogant from his part.
"7. Google's cache copy is illegal: Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out.""
You said it, "Surfers like the cache", if the lawmakers, the webmaster don't like the cache then screw them.
It runs on windoze....
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I'll never trust it, it runs on ms windoze (It's in the specs page)
Distributors claim that piracy is making them lose big money even if we read about serious studies stating that losses are marginal or non-existent.
But I think I know why, it's because they want to control the market in order to raise the pricing of all their products.
In brief they want to bleed us to death and they know that if piracy is too easy it will flourish when they raise those prices.
If ever they get rid of piracy one way or another we will pay the price, those movies will be unaffordable.
Those big corporations are not treating their customers as they should.
I hear the people answering to me "It is the way it happens in a capitalist society" and I even hear some people trying to tag me as a communist, to them I answer right now that controling a market is the opposite of a free market and I don't like it.
Big corporations colluding together to create an environment where the customers are deprived of features, commodities and freedom should be considered as illegal because it is the exact same thing as a monopoly.
I get angry each time that I read such news in Slashdot and it is not healthy. Soon I'll be forced to stop reading Slashdot for health reasons.
Come on people, wake-up, some big guys in big offices want to steal you your way of life, they would charge you the air you're breathing if they ever find a way to do it. Tell them now that it is unacceptable.
In the different scenarios that you created for this did you include one with the hiring of 1 or 2 programmers that will contribute to the effort, maintain the code (even if it's just applying patches from foruns and others or it could be customisation) and do the support to the others?
The kind of people that you don't need to tell them to RTMF or to RTS because they already did.
I'm convinced like you that the increase of performance was more a hardware issue then anything else and I agree that journalists often lack the skills to grasp what they are writing about but I'm happy to see that this particular foolishness is not the result of Microsoft standart FUDS propaganda as most journalists stupidities are.
Let's design a standart form (much like the nutritional values on food packages) that easily point out all main privacy, copyrights and license fees issues almost on a blink of an eye. All EULAs without the standart form would be invalids
Giving away your email to any software company is like presenting your neck to a vampire. I could be seriously considering buying a software but I'll aways be serious about not giving away my email to any potential spammer and all company are as such.
Spam sux. Company that requires your email for tryout sux.
What I can remember from an original 60's Star Trek episode is Spock saying this:
"This [device?] contains a million data"
And I remember clearly Spock presenting a square piece of plastic about the same size and look of a nowadays common 1.44MB diskette without the metal slider door.
Could it be possible that the problem is a big misunderstanding and that the problem would occur in the only case where a promotional software defined in autorun.inf accompanying the regular audio track is involved?
Could it be possible that if you do not install their software and then call for a regular windoze cd player it would work as on a regular sound system's CD player?
If people just try to click on a data and audio CD that got a AUTORUN.INF only the promotional software will run.
Yes, from the point of view of an external observer, if I recall my GR correctly. However, even before it crosses the event horizon (e.g. in a finite amount of observer time), the comet/gas/whatever will still be compressed and heated by large gravity gradients. That, rather than the actual event-horizon crossing, is probably what was seen. (Real GR experts can now clarify.)
This is clearly intented to confuse people. Naming a 1.4Ghz with the number 1600 is clearly false representation. If they go on with this idea I will simply stop recommending AMD to all family and friends. Can't believe there's so many idiots running companies.
I used to work at IBM in Montreal a few years back, we used to have tech support for North America for a while and I saw it happened, I saw the Big Blue throwing the towel, I saw Big Blue abandoning OS/2 Warp about a year after Microsoft got Win95 out. A team of tech support were trained for OS2, they were going to help every home user to install, run and maintain their OS2/Warp.
You could feel that a big publicity campaign was about to make an open war against MS.
For a few weeks those phone stations were mounted and everything was going to be ready for the big date... and it did not happen. One morning the stations were dismantled, people were re-attributed and OS2/Warp was thrown in the "oubliettes".
It's clear that Big Blue avoided a war that day because IBM wasn't ready yet.
All those who saw PBS' "Triumph of the Nerds" hosted by Robert X. Cringely know that Microsoft took the PC market out of the hands of IBM. You could then understand why today IBM is ready to get even.
But will IBM have the guts this time to go all the way?
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Macromedia is responsible for the Macrovision, a pernicious technology of the 80's which not only cost the whole old video market (and the more recent dvd one) a whole lot of money but which has killed much user comodities. Just for this; Macromedia deserves to be extinct. They prone the killing of user commodities for the sake of corporative interests with very low efficiency. Screw them, let them die!
I say this because I remember been asked to help a group of students in the start of the 90's. In a student project where they wanted just to add a 5 seconds scene from a movie to the climax of their "montage". I couldn't help at the time because the scene was at the peek of the Macrovision effect. It was too late to find another appropriate scene, the poor guy never heard of copy protection before and he was up all night to find that one scene.
This evil technology prevented young students from expressing themselves and just because of it I say DRM in any form sucks so much it's dangerous.
They talk too much about possible applications...
not a word on how it is made.
This smells like vaporware. I think they just need easy investment money.
You said they are "obviously" modified.
Wouldn't be possible to make a proprietary code which use a selective set of files from a GPL package without modifying it? resulting in a binary which isn't recognized as the original.
It's actually possible and I don't see how this could be a violation of the GPL and I wouldn't see how an outsider can tell right from wrong, I would find it quite arrogant from his part.
It even sounds a bit diffamatory.
I know it's an easy one but I still laughed at it:
"...Unfortunately, ours doesn't come with potato chips..."
This idea lacks some watts
"7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out.""
You said it, "Surfers like the cache", if the lawmakers, the webmaster don't like the cache then screw them.
I'll never trust it, it runs on ms windoze
(It's in the specs page)
Distributors claim that piracy is making them lose
big money even if we read about serious studies stating that losses are marginal or non-existent.
But I think I know why, it's because they want to
control the market in order to raise the pricing
of all their products.
In brief they want to bleed us to death and they
know that if piracy is too easy it will flourish
when they raise those prices.
If ever they get rid of piracy one way or another
we will pay the price, those movies will be
unaffordable.
Those big corporations are not treating their
customers as they should.
I hear the people answering to me "It is the
way it happens in a capitalist society" and I even
hear some people trying to tag me as a communist,
to them I answer right now that controling a market is the opposite of a free market and I don't like it.
Big corporations colluding together to create
an environment where the customers are deprived
of features, commodities and freedom should be
considered as illegal because it is the exact same thing as a monopoly.
I get angry each time that I read such news in Slashdot and it is not healthy. Soon I'll be forced to stop reading Slashdot for health reasons.
Come on people, wake-up, some big guys in big offices want to steal you your way of life, they would charge you the air you're breathing if they ever find a way to do it. Tell them now that it is unacceptable.
In the different scenarios that you created for this
did you include one with the hiring of 1 or 2 programmers
that will contribute to the effort, maintain the
code (even if it's just applying patches from
foruns and others or it could be customisation)
and do the support to the others?
The kind of people that you don't need to tell them
to RTMF or to RTS because they already did.
I'm convinced like you that the increase
of performance was more a hardware issue then
anything else and I agree that journalists often
lack the skills to grasp what they are writing
about but I'm happy to see that this particular
foolishness is not the result of Microsoft
standart FUDS propaganda as most journalists
stupidities are.
Let's design a standart form (much like
the nutritional values on food packages)
that easily point out all main privacy,
copyrights and license fees issues
almost on a blink of an eye.
All EULAs without the standart form would be
invalids
Whadayatink?
Giving away your email to any software company is
like presenting your neck to a vampire.
I could be seriously considering buying a software
but I'll aways be serious about not giving away
my email to any potential spammer and all company
are as such.
Spam sux.
Company that requires your email for tryout sux.
http://pages.infinit.net/aaricia/ldif2html.c
I wrote this in hurry one morning...
Could be what you're looking for
Could be not.
"This [device?] contains a million data"
And I remember clearly Spock presenting a square piece of plastic about the same size and look of a nowadays common 1.44MB diskette without the metal slider door.
for more then 10 years I still sometimes
needs to checks where my fingers are...
I wonder if a drawing of a keyboard on the table
or a picture could be use as a reference. That
would make me more comfortable with this invention.
-courtinfo.ca.gov , something that looks like owned by government, provides both pdf and doc
(can't be more efficient in reaching everyone)
-A ruling stating that DVDCCA can't own/rule the world and the mind of the world like they wish.
-A court acknowledging that source code is free
speech.
That can't be.... I am still dreaming...
no.. I woke up in one of those strange Star
Trek alternate reality!
If I had to work for such employer I would simply
quit. I cannot see how my job would be fun
and productive with such constraints.
If all employers would do the same I will simply
change branch of work... I remember having fun
doing some truck delivery when I was younger..
Anyway, who cares about registries? I use
real man OSes
AOL!?!?!...
damnit I lived an entire Internet life without them and without even knowing anyone using it..
who cares about AOL?
I don't want AOL nor MS ruling my cyberspace and they won't
Could it be possible that if you do not install their software and then call for a regular windoze cd player it would work as on a regular sound system's CD player?
If people just try to click on a data and audio CD that got a AUTORUN.INF only the promotional software will run.
Am I dumb or what?
Yes, from the point of view of an external observer, if I recall my GR correctly. However, even before it crosses the event horizon (e.g. in a finite amount of observer time), the comet/gas/whatever will still be compressed and heated by large gravity gradients. That, rather than the actual event-horizon crossing, is probably what was seen. (Real GR experts can now clarify.)
This is clearly intented to confuse people. Naming a 1.4Ghz with the number 1600 is clearly false representation. If they go on with this idea I will simply stop recommending AMD to all family and friends. Can't believe there's so many idiots running companies.
All I can say is this:
I'm crossing my fingers for them!
You're just a Big Brother Wannabe...
For a few weeks those phone stations were mounted and everything was going to be ready for the big date... and it did not happen. One morning the stations were dismantled, people were re-attributed and OS2/Warp was thrown in the "oubliettes".
It's clear that Big Blue avoided a war that day because IBM wasn't ready yet.
All those who saw PBS' "Triumph of the Nerds" hosted by Robert X. Cringely know that Microsoft took the PC market out of the hands of IBM. You could then understand why today IBM is ready to get even.
But will IBM have the guts this time to go all the way?
You can find the word "viral" in their EULA..
Microsoft will connect the word "viral" to all that is GPL.
They will shout it more often and louder then we'll alltogether (the open source community) be able to deny it.
I need an aspirine and a continuum shifter so that I can change universe....