..for several reasons: - they left out the compression - they have deliberately obfuscated the init sequences (haha, big deal, see below) - and they didn't put in anything beyond the stuff which we already
reverse-engineered in January (see http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/ ).
Yeah, you're right, of course - if you could in theory watch it, you have to pay for it. However, this is in my opinion a great opportunity for a bit of civil disobedience against this dumb law, because: - there's no chance you can be caught, at least not as a private person, because you don't need to let the suckers into your flat (and they can't come back with the police to make you let them) - it's not even a crime not to pay, it's just an "Ordnungswidrigkeit" (civil offense, I guess), so even in the most extreme case the damage is limited
.. as in the story from 2004, they just reduced it a bit after a truckload of protests during the last 2 years. Maybe a bit more background info from Germany here: this fee is used to support the state-owned radio and TV stations, the privately owned stations don't see a cent. This is supposedly to guarantee the higher-quality broadcasts from the state stations as opposed to the low-quality, market-driven programs from the private stations.. but as somebody who doesn't watch state TV as a principle, I won't pay this s**t.
I applaud this. Of all the software maintainers I have ever been in contact with, Schilling has been the most arrogant one by at least one order of magnitude, and even if cdrecord once was a fine and necessary tool, there are far more usable tools right now (that don't require license keys in the environment or similar crud).
As stated somewhere else, WoW generally runs fine on Linux with Cedega/WineX, however, some issues remain (e.g. random crashes in configuration menus). Do you regard this as Somebody Else's Problem or would you consider giving the Transgaming guys a hand? Or even a native Linux version?
Right you are. I can definitely imagine living without listening to the next Britney clone yapping, or seeing the next Spielberg "blockbuster" with Tom Cruise alternating between his two facial expressions.
(If I seem to be a bit scathing, that was intentional.)
In any case, I have a feeling that this is going to end much the same way as it did with DVDs: in theory, it is illegal to crack CSS, but nobody gives a damn as long as you don't make a torrent out of it afterwards (which is something entirely different from fair use).
Forgive me for being a humorless nitpicking german asshole, but as I do live in Munich, I know for a fact that the official stuff is quite vocal about that time (it's in German, so maybe you'll want to use the Fish): http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/stadtar chiv/ges chichte/43634/20jahrhundert.html
Anyone who claims to get more energy out of a device than he put into it should, IMHO, be forced to grind the Laws of Thermodynamics into a 70 feet high marble slab. Black marble, that is (for style;-).
I've read the conditions, and it says there quite bluntly that only the citizens of the following countries are eligible for cash prizes: Australia, Canada (excluding Quebec), China, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States. Everyone else has to donate everything they win to a charity which TopCoder chooses. Why is that? It seems a bit mean that I, just because I live in Germany, wouldn't get a single cent in case I won.. (More ironic yet, a Canadian from Vancouver gets all the bucks, while one from Montreal doesn't..)
Well, I recently did two transatlantic flights,
Munich - Dallas and Vancouver - Munich, and on both flights nobody bothered to complain about the swiss army knife which I always carry along in my trouser pocket. I was a little surprised at this time, but I am shocked about this obvious lack of security after yesterday's events.
Quite right. I'll be getting an XBox first thing on Nov. 8, and next thing I'll do is crack it open and get Linux running on it. After all, it's a seemingly quite well-designed PC in a nice case, and it's got a HDD and USB. So what else do you want for $299? Nobody said you have to keep the whatever-OS-they-put-on-it..:-)
Well.. perhaps it has just started? It could very well be possible that the development of intelligent life takes a quite definite amount of time after the Big Bang. Stars have to develop, explode, forming heavier elements, develop again, this time perhaps with planets - it's a (relatively) well known process, and the lifespan of potentially "useful" stars lies within a quite small interval. You spoke of 3 million years to colonize the entire galaxy. Fine, but when a civilisation has developed that technology one million years ago, when mankind was still creeping around in caves, it's still a 66% chance that we don't know of them and vice versa.
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..but from the way I understand TFA, the receiving person isn't even aware of the value of the received bit, it's only picked up subconsciously.
..for several reasons:
- they left out the compression
- they have deliberately obfuscated the init sequences (haha, big deal, see below)
- and they didn't put in anything beyond the stuff which we already
reverse-engineered in January (see http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/ ).
Floe
Yeah, you're right, of course - if you could in theory watch it, you have to pay for it.
However, this is in my opinion a great opportunity for a bit of civil disobedience against this dumb law, because:
- there's no chance you can be caught, at least not as a private person, because you don't need to let the suckers into your flat (and they can't come back with the police to make you let them)
- it's not even a crime not to pay, it's just an "Ordnungswidrigkeit" (civil offense, I guess), so even in the most extreme case the damage is limited
Forgot to mention: the state TV program is IMHO not a single bit better than the rest, of course..
.. as in the story from 2004, they just reduced it a bit after a truckload of protests during the last 2 years.
Maybe a bit more background info from Germany here: this fee is used to support the state-owned radio and TV stations, the privately owned stations don't see a cent. This is supposedly to guarantee the higher-quality broadcasts from the state stations as opposed to the low-quality, market-driven programs from the private stations.. but as somebody who doesn't watch state TV as a principle, I won't pay this s**t.
Unfortunately not. With TVs, you still have to pay even if you remove the
tuner, because you could theoretically solder it back in..
Hm, could you perhaps post a link to that abstract (or even the full presentation)?
..because it runs nethack, of course! And you can even play over telnet!
I applaud this. Of all the software maintainers I have ever been in contact with,
Schilling has been the most arrogant one by at least one order of magnitude, and
even if cdrecord once was a fine and necessary tool, there are far more usable tools
right now (that don't require license keys in the environment or similar crud).
I suggest Bild journalists. The diesel may have to be filtered to get the crap out, though..
..but isn't this just a Bluetooth dongle with some additional software? This piece of Linux softwareh p?page=ProjectBluezHandsfree
http://www.soft.uni-linz.ac.at/_wiki/tiki-index.p
seems to do basically the same..
As stated somewhere else, WoW generally runs fine on Linux with Cedega/WineX, however, some issues remain (e.g. random crashes in configuration menus). Do you regard this as Somebody Else's Problem or would you consider giving the Transgaming guys a hand? Or even a native Linux version?
Um ... he has another one?
Besides "Arrogant Smirk", you mean? Yes, in WotW, he clearly did "Panicked Sheep", too..
providing quality processors.
When did Intel do that? I can't remember.
Right you are. I can definitely imagine living without listening to the next Britney clone yapping, or seeing the next Spielberg "blockbuster" with Tom Cruise alternating between his two facial expressions.
:)
(If I seem to be a bit scathing, that was intentional.)
In any case, I have a feeling that this is going to end much the same way as it did with DVDs: in theory, it is illegal to crack CSS, but nobody gives a damn as long as you don't make a torrent out of it afterwards (which is something entirely different from fair use).
So far for my 2 cents.. (Eurocents, of course
Relax, that's in Karlsruhe, Germany. We don't have such trigger-happy cops (yet).
Because Vienna is "Wien" in German, that's "Wienux".
Forgive me for being a humorless nitpicking german asshole, but as I do live in Munich, I know for a fact that the official stuff is quite vocal about that time (it's in German, so maybe you'll want to use the Fish):r chiv/ges chichte/43634/20jahrhundert.html
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/stadta
I swear, at first sight, I've read _idiot_pc.com there.. kind of a freudian slip.. ;-)
Anyone who claims to get more energy out of a device than he put into it should, IMHO, be forced to grind ;-).
the Laws of Thermodynamics into a 70 feet high marble slab. Black marble, that is (for style
I've read the conditions, and it says there quite bluntly that only the citizens of the following countries are eligible for cash prizes:
Australia, Canada (excluding Quebec), China, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.
Everyone else has to donate everything they win to a charity which TopCoder chooses.
Why is that? It seems a bit mean that I, just because I live in Germany, wouldn't get a single cent in case I won..
(More ironic yet, a Canadian from Vancouver gets all the bucks, while one from Montreal doesn't..)
Well, I recently did two transatlantic flights,
Munich - Dallas and Vancouver - Munich, and on both flights nobody bothered to complain about the swiss army knife which I always carry along in my trouser pocket. I was a little surprised at this time, but I am shocked about this obvious lack of security after yesterday's events.
Quite right. I'll be getting an XBox first thing on Nov. 8, and next thing I'll do is crack it open and get Linux running on it. After all, it's a seemingly quite well-designed PC in a nice case, and it's got a HDD and USB. So what else do you want for $299? Nobody said you have to keep the whatever-OS-they-put-on-it.. :-)
Well.. perhaps it has just started? It could
very well be possible that the development of
intelligent life takes a quite definite amount
of time after the Big Bang. Stars have to develop,
explode, forming heavier elements, develop again,
this time perhaps with planets - it's a (relatively) well known process, and the lifespan
of potentially "useful" stars lies within a quite
small interval. You spoke of 3 million years to colonize the entire galaxy. Fine, but when a civilisation has developed that technology one
million years ago, when mankind was still creeping around in caves, it's still a 66% chance that we don't know of them and vice versa.