This may be self perpetuating, but as I understand it the Mac platform doesn't really have much 3D graphics intensive workstation software available. Users of Photoshop tend to overestimate their own need of graphics hardware, but apart from games, what need do OS X users have of 3D performance if they do not dual boot into Windows (or even Linux - I have to admit to a serious lack of knowledge about the state of Linux based platforms as 3D workstations)?
This is a serious question - I haven't really been part of the field since the battle stood between Alias|Wavefront and Softimage|3D. (I have to admit to liking LightWave 3D on the Amiga though, even though I always loved SGI hardware).
I can add that back in 1999 or so, before GPRS was rolled out,I did some work for Ericsson with regards to GPRS here in Sweden. We never did talk about any 2.5G at that time. I think that 2.5G is sort of like a backronym, despite not being an acrynom. No one called GPRS 2.5G before the services called 3G were introduced.
As I remember it, we considered GPRS to be somewhat akin to wireless ISDN. This is all hazy recollection though, all the documentation I used to have would be under NDA even if I could find it today.
The Dutch ruling is enforcable in Sweden under the Brussels I Regulation (the Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters).
The notion of precedence existed as early as in Roman Law, it just doesn't have the same specific meaning as it does under the common law system(s).
I don't know much about Italian law, but precedence is alive and well in European Community law as well as European Convention of Human Rights case law from the ECHR, both of which are binding to Italian courts.
There are people pushing for DNSSEC, but there's obviously a great deal of inertia involved.
Around the same time as L was moved, the Swedish ccTLD.SE together with other Swedish net organisations sent an open letter to ICANN urging them to deploy DNSSEC and sign the root zone.
Actually, you can mess with the iPhone's GSM modem, called the baseband. SIM unlocking involves changing the baseband software which is run on the actual GSM chip.
This is totally unrelated to jailbreaking the OS to run homebrew apps, though. And it's still a poor excuse.
I'd have a hard enough time finding an online store I would like to buy anything from that doesn't utilise encryption for the credit card process. Finding a bank that would allow me to give my credentials in cleartext would be even harder.
The big issue is probably email which most people still access without encryption.
One difference between US and Swedish law is that in Sweden even non-commercial copyright infringement is a crime, which means that it is covered by the general rules for being an accessory or an accomplice to crime (Brottsbalken 23:4). This was never conclusively tried by the Swedish Supreme Court in the so-called "BBS case" (NJA 1996 s. 79), where the sysop of a BBS was prosecuted for letting users illegally share software. The reason is that the prosecutor never claimed that the sysop was an accessory or accomplice to acts committed by his user, instead claiming that the sysop was illegally making the software available to the public by letting users download the software from his BBS. The court held that the sysop could not be convicted because there was no act actually performed by the sysop, and because the prosecution hadn't initially claimed he was an accomplice to someone elses copyright infringement the court was unable to consider that possibility due to Swedish trial rules (Rättegångsbalken 30:3, som innebär att domstolen bara kan döma för en gärning som innefattas av åklagarens gärningsbeskrivning).
Hence no one can be totally sure whether The Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden, because the legal precedent is not 100% clear. The question if intent should be very interesting here. While it should be evident that The Pirate Bay is set up with intent that people should be able to use it to commit crimes, the proprietors have no knowledge of what copyright infringement users are going to commit and no direct intent that those specific crimes will be committed.
The claim that Sweden doesn't have laws against "contributory infringement" is wrong, however.
With only two parties it is tough if not impossible to make a meaningful election.
'On [the robot's] world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'"
'Odd,' said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'
'I did,' said Ford, 'It is.'
'So,' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't the people get rid of the lizards?'
'It honestly doesn't occur to them,' said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'
'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'
'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'
'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'
'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in'
(Douglas Adams, but if you didn't know that already your geek license will now be revoked)
WoW is (supposedly) a roleplaying game. If you want to be CmdrTaco, Marilyn Hanson or Bigniggercocks, feel free to use that identity on/., IRC or wherever. However, in a fantasy roleplaying setting, is it really too much to ask that you choose to play a fantasy character instead of bringing Rob Malda the computer programmer into the world of Azeroth? Does Norrath really need the Ogre Shaman (or whatever) Marilyn Hanson?
I for one applaud the GMs of WoW for enforcing their name policy, and I have met many EQ players over the years (although I don't currently play) who like me didn't enjoy the breaking of immersion that stupid names in a fantasy world brings.
It was a good joke when Marcus Brigstocke first cracked it. Since then it has travelled the internets and been attributed to people like Bill Gates and Nintendo's Kristian Wilson, and like with many good jokes many years later lots of people still miss the point.
Doom has already been ported to the PSP, as has ScummVM for those LucasArts games. You could port FreeSci for KQ/QFG/other Sierra adventures, but since it doesn't support the newer point and click interface games and you don't have a keyboard for the older games it's not very useful.
Although Sweden could have retained the previous exemptions for copying for private use under article 5 of the directive, thus we have only our own national politicians to blame for this change.
In those days Microsoft Bill Gates was selling a Unix flavour called Xenix, as AT&T wouldn't license the named Unix out. Xenix later came into the hands of SCO while Microsoft went on to create Windows.
I don't know about Norway, but I'd guess it's like neighbouring socialist hellhole Sweden in that an accused can choose his own counsel and have it paid for by the state. So there's no need to chance it on assigned counsel even if you haven't got the cash for a lawyer.
The DHTML menu on the Wayback Machine was version 3.0. The version currently on Hatch's site is 3.3. Just view the source.
If you still had version 3.0 downloaded and licensed to you for free under the previous terms, it would be doubtful if they could retroactively change the licensing terms, but in this case they're offering new software under new licensing terms, and even if you had a license to a previous version of that software that doesn't give you any rights to the new version.
I wouldn't trust legal advice from anyone talking about "copywrite notices", but maybe that's just me.
Copywriting is done in advertising, and is in turn protected by copyright, like software is (not done in advertising, but protected (well, some software might be done in advertising, but most isn't (all clear now?))).
It isn't theft (and I personally believe that it is, but I am suspending that opinion for this hypothetical example)
Well, you might believe that listening to Britney Spears is grand theft auto, but that doesn't make it so. Please note that there are lots of things that 1. aren't morally right, 2. are illegal, without being theft. Examples include murder and rape. Something being Right or good for the economy or whatever has no bearing on whether it is theft or not.
Any other argument is pure bullshit from self-righteous twits who presume anyone of different opinion is an egoistic criminal.
For the mentally challenged, please note that I do not condone murder, rape or copyright infringement, nor any other illegal activity that isn't theft.
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Let's totally disregard games for a moment:
This may be self perpetuating, but as I understand it the Mac platform doesn't really have much 3D graphics intensive workstation software available. Users of Photoshop tend to overestimate their own need of graphics hardware, but apart from games, what need do OS X users have of 3D performance if they do not dual boot into Windows (or even Linux - I have to admit to a serious lack of knowledge about the state of Linux based platforms as 3D workstations)?
This is a serious question - I haven't really been part of the field since the battle stood between Alias|Wavefront and Softimage|3D. (I have to admit to liking LightWave 3D on the Amiga though, even though I always loved SGI hardware).
I can add that back in 1999 or so, before GPRS was rolled out,I did some work for Ericsson with regards to GPRS here in Sweden. We never did talk about any 2.5G at that time. I think that 2.5G is sort of like a backronym, despite not being an acrynom. No one called GPRS 2.5G before the services called 3G were introduced.
As I remember it, we considered GPRS to be somewhat akin to wireless ISDN. This is all hazy recollection though, all the documentation I used to have would be under NDA even if I could find it today.
I'm sorry, that information is only available to users with the Member of the {1,2,3,4,5} Digit UID Club achievement.
The Dutch ruling is enforcable in Sweden under the Brussels I Regulation (the Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters).
The notion of precedence existed as early as in Roman Law, it just doesn't have the same specific meaning as it does under the common law system(s).
I don't know much about Italian law, but precedence is alive and well in European Community law as well as European Convention of Human Rights case law from the ECHR, both of which are binding to Italian courts.
There are people pushing for DNSSEC, but there's obviously a great deal of inertia involved.
.SE together with other Swedish net organisations sent an open letter
Around the same time as L was moved, the Swedish ccTLD
to ICANN urging them to deploy DNSSEC and sign the root zone.
Hopefully this incident will speed things up.
I knew of the muslim stance on alcohol, but I never knew that Islam requires chocolate to be legal.
(Nice troll, btw)
Actually, you can mess with the iPhone's GSM modem, called the baseband. SIM unlocking involves changing the baseband software which is run on the actual GSM chip.
This is totally unrelated to jailbreaking the OS to run homebrew apps, though. And it's still a poor excuse.
I'd have a hard enough time finding an online store I would like to buy anything from that doesn't utilise encryption for the credit card process. Finding a bank that would allow me to give my credentials in cleartext would be even harder.
The big issue is probably email which most people still access without encryption.
One difference between US and Swedish law is that in Sweden even non-commercial copyright infringement is a crime, which means that it is covered by the general rules for being an accessory or an accomplice to crime (Brottsbalken 23:4). This was never conclusively tried by the Swedish Supreme Court in the so-called "BBS case" (NJA 1996 s. 79), where the sysop of a BBS was prosecuted for letting users illegally share software. The reason is that the prosecutor never claimed that the sysop was an accessory or accomplice to acts committed by his user, instead claiming that the sysop was illegally making the software available to the public by letting users download the software from his BBS. The court held that the sysop could not be convicted because there was no act actually performed by the sysop, and because the prosecution hadn't initially claimed he was an accomplice to someone elses copyright infringement the court was unable to consider that possibility due to Swedish trial rules (Rättegångsbalken 30:3, som innebär att domstolen bara kan döma för en gärning som innefattas av åklagarens gärningsbeskrivning).
Hence no one can be totally sure whether The Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden, because the legal precedent is not 100% clear. The question if intent should be very interesting here. While it should be evident that The Pirate Bay is set up with intent that people should be able to use it to commit crimes, the proprietors have no knowledge of what copyright infringement users are going to commit and no direct intent that those specific crimes will be committed.
The claim that Sweden doesn't have laws against "contributory infringement" is wrong, however.
With only two parties it is tough if not impossible to make a meaningful election.
'On [the robot's] world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'"
'Odd,' said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'
'I did,' said Ford, 'It is.'
'So,' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't the people get rid of the lizards?'
'It honestly doesn't occur to them,' said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'
'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'
'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'
'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'
'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in'
(Douglas Adams, but if you didn't know that already your geek license will now be revoked)
WoW is (supposedly) a roleplaying game. If you want to be CmdrTaco, Marilyn Hanson or Bigniggercocks, feel free to use that identity on /., IRC or wherever. However, in a fantasy roleplaying setting, is it really too much to ask that you choose to play a fantasy character instead of bringing Rob Malda the computer programmer into the world of Azeroth? Does Norrath really need the Ogre Shaman (or whatever) Marilyn Hanson?
I for one applaud the GMs of WoW for enforcing their name policy, and I have met many EQ players over the years (although I don't currently play) who like me didn't enjoy the breaking of immersion that stupid names in a fantasy world brings.
It was a good joke when Marcus Brigstocke first cracked it. Since then it has travelled the internets and been attributed to people like Bill Gates and Nintendo's Kristian Wilson, and like with many good jokes many years later lots of people still miss the point.
Doom has already been ported to the PSP, as has ScummVM for those LucasArts games. You could port FreeSci for KQ/QFG/other Sierra adventures, but since it doesn't support the newer point and click interface games and you don't have a keyboard for the older games it's not very useful.
May I direct you to Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society?
Although Sweden could have retained the previous exemptions for copying for private use under article 5 of the directive, thus we have only our own national politicians to blame for this change.
In those days Microsoft Bill Gates was selling a Unix flavour called Xenix, as AT&T wouldn't license the named Unix out. Xenix later came into the hands of SCO while Microsoft went on to create Windows.
I don't know about Norway, but I'd guess it's like neighbouring socialist hellhole Sweden in that an accused can choose his own counsel and have it paid for by the state. So there's no need to chance it on assigned counsel even if you haven't got the cash for a lawyer.
The DHTML menu on the Wayback Machine was version 3.0. The version currently on Hatch's site is 3.3. Just view the source.
If you still had version 3.0 downloaded and licensed to you for free under the previous terms, it would be doubtful if they could retroactively change the licensing terms, but in this case they're offering new software under new licensing terms, and even if you had a license to a previous version of that software that doesn't give you any rights to the new version.
I wouldn't trust legal advice from anyone talking about "copywrite notices", but maybe that's just me.
Copywriting is done in advertising, and is in turn protected by copyright, like software is (not done in advertising, but protected (well, some software might be done in advertising, but most isn't (all clear now?))).
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
The Mach64 driver works fine with the Rage Mobility M chip in my Omnibook 6000, the Rage 128 driver works with Rage Mobility 128 chips.
Well, you might believe that listening to Britney Spears is grand theft auto, but that doesn't make it so. Please note that there are lots of things that 1. aren't morally right, 2. are illegal, without being theft. Examples include murder and rape. Something being Right or good for the economy or whatever has no bearing on whether it is theft or not.
Any other argument is pure bullshit from self-righteous twits who presume anyone of different opinion is an egoistic criminal.
For the mentally challenged, please note that I do not condone murder, rape or copyright infringement, nor any other illegal activity that isn't theft.
This memo is pretty amusing, too.
I guess I'll have to flee the country now before Linus raids me for my unlicensed copy of Linux.
Gnuheter is a play on the Swedish word 'nyheter', which means 'news'.
And I was trying to read my mail on that box...