When did I say anything about Open Source? Go reply to flobberchops, fuckwit.
Funny how the people preaching open source in this thread are all insulting jerks who lack basic factual knowledge and intellectual skills. I guess that's what one would expect from a movement started by Bruce Perens
Hate to break it to you, but he's right and the Grade A moron here is you. Mozilla does lock their security bugs so only the privledged few can see them:
Very selective quoting. On further investigation, the FTC reversed their opinion and turned around and (successfully) procecuted the members of JEDEC for their actions to the tune of billions of dollars of fines.
Yes, RAMBUS makes a lot of money from their patents, but so does every other company in that business.
why a government entity is the one who generally prosecutes antitrust cases "for the people"
Dude, the government did procecute them, and the RAM companies have already admitted guilt in price-fixing. This story is filled with very ignorant commenters.
RAMBUS wasn't really shit -- it had about a 20% advantage in workstation performance over SDRAM -- until DDR came out.
Even at the price, it was still cheaper to buy RDRAM than a 20% faster CPU for a reasonable RAM config. (Although I'm glad my employer paid for it rather than myself, because those machines are impossible-to-upgrade lead balloons nowdays.)
Hate to be the guy defending RAMBUS, but much of the anti-RAMBUS attitude was driven by Memory Cartel propaganda.
Rambus won their case. The "Memory Cartel" was smashed by the government in one of the biggest antitrust cases in history. Yet easily-manipulated pinheads such as yourself are still repeating the same tired Cartel propaganda that you read on Tom's Hardware.
And yes this is a flame. It's ridiclous how easy it is for companies to manipulate and use computer nerds. Just feed them some FUD and they'll believe it until the day they die.
That's actually the main feature of Classic VB -- that it's really just a user-friendly wrapper around Windows COM. If you want MS Office automation or anything that ties in closely with other Windows apps, VB6 is still a very good choice.
Although I agree strongly with your assessment of VB server apps.
If you want us to take action, please provide us with a legal title that is valid
IANACopyrightExpert, but the Berne Convention provides for international copyrights that don't require any sort of registration or 'title'. If your ISP was in the US, complying with these sorts of requests removes the ISP's liability in the matter.
This has to be the most absurd statement I have ever heard in my life! If there is no DRM, how will media content be "unavailable on his OS"?
It's not absurd at all. Certain media companies (TimeWarner) have stated clearly that they simply would not provide content to "insecure" PCs, preferring instead their own locked-up set-top boxes on the networks they control. After DVD was cracked, people in Hollywood was blatently saying it was a mistake to put it on PCs to begin with.
Basically it came down to a choice between a DRMed PC and Not-A-PC, and the computing industry decided to suck it up and provide the DRM. This has been enormously expensive for them, so I'm sure it wasn't done lightly.
There's also the more pragmatic competitive concern that if Microsoft doesn't offer a DRM solution, someone else will (ie Apple).
The Digital Camera thing was so five years ago, it's stupid. Modern cameras all use USB Mass Storage or PPTP, both which are just fine on Windows. Simply not a problem for consumer. It's like when Apple ran adds about "IRQs" when Windows 95 was on the market -- they're just playing to the prejudices of their loyalists and not trying to convert people.
Now, Bluetooth is something that really does work better on a Mac.
While all of that may be true, the real reason DVD had such a quick uptake was that the movies were $20 instead of $70 -- the latter price being entirely artificial. And that lead to a huge boost in availability for both purchasers and renters. Had they kept the same pricing model as VHS, the DVD format would have seen pretty slow adoption (think laserdisk).
But if the gamble pays off and sony can keep the 50% of the market, then by 2010 we might be looking at 100 millions homes equipped to run Blu-Ray.
Yes, even if the PS3 does relatively poorly, by this time next year there's going to be 2 Million BluRay units installed base versus maybe 200K HDDVD units. In other words, even at $600, BluRay is still probably going to win, and in the long run that's worth billions and billions of dollars to Sony.
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What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player?
That's a pretty silly question, because until the PS3, a videogame console has never the cheapest way to get a movie player.
I know that this applies to absolutely nobody on Slashdot, but if someone did have a HD set and did want to watch HD movies, why wouldn't they drop $5-600 for the Playstation versus $1000 for a standalone player?
Of course this is a silly argument because in a world without copyright, it would be a world without commercial software. Everything would come on encrypted cartridges like a videogame console, and DRM would have appeared in 1986 rather than 2006. Without the legal frameworks for softcopied computer programs, GNU would have nowhere to run their stuff.
To be clear I'm talking about the situations such as "Guy included NVidia Driver on his free ISO", not "Cisco shipped proprietary Linux on their router", where there would be clear damages. The former really gets into the no-harm-no-foul territory.
BSA's typical "every infringer would have paid list price" bullshit, which is already known to work in court?
Have they used this in court? I doubt that crap makes it past the press-releases.
I don't think you can do this anymore, but it was certainly OK for most of the 1990s. A lot of IT departments had piles of loaner CDs so that people could install Office etc at home.
can you explain why the FSF gets all bent out of shape when some hardware manufacturer turns out to be using Linux without obeying the terms of the GPL? By your logic, it's enough enough to point out their was theft, copyright infringement, or a license violation - you have to prove actual damages,
Proving financial damages is a very real part of copyright case law. It's quite possible that most of the GPL-nitpicking that goes on around here is irrelevant because the judge would find no financial harm and tell the FSF to sod off.
This is complicated by the NET Act, but even that is built around a retail price threshhold which wouldn't necessarily apply to GPL software.
+ That piracy helped MS-BASIC become the "standard BASIC" which helped Gates enormously in the long run (which I'm sure he figured out).
+ Microsoft realized that you can't really stop people from pirating shrinkwrap software, so the real solution was to enter into contracts with the OEMs and get the money right from the source.
Has the BSA ever sued an individual/home user of pirated software?
Like a lot of people on this thread, you're confusing two fundementally different issues -- home/casual piracy and business piracy where they presumably could have paid for it, but didn't. It's not like the RIAA situation at all.
I don't want to defend the BSA's tactics, but I think it's safe to say that the number one driver for businesses paying for software is the fear of getting caught pirating.
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If you have a problem with the OP, take it up with him, you slobbering opensores tard. Don't insult me because I clarified the facts of the matter.
> Asshole or moron. I don't know which
In your case, both, voOk. Stay off the Internet until you figure out how it works.
If you can access these bugs, you must work for Mozilla or something, because I sure can't.
> Grade A Asshole is you.
When did I say anything about Open Source? Go reply to flobberchops, fuckwit.
Funny how the people preaching open source in this thread are all insulting jerks who lack basic factual knowledge and intellectual skills. I guess that's what one would expect from a movement started by Bruce Perens
OMG! I have to signup to have access!
Good job talking out of your ass. The security bugs are still inaccessible wihtout a special account.
Hate to break it to you, but he's right and the Grade A moron here is you. Mozilla does lock their security bugs so only the privledged few can see them:
l nerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.4
Go here and click just try to click through to bugzilla from the issues:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vu
Very selective quoting. On further investigation, the FTC reversed their opinion and turned around and (successfully) procecuted the members of JEDEC for their actions to the tune of billions of dollars of fines.
Yes, RAMBUS makes a lot of money from their patents, but so does every other company in that business.
why a government entity is the one who generally prosecutes antitrust cases "for the people"
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Dude, the government did procecute them, and the RAM companies have already admitted guilt in price-fixing. This story is filled with very ignorant commenters.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051013-542
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040915-418
RAMBUS wasn't really shit -- it had about a 20% advantage in workstation performance over SDRAM -- until DDR came out.
Even at the price, it was still cheaper to buy RDRAM than a 20% faster CPU for a reasonable RAM config. (Although I'm glad my employer paid for it rather than myself, because those machines are impossible-to-upgrade lead balloons nowdays.)
Hate to be the guy defending RAMBUS, but much of the anti-RAMBUS attitude was driven by Memory Cartel propaganda.
Rambus won their case. The "Memory Cartel" was smashed by the government in one of the biggest antitrust cases in history. Yet easily-manipulated pinheads such as yourself are still repeating the same tired Cartel propaganda that you read on Tom's Hardware.
Here's a link for the benefit of your fellow ignormaouses who might want to educate themselves.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27993
And yes this is a flame. It's ridiclous how easy it is for companies to manipulate and use computer nerds. Just feed them some FUD and they'll believe it until the day they die.
Virtually all OpenGL game titles (id software) use DirectSound.
1. VB is not portable.
That's actually the main feature of Classic VB -- that it's really just a user-friendly wrapper around Windows COM. If you want MS Office automation or anything that ties in closely with other Windows apps, VB6 is still a very good choice.
Although I agree strongly with your assessment of VB server apps.
> Said more correctly, you can't mix and match code within an assembly
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Actually, it's possible, but Visual Studio won't let you do it.
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/02/12/
http://www.abstractvb.com/code.asp?A=1055
If you want us to take action, please provide us with a legal title that is valid
IANACopyrightExpert, but the Berne Convention provides for international copyrights that don't require any sort of registration or 'title'. If your ISP was in the US, complying with these sorts of requests removes the ISP's liability in the matter.
This has to be the most absurd statement I have ever heard in my life! If there is no DRM, how will media content be "unavailable on his OS"?
It's not absurd at all. Certain media companies (TimeWarner) have stated clearly that they simply would not provide content to "insecure" PCs, preferring instead their own locked-up set-top boxes on the networks they control. After DVD was cracked, people in Hollywood was blatently saying it was a mistake to put it on PCs to begin with.
Basically it came down to a choice between a DRMed PC and Not-A-PC, and the computing industry decided to suck it up and provide the DRM. This has been enormously expensive for them, so I'm sure it wasn't done lightly.
There's also the more pragmatic competitive concern that if Microsoft doesn't offer a DRM solution, someone else will (ie Apple).
The Digital Camera thing was so five years ago, it's stupid. Modern cameras all use USB Mass Storage or PPTP, both which are just fine on Windows. Simply not a problem for consumer. It's like when Apple ran adds about "IRQs" when Windows 95 was on the market -- they're just playing to the prejudices of their loyalists and not trying to convert people.
Now, Bluetooth is something that really does work better on a Mac.
While all of that may be true, the real reason DVD had such a quick uptake was that the movies were $20 instead of $70 -- the latter price being entirely artificial. And that lead to a huge boost in availability for both purchasers and renters. Had they kept the same pricing model as VHS, the DVD format would have seen pretty slow adoption (think laserdisk).
But if the gamble pays off and sony can keep the 50% of the market, then by 2010 we might be looking at 100 millions homes equipped to run Blu-Ray.
Yes, even if the PS3 does relatively poorly, by this time next year there's going to be 2 Million BluRay units installed base versus maybe 200K HDDVD units. In other words, even at $600, BluRay is still probably going to win, and in the long run that's worth billions and billions of dollars to Sony.
What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player?
That's a pretty silly question, because until the PS3, a videogame console has never the cheapest way to get a movie player.
I know that this applies to absolutely nobody on Slashdot, but if someone did have a HD set and did want to watch HD movies, why wouldn't they drop $5-600 for the Playstation versus $1000 for a standalone player?
See my other reply for a clarification. But you are not entirely correct. Copyright Violation + No Harm Done = Fair Use.
Of course this is a silly argument because in a world without copyright, it would be a world without commercial software. Everything would come on encrypted cartridges like a videogame console, and DRM would have appeared in 1986 rather than 2006. Without the legal frameworks for softcopied computer programs, GNU would have nowhere to run their stuff.
To be clear I'm talking about the situations such as "Guy included NVidia Driver on his free ISO", not "Cisco shipped proprietary Linux on their router", where there would be clear damages. The former really gets into the no-harm-no-foul territory.
BSA's typical "every infringer would have paid list price" bullshit, which is already known to work in court?
Have they used this in court? I doubt that crap makes it past the press-releases.
I don't think you can do this anymore, but it was certainly OK for most of the 1990s. A lot of IT departments had piles of loaner CDs so that people could install Office etc at home.
can you explain why the FSF gets all bent out of shape when some hardware manufacturer turns out to be using Linux without obeying the terms of the GPL? By your logic, it's enough enough to point out their was theft, copyright infringement, or a license violation - you have to prove actual damages,
Proving financial damages is a very real part of copyright case law. It's quite possible that most of the GPL-nitpicking that goes on around here is irrelevant because the judge would find no financial harm and tell the FSF to sod off.
This is complicated by the NET Act, but even that is built around a retail price threshhold which wouldn't necessarily apply to GPL software.
There's two real morals to that story:
+ That piracy helped MS-BASIC become the "standard BASIC" which helped Gates enormously in the long run (which I'm sure he figured out).
+ Microsoft realized that you can't really stop people from pirating shrinkwrap software, so the real solution was to enter into contracts with the OEMs and get the money right from the source.
Has the BSA ever sued an individual/home user of pirated software?
Like a lot of people on this thread, you're confusing two fundementally different issues -- home/casual piracy and business piracy where they presumably could have paid for it, but didn't. It's not like the RIAA situation at all.
I don't want to defend the BSA's tactics, but I think it's safe to say that the number one driver for businesses paying for software is the fear of getting caught pirating.