On a modern dual-core 2.5 ghz CPU, I can play HD video fullscreen, 1080p, smoothly
With a typical power usage in the 30-70 watts. The lightweight CPU + optimised GPU use <10 watts to play 1080p video smoothly. I guess you don't want that 30-70 watts in your lap, on your electricity bill or to have your device run out of power just before the crucial part of your movie comes on.
The real answer is that generalized multi-core processors are more expensve and wasteful in comparison with dedicated graphics and video hardware.
So reading a book you own aloud to yourself is copyright infringement?
I didn't say that. I said that a different form for a copyright work does change the copyrighted work we're talking about. To extend my comment to infringement is wrong because of either first sale doctrine or exhaustion of rights (in their applicable countries). However, the Author's Guild may have only licensed their texts for use on the Kindle in display form, in which case there is infringement.
the "new" spin on copyright law that could land me in jail!
I don't think that you're in a sane coountry if that could land you in jail! You've bought the book, so the copyright owner has exhausted their rights in controlling what you subsequently do with it (or you have a first-sale thing going on). They you are entriely free to use coloured filters, annotate, lend, learn and give away what you've paid for. The Author's Guild hasn't a leg to stand on about this use of the Kindle. But the submitter got his facts wrong about copyright.
Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn't copy an existing work
It does. Copyright is for an embodiment of a work, so a sung edition is a different work to a printed edition of the work. And reading out a direct copy of a printed text is a derived work because it comes in a different package. And that's how copyright law works.
++ not a lawyer, not even pretending, and this isn't legal advice.
I think he's saying that they can't reliably be detected. I heard that there's a whole profession of people whose job concerns conveying emotion and filling roles in entirely made-up sequences of events. They're called 'actors'.
The laws in Germany (and the rest of the EU) have a direct selling mandate which allow consumers who buy from door-to-door sellers, via the telephone and the internet to cancel within 7 or 14 days (depending on the state). I'm glad you took the time to consider German law before condemning it -- particularly as rms concedes without condemnation that people might sell GPL software, much less saying that selling GPL software should be illegal.
Direct selling laws in EU allow her to cancel without cost in 14 days. Just repeating what a ton of other posts say for the people who don't realise that Germany and/or Europe has different laws to the U.S.A.
I don't understand TFA's problem with Braid or Blow. The little that I know about Braid tells me that it plays with the million-fold path through a computer game -- that this time you might save the princess -- and makes good use of that, extending the platform-game dynamics. So it seems reaonable to expect that the back-story will also have a multi-faceted diamond-refraction portion to it and allow the player her or his own interpretation of the experience as a whole. Ultimately, how the game is played is a reflection of the player within the framework provided by the mechanics of the game, and so also should be the interpretation of that experience. (My interpretation of) Blow's own comments in response to TFA seem to support this.
In the everlasting twilight of copyright, the author has one ongoing contribution to the work, which will affect its interpretation: the availability. And how an author or publisher manipulates that control will reflect on the author and way the work is interpreted.
I'll add another URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4, which summarises the online, live conversion tools available to you today. But, seeing as you're backing up your data anyway, for safety and especially with a new filesystem, you could just rsync it off to the backup disk and then rsync it back onto a reformatted ext4 partition.
Qt Creator is the official Qt IDE. But don't overlook KDevelop, which provides great autocomplete and semantic tools for your program code, if you're going to go a bit further than Qt 4.4 and use some of the KDE4 libs.
the lock maker, because they sold you something they claimed to be secure and which would protect your stuff from thieves, but which really wasn't, and they knew about it
Your Windows EULA specifically tells you not to trust Microsoft's software to be reliable or protect your valuable data. Most all computer software makes no warrant as to its fitness for any particular purpose. It's here that your analogy breaks down, and (sadly) Microsft aren't negligent because they don't pretend to care.
You would need to engage WIPO as a worldwide Domain name marks register for domain names. Imagine that there is one place to register a domain name which is searched for similarities and entitlement to that name, kind of like trade marks. Than you would have to apply through that organisation to get the licence to the $whatever.com address. And then you'd have far fewer quick and wasted registrations. And a way to stop twitter.signon.com from phishing.
Yet I believe that your suggestion is fail because it intends to use a technical solution to a social problem. Making users aware that the Internet is no safer a place to be than real life and that there are many people who will take your money for nothing (and come back to take you for all you've got) is the surest way I can think of to overcome the spam e-mail problem. I reckon that non-scam business would support this plan because genuine enterprise benefits from building real trust with real customers.
I would argue that, without both a graphics driver and data processing libraries, it's a toy. With only the graphics driver, it should be in a position to kickstart HD video on netbooks (yawn). With only a data processing driver, it's relegated to AMD's homeland in the server space (and may well get them more of that market). With both, it fills a gap in the middle with the workstation market and data visualisation, and so can hit all three targets (netbook/workstation/server).
The discussion's moot: AMD will do it because a pundit on the Internet said they should do it...
A totally different story: they would need to make it very easy for developer to use the new co-processor, and to get some community buzz going for the new hardware, and then to have some showcase examples of the new setup.
You've got to admit that it would be nothing more than a cool toy if you can't do any real work with it.
The price cut is the clincher. I disagree that the compatibility with motherboards is an issue: all the reviews I've read describe an AM2+/AM3 hybrid part that supports both DDR2 and DDR3 which will allow you to upgrade the MB and RAM and keep the processor.
AMD needing a new architecture is a myth: Changing the microarchitecture underneath the AMD64 set isn't going to yield enough improvement to make it totally worthwhile. Their pipeline length and IPC count are comparable to Intel, but AMD's smaller research team, budget and fabrication facilities mean that Intel's chips get implementation advances that AMD can't quite match. And then Intel get to control the prices in the marketplace due to their capacity and margins (although the increased availability of smaller dies in Phenom II will help AMD quite a bit). AMD are skewered by Intel's size and their ongoing debt write-offs of buying ATI. However, changing the game to incorporate Radeon-style parallel pipelines is a different story.
MacWorld San Francisco is today. This content is made available to you as part of their 'driving and leveraging for increased consumer experience' toward the '"Idle" supersite subbrand of the Slashdot publishing matrix'.
This post took 119 minutes to write on my new MacBook Wheel.
Read a comment to TFA. It links to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr, which has the following line: "Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin."
AIUI, if PsyStar have rightly identified that Apple failed to register the version of Mac OS X sold by PsyStar within 3 months of publication, then Apple can't bring the suit.
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You might like to consider rrror-correcting RAM.
With a typical power usage in the 30-70 watts. The lightweight CPU + optimised GPU use <10 watts to play 1080p video smoothly. I guess you don't want that 30-70 watts in your lap, on your electricity bill or to have your device run out of power just before the crucial part of your movie comes on.
The real answer is that generalized multi-core processors are more expensve and wasteful in comparison with dedicated graphics and video hardware.
We're all waiting for Duke Nukem Forever on Windows Seven. (I'm playing a pre-release on Emacs 23.)
'Life without walls' is rumoured to be the cause of Windows crashing.
They'll be a terrible failure: emptied by looters on the first night because of 'life without walls'.
I didn't say that. I said that a different form for a copyright work does change the copyrighted work we're talking about. To extend my comment to infringement is wrong because of either first sale doctrine or exhaustion of rights (in their applicable countries). However, the Author's Guild may have only licensed their texts for use on the Kindle in display form, in which case there is infringement.
I don't think that you're in a sane coountry if that could land you in jail! You've bought the book, so the copyright owner has exhausted their rights in controlling what you subsequently do with it (or you have a first-sale thing going on). They you are entriely free to use coloured filters, annotate, lend, learn and give away what you've paid for. The Author's Guild hasn't a leg to stand on about this use of the Kindle. But the submitter got his facts wrong about copyright.
It does. Copyright is for an embodiment of a work, so a sung edition is a different work to a printed edition of the work. And reading out a direct copy of a printed text is a derived work because it comes in a different package. And that's how copyright law works.
++ not a lawyer, not even pretending, and this isn't legal advice.
I think he's saying that they can't reliably be detected. I heard that there's a whole profession of people whose job concerns conveying emotion and filling roles in entirely made-up sequences of events. They're called 'actors'.
I disagree that everyone who shows any kind of self interest is a bad guy. No-one's going to go out to bat for you, so you've got to.
The laws in Germany (and the rest of the EU) have a direct selling mandate which allow consumers who buy from door-to-door sellers, via the telephone and the internet to cancel within 7 or 14 days (depending on the state). I'm glad you took the time to consider German law before condemning it -- particularly as rms concedes without condemnation that people might sell GPL software, much less saying that selling GPL software should be illegal.
Direct selling laws in EU allow her to cancel without cost in 14 days. Just repeating what a ton of other posts say for the people who don't realise that Germany and/or Europe has different laws to the U.S.A.
I don't understand TFA's problem with Braid or Blow. The little that I know about Braid tells me that it plays with the million-fold path through a computer game -- that this time you might save the princess -- and makes good use of that, extending the platform-game dynamics. So it seems reaonable to expect that the back-story will also have a multi-faceted diamond-refraction portion to it and allow the player her or his own interpretation of the experience as a whole. Ultimately, how the game is played is a reflection of the player within the framework provided by the mechanics of the game, and so also should be the interpretation of that experience. (My interpretation of) Blow's own comments in response to TFA seem to support this.
In the everlasting twilight of copyright, the author has one ongoing contribution to the work, which will affect its interpretation: the availability. And how an author or publisher manipulates that control will reflect on the author and way the work is interpreted.
I'll add another URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4, which summarises the online, live conversion tools available to you today. But, seeing as you're backing up your data anyway, for safety and especially with a new filesystem, you could just rsync it off to the backup disk and then rsync it back onto a reformatted ext4 partition.
Referrals from slashdot are automatically dropped. It's their protection against slashdottings.
Qt Creator is the official Qt IDE. But don't overlook KDevelop, which provides great autocomplete and semantic tools for your program code, if you're going to go a bit further than Qt 4.4 and use some of the KDE4 libs.
Your Windows EULA specifically tells you not to trust Microsoft's software to be reliable or protect your valuable data. Most all computer software makes no warrant as to its fitness for any particular purpose. It's here that your analogy breaks down, and (sadly) Microsft aren't negligent because they don't pretend to care.
You would need to engage WIPO as a worldwide Domain name marks register for domain names. Imagine that there is one place to register a domain name which is searched for similarities and entitlement to that name, kind of like trade marks. Than you would have to apply through that organisation to get the licence to the $whatever.com address. And then you'd have far fewer quick and wasted registrations. And a way to stop twitter.signon.com from phishing.
Yet I believe that your suggestion is fail because it intends to use a technical solution to a social problem. Making users aware that the Internet is no safer a place to be than real life and that there are many people who will take your money for nothing (and come back to take you for all you've got) is the surest way I can think of to overcome the spam e-mail problem. I reckon that non-scam business would support this plan because genuine enterprise benefits from building real trust with real customers.
I would argue that, without both a graphics driver and data processing libraries, it's a toy. With only the graphics driver, it should be in a position to kickstart HD video on netbooks (yawn). With only a data processing driver, it's relegated to AMD's homeland in the server space (and may well get them more of that market). With both, it fills a gap in the middle with the workstation market and data visualisation, and so can hit all three targets (netbook/workstation/server).
The discussion's moot: AMD will do it because a pundit on the Internet said they should do it...
A totally different story: they would need to make it very easy for developer to use the new co-processor, and to get some community buzz going for the new hardware, and then to have some showcase examples of the new setup.
You've got to admit that it would be nothing more than a cool toy if you can't do any real work with it.
The price cut is the clincher. I disagree that the compatibility with motherboards is an issue: all the reviews I've read describe an AM2+/AM3 hybrid part that supports both DDR2 and DDR3 which will allow you to upgrade the MB and RAM and keep the processor.
AMD needing a new architecture is a myth: Changing the microarchitecture underneath the AMD64 set isn't going to yield enough improvement to make it totally worthwhile. Their pipeline length and IPC count are comparable to Intel, but AMD's smaller research team, budget and fabrication facilities mean that Intel's chips get implementation advances that AMD can't quite match. And then Intel get to control the prices in the marketplace due to their capacity and margins (although the increased availability of smaller dies in Phenom II will help AMD quite a bit). AMD are skewered by Intel's size and their ongoing debt write-offs of buying ATI. However, changing the game to incorporate Radeon-style parallel pipelines is a different story.
MacWorld San Francisco is today. This content is made available to you as part of their 'driving and leveraging for increased consumer experience' toward the '"Idle" supersite subbrand of the Slashdot publishing matrix'.
This post took 119 minutes to write on my new MacBook Wheel.
Anyone confirm that this actually works?
One time, while attempting barrel roll, I accidentally a whole noun.
Read a comment to TFA. It links to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr, which has the following line: "Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin."
AIUI, if PsyStar have rightly identified that Apple failed to register the version of Mac OS X sold by PsyStar within 3 months of publication, then Apple can't bring the suit.