Actually, you can still get DVD-RAM recorders, which until now had the advantage over DVD-R/DVD+R of being double sided so you could record more on them.
That is a good question. My second thought (the first was covered in my "One game console?" post) was that this is like the days of the Apple IIe and such when you had the OS on the floppy disk with the game.
Is there a specific significant improvement in the game over running it under regular Linux or Windows they can tell us about or are they just throwing around buzzwords and stuff like "super gaming console power". I'd like to see some hard evidence and benchmarks and such explaining why you would want to do this and why it makes the game play better.
To "Check if you qualify" it asks for your email first... which I find really strange unless you are building a spam list.
Though I was amused that I got
"We have detected that this email address already exists as a Lindows.com account. If you are a Lindows.com member, please Click Here to use the special login page."
when I entered billg@microsoft.com.
Over all opinion, this guy just wants to collect emails and personal information for marketing purposes. I'll let those with legal knowledge decide if you could really get a settlement out of this or now. But whether it is shut down or not, Mr. Robertson will have a lot of private information in his hands to sell to spammers or telemarketers. Not saying he would but, well, no telling what he plans to do with that information!
Dunno about your state, but in Ohio, when you go to register the car, you have to tell them how much you paid for it. Granted you can lie if you bought from a private owner and the rarely check unless you make it fairly obvious that you lied (like claiming you paid only $1000 for a fairly recent vehicle). I suppose if you buy it from a dealer out of state you can knock a few thousand off the claimed price, but again, hope they don't check up on it.
You are probably right... the best way to get it on American TV is to go through PBS. That is how we get it here in Cincinnati and have for over 20 years. Channel 48 shows it saturday nights here, for the longest time they would show the entire episode at once but now they just show two half hour sections each week instead. Of course some episodes are so long, I would often fall asleep trying to stay up to watch all of them so in some ways, the half hour segments isn't so bad.
But anyway, look for my main post to this article where I posted the address of the local Dr. Who fanclub near me. They are the ones who are responsible for keeping it on the air here, so they would be a good source of advice on how to convince your local PBS station to pick it up.
We still get Dr. Who shown here in Cincinnati on PBS, though they don't show whole episodes on Saturday nights anymore, they instead show two half hour segments instead.
Interestingly, Cincinnati has one of the biggest Dr. Who fanbases I've ever seen.
A local group: Friends of the Time Lords has helped keep it on TV here for oh about 20 years or more. So if you want advice on how to get it on TV in your area, you might check with them.
Here is their information since their web site seems to be down at the moment...
Friends of the Time Lord Dr. Who Fan Club 2741 Faber Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45211-7908 http://welcome.to/fotl
Hmm as for the article, I couldn't help but laugh at the picture of the Dalek emerging from the Tardis... my first thought was "Well, the Doctor certainly has picked up a strange companion this time!".
Anyway, great to know that this is going back on the air. I'll be looking for it on PBS here:)
Well if you have dialup, it is annoying when you are just about to go online and a telemarketer happens to ring just as the modem picks up to start dialing. Granted it is funny listening to them go "Hello? Hello? as the modem spews garbage down the line at them. But the downside is that unless you have caller ID, you likely don't know if it was a telemarker or some important call that just got lost.
Funny, but a very good point too. But this does show that when the people are upset enough about something, the government will have to react. The trick is to get enough people to care about the cause that it will make the reps sweat around election time.
Now that the RIAA is going after Joe Sixpack and his family, you are going to see the same kind of backlash against them only in a much faster and more brutal way. Some reps have already come forth looking rather nervous about what the RIAA is doing and some have even given at least lip service to legistlation to stop the RIAA.
With telemarketing, you just got bothered to buy crap and you could hang up. With the RIAA, you get a letter and you have to pay them thousands of dollars or you have to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to try to get you out of it. Common people will react to that far more vehemantly than they did to telemarketing, just wait, in about six months expect to see a lot of reps and senetors start abandoning the RIAA ship as public antagonism aginst the RIAA and its tactics builds up.
... that they will probably sell more CD's to people who want to figure out how to break the protection than to people who actually want to buy the CD for the music.
Well obviously they hope to get investers interested so that a single battery pack is built instead of 6800 laptop batteries. The pack may last a lot longer as well.
As more people get afraid of these lawsuits, they will simply trade with trusted friends instead of sharing with the whole world. However the money bleed on the RIAA and record companies will not stop at this point. In the past person to person music trading was limited to how much you could stuff on a few cassette tapes. But today, you can sneakily FTP your whole library of music to a friend, or burn thousands of songs to a few CD's or a DVD-R or two and trade large chunks of the RIAA's music at a time. So even if they DO manage to destroy or limit the use of P2P, people will just do real life P2P, handing CD's to each other or giving their friend a log in to an easy to set up FTP server to trade with them. The RIAA is finished no matter how successful their campaign is.
Not to mention its easier for them to just download it than go all the way out to the store. People are lazy for the most part and kids will be kids, even rich ones and they will do it because everyone else is and simply because it's there.
I'm downloading it now, going to run it under virtual PC (which I could care less if it trashes the fake test "PC" I use to try out stuff that might have worms or viruses) and see how it works. I'll see if their claims of the IP being untracable are valid as well. If they are using a central server, then it could be, but then that gives them a central place to shut down.
After all, this would hurt the clowns who hired the spammers in the first place! That is one thing that people keep missing. They bitch about spammers, but they don't seem to mention the people who actually create the problem by hiring the spammers in the first place. Crushing their servers or at least making their bandwidth costs so bad that they would probably never dig out from the debt would take away incentive to do this kind of thing. But yes, sadly, this would open up a DDOS hole as well. Maybe a better way would be to set up a program which sits in the background and checks a central site for known spam company links and the software would load the URL maybe 3 times each day. If you had enough people do that, it would really hurt these bastards. Probably result in a legal challenge though. But anyway, this at least warrents discussion for now, but a way needs to be found to protect the innocent and make it so that the spammers and their host companies can't find a central site to sue.
What he wants is to get people to think NOW about this before it happens. The government needs to have a plan to transition from our current mostly capitalist system to a more, well, socialistic one. Why? With machines able to do all the work, you won't be able to sell labor any more. Instead government will be able to give people about whatever they want. As was said in the article, it could mean permanent vacation for everyone with everyone getting at least the basics of survival if not a bit more and will live somewhat comfortably. However the problem is that we are not aiming that way right now. When the robots do all the work, we will have tens of millions of angry and repressed people who will have nothing to do but breed like rabbit, commit crimes and start riots. It will be ugly when that happens too because not all the robots or money in the world will stop several billion people from revolting in anger if they are left to suffer while the rich live off of the robots doing what was once their jobs. Several billion you say? Well obviously this isn't just going to be a problem in the US. This will start to happen worldwide as well and places like China and India had better enjoy our jobs they are getting from us while they can because they will be next if and when robots arrive.
The lobby isn't run by the spammers themselves, but the buisinesses who hire these jokers to peddle their crap. Spammers wouldn't exist if there wasn't demand for their services. What we need is a law which lets you go after the company who hired the spammer in the first plac as well as the spammer themselves.
What we really need is a law which lets you go after not only the spammer, but the company who hired him. Start going after the companies behind this and you will dry up demand for the services of spammers. If they are an overseas company, then revoke their right to do buisiness with anyone living in the United States or whichever country the law is enacted in.
That is what is needed, to put pressure on these clowns who are hiring the spammers in the first place.
Actually, it was funny to see an advertisement for MS on here./. doesn't believe in the way MS does buisiness and they are all for BOYCOTT THE MAN, but then they turn around and advertise for him! They would probably have ads for SCO too if SCO still had an actual product anymore.
That aside, they are at least keeping people posted on what is going on with the SCO situation, even if it is getting a bit redundant, this behavior by SCO is a serious problem for the open source community and to innovation in this country. So it is definately relavent news for a lot of us here.
Not anymore most likely. Netflix will almost certainly sue them. Though they may get off with just heavy royalty payments but that means most cost now.
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Actually, you can still get DVD-RAM recorders, which until now had the advantage over DVD-R/DVD+R of being double sided so you could record more on them.
That is a good question. My second thought (the first was covered in my "One game console?" post) was that this is like the days of the Apple IIe and such when you had the OS on the floppy disk with the game.
Is there a specific significant improvement in the game over running it under regular Linux or Windows they can tell us about or are they just throwing around buzzwords and stuff like "super gaming console power". I'd like to see some hard evidence and benchmarks and such explaining why you would want to do this and why it makes the game play better.
From the title Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console
:)
Hmm a console to play the one game ever made for Linux?
Hey, that is what it sounds like! At least that makes me feel better about being a Mac user
To "Check if you qualify" it asks for your email first... which I find really strange unless you are building a spam list.
Though I was amused that I got
"We have detected that this email address already exists as a Lindows.com account. If you are a Lindows.com member, please Click Here to use the special login page."
when I entered billg@microsoft.com.
Over all opinion, this guy just wants to collect emails and personal information for marketing purposes. I'll let those with legal knowledge decide if you could really get a settlement out of this or now. But whether it is shut down or not, Mr. Robertson will have a lot of private information in his hands to sell to spammers or telemarketers. Not saying he would but, well, no telling what he plans to do with that information!
Dunno about your state, but in Ohio, when you go to register the car, you have to tell them how much you paid for it. Granted you can lie if you bought from a private owner and the rarely check unless you make it fairly obvious that you lied (like claiming you paid only $1000 for a fairly recent vehicle). I suppose if you buy it from a dealer out of state you can knock a few thousand off the claimed price, but again, hope they don't check up on it.
You are probably right... the best way to get it on American TV is to go through PBS. That is how we get it here in Cincinnati and have for over 20 years. Channel 48 shows it saturday nights here, for the longest time they would show the entire episode at once but now they just show two half hour sections each week instead. Of course some episodes are so long, I would often fall asleep trying to stay up to watch all of them so in some ways, the half hour segments isn't so bad.
But anyway, look for my main post to this article where I posted the address of the local Dr. Who fanclub near me. They are the ones who are responsible for keeping it on the air here, so they would be a good source of advice on how to convince your local PBS station to pick it up.
We still get Dr. Who shown here in Cincinnati on PBS, though they don't show whole episodes on Saturday nights anymore, they instead show two half hour segments instead.
:)
Interestingly, Cincinnati has one of the biggest Dr. Who fanbases I've ever seen.
A local group: Friends of the Time Lords has helped keep it on TV here for oh about 20 years or more. So if you want advice on how to get it on TV in your area, you might check with them.
Here is their information since their web site seems to be down at the moment...
Friends of the Time Lord
Dr. Who Fan Club
2741 Faber Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211-7908
http://welcome.to/fotl
Hmm as for the article, I couldn't help but laugh at the picture of the Dalek emerging from the Tardis... my first thought was "Well, the Doctor certainly has picked up a strange companion this time!".
Anyway, great to know that this is going back on the air. I'll be looking for it on PBS here
Well if you have dialup, it is annoying when you are just about to go online and a telemarketer happens to ring just as the modem picks up to start dialing. Granted it is funny listening to them go "Hello? Hello? as the modem spews garbage down the line at them. But the downside is that unless you have caller ID, you likely don't know if it was a telemarker or some important call that just got lost.
Funny, but a very good point too. But this does show that when the people are upset enough about something, the government will have to react. The trick is to get enough people to care about the cause that it will make the reps sweat around election time.
Now that the RIAA is going after Joe Sixpack and his family, you are going to see the same kind of backlash against them only in a much faster and more brutal way. Some reps have already come forth looking rather nervous about what the RIAA is doing and some have even given at least lip service to legistlation to stop the RIAA.
With telemarketing, you just got bothered to buy crap and you could hang up. With the RIAA, you get a letter and you have to pay them thousands of dollars or you have to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to try to get you out of it. Common people will react to that far more vehemantly than they did to telemarketing, just wait, in about six months expect to see a lot of reps and senetors start abandoning the RIAA ship as public antagonism aginst the RIAA and its tactics builds up.
... that they will probably sell more CD's to people who want to figure out how to break the protection than to people who actually want to buy the CD for the music.
Well obviously they hope to get investers interested so that a single battery pack is built instead of 6800 laptop batteries. The pack may last a lot longer as well.
As more people get afraid of these lawsuits, they will simply trade with trusted friends instead of sharing with the whole world. However the money bleed on the RIAA and record companies will not stop at this point. In the past person to person music trading was limited to how much you could stuff on a few cassette tapes. But today, you can sneakily FTP your whole library of music to a friend, or burn thousands of songs to a few CD's or a DVD-R or two and trade large chunks of the RIAA's music at a time. So even if they DO manage to destroy or limit the use of P2P, people will just do real life P2P, handing CD's to each other or giving their friend a log in to an easy to set up FTP server to trade with them. The RIAA is finished no matter how successful their campaign is.
Not to mention its easier for them to just download it than go all the way out to the store. People are lazy for the most part and kids will be kids, even rich ones and they will do it because everyone else is and simply because it's there.
No but his spoiled kids with the latest computer hardware and private OC3 line will be doing that stuff.
Another link via google news: http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=41898
From another source: http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=41898
Only one I could find on google news but I didn't do an exhaustive search.
I'm downloading it now, going to run it under virtual PC (which I could care less if it trashes the fake test "PC" I use to try out stuff that might have worms or viruses) and see how it works. I'll see if their claims of the IP being untracable are valid as well. If they are using a central server, then it could be, but then that gives them a central place to shut down.
Because they plan to start with smaller companies and get enough of a legal fund to go after the bigger boys.
I doubt they will go after individual end users RIAA style, instead they will go after small companies.
After all, this would hurt the clowns who hired the spammers in the first place! That is one thing that people keep missing. They bitch about spammers, but they don't seem to mention the people who actually create the problem by hiring the spammers in the first place. Crushing their servers or at least making their bandwidth costs so bad that they would probably never dig out from the debt would take away incentive to do this kind of thing. But yes, sadly, this would open up a DDOS hole as well. Maybe a better way would be to set up a program which sits in the background and checks a central site for known spam company links and the software would load the URL maybe 3 times each day. If you had enough people do that, it would really hurt these bastards. Probably result in a legal challenge though. But anyway, this at least warrents discussion for now, but a way needs to be found to protect the innocent and make it so that the spammers and their host companies can't find a central site to sue.
Hello? No DRM in the iTunes store? Actually yes there is, though it is easily gotten around.
What he wants is to get people to think NOW about this before it happens. The government needs to have a plan to transition from our current mostly capitalist system to a more, well, socialistic one. Why? With machines able to do all the work, you won't be able to sell labor any more. Instead government will be able to give people about whatever they want. As was said in the article, it could mean permanent vacation for everyone with everyone getting at least the basics of survival if not a bit more and will live somewhat comfortably. However the problem is that we are not aiming that way right now. When the robots do all the work, we will have tens of millions of angry and repressed people who will have nothing to do but breed like rabbit, commit crimes and start riots. It will be ugly when that happens too because not all the robots or money in the world will stop several billion people from revolting in anger if they are left to suffer while the rich live off of the robots doing what was once their jobs. Several billion you say? Well obviously this isn't just going to be a problem in the US. This will start to happen worldwide as well and places like China and India had better enjoy our jobs they are getting from us while they can because they will be next if and when robots arrive.
The lobby isn't run by the spammers themselves, but the buisinesses who hire these jokers to peddle their crap. Spammers wouldn't exist if there wasn't demand for their services. What we need is a law which lets you go after the company who hired the spammer in the first plac as well as the spammer themselves.
What we really need is a law which lets you go after not only the spammer, but the company who hired him. Start going after the companies behind this and you will dry up demand for the services of spammers. If they are an overseas company, then revoke their right to do buisiness with anyone living in the United States or whichever country the law is enacted in.
That is what is needed, to put pressure on these clowns who are hiring the spammers in the first place.
Actually, it was funny to see an advertisement for MS on here. /. doesn't believe in the way MS does buisiness and they are all for BOYCOTT THE MAN, but then they turn around and advertise for him! They would probably have ads for SCO too if SCO still had an actual product anymore.
That aside, they are at least keeping people posted on what is going on with the SCO situation, even if it is getting a bit redundant, this behavior by SCO is a serious problem for the open source community and to innovation in this country. So it is definately relavent news for a lot of us here.
Not anymore most likely. Netflix will almost certainly sue them. Though they may get off with just heavy royalty payments but that means most cost now.