I'm surprised he didn't talk more about Amazon's profit, as.coms making profits are clearly signs that online retailing has come of age.
Hmm, Amazon's profit is very much a 'profit'. Anyone who knows anything about accounting will be able to explain how it isn't really a profit at all, but I forgot all I learnt about it, so there.
I mean, really! REALLY REALLY SUCKS! It's syntactic sugar stew, and it's worthless for real software.
Plus, dickwad, it stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It isn't for writing 'real software', it's for knocking up quick scripts for Extraction and Reporting. Fuckwit.
If people on here spent less time worrying about what everyone else was using and just SHUT THE FUCK UP and used what software they wanted to, it would be a LOT LESS FUCKING ANNOYING on here.
Is it meant to give the layperson in either field a hobby in the other? Are you supposed to read this and then go get a job in bioinformatics?
I think anyone who thinks a book called 'Beginning Perl for BioInformatics' is going to give them enough info on bioinformatics to get a job in that is going to find it difficult to get a job in McDonalds.
... not like that matters to Big Media. They have ways of getting around anything that interrupts their cash flow.
Er, this isn't big media versus some small guy. It's big media versus big media. So its one taking from the other, so it isn't increasing big medias cash flow at all.
Could this be the end to creative Porn Titling? Some of the greatest Adult ventures of all time were titled after famous flicks. Setting a precedent like this could only harm the most sucessful industry in history.
The greatest one I ever heard was Shaving Ryan's Privates. It was loads of gay guys going round, er, shaving each other's nuts.
Linux Zealot: (def) A two word phrase describing someone with a life so empty they haven dedicated themselves to trying to change the OS that everyone else uses in the mistaken belief that other people actually want to be told what OS to use my a 14-year old virgin fat sweaty fool.
Way to karma-whore!!! You go girl!! I could do a few lists for you like 'How to make money from free software' or 'How to get Linux a less than embarrassing piss in the water market share', but I can't be assed.
Their products are so bloated with useless features that no one sees a reason to upgrade what they have
Whoa there horsie, way to slip in a lame dig at Microsoft there! I think what you meant to say was 'Because their software contains all the features their users need, they see no reason to upgrade'. Having extra useless features is not going to discourage anyone from upgrading. This makes you a biased idiot, but way to karma-whore.
Re-writing an already-working system is not a good idea
However, when you implement a new system; make sure that
it will work on both Windows and Linux. It takes a long time,
but if you stick with that approach, Linux desktops will be
a possibility.
Writing your system to be platform-independant when there is no current or forecast need is also not a good idea.
Linux should take a page from Apple. They put out a little ad booklet in Time (and elsewhere) and devoted 2 pages to dispelling myths. They didn't use cyberspeak either. They just gave some very real questions ("Everyone uses Windows" for example) and answered them. It was a great piece of PR. Linux could learn something from it...
Yeah, it *could*, if it was a proper commercial operation, and had an advertising and marketing budget and team...
A good point, but you also need to understand that the major media outlets don't get any direct benefit from publishing such anecdotal stories about this sort of thing.
Is that because it's the most insignificant and boring story ever? 'Business in installs some computers shocker', I can see the front page of Time now...
Just because it *can* be used for piracy, doesn't mean it will be
Whilst I broadly agree with your point, I don't believe you, nor the manufacturer of the chip, nor sony, nor the judge in the case, really truly believes that most of the people buying the chip aren't solely doing it so they can pirate games.
To take your argument further, guns have legal uses right, but here in the UK, very few people are allowed them because it is pretty unlikely you have a valid need for one. This infringes on the rights of a minority who may need one, but not the majority who don't want little punks running round shooting everyone (which isn't to say this *never* happens, just rarely with a legally owned gun).
By this logic, then, we're not even allowed to make a physical backup CD of software we legally bought, since there will be a copy in memory whenever it's run on the computer/console/etc.
If any of you actually bothered to read the article, you would see that the judge acknowledged that there were plenty of legal things this chip allowed you to do, but because it also allowed the illegal playing of pirated games this outweighed the good points and THAT IS WHY SONY WON THE CASE. RTFM!!!
The Messiah defeated the Copy-Protection mechanism, and this part of the design SPECIFICALLY was dealing with the use of backup material as a function. The judge acknowledged that indeed it may be useful to have a backup of software as allowed under the CDPA 1988, and there could possibly be cases of 'where necessary', but also the aspect of 'swapping' of backup disks between people would be uncontrollable, and damaging to Sony as nobody would obviously pay £25-45 for a game, therefore 'piracy' becomes the main factor for consideration above all other.
Therefore on this basis alone, Judge Jacob awarded the Summary Judgment to Sony
Why can't I legally play an imported PS2 game (which I probably paid a goodly premium for) on a modded PS2? I've voided my warranty if I mod the PS2,
If any of you actually bothered to read the article, you would see that the judge acknowledge that there were plenty of legal things this chip allowed you to do, but because it also allowed the illegal playing of pirated games this outweighed the good points and THAT IS WHY SONY WON THE CASE. RTFM!!!
The Messiah defeated the Copy-Protection mechanism, and this part of the design SPECIFICALLY was dealing with the use of backup material as a function. The judge acknowledged that indeed it may be useful to have a backup of software as allowed under the CDPA 1988, and there could possibly be cases of 'where necessary', but also the aspect of 'swapping' of backup disks between people would be uncontrollable, and damaging to Sony as nobody would obviously pay £25-45 for a game, therefore 'piracy' becomes the main factor for consideration above all other.
Therefore on this basis alone, Judge Jacob awarded the Summary Judgment to Sony
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This is too geek for geeks! It's amazing what men who can't get laid end up doing with their time!
I just got my computer set up on the net!!!
At least all the boring 'BSD is great' schmucks turned up. YAY!
O, "big media" vs "bigger media"
Either way, they're both bigger than any regular Joe.
Are you trying to say that organisations are bigger and more powerful than ordinary schmucks? Quick, call the papers!
I'm surprised he didn't talk more about Amazon's profit, as .coms making profits are clearly signs that online retailing has come of age.
Hmm, Amazon's profit is very much a 'profit'. Anyone who knows anything about accounting will be able to explain how it isn't really a profit at all, but I forgot all I learnt about it, so there.
I mean, really! REALLY REALLY SUCKS! It's syntactic sugar stew, and it's worthless for real software.
Plus, dickwad, it stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It isn't for writing 'real software', it's for knocking up quick scripts for Extraction and Reporting. Fuckwit.
If people on here spent less time worrying about what everyone else was using and just SHUT THE FUCK UP and used what software they wanted to, it would be a LOT LESS FUCKING ANNOYING on here.
I mean, really! REALLY REALLY SUCKS! It's syntactic sugar stew, and it's worthless for real software.
Don't use it then muppet! Jesus!
Is it meant to give the layperson in either field a hobby in the other? Are you supposed to read this and then go get a job in bioinformatics?
I think anyone who thinks a book called 'Beginning Perl for BioInformatics' is going to give them enough info on bioinformatics to get a job in that is going to find it difficult to get a job in McDonalds.
now be better at Advanced Methamatics?
get that big petrol pump into my PC?
This is quite clearly bullshit
... not like that matters to Big Media. They have ways of getting around anything that interrupts their cash flow.
Er, this isn't big media versus some small guy. It's big media versus big media. So its one taking from the other, so it isn't increasing big medias cash flow at all.
Could this be the end to creative Porn Titling? Some of the greatest Adult ventures of all time were titled after famous flicks. Setting a precedent like this could only harm the most sucessful industry in history.
The greatest one I ever heard was Shaving Ryan's Privates. It was loads of gay guys going round, er, shaving each other's nuts.
Note to moderator: You are a fucking idiot. Who was I trolling? All those pro-MS people who read this site???
Linux Zealot: (def) A two word phrase describing someone with a life so empty they haven dedicated themselves to trying to change the OS that everyone else uses in the mistaken belief that other people actually want to be told what OS to use my a 14-year old virgin fat sweaty fool.
Way to karma-whore!!! You go girl!! I could do a few lists for you like 'How to make money from free software' or 'How to get Linux a less than embarrassing piss in the water market share', but I can't be assed.
Their products are so bloated with useless features that no one sees a reason to upgrade what they have
Whoa there horsie, way to slip in a lame dig at Microsoft there! I think what you meant to say was 'Because their software contains all the features their users need, they see no reason to upgrade'. Having extra useless features is not going to discourage anyone from upgrading. This makes you a biased idiot, but way to karma-whore.
Because they do what they want to do, and that's it
Are you saying they *shouldn't* be doing what they want to do? Should they do what you want them to do?
Re-writing an already-working system is not a good idea
However, when you implement a new system; make sure that
it will work on both Windows and Linux. It takes a long time,
but if you stick with that approach, Linux desktops will be
a possibility.
Writing your system to be platform-independant when there is no current or forecast need is also not a good idea.
Linux should take a page from Apple. They put out a little ad booklet in Time (and elsewhere) and devoted 2 pages to dispelling myths. They didn't use cyberspeak either. They just gave some very real questions ("Everyone uses Windows" for example) and answered them. It was a great piece of PR. Linux could learn something from it...
Yeah, it *could*, if it was a proper commercial operation, and had an advertising and marketing budget and team...
A good point, but you also need to understand that the major media outlets don't get any direct benefit from publishing such anecdotal stories about this sort of thing.
Is that because it's the most insignificant and boring story ever? 'Business in installs some computers shocker', I can see the front page of Time now...
Proof that it can be done - at least for businesses which need only the 'standard' office apps."
Is it really possible to install Linux and some apps and network it? Must be good then!
In other news, proof that Windows is the best thing in the world because every business has installed it.
Just because it *can* be used for piracy, doesn't mean it will be
Whilst I broadly agree with your point, I don't believe you, nor the manufacturer of the chip, nor sony, nor the judge in the case, really truly believes that most of the people buying the chip aren't solely doing it so they can pirate games.
To take your argument further, guns have legal uses right, but here in the UK, very few people are allowed them because it is pretty unlikely you have a valid need for one. This infringes on the rights of a minority who may need one, but not the majority who don't want little punks running round shooting everyone (which isn't to say this *never* happens, just rarely with a legally owned gun).
By this logic, then, we're not even allowed to make a physical backup CD of software we legally bought, since there will be a copy in memory whenever it's run on the computer/console/etc.
If any of you actually bothered to read the article, you would see that the judge acknowledged that there were plenty of legal things this chip allowed you to do, but because it also allowed the illegal playing of pirated games this outweighed the good points and THAT IS WHY SONY WON THE CASE. RTFM!!!
The Messiah defeated the Copy-Protection mechanism, and this part of the design SPECIFICALLY was dealing with the use of backup material as a function. The judge acknowledged that indeed it may be useful to have a backup of software as allowed under the CDPA 1988, and there could possibly be cases of 'where necessary', but also the aspect of 'swapping' of backup disks between people would be uncontrollable, and damaging to Sony as nobody would obviously pay £25-45 for a game, therefore 'piracy' becomes the main factor for consideration above all other.
Therefore on this basis alone, Judge Jacob awarded the Summary Judgment to Sony
Why can't I legally play an imported PS2 game (which I probably paid a goodly premium for) on a modded PS2? I've voided my warranty if I mod the PS2,
If any of you actually bothered to read the article, you would see that the judge acknowledge that there were plenty of legal things this chip allowed you to do, but because it also allowed the illegal playing of pirated games this outweighed the good points and THAT IS WHY SONY WON THE CASE. RTFM!!!
The Messiah defeated the Copy-Protection mechanism, and this part of the design SPECIFICALLY was dealing with the use of backup material as a function. The judge acknowledged that indeed it may be useful to have a backup of software as allowed under the CDPA 1988, and there could possibly be cases of 'where necessary', but also the aspect of 'swapping' of backup disks between people would be uncontrollable, and damaging to Sony as nobody would obviously pay £25-45 for a game, therefore 'piracy' becomes the main factor for consideration above all other.
Therefore on this basis alone, Judge Jacob awarded the Summary Judgment to Sony
. . . guess I just won't buy one. Or any other piece of hardware, software, or media made by Sony.
WAHAY!!! A triumph for the free market economy!!! I wish *I too* had the ability to decide what to spend my own money on!