Copyright infringement through p2p services hurts the profits of companies that make large campaign contributions.
There is no campaign to elect the members of the European Commission. You can't vote for them directly, and only remotely indirect. That's one of the big disadvantages of the European Union, but it's an advantage in this special case.
Does anyone know if LotR is already a financial success? If so, I think it would be great to make one or two movies about the stories from the Silmarillion after RotK is out. Not all of the Silmarillion, of course, I'm thinking of the Fall of Gondolin or something about Numenor.
You know, if you compile the output of a million/dev/random's with a million compilers for an unlimited amount of time, you'll eventually end up with a working linux kernel...:-)
Yea, right. I mean, when I rebuild the Kernel for my Windows machine I have all this hardware detection - oh, wait, no. Well anyway, last time I rolled my own OSX Kernel there was this tool - d'oh! But still, just think of the BSDs they all can build their kernels through automatic hardware detect.. ah, crap. Linux just needs this feature, it's standard in all OSes of the 21st Century;-)
I thought that the pin approach was a rather good idea. The pin is only for EXTRA stuff that you normally don't get with a CD. Like concert tickets, unreleased songs or whatever. It would've been a standard CD, with the PIN as a bonus! Why is everybody so happy that Universal is getting sued because of it?
I remember the other DOOM games - I think they didn't use a real client/server setup either. If memory doesn't fail me here, you just said "4 player multiplayer game" to the setup program, and the different machines found themselves through broadcasting. The protocol was also just pure broadcasting of packets that brought many a network to its knees:-)
Also, wouldn't true p2p be a cheaters heaven? I mean there are a lot of cheaters now in current games that have a "central authority" kind of server. What would happen if every client is itself responsible for calculating the player's actions? I imagine it would be trivial for cheaters to crack such a system.
2-4) Sort of. They won't release a UnitedLinux Distribution but the companies will distribute their products with a "powered by UnitedLinux". Packages from the different distros will be interchangeable. A package for e.g. Mandrake Linux will work on SuSE and Turbolinux too.
---If this was meant to be sarcastic, then sorry, I didn't get joke.---
The great mystery behind the Euro was the question of why the European banks felt the need to even bother with an expensive, difficult conversion to a single currency. After all, different currencies for different countries made a lot more sense: the value of each country's currency fluctuated based on the relative trading strength of the nation. It was a very fair, consistent system. And the introduction of the Euro would hopelessly skew or destroy the currency markets that brought prosperity to so many speculators and traders.
As I see it, the goal is to unite Europe rather than have many different nations. This is why the dropped border customs almost everywhere. This is why you can travel from one European nation to another without formalities. And this is also why we're gettin a unified currency. It's about market power. The united European market is much stronger than every single nation on its own.
Marketing, based on cash usage; retroactive invalidation of paper currency, based on your credit history; tracking of every move you make
All this arguments assume, that the money stores a person's name, id or something. Well, I didn't find that in the article. They're tracking the MONEY not the PEOPLE.
And when the government wants to know where you're spending your money, the banks won't hesitate to let them know.
Same thing as above. It might be technically possible to find out where you spend your money, however what good would that be? There's a lot more useful information to be gathered by hireing a detective that spys on you.
Given that the USA has more civil rights organizations than most countries have citizens, we are in very good shape here and can be assured that the dollars of the future will not have embedded RF transmitters.
You can do this with the cdaudio ioslave in KDE too. Only that it can copy not only plain wave files from the cd, it also makes the encoding to mp3 or ogg totally transparent.
Before, the one person who ripped the cd and put it on the file sharing networks had to pay for the cd. Now, with this new ruling, he'll open the case, rip the cd with his stereo+optical out+sblive and RETURN THE CD TO THE STORE. Wow. That's cool, prestige in the ripper community at zero cost and risk. That takes all the fun away.
Well, yes, you should still do that fsck. But because of the journaling it's so fast that you barely notice it.
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Yea, I was thinking of Der grüne Punkt, too. However, I think the most important reason to remove the icon is that what the company does is garbage recycling. Thus, most people associate the logo with "trash" and "throw away" instead of reload.
Erm... I'd like to know how you prevent people from using the "X"-Trick, do you mind telling me? It's not about secruity for me but about my parents. They're always confused when they accidently hit Cancel and find a completely different desktop.
Well, I don't know. I work at a PC Spezialist store in Germany, not the tech dept., though. We've been selling Athlon XPs from the day they were out. Before that, we've mostly been selling the TB 1000-1400 and some Durons. I've noticed that AthlonXPs are actually cooler than the TBs. You know, when you use the really cheap ones, the passive cooling part below the fan will get hot. Not with the XPs, with those it just gets a little wormer than room temperature.
About customers feeling tricked I can only say the following: Not our customers. There's generally two categories, Type A looks at the numbers and it makes perfect sense to him: 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800... You can't make it easier for him. Type B knows about the whole trick but generally also reads Tom's Hardware Guide/c't magazine/$YOUR_FAVORITE_SOURCE_OF_DECENT_INFORMATI ON. He cares about performance not numbers. I still have to meet Type C who a) knows about AMDs little trick, b) knows that their procs are faster nevertheless c) and still doesn't buy them.
I guess if those methods exist, why don't they modify them to use lossy encryption too? I mean, a bit of loss doesn't hurt the vast majority of viewer and their compressin rate whould be even better.
Yea, and I'm gonna put it on my router. Since it's custom developed for me, it'll surely run on that AMD K5. And don't tell me that "it needs at least 8 CPUs" - I'll just fire up my hex editor and find that stupid "Number of CPUs: 0x01" byte in my BIOS and change it to 0x08... or the heck, I'll set it to 0xFF.
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Copyright infringement through p2p services hurts the profits of companies that make large campaign contributions.
There is no campaign to elect the members of the European Commission. You can't vote for them directly, and only remotely indirect. That's one of the big disadvantages of the European Union, but it's an advantage in this special case.
Does anyone know if LotR is already a financial success? If so, I think it would be great to make one or two movies about the stories from the Silmarillion after RotK is out. Not all of the Silmarillion, of course, I'm thinking of the Fall of Gondolin or something about Numenor.
Oh, come on, COMMAND.COM was a fine piece of work, after all :-)
You know, if you compile the output of a million /dev/random's with a million compilers for an unlimited amount of time, you'll eventually end up with a working linux kernel ...:-)
Yea, right. I mean, when I rebuild the Kernel for my Windows machine I have all this hardware detection - oh, wait, no. Well anyway, last time I rolled my own OSX Kernel there was this tool - d'oh! But still, just think of the BSDs they all can build their kernels through automatic hardware detect.. ah, crap. Linux just needs this feature, it's standard in all OSes of the 21st Century ;-)
... they have us believe that this world existed on *our own planet*, yet humans never realized it was there.
Now _where_ from LOTR do you get that from? Earth and Arda are NOT the same. Our universe doesn't even exist in Tolkin's story and never has or will.
I thought that the pin approach was a rather good idea. The pin is only for EXTRA stuff that you normally don't get with a CD. Like concert tickets, unreleased songs or whatever. It would've been a standard CD, with the PIN as a bonus! Why is everybody so happy that Universal is getting sued because of it?
I remember the other DOOM games - I think they didn't use a real client/server setup either. If memory doesn't fail me here, you just said "4 player multiplayer game" to the setup program, and the different machines found themselves through broadcasting. The protocol was also just pure broadcasting of packets that brought many a network to its knees :-)
Also, wouldn't true p2p be a cheaters heaven? I mean there are a lot of cheaters now in current games that have a "central authority" kind of server. What would happen if every client is itself responsible for calculating the player's actions? I imagine it would be trivial for cheaters to crack such a system.
1) Yes.
2-4) Sort of. They won't release a UnitedLinux Distribution but the companies will distribute their products with a "powered by UnitedLinux". Packages from the different distros will be interchangeable. A package for e.g. Mandrake Linux will work on SuSE and Turbolinux too.
He said he didn't "Plan" to do per seat licencing, but he didn't say he DIDN'T plan to
Is there something in this sentence that doesn't make sense?
He said he didn't plan but he didn't say he didn't plan? What did he plan to say that they didn't want to do, but didn't?
Means the same in German actually. Used to, anyway. I'd just use the translation from the German Counter-Strike community:
They'd say "Linux rult".
At least SuSE and Conectiva are KDE-default and Caldera might be too. It's just the natural choice for them.
Um, no. Internet Renaissance Act won't be the way to go... think about it, there's already this "Organization" called IRA.
I was under the impression that Glide is too closely tied to 3dfx chips to be used for any other kind of chip. But I may be mistaken.
The great mystery behind the Euro was the question of why the European banks felt the need to even bother with an expensive, difficult conversion to a single currency. After all, different currencies for different countries made a lot more sense: the value of each country's currency fluctuated based on the relative trading strength of the nation. It was a very fair, consistent system. And the introduction of the Euro would hopelessly skew or destroy the currency markets that brought prosperity to so many speculators and traders.
As I see it, the goal is to unite Europe rather than have many different nations. This is why the dropped border customs almost everywhere. This is why you can travel from one European nation to another without formalities. And this is also why we're gettin a unified currency. It's about market power. The united European market is much stronger than every single nation on its own.
Marketing, based on cash usage; retroactive invalidation of paper currency, based on your credit history; tracking of every move you make
All this arguments assume, that the money stores a person's name, id or something. Well, I didn't find that in the article. They're tracking the MONEY not the PEOPLE.
And when the government wants to know where you're spending your money, the banks won't hesitate to let them know.
Same thing as above. It might be technically possible to find out where you spend your money, however what good would that be? There's a lot more useful information to be gathered by hireing a detective that spys on you.
Given that the USA has more civil rights organizations than most countries have citizens, we are in very good shape here and can be assured that the dollars of the future will not have embedded RF transmitters.
Now that's just trolling :-)
You can do this with the cdaudio ioslave in KDE too. Only that it can copy not only plain wave files from the cd, it also makes the encoding to mp3 or ogg totally transparent.
Before, the one person who ripped the cd and put it on the file sharing networks had to pay for the cd. Now, with this new ruling, he'll open the case, rip the cd with his stereo+optical out+sblive and RETURN THE CD TO THE STORE. Wow. That's cool, prestige in the ripper community at zero cost and risk. That takes all the fun away.
If it's just text you're looking for, you can always use the "Archive" option on Google.
Well, yes, you should still do that fsck. But because of the journaling it's so fast that you barely notice it.
Yea, I was thinking of Der grüne Punkt, too. However, I think the most important reason to remove the icon is that what the company does is garbage recycling. Thus, most people associate the logo with "trash" and "throw away" instead of reload.
Erm... I'd like to know how you prevent people from using the "X"-Trick, do you mind telling me? It's not about secruity for me but about my parents. They're always confused when they accidently hit Cancel and find a completely different desktop.
Well, I don't know. I work at a PC Spezialist store in Germany, not the tech dept., though. We've been selling Athlon XPs from the day they were out. Before that, we've mostly been selling the TB 1000-1400 and some Durons. I've noticed that AthlonXPs are actually cooler than the TBs. You know, when you use the really cheap ones, the passive cooling part below the fan will get hot. Not with the XPs, with those it just gets a little wormer than room temperature.
About customers feeling tricked I can only say the following: Not our customers. There's generally two categories, Type A looks at the numbers and it makes perfect sense to him: 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800... You can't make it easier for him. Type B knows about the whole trick but generally also reads Tom's Hardware Guide/c't magazine/$YOUR_FAVORITE_SOURCE_OF_DECENT_INFORMAT
You forgot:
Web server: Apache, Apache, Apache.
I guess if those methods exist, why don't they modify them to use lossy encryption too? I mean, a bit of loss doesn't hurt the vast majority of viewer and their compressin rate whould be even better.
Yea, and I'm gonna put it on my router. Since it's custom developed for me, it'll surely run on that AMD K5. And don't tell me that "it needs at least 8 CPUs" - I'll just fire up my hex editor and find that stupid "Number of CPUs: 0x01" byte in my BIOS and change it to 0x08... or the heck, I'll set it to 0xFF.