As the RIAA and the rest of the DRM cartel have shown, the law does not apply to them. They can price fix, commit purjury (such as false DMCA complaints), fraud, whatever and get away with it.
I suppose I wasn't clear and precise. How about: "Just think if slashdot was filled with spam messages at +5." Does that work?
Perhaps there's some sort of moderation we could do to our incoming email? (Hint: try SpamNet if you're running Outlook.)
Hmmm...interesting system (though I don't use OE). Looks like it might work very well. Only problem is, what if some joker starts marking all the messages on some mailing list as "spam"? Some might do it to be evil, but also some stupid people sign themselves up for a list without knowing what they are doing, then start yelling "WHY ARE YOU SENDING ME SPAM?" (I've seen it happen).
Then of course, there are the ones who get signed up for a list by some troll, but I think most opt in systems have elimiated the problem--however if the registration message gets marked as spam, then you'll never be able to finish the subscription. Does this system ignore minor differences. I think they have to because many spammers use randomly generated strings, so their spams don't set off filters. There is no way (without AI) for a filtering system to differentiate between passwords and the random junk.
Then again, why not use an AI system? Have it read your email, chuck the spam, summarize the messages, and tell you which ones are important. Science fiction is a good thing.;-)
Except for the fact they probably won't sift through all that data. At least not in a meaningful way. Most likely they'll make up weird profiles. Ordering a pepperoni and green pepper pizza, then renting a copy of Withering Trolls in the Netherworld in the same day will get you flagged as about to launch a "bioterror" attack.
Their database won't really indicate if someone is about to commit a crime, but they'll rely upon it as if it does. Not much different than taking ten people and executing them for any given crime. Such things do not prevent crime.
Perhaps, but don't you realize one technique of fascist states is to waste nearly all the resources, which causes the common people to become so busy and distracted, they don't have time to do anything about reclaiming their rights? Didn't you read 1984?
Yeah, Orwells point talked about war and building war machines, but it can apply elsewhere. A consumer spending -> throw away -> replace economy.
An economy where everyone thinks they have to have own piles of cash and expensive (but low quality) merchandise, so they all go out and work 100 hour weeks, and (among other things) leaving children to depend upon government control and marketers for "parenting".
An economy where the companies are so out of control, they do anything to get money--including fraud, decit, stealing other's resources, getting unjust laws passed to improve the bottom line (at the expense of the rest of the country), forceably taking away everyone's time and social life through invasive "advertising", etc.
Don't you think problems caused by out of control companies, who manipulate matters of state, are a serious problem? Don't you think they've helped the government become this way? There is more than just habeas corpus rights at stake. Yes, they are important, but other rights can't be ignored.
MOre specificly onto this subject, spam affects (takes away) free speech. Just think if slashdot was filled with spam messages. We wouldn't be able to find each other's posts, let alone have a conversation. If spam becomes out of control, you probably won't be able to read such slashdot story--it would be filled with advertising.
When 20 million people trade files on P2P networks, they may be commiting an act which is morally wrong according to our present views,
Here is half the problem with the argument. You say trading files is morally wrong when you should say trading copyrighted files without permission. The entire way the entertainment cartel, some ISPs, and government have dealt with this problem has been to punish everyone who uses any sort of p2p technology regardless of whether or not the person using the system is infringing or trying to infringe on copyright laws.
If I create a song titled "Manifesto Against DRM" and some label sells a song called "Manifesto of Crap" then the RIAA's bots will detect the word manifesto, and send a DMCA complaint to my ISP, who then disables my account. If I want to write my own P2P program to distribute my song, the RIAA will try to sue and bankrupt me saying my program may potentially be used to infringe copyright.
Creating your own files isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (Freedom of speech) Distributing them on the internet isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (Freedom of the press) Writing a program which allows distribution of files isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (How can one exercise freedom of the press unless a press can be made?) The RIAA and MPAA is trying to muddy the subject, so they can impose control over the internet and everyone's rights.
they are merely exploiting a property of information that has always been bubbling under the surface: it can easily be copied.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. Physical property can easily be stolen, especially with large groups of people. Should theft be legal? Ever hear of looting? If a huge horde of people rush into a store at once and grab everything, then they will be gone in minutes, and there is nothing the shopkeeper can do about it. Being able to do something doesn't relate to whether or not it should be legal. If something is impossible, then there is no point in making it illegal.
The real issue is if "IP" laws take away rights.
If John Doe buys a digial camera from Aiptek, John owns the camera, but under "IP" laws, he is restricted as to how he is allowed to use it--they made a shrink wrap EULA which says the owner isn't allowed to lend the camera to friends (among other things). This obviously violates John's property rights. If he buys something, then he owns it, and no one should impose restrictions after the sale.
If some joker patents the basic idea of typing with one hand or broadcasting video over the internet, then everyone's right to use their property in such a manner is taken away.
Countless examples can be made about how current "IP" laws are used to take away people's basic rights.
Well some people don't agree with physical property laws. Doesn't mean the government will or should do away with those. I'm sure you have good reasons against such laws--especially since they are being abused in ridiculous ways.
However, these days the US government and others only count "IP" if some company is using it to make a profit. Ordinary people "create" "IP" all the time. When you wrote that post, you created "IP", yet you didn't charge any money for it. According to the government and the entertainment cartel, your post is worthless. The US is a great country isn't it?
She was like "Mozilla was a big mistake let me tell you. Your users hate it."
And the only reason they hate it is because Windows, when using roaming profiles (and my users roam a lot being it's a college) likes to move the location of the profile (eg,...\username,...\username.domain,...\username.domain.001, etc) and if that happens, mozilla goes to hell and loses the profile.
Obviously, this is a major design flaw in Windows. They should use a home directory like real operating systems.
So here I tried to give my users a browser alternative and I got reamed by a consultant (whose final report hasn't been released yet) for doing it.
If she knows what she is talking about, she'll recommend getting rid of Windows. Too bad that's probably not the case.;-(
So yeah, I'm a bit bitter... If you manage a windows domain environment, avoid Mozilla, Netscape 7, or anything based on the code, until this bug is fixed,. Learn from my misfortune.
Yeah, well, the real moral of the story is you were burned by Microsoft and their poor design decisions. I don't think Mozilla is all that great (though there aren't many alternatives--MS saw to that), but MS stuff is just horrid. Your situation is unfortunate, but don't blame Mozilla for a problem caused by someone else. They're dealing with poor design and moving targets here. Yeah, it's probably possible to fix, but it takes work, and MS will probably break it in their next release...
Because the MPAA doesn't want to stop what they call "piracy." They want total control over distribution and how the movies are viewed. When anyone can watch a movie without the advertisements, they lose. When anyone can watch a movie outside of it's burned in region, they lose. When anyone can use an unapproved device (and not pay money to the DVDCCA for anti-consumer activities), they lose.
Also applies to non-decss areas. When a ticket sale is made to an independent movie, they lose. When a grandmother watches a birthday video of her grandson instead of a video titled "Johnny's Birthday" by Disney, they lose. When you can watch amateur movies for free on the internet, they lose. When any startup company can easily create and distribute a movie without the help of the MPAA or member companies, they lose.
It is very much in their interest to stop free trade and new technology. If you really look at their behavior with DVD and the internet, this fight is not about copyrights at all.
So everyone has to have either sed or perl installed? Different developers will make different choices. If it is done this way, everyone will probably need both, plus awk, plus [insert a bunch of programs here]. In fact this is the current state of most open source project. That is a lot of stuff, especially for those workstations who don't do any development.
Also a lot of programs are starting to use XML (even worse). For config files, it has all the disadvantages of a text file, but also it is not very readable (to a normal person). A little while ago, I was looking at a program, and it required the latest freaky xml library. Why? Because they decided to make the configuration file XML. Nothing else.
Also using perl doesn't solve the problem of being inefficient. If the line you modify changes size, at the very least, you will have to rewrite every bit of data from that line to the end of the file. It may not be a problem if you only need to change one small file, but large or many files will waste the user's time. Many settings are of constant size in binary files, and those which are not, can be dealt with. Indexing and moving stuff around doesn't work with text files, but it can with binary.
Yeah, you'll probably want a library to take care of the binary files, but it's being done for XML, and like you said, perl, sed or some other program is needed for flat text. Something for binary configs would be thousands of times easier to write and would be ten times smaller.
The real problem is finding the right config file to change. Are they in/etc or maybe/etc/X11 or perhaps/usr/X11R6/etc/X11 or any of the other locations
You bring up a good point here. One I didn't really think of. However, it's trivial to put a table of constant strings into a program. It'll miss the unknown paths, but I imagine only tweak monkeys would have such a set up. Just give them instructions I suppose...
...the Windows registry probably can't solve either.
Well, I wasn't saying the Windows registry would solve anything, I was giving an example of the bottom of the barrel going in the right direction. Their registry has countless design flaws, the most obvious are they put everything into two huge files. They probably were forced to go this way because all the stupid decisions they made caused text files to be completely unworkable.
Imagine if the registry was one huge text file. "Registry scan rate is now at 10 min per scan" "Blue screen! Blue screen!" "We're going down in flames cap'n." "Pull up! Pull up!" "Damn it Bill! You killed us all! Aaarrggghh!!!";-)
As for file locking: Yeah, being able to lock portions of a config wouldn't help installer programs much (assuming you aren't running programs at the same time), and it was a strech for me to mention it. But it would help where config files are used by multiple programs or multiple instances of programs.
My guess they do it because they're afraid they may hose the config file. Let's face it, text config files can be problematic. One has to go to the effort of creating parse routines (easy in perl, but not it C), many of the files have their own format, and there is always the risk of misparsing part of it. Then to change one setting, the most simple way is often to just rewrite the entire file. Not an easy task, and an error in any step may hose the entire thing...
The M$ registry sucks, but at least it has an api (so you don't have to write all the code to read / change settings) and it is binary (so you only need to lock part of the file, and you don't have to rewrite all or most of the file just to change a single setting--assuming M$ didn't screw the design up, I don't know much about the arcane internals of the thing.
Using text files for configuration has advantages--such as being human readable--but it makes programming more difficult.
That is a very good thought, but I wonder if everyone is comparing the area of the screens or the diagonal length. The area is the value which determines the total cost for the materials which make up the visible part, not the length of the diagonal.
14 in. screen: length of side = 14/sqrt(2) = 9.9,
area = 9.9^2 = 98 sq. in.
15 in. screen: length of side = 15/sqrt(2) = 10.6
area = 10.6^2 = 112.5 sq. in.
16 in. -- area = 128
17 in. -- area = 144.5
21 in. -- area = 220.5
So a 21 inch monitor is 50% larger than a 14 inch one in terms of the diagonal measurement, but it is 125% larger than a 14 inch in terms of area. (Assuming I did my math correctly;-)
However, I suppose the price difference may relate to many factors.
Does it take more R&D to develop larger LCD monitors--ie some special problem has to be solved? Is special equipment needed for larger monitors--ie all their existing equipment was limited to smaller sizes? Do they have to manufacture the larger monitors in pieces/quadrants and use some expensive process to seamlessly combine them onto one screen?
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it's the difference between a postcard and an indestructable envelope. Giving the police special permissions (e.g. to open your letters with a court order) doesn't work well in a world where encryption is in black and white - secure and insecure.
You have a point here, but if the police had just cause, couldn't they get a search warrant and get the key(s)? The way I understand encryption, it would work like this:
The police get permission for a "wiretap" and log all the suspect's VoIP related traffic.
They also have sufficient evidence for a search warrant on the guy's house, so they find the keys from the guy's computer.
Decipher the conversation. Yes, they may only get one side of the conversation, but it will probably be enough if the guy is really guilty.
Good to see someone has some sense here. Mod parent up!
A question for all those people who think I should see the movie: Why should I go see this movie (even if it is the greatest one ever made) and pay money to help a company take away my freedom? Disney is a big supporter of digital "rights" managment--the ultimate censorship system. They were one of the companies who brib^Wcontributed to Fritz Hollings--the guy who created the CBDTPA/SSSCA.
With a shrink wrap license? IANAL, but that is only enforcable if the UCITA has passed in your state. I doubt even microsoft uses a click wrap license in console video games...
Then again, what do I know. I think it's fraud if you buy something, take it home and unwrap it, only to find out you supposedly don't own it...
i recall for a short time, i believe around when metropolis first came out that blockbuster rented videos. that didnt last very long and seemed like any easy way to pirate movies.;-)
I was looking at the DirectFB website today, and it seemed every appllication had to be run as root. If so, then very bad for security...maybe some of it will need to be added to the kernel?
Otherwise, it looks like a very nice project....and as teamonkey implied, there shouldn't be any problem creating library compatibility with programs written for X11.
Who uses sendmail? The only ones who seem to use it are: a) old timers who started with Unix in the 70s and know sendmail well. b) hardcore Unixphiles who think the nasty config steps are 'cool' c> admins who don't know what they're doing anyway.
Mostly I've seen admins say they don't like sendmail and use something else. (like qmail) Sendmail isn't the only mailserver outside of the M$ world. Same thing goes for bind...
As for Samba, who uses it except to allow an interface for crappy M$ systems???
I don't know if this is what the other poster was thinking, but you don't have to have volunteers do all the writing. There is no reason the school districts (or whoever) shouldn't pay professional writers, then give away the content for free.
"Closed source" books / programs / whatever are good for companies trying to make profits and keep trade secrets. They are not good for a public education system whose goal is supposedly to educate as many people as possible.
Just because you were taught a certain way does not mean that it was the best possible way you could have been taught.
Well, this line of thinking is caused (at least in part) by the public schools. At least in the US, anyway. Much of what they do is brainwashing by propaganda. So you get people saying things like:
"We did it this way when I was young, so it must be the way to do things."
"This product is the most popular, so it must be the best product."
"Rep. X was elected into office, so he/she must be the best person for the job. No one should ever question him/her."
Quite sad. The way children are taught these days, they are not taught to think for themselves. Also, they are taught to not think for themselves. Nearly everyone fresh out of high school/college has to be told what to do and is afraid to take any initiative. This line of thinking may work in a bureaucracy, but it doesn't fly very well in many real world working environments. This is one of the reasons you hear so many stories of immigrants sucessfully starting their own business, but not as many about citizens who were born and raised here.
The writers could write a history for the game environment. If you read the manual, Warcraft II (don't know about 1 or 3) had various background stories. Made the game a little more entertaining--after I bothered to read them.;-)
Also, I imagine a writer could come up with characters/ideas and write documentation too...
I bought an es1370 PCI sound card for $20 to replace my ISA one. Works great in Linux, but the Windows drivers cleared the boot sector and erased my BIOS. Is this a new trend for hardware?;-)
This sucks because my VIA based motherboard has a bug which causes lockups during heavy DMA activity when a ISA sound card is installed. If you have the Linux kernel source, look in Documentation/ sound/ VIA-chipset for more info about this problem.
Took me a while to figure it out. At first I thought it was a problem with a new hard drive--stress testing it would lock up the machine. Once I figured it out, it was obvious. I tested the situtation thoroughly. With ISA sound, lockups, without, no lockups. Who would've thought a sound card can cause problems with your hard drive?
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A troll, a MS one no less, gets modded up to 5. Now I've seen everything!
As the RIAA and the rest of the DRM cartel have shown, the law does not apply to them. They can price fix, commit purjury (such as false DMCA complaints), fraud, whatever and get away with it.
I suppose I wasn't clear and precise. How about: "Just think if slashdot was filled with spam messages at +5." Does that work?
Hmmm...interesting system (though I don't use OE). Looks like it might work very well. Only problem is, what if some joker starts marking all the messages on some mailing list as "spam"? Some might do it to be evil, but also some stupid people sign themselves up for a list without knowing what they are doing, then start yelling "WHY ARE YOU SENDING ME SPAM?" (I've seen it happen).
Then of course, there are the ones who get signed up for a list by some troll, but I think most opt in systems have elimiated the problem--however if the registration message gets marked as spam, then you'll never be able to finish the subscription. Does this system ignore minor differences. I think they have to because many spammers use randomly generated strings, so their spams don't set off filters. There is no way (without AI) for a filtering system to differentiate between passwords and the random junk.
Then again, why not use an AI system? Have it read your email, chuck the spam, summarize the messages, and tell you which ones are important. Science fiction is a good thing. ;-)
Except for the fact they probably won't sift through all that data. At least not in a meaningful way. Most likely they'll make up weird profiles. Ordering a pepperoni and green pepper pizza, then renting a copy of Withering Trolls in the Netherworld in the same day will get you flagged as about to launch a "bioterror" attack.
Their database won't really indicate if someone is about to commit a crime, but they'll rely upon it as if it does. Not much different than taking ten people and executing them for any given crime. Such things do not prevent crime.
Perhaps, but don't you realize one technique of fascist states is to waste nearly all the resources, which causes the common people to become so busy and distracted, they don't have time to do anything about reclaiming their rights? Didn't you read 1984?
Yeah, Orwells point talked about war and building war machines, but it can apply elsewhere. A consumer spending -> throw away -> replace economy.
An economy where everyone thinks they have to have own piles of cash and expensive (but low quality) merchandise, so they all go out and work 100 hour weeks, and (among other things) leaving children to depend upon government control and marketers for "parenting".
An economy where the companies are so out of control, they do anything to get money--including fraud, decit, stealing other's resources, getting unjust laws passed to improve the bottom line (at the expense of the rest of the country), forceably taking away everyone's time and social life through invasive "advertising", etc.
Don't you think problems caused by out of control companies, who manipulate matters of state, are a serious problem? Don't you think they've helped the government become this way? There is more than just habeas corpus rights at stake. Yes, they are important, but other rights can't be ignored.
MOre specificly onto this subject, spam affects (takes away) free speech. Just think if slashdot was filled with spam messages. We wouldn't be able to find each other's posts, let alone have a conversation. If spam becomes out of control, you probably won't be able to read such slashdot story--it would be filled with advertising.
Funny, I thought China was blocking everything from many people.
Maybe all the spam coming from China is their government's secret conspiracy for everyone to block them.
They want to block you, but in Soviet China, you block them! =:-O
Soon Microsoft will be doing this. What do you think Palladium is for? ;-)
Hmmm...maybe I can trademark my computer's name and sue them for stealing my trademark. ;-)
Here is half the problem with the argument. You say trading files is morally wrong when you should say trading copyrighted files without permission. The entire way the entertainment cartel, some ISPs, and government have dealt with this problem has been to punish everyone who uses any sort of p2p technology regardless of whether or not the person using the system is infringing or trying to infringe on copyright laws.
If I create a song titled "Manifesto Against DRM" and some label sells a song called "Manifesto of Crap" then the RIAA's bots will detect the word manifesto, and send a DMCA complaint to my ISP, who then disables my account. If I want to write my own P2P program to distribute my song, the RIAA will try to sue and bankrupt me saying my program may potentially be used to infringe copyright.
Creating your own files isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (Freedom of speech) Distributing them on the internet isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (Freedom of the press) Writing a program which allows distribution of files isn't immoral and shouldn't be illegal. (How can one exercise freedom of the press unless a press can be made?) The RIAA and MPAA is trying to muddy the subject, so they can impose control over the internet and everyone's rights.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. Physical property can easily be stolen, especially with large groups of people. Should theft be legal? Ever hear of looting? If a huge horde of people rush into a store at once and grab everything, then they will be gone in minutes, and there is nothing the shopkeeper can do about it. Being able to do something doesn't relate to whether or not it should be legal. If something is impossible, then there is no point in making it illegal.
The real issue is if "IP" laws take away rights.
If John Doe buys a digial camera from Aiptek, John owns the camera, but under "IP" laws, he is restricted as to how he is allowed to use it--they made a shrink wrap EULA which says the owner isn't allowed to lend the camera to friends (among other things). This obviously violates John's property rights. If he buys something, then he owns it, and no one should impose restrictions after the sale.
If some joker patents the basic idea of typing with one hand or broadcasting video over the internet, then everyone's right to use their property in such a manner is taken away.
Countless examples can be made about how current "IP" laws are used to take away people's basic rights.
Well some people don't agree with physical property laws. Doesn't mean the government will or should do away with those. I'm sure you have good reasons against such laws--especially since they are being abused in ridiculous ways.
However, these days the US government and others only count "IP" if some company is using it to make a profit. Ordinary people "create" "IP" all the time. When you wrote that post, you created "IP", yet you didn't charge any money for it. According to the government and the entertainment cartel, your post is worthless. The US is a great country isn't it?
Obviously, this is a major design flaw in Windows. They should use a home directory like real operating systems.
If she knows what she is talking about, she'll recommend getting rid of Windows. Too bad that's probably not the case. ;-(
Yeah, well, the real moral of the story is you were burned by Microsoft and their poor design decisions. I don't think Mozilla is all that great (though there aren't many alternatives--MS saw to that), but MS stuff is just horrid. Your situation is unfortunate, but don't blame Mozilla for a problem caused by someone else. They're dealing with poor design and moving targets here. Yeah, it's probably possible to fix, but it takes work, and MS will probably break it in their next release...
Also applies to non-decss areas. When a ticket sale is made to an independent movie, they lose. When a grandmother watches a birthday video of her grandson instead of a video titled "Johnny's Birthday" by Disney, they lose. When you can watch amateur movies for free on the internet, they lose. When any startup company can easily create and distribute a movie without the help of the MPAA or member companies, they lose.
It is very much in their interest to stop free trade and new technology. If you really look at their behavior with DVD and the internet, this fight is not about copyrights at all.
So everyone has to have either sed or perl installed? Different developers will make different choices. If it is done this way, everyone will probably need both, plus awk, plus [insert a bunch of programs here]. In fact this is the current state of most open source project. That is a lot of stuff, especially for those workstations who don't do any development.
Also a lot of programs are starting to use XML (even worse). For config files, it has all the disadvantages of a text file, but also it is not very readable (to a normal person). A little while ago, I was looking at a program, and it required the latest freaky xml library. Why? Because they decided to make the configuration file XML. Nothing else.
Also using perl doesn't solve the problem of being inefficient. If the line you modify changes size, at the very least, you will have to rewrite every bit of data from that line to the end of the file. It may not be a problem if you only need to change one small file, but large or many files will waste the user's time. Many settings are of constant size in binary files, and those which are not, can be dealt with. Indexing and moving stuff around doesn't work with text files, but it can with binary.
Yeah, you'll probably want a library to take care of the binary files, but it's being done for XML, and like you said, perl, sed or some other program is needed for flat text. Something for binary configs would be thousands of times easier to write and would be ten times smaller.
You bring up a good point here. One I didn't really think of. However, it's trivial to put a table of constant strings into a program. It'll miss the unknown paths, but I imagine only tweak monkeys would have such a set up. Just give them instructions I suppose...
Well, I wasn't saying the Windows registry would solve anything, I was giving an example of the bottom of the barrel going in the right direction. Their registry has countless design flaws, the most obvious are they put everything into two huge files. They probably were forced to go this way because all the stupid decisions they made caused text files to be completely unworkable.
Imagine if the registry was one huge text file. "Registry scan rate is now at 10 min per scan" "Blue screen! Blue screen!" "We're going down in flames cap'n." "Pull up! Pull up!" "Damn it Bill! You killed us all! Aaarrggghh!!!" ;-)
As for file locking: Yeah, being able to lock portions of a config wouldn't help installer programs much (assuming you aren't running programs at the same time), and it was a strech for me to mention it. But it would help where config files are used by multiple programs or multiple instances of programs.
My guess they do it because they're afraid they may hose the config file. Let's face it, text config files can be problematic. One has to go to the effort of creating parse routines (easy in perl, but not it C), many of the files have their own format, and there is always the risk of misparsing part of it. Then to change one setting, the most simple way is often to just rewrite the entire file. Not an easy task, and an error in any step may hose the entire thing...
The M$ registry sucks, but at least it has an api (so you don't have to write all the code to read / change settings) and it is binary (so you only need to lock part of the file, and you don't have to rewrite all or most of the file just to change a single setting--assuming M$ didn't screw the design up, I don't know much about the arcane internals of the thing.
Using text files for configuration has advantages--such as being human readable--but it makes programming more difficult.
That is a very good thought, but I wonder if everyone is comparing the area of the screens or the diagonal length. The area is the value which determines the total cost for the materials which make up the visible part, not the length of the diagonal.
area = 9.9^2 = 98 sq. in.
area = 10.6^2 = 112.5 sq. in.
So a 21 inch monitor is 50% larger than a 14 inch one in terms of the diagonal measurement, but it is 125% larger than a 14 inch in terms of area. (Assuming I did my math correctly ;-)
However, I suppose the price difference may relate to many factors. Does it take more R&D to develop larger LCD monitors--ie some special problem has to be solved? Is special equipment needed for larger monitors--ie all their existing equipment was limited to smaller sizes? Do they have to manufacture the larger monitors in pieces/quadrants and use some expensive process to seamlessly combine them onto one screen?
You have a point here, but if the police had just cause, couldn't they get a search warrant and get the key(s)? The way I understand encryption, it would work like this:
Good to see someone has some sense here. Mod parent up!
A question for all those people who think I should see the movie: Why should I go see this movie (even if it is the greatest one ever made) and pay money to help a company take away my freedom? Disney is a big supporter of digital "rights" managment--the ultimate censorship system. They were one of the companies who brib^Wcontributed to Fritz Hollings--the guy who created the CBDTPA/SSSCA.
With a shrink wrap license? IANAL, but that is only enforcable if the UCITA has passed in your state. I doubt even microsoft uses a click wrap license in console video games...
Then again, what do I know. I think it's fraud if you buy something, take it home and unwrap it, only to find out you supposedly don't own it...
i recall for a short time, i believe around when metropolis first came out that blockbuster rented videos. that didnt last very long and seemed like any easy way to pirate movies. ;-)
I was looking at the DirectFB website today, and it seemed every appllication had to be run as root. If so, then very bad for security...maybe some of it will need to be added to the kernel?
Otherwise, it looks like a very nice project. ...and as teamonkey implied, there shouldn't be any problem creating library compatibility with programs written for X11.
Who uses sendmail? The only ones who seem to use it are: a) old timers who started with Unix in the 70s and know sendmail well. b) hardcore Unixphiles who think the nasty config steps are 'cool' c> admins who don't know what they're doing anyway.
Mostly I've seen admins say they don't like sendmail and use something else. (like qmail) Sendmail isn't the only mailserver outside of the M$ world. Same thing goes for bind...
As for Samba, who uses it except to allow an interface for crappy M$ systems???
Doesn't the -pipe option of gcc eliminate its use of /tmp? I've started using it, and compiling seems faster...
I don't know if this is what the other poster was thinking, but you don't have to have volunteers do all the writing. There is no reason the school districts (or whoever) shouldn't pay professional writers, then give away the content for free.
"Closed source" books / programs / whatever are good for companies trying to make profits and keep trade secrets. They are not good for a public education system whose goal is supposedly to educate as many people as possible.
Well, this line of thinking is caused (at least in part) by the public schools. At least in the US, anyway. Much of what they do is brainwashing by propaganda. So you get people saying things like:
Quite sad. The way children are taught these days, they are not taught to think for themselves. Also, they are taught to not think for themselves. Nearly everyone fresh out of high school/college has to be told what to do and is afraid to take any initiative. This line of thinking may work in a bureaucracy, but it doesn't fly very well in many real world working environments. This is one of the reasons you hear so many stories of immigrants sucessfully starting their own business, but not as many about citizens who were born and raised here.
The writers could write a history for the game environment. If you read the manual, Warcraft II (don't know about 1 or 3) had various background stories. Made the game a little more entertaining--after I bothered to read them. ;-)
Also, I imagine a writer could come up with characters/ideas and write documentation too...
I bought an es1370 PCI sound card for $20 to replace my ISA one. Works great in Linux, but the Windows drivers cleared the boot sector and erased my BIOS. Is this a new trend for hardware? ;-)
This sucks because my VIA based motherboard has a bug which causes lockups during heavy DMA activity when a ISA sound card is installed. If you have the Linux kernel source, look in Documentation/ sound/ VIA-chipset for more info about this problem.
Took me a while to figure it out. At first I thought it was a problem with a new hard drive--stress testing it would lock up the machine. Once I figured it out, it was obvious. I tested the situtation thoroughly. With ISA sound, lockups, without, no lockups. Who would've thought a sound card can cause problems with your hard drive?