It doesn't matter if you personally held the copyright to every single piece of audio played on your station. The RIAA will still insist you pay up (or at least file reams of paperwork that no small station can afford to file)
They SHOULD be making volt-style plugin series hybrids instead of Prius style parallel hybrids that have a direct connection between the gasoline engine and the wheels
Back when WinAmp first added OGG Vorbis support, the parent company of Nullsoft (AOL Time Warner) had a through patent investigation of OGG Vorbis carried out to make sure there were no such patents. Whilst its not an ironclad guarantee, the fact that the legal team at one of the worlds largest media companies has said that its safe to include in WinAmp without risk of being sued suggests that its probably OK to use.
BD+ runs on a VM (Java based IIRC) so just reverse engineer the thing and write a compatible VM. If the BD+ programming on a given disk balks at your VM because it detects its running in a VM, reverse engineer that BD+ program and find out how it works.
Really, for someone from the UK (where the OP who wants to emigrate is from), most of the items wont be any worse than the UK.
Racism towards Poms is non existent last I looked (unless you count what goes on when the Poms beat us at Cricket as racist)
Drug Abuse is not rampant, I dont know anyone who takes illegal drugs, in fact I know several people who used to and then stopped). Alcoholism is a problem but governments of all persuasions are doing more to stamp it out (including restricting alcohol sales in problem towns and communities, shutting down or restricting large "beer barns" and quarantining welfare payments so they cant be used for Alcohol, Gambling, Porn, Tobacco, Illegal Drugs etc)
I havent seen any of this anti-intellectual population you speak of, I know quite a lot of very smart people in all sorts of careers including lawyers, doctors, scientists, sports people and software engineers. As for the OP, if he has skills in web page development and server side apps in.NET or J2EE and can demonstrate at least 2-3 years of commercial experience in software development, there seems to be plenty of jobs out there.
As for the legal system, I dont think its any harder to get a gun (at least a regular non-automatic gun) here than it is over in the UK. And I dont think the UK allows you to defend yourself any more than we do.
Governments are getting tougher on crime too. If the OP likes to ride motorcycles with groups of other like minded individuals, you may fall foul of the various pieces of new "anti-bikie" legislation (which seem to forget that not all groups of people who like motorcycles and riding them are criminals and that not all criminals ride motorcycles and wear leather jackets)
Reasons to come here: Low interest rates (make sure you avoid the big banks, they are looking for more and more ways to rip you off) One of the most stable economies of all the first world nations A government that is building one of the largest single communications networks ever built (FTTP in all large cities and towns) Real choice in ISPs (as long as you do a search on sites like yourbroadband.com.au before buying a house and make sure that ADSL is available to that house) A brand new fiber link to Guam being installed (which will then on-link to the US, Japan etc) to provide faster connections to the rest of the world A choice of not one but THREE different carriers who will sell you an iPhone (if Apple gear is your thing) A lot less of those freedom-restricting laws you seem not to like An upper house with real political power (the government does not hold the ballance of power in the Senate and those that do will block government measures if they dont like what the government wants to do) No internet censorship (the government wants to bring it in but all the indications are that they wont get the numbers in the Senate to do it) English speaking population Lots of ties back to the UK (being a Commonwealth country and all) A competition regulator with teeth who will actually ACT when companies do something anti-competitive A decent health system
Nintendo doesn't ban open source, they ban giving any source code that runs on the Wii (regardless of the license its given under) to someone without a signed Wii SDK NDA.
Wrong. There is a specific exemption in the GPLv2 (which is what the ScummVM code in question is licensed under) that allows linking with code that comes with the OS and compiler. And the Nintendo SDK stuff clearly meets that definition
The ONLY reason Nintendo doesn't want GPL code on the Wii is that the code itself (i.e. the GPL game code and not the Nintendo APIs) would reveal information about the hardware, SDK and APIs on the Wii that Nintendo doesn't want released.
The GPL specifically has an exemption for libraries usually distributed with the OS and compiler. IANAL but I see nothing in the GPL preventing me from taking a static library distributed with the compiler (such as the static libraries which come with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler or in this case the libraries that come with the Wii SDK compiler) and linking it with GPL code and distributing the result.
The only reason Nintendo has a ban on GPL code is to prevent disclosure of the APIs of the Wii SDK. Given that this is C/C++ code, it is not exactly hard to take a piece of code which #includes and from that piece of code, reverse engineer information about that header (especially function prototypes)
Doesn't work that way. The costs to Atari (both in terms of the HUGE fines they would have to pay to Nintendo for violating the SDK NDAs and in terms of all that lost revenue from being banned for life from developing for any Nintendo console which is what Nintendo would likely do) are far greater than anything they would have to pay even if the ScummVM took them to court and pushed as hard on copyright violations as the law allows them to do (which is something the ScummVM people probably would not do anyway)
I think the best answer in this case is for Atari to promise not to do it again, to make a donation to the ScummVM team or a group nominated by the ScummVM team (in exchange for an agreement not to sue Atari) and to recall and destroy every single unsold copy of the games in question.
SPAM might be expensive under such a system. But it would put any of the 1000s of open source mailing lists (many of which have a LOT of traffic) out of action.
If Marijuana and other drugs were decriminalized or legalized, all that money that is being spent on the so-called "War On Drugs" (cops, FBI, prisons, prison guards, DEA, black-ops in foreign countries etc) could be taken and redirected to solve the other problems you talk about (national debt, fixing the economy, health care, education, infrastructure etc)
The whole mess in Iran started because the UK overthrew the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh just because he had the gumption to kick out the British owned oil company and replace it with Iranians.
Don't think that will do Netflix or other DRM media though (although DRM solutions on linux are a non-starter when the hardware drivers are open source and you can just stream the raw audio and video data to disk)
If there is a kernel patch, the answer is to try and get that patch upstream (either into the distro kernel or the mainline kernel) os that it doesn't get blown away every time the kernel is upgraded.
Microsoft didnt pay ASUS. What they DID do (or are alleged to have done) is to make threats to jack up the price of Windows on other ASUS computers if ASUS didnt drop Linux.
The most interesting thing will be whether Intel follows its usual practice and releases the source code for all this stuff. And if so, whether its the host side, the Larabee side or both.
Also, with Larabee, its possible to just add more cores and boost the horsepower I believe. And new features (including new DirectX versions) can be added via updates to the software (host, Larabee or both)
Shows you dont know much about Larabee. Larabee has nothing to do with current Intel GPU architecture.
Larabee is a bunch of older Pentium cores re-engineered to be REALLY good at the kinds of floating point operations 3D graphics need combined with a really good software setup to actually provide 3D for the thing. Its all x86.
The TV and film unions probably do all the crap they do since its sometimes the only way to stop the studios from combining 2 positions into 1.
No, you cant have the lighting guy wire up the microphones as well, if you do, you might start doing it all the time and then you might fire the sound guy.
Theres a BIG difference between an IP address (which is public information) and account details i.e. the link between an IP address and the account holder that is holding that account at the time (which should NOT be available to anyone without a valid court order or warrant)
To all who say this is a beat-up or that these protesters dont speak for the Iranian people as a whole, go examine the evidence that the election WAS rigged.
For example, we have people who supposedly voted for Ahmadinejad who in reality would never have voted for Ahmadinejad.
These people voting for Ahmadinejad would have been like the Ku Klux Klan voting for Obama.
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It doesn't matter if you personally held the copyright to every single piece of audio played on your station. The RIAA will still insist you pay up (or at least file reams of paperwork that no small station can afford to file)
They SHOULD be making volt-style plugin series hybrids instead of Prius style parallel hybrids that have a direct connection between the gasoline engine and the wheels
If you need the unlock, you will need the jailbreak.
Back when WinAmp first added OGG Vorbis support, the parent company of Nullsoft (AOL Time Warner) had a through patent investigation of OGG Vorbis carried out to make sure there were no such patents. Whilst its not an ironclad guarantee, the fact that the legal team at one of the worlds largest media companies has said that its safe to include in WinAmp without risk of being sued suggests that its probably OK to use.
BD+ runs on a VM (Java based IIRC) so just reverse engineer the thing and write a compatible VM. If the BD+ programming on a given disk balks at your VM because it detects its running in a VM, reverse engineer that BD+ program and find out how it works.
Really, for someone from the UK (where the OP who wants to emigrate is from), most of the items wont be any worse than the UK.
Racism towards Poms is non existent last I looked (unless you count what goes on when the Poms beat us at Cricket as racist)
Drug Abuse is not rampant, I dont know anyone who takes illegal drugs, in fact I know several people who used to and then stopped). Alcoholism is a problem but governments of all persuasions are doing more to stamp it out (including restricting alcohol sales in problem towns and communities, shutting down or restricting large "beer barns" and quarantining welfare payments so they cant be used for Alcohol, Gambling, Porn, Tobacco, Illegal Drugs etc)
I havent seen any of this anti-intellectual population you speak of, I know quite a lot of very smart people in all sorts of careers including lawyers, doctors, scientists, sports people and software engineers. As for the OP, if he has skills in web page development and server side apps in .NET or J2EE and can demonstrate at least 2-3 years of commercial experience in software development, there seems to be plenty of jobs out there.
As for the legal system, I dont think its any harder to get a gun (at least a regular non-automatic gun) here than it is over in the UK. And I dont think the UK allows you to defend yourself any more than we do.
Governments are getting tougher on crime too. If the OP likes to ride motorcycles with groups of other like minded individuals, you may fall foul of the various pieces of new "anti-bikie" legislation (which seem to forget that not all groups of people who like motorcycles and riding them are criminals and that not all criminals ride motorcycles and wear leather jackets)
Reasons to come here:
Low interest rates (make sure you avoid the big banks, they are looking for more and more ways to rip you off)
One of the most stable economies of all the first world nations
A government that is building one of the largest single communications networks ever built (FTTP in all large cities and towns)
Real choice in ISPs (as long as you do a search on sites like yourbroadband.com.au before buying a house and make sure that ADSL is available to that house)
A brand new fiber link to Guam being installed (which will then on-link to the US, Japan etc) to provide faster connections to the rest of the world
A choice of not one but THREE different carriers who will sell you an iPhone (if Apple gear is your thing)
A lot less of those freedom-restricting laws you seem not to like
An upper house with real political power (the government does not hold the ballance of power in the Senate and those that do will block government measures if they dont like what the government wants to do)
No internet censorship (the government wants to bring it in but all the indications are that they wont get the numbers in the Senate to do it)
English speaking population
Lots of ties back to the UK (being a Commonwealth country and all)
A competition regulator with teeth who will actually ACT when companies do something anti-competitive
A decent health system
Nintendo doesn't ban open source, they ban giving any source code that runs on the Wii (regardless of the license its given under) to someone without a signed Wii SDK NDA.
Wrong.
There is a specific exemption in the GPLv2 (which is what the ScummVM code in question is licensed under) that allows linking with code that comes with the OS and compiler. And the Nintendo SDK stuff clearly meets that definition
The ONLY reason Nintendo doesn't want GPL code on the Wii is that the code itself (i.e. the GPL game code and not the Nintendo APIs) would reveal information about the hardware, SDK and APIs on the Wii that Nintendo doesn't want released.
The sub-sub-contractor IS under the Nintendo NDA, otherwise they wouldnt have been given the SDKs and info they need to port ScummVM to the Wii.
The GPL specifically has an exemption for libraries usually distributed with the OS and compiler. IANAL but I see nothing in the GPL preventing me from taking a static library distributed with the compiler (such as the static libraries which come with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler or in this case the libraries that come with the Wii SDK compiler) and linking it with GPL code and distributing the result.
The only reason Nintendo has a ban on GPL code is to prevent disclosure of the APIs of the Wii SDK. Given that this is C/C++ code, it is not exactly hard to take a piece of code which #includes and from that piece of code, reverse engineer information about that header (especially function prototypes)
Doesn't work that way.
The costs to Atari (both in terms of the HUGE fines they would have to pay to Nintendo for violating the SDK NDAs and in terms of all that lost revenue from being banned for life from developing for any Nintendo console which is what Nintendo would likely do) are far greater than anything they would have to pay even if the ScummVM took them to court and pushed as hard on copyright violations as the law allows them to do (which is something the ScummVM people probably would not do anyway)
I think the best answer in this case is for Atari to promise not to do it again, to make a donation to the ScummVM team or a group nominated by the ScummVM team (in exchange for an agreement not to sue Atari) and to recall and destroy every single unsold copy of the games in question.
SPAM might be expensive under such a system. But it would put any of the 1000s of open source mailing lists (many of which have a LOT of traffic) out of action.
These days there would be one more:
D.staunchly anti-Muslim and anti-islamic-terrorist
If Marijuana and other drugs were decriminalized or legalized, all that money that is being spent on the so-called "War On Drugs" (cops, FBI, prisons, prison guards, DEA, black-ops in foreign countries etc) could be taken and redirected to solve the other problems you talk about (national debt, fixing the economy, health care, education, infrastructure etc)
AT&T doesn't own the rights to those ringtones. If anyone deserves money from the use in those songs, its Nokia etc.
The whole mess in Iran started because the UK overthrew the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh just because he had the gumption to kick out the British owned oil company and replace it with Iranians.
For Silverlight, there is always Mono/Moonlight.
Don't think that will do Netflix or other DRM media though (although DRM solutions on linux are a non-starter when the hardware drivers are open source and you can just stream the raw audio and video data to disk)
If there is a kernel patch, the answer is to try and get that patch upstream (either into the distro kernel or the mainline kernel) os that it doesn't get blown away every time the kernel is upgraded.
Microsoft didnt pay ASUS. What they DID do (or are alleged to have done) is to make threats to jack up the price of Windows on other ASUS computers if ASUS didnt drop Linux.
The most interesting thing will be whether Intel follows its usual practice and releases the source code for all this stuff. And if so, whether its the host side, the Larabee side or both.
Also, with Larabee, its possible to just add more cores and boost the horsepower I believe. And new features (including new DirectX versions) can be added via updates to the software (host, Larabee or both)
Shows you dont know much about Larabee.
Larabee has nothing to do with current Intel GPU architecture.
Larabee is a bunch of older Pentium cores re-engineered to be REALLY good at the kinds of floating point operations 3D graphics need combined with a really good software setup to actually provide 3D for the thing.
Its all x86.
The TV and film unions probably do all the crap they do since its sometimes the only way to stop the studios from combining 2 positions into 1.
No, you cant have the lighting guy wire up the microphones as well, if you do, you might start doing it all the time and then you might fire the sound guy.
Theres a BIG difference between an IP address (which is public information) and account details i.e. the link between an IP address and the account holder that is holding that account at the time (which should NOT be available to anyone without a valid court order or warrant)
To all who say this is a beat-up or that these protesters dont speak for the Iranian people as a whole, go examine the evidence that the election WAS rigged.
For example, we have people who supposedly voted for Ahmadinejad who in reality would never have voted for Ahmadinejad.
These people voting for Ahmadinejad would have been like the Ku Klux Klan voting for Obama.