The problem seems to be that the Attorney General (and other government ministers including the communications minister) are trying to do backroom deals with ISPs and copyright holders in order to do an end run around the need to get legislation through a potentially-hostile parliament.
The content producers are basically telling governments all over the world that unless they "streamline" the methods used to target pirates (and by that they really mean "give us a way to sue people without that pesky step of needing to collect evidence that would hold up in court"), they will all go out of business. But that's total garbage, what they are REALLY worried about is that they will no longer be the "gatekeepers" of what people watch, listen to and consume.
Even if you have the specs (as is the case for some of the ATI GPUs), writing a video card driver on OSX seems very hard. Its probably even harder than doing it for Windows (where you cant support OpenGL in your driver without special crap that Microsoft wont give to just anyone and/or charges lots of money for.
Hey mr content producer, you start selling the content I want here in Australia (on DVD preferably) and I will stop pirating your content from YouTube and BitTorrent and start paying for it.
I cant find ANY of the Yahoo Serious films on DVD in any local store for example. Nor can I find any seasons of The Real Ghostbusters past season 1. Nor can I find many of the cool documentaries (both film and TV) that I want to buy on DVD (such as those from the History Channel).
In North Korea, prison cells would probably be better than college dorms. At least in prison they feed you (otherwise they wouldn't be able to use you as slave labor for whatever project the "dear leader" wants next)
Last time I checked, you dont need a tracker site to get a.torrent file because you can just use a magnet link. Although then you have the situation where you need a site to collect magnet links (and its likely that big-movie-studio-favoring courts will consider magnet links just as infringing as.torrent files)
The Skype protocol was recently reverse engineered although I believe Skype has made changes since then to avoid the reverse engineering.
Will Microsoft continue to take steps to thwart reverse engineering now that it owns Skype? Hard to say given that they have not stopped reverse engineering of other Microsoft products (office document formats, Kinect, MSN Messenger).
Whoever thought that introducing paid parking for all customers at a suburban shopping center (especially one like Chermside) was a GOOD idea should be fired.
The only exception to that rule is when car parks are being filled not with customers but with commuters treating the car park as a park-and-ride. And even then, the paid parking should only apply to people parking there all day (as opposed to people parking there for only a few hours whilst they do shopping)
If any shopping center tried to introduce paid parking for every customer, I would probably boycott that center out of principle (and I dont even own or drive a car).
I have been programming in C and C-derived languages (mostly C++ but a few others) since high school and will continue to do so as I believe that (for the programs I like to write) C and C++ is the best option.
But the contributions of Dennis Ritchie transcend the boundaries of IT, without Dennis Ritchie the world would be a very different place. Just looking around my apartment, I have a Windows PC where much of the software running is written in C or something derived from C. I have a Gentoo Linux box where most of the code is C or C++ (and Gentoo itself is derived from Unix)
My Nokia N900 also runs Linux and a large amount of C code (including some C code that I wrote myself and continue to write)
I also have a DSL router running some form of Linux and code written in C.
And I have a bunch of other gadgets that may well contain code written in C including a Canon inkjet multi-function center, a Canon IXUS digital camera, a digital over-the-air TV set top box, a DVD player/recorder and a music keyboard.
Farewell Dennis Ritchie, your contributions to the world of IT will be forever remembered. And one of these days I will finally track down (and read) "The C Programming Language":)
I applaud your ideas. The idea of separating retail banks (that hold savings and make loans) from investment banks (that hold securities and make risky gambles) is important. As is a complete ban on the retail banks from doing any of the risky things that caused them to get into so much trouble.
A microtax on every stock trade is not necessarily the answer though. The real answer is to introduce a much bigger tax but only if you do not hang on to a security for at least a month. (maybe not a month, maybe some other limit, I dont know what would work best)
This stops the people who make their living making high frequency trades and ensures the stock market no longer swings wildly on the tinest bit of news. Some will say that the high-frequency-traders will move to other markets but that can be countered by negotiating with the Europeans and others to apply similar rules to their markets.
Is there something about China that would give them a cost advantage in rare-earth processing in the way they have a cost advantage in the production of things like iPhones, Nike shoes and circular saws? Or could the US (who would have obvious national interest concerns about being so reliant on China for these important metals) build their own processing facilities for all these non-Chinese rare earth deposits everyone hears about?
The difference is that all the patents filed by Edison are now expired and no longer matter. Also, its unfair to compare a rather vague design patent (like the ones Apple are using to sue Samsung over its Galaxy Tab) to patents for something as fundamental as the light bulb.
3 questions: 1.Is that US MPG or EU MPG (there is a difference) 2.Would it be able to handle the dirty diesel that still exists in many parts of the US? and 3.Assuming it could run on US diesel, would it be able to meet the CARB standards (the strictest in the world)
If you can show me a diesel engine that gets that kind of efficiency on US dirty diesel AND meets CARB emissions standards, I am sure plenty of automakers would LOVE to talk to you. Otherwise, its comparing apples to oranges.
One of the problems with many opposed piston engine designs is that they are two-stroke and the incoming fuel-air mixture mixes with the outgoing exhaust gases, this causes more pollution per unit of distance traveled than other engines.
Blame the US Government and the various state governments (especially states like California) that make it very hard to launch new technologies.
Look at the Jeep Wrangler. In Europe a diesel engine is available that meets all applicable emissions standards (including in countries like Germany with some of the toughest emissions standards in the world).
Yet because US emissions standards are biased against diesel engines, Jeep cant make money releasing the diesel Wrangler stateside. (and yes I know about some of the other things like the cost of diesel in the US vs EU but if Jeep could release the EU diesel engine in the US with minimal changes, the business case would be much stronger)
I think there IS a Steam for Linux, at least inside Valve. It may be that they are still working on it with plans for a future release. It may be that its only a test and not actually intended for release. It may be that it was intended for release but was canceled for some reason.
Blizzard for example at one point had a Linux client for World of Warcraft. But the "powers that be" vetoed the release because then they would need to maintain that release and release Linux patches concurrently with Mac and Windows patches which would require more development staff and/or patch delays whilst they finished the Linux work.
And now we finally have it straight from the horses mouth. Fights against BitTorrent, YouTube etc etc are about controlling content and making sure content they have decided not to make available (movies you cant buy on DVD, all those old TV series you never see anymore, whatever) remains unavailable.
Take for example classic cartoon series. You can find episodes or partial seasons of many of these series on video sites like YouTube or on file-hosting sites like Rapidshare but its often impossible to get the whole series.
The studios need to stop trying to fight the internet and realize that if they made the content people want available for a reasonable price through online streaming and download services (and through DVD and other distribution channels) people would have a LOT less reason to pirate their content.
For example if I could have bought a DVD box set of the History Channel documentary "Tales Of The Gun" I would have done so instead of watching the episodes on YouTube. (because I prefer to watch things on my TV and not my PC and the quality on YouTube isn't as good as a DVD plus its something I would want to be able to watch multiple times)
Or if Warner Bros would release Young Einstein on DVD in Australia (its available in the US) I would have bought it locally instead of importing it from the states (this was before fast ADSL and YouTube).
Politicians may not be able to interfere with the courts but they CAN pass laws that override court decisions. Presumably the judge who ordered the ISPs to block these sites did so in reference to a particular Belgian law. The government can change that law so that it no longer allows these web sites to be blocked anymore.
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The problem seems to be that the Attorney General (and other government ministers including the communications minister) are trying to do backroom deals with ISPs and copyright holders in order to do an end run around the need to get legislation through a potentially-hostile parliament.
The content producers are basically telling governments all over the world that unless they "streamline" the methods used to target pirates (and by that they really mean "give us a way to sue people without that pesky step of needing to collect evidence that would hold up in court"), they will all go out of business. But that's total garbage, what they are REALLY worried about is that they will no longer be the "gatekeepers" of what people watch, listen to and consume.
Even if you have the specs (as is the case for some of the ATI GPUs), writing a video card driver on OSX seems very hard.
Its probably even harder than doing it for Windows (where you cant support OpenGL in your driver without special crap that Microsoft wont give to just anyone and/or charges lots of money for.
Maybe someone like Tom Hanks would be a good fit as Turing.
Hey mr content producer, you start selling the content I want here in Australia (on DVD preferably) and I will stop pirating your content from YouTube and BitTorrent and start paying for it.
I cant find ANY of the Yahoo Serious films on DVD in any local store for example. Nor can I find any seasons of The Real Ghostbusters past season 1. Nor can I find many of the cool documentaries (both film and TV) that I want to buy on DVD (such as those from the History Channel).
In North Korea, prison cells would probably be better than college dorms. At least in prison they feed you (otherwise they wouldn't be able to use you as slave labor for whatever project the "dear leader" wants next)
Last time I checked, you dont need a tracker site to get a .torrent file because you can just use a magnet link. .torrent files)
Although then you have the situation where you need a site to collect magnet links (and its likely that big-movie-studio-favoring courts will consider magnet links just as infringing as
The Skype protocol was recently reverse engineered although I believe Skype has made changes since then to avoid the reverse engineering.
Will Microsoft continue to take steps to thwart reverse engineering now that it owns Skype? Hard to say given that they have not stopped reverse engineering of other Microsoft products (office document formats, Kinect, MSN Messenger).
Whoever thought that introducing paid parking for all customers at a suburban shopping center (especially one like Chermside) was a GOOD idea should be fired.
The only exception to that rule is when car parks are being filled not with customers but with commuters treating the car park as a park-and-ride. And even then, the paid parking should only apply to people parking there all day (as opposed to people parking there for only a few hours whilst they do shopping)
If any shopping center tried to introduce paid parking for every customer, I would probably boycott that center out of principle (and I dont even own or drive a car).
Is there ANYONE with a realistic chance of getting elected who will undo all the unconstitutional measures put in place over the last decade or more?
Without him, IT would be a very different place.
I have been programming in C and C-derived languages (mostly C++ but a few others) since high school and will continue to do so as I believe that (for the programs I like to write) C and C++ is the best option.
But the contributions of Dennis Ritchie transcend the boundaries of IT, without Dennis Ritchie the world would be a very different place.
Just looking around my apartment, I have a Windows PC where much of the software running is written in C or something derived from C. I have a Gentoo Linux box where most of the code is C or C++ (and Gentoo itself is derived from Unix)
My Nokia N900 also runs Linux and a large amount of C code (including some C code that I wrote myself and continue to write)
I also have a DSL router running some form of Linux and code written in C.
And I have a bunch of other gadgets that may well contain code written in C including a Canon inkjet multi-function center, a Canon IXUS digital camera, a digital over-the-air TV set top box, a DVD player/recorder and a music keyboard.
Farewell Dennis Ritchie, your contributions to the world of IT will be forever remembered. And one of these days I will finally track down (and read) "The C Programming Language" :)
Companies who use the legal system to keep news about security holes in their product a secret really make me MAD.
I applaud your ideas.
The idea of separating retail banks (that hold savings and make loans) from investment banks (that hold securities and make risky gambles) is important. As is a complete ban on the retail banks from doing any of the risky things that caused them to get into so much trouble.
A microtax on every stock trade is not necessarily the answer though. The real answer is to introduce a much bigger tax but only if you do not hang on to a security for at least a month. (maybe not a month, maybe some other limit, I dont know what would work best)
This stops the people who make their living making high frequency trades and ensures the stock market no longer swings wildly on the tinest bit of news. Some will say that the high-frequency-traders will move to other markets but that can be countered by negotiating with the Europeans and others to apply similar rules to their markets.
Since the US government used a terrorist attack to pass all kinds of new laws (most of which would not have helped stop 9/11)
Is there something about China that would give them a cost advantage in rare-earth processing in the way they have a cost advantage in the production of things like iPhones, Nike shoes and circular saws? Or could the US (who would have obvious national interest concerns about being so reliant on China for these important metals) build their own processing facilities for all these non-Chinese rare earth deposits everyone hears about?
The difference is that all the patents filed by Edison are now expired and no longer matter.
Also, its unfair to compare a rather vague design patent (like the ones Apple are using to sue Samsung over its Galaxy Tab) to patents for something as fundamental as the light bulb.
I went to a private school and my parents had to work HARD for every dollar to afford the fees.
3 questions:
1.Is that US MPG or EU MPG (there is a difference)
2.Would it be able to handle the dirty diesel that still exists in many parts of the US?
and 3.Assuming it could run on US diesel, would it be able to meet the CARB standards (the strictest in the world)
If you can show me a diesel engine that gets that kind of efficiency on US dirty diesel AND meets CARB emissions standards, I am sure plenty of automakers would LOVE to talk to you. Otherwise, its comparing apples to oranges.
One of the problems with many opposed piston engine designs is that they are two-stroke and the incoming fuel-air mixture mixes with the outgoing exhaust gases, this causes more pollution per unit of distance traveled than other engines.
Blame the US Government and the various state governments (especially states like California) that make it very hard to launch new technologies.
Look at the Jeep Wrangler. In Europe a diesel engine is available that meets all applicable emissions standards (including in countries like Germany with some of the toughest emissions standards in the world).
Yet because US emissions standards are biased against diesel engines, Jeep cant make money releasing the diesel Wrangler stateside. (and yes I know about some of the other things like the cost of diesel in the US vs EU but if Jeep could release the EU diesel engine in the US with minimal changes, the business case would be much stronger)
I think there IS a Steam for Linux, at least inside Valve.
It may be that they are still working on it with plans for a future release.
It may be that its only a test and not actually intended for release. It may be that it was intended for release but was canceled for some reason.
Blizzard for example at one point had a Linux client for World of Warcraft. But the "powers that be" vetoed the release because then they would need to maintain that release and release Linux patches concurrently with Mac and Windows patches which would require more development staff and/or patch delays whilst they finished the Linux work.
And now we finally have it straight from the horses mouth.
Fights against BitTorrent, YouTube etc etc are about controlling content and making sure content they have decided not to make available (movies you cant buy on DVD, all those old TV series you never see anymore, whatever) remains unavailable.
Take for example classic cartoon series. You can find episodes or partial seasons of many of these series on video sites like YouTube or on file-hosting sites like Rapidshare but its often impossible to get the whole series.
The studios need to stop trying to fight the internet and realize that if they made the content people want available for a reasonable price through online streaming and download services (and through DVD and other distribution channels) people would have a LOT less reason to pirate their content.
For example if I could have bought a DVD box set of the History Channel documentary "Tales Of The Gun" I would have done so instead of watching the episodes on YouTube. (because I prefer to watch things on my TV and not my PC and the quality on YouTube isn't as good as a DVD plus its something I would want to be able to watch multiple times)
Or if Warner Bros would release Young Einstein on DVD in Australia (its available in the US) I would have bought it locally instead of importing it from the states (this was before fast ADSL and YouTube).
Do the Italians actually LIKE this guy? Are there no alternatives to vote for? Are the alternatives worse?
Politicians may not be able to interfere with the courts but they CAN pass laws that override court decisions. Presumably the judge who ordered the ISPs to block these sites did so in reference to a particular Belgian law. The government can change that law so that it no longer allows these web sites to be blocked anymore.
Actually that should be "just launched LTE"
Actually, CDMA is 100% gone in Australia now, the carrier that used to operate it now operates UMTS and has just launched 3G.