Sorry, that's bollocks. You have one "reference" from 2003 that refers to minimum RAM required for XP as 250Mb and one that's just some guy posting a Hijackthis log and saying svchost is "making his PC run slow".
I've got a Win 7 x64 Desktop and a Win 7 x86 Laptop; the laptop hibernates at least twice daily and I never have any problems with it waking at all, nor with file system corruption, the desktop currently has 12 days of uptime (new hardware install a couple of weeks ago, it usually runs for a month or two between critical updates) and my svchost currently stands at 350Mb across 11 processes, most of which is the Desktop Window Manager.
Some shitty hardware (a lot of 3G cards for some reason) won't work after hibernating, but I've had that happen under both Windows & Linux, Oh, and Fedora refused to reconnect any of my mounted network shares after hibernating, so I guess Linux has its problems too.
The BBC is everyone's scape goat; they're left wing, they're right wing, they're a government mouthpiece, they're too critical of the government, they spend too much on "high-brow elitist" programming, they're dumbing down too much, they waste too much money on sports rights, they don't have enough decent sports coverage. You name it, someone will be accusing the BBC of it.
Because without it they couldn't stop you from breaking the DRM and disseminating the How-To to a wider audience, who would then be very hard to catch actually infringing. With Anti-Circumvention laws you can both discourage people from breaking the DRM (or at least telling people about it) and take legal action against anyone who does, whether they've actually done anything "illegal" beyond circumventing the DRM or not.
Anti-Circumvention laws are "Attempted Copyright Infringement".
Anti-circumvention is a necessity because unbreakable DRM is an impossible dream; there simply isn't any way to give the user a lock and let them open it without also giving them the key, no matter how much you try and hide it.
On the upside, it could finally reverse the effects of the Eternal September by dramatically upping the level of technical knowledge required to operate anything interesting on the Internet.
I'm on their 20Mbit package at the moment; I don't really need any faster downstream at the moment, but I would like a faster upstream (currently 1Mbit), so what's the upstream going to be on the 100Mbit downstream package?
It's not a law, it's a treaty. Treaties are much better than laws on their own because while laws can easily be opposed by the public before being passed, treaties can be passed in secret and then used as a basis for forcing laws through on the grounds that they are a requirement of the treaty.
Here's an idea for Mozilla and Google. Make your browsers configurable by Active Directory Group Policy Objects so that they can be locked down in "enterprise" environments like IE can be. This is surely the biggest barrier to corporate uptake of Firefox, Chrome, etc?
I've said it repeatedly, but I usually get shouted down as a luser windoze admin who is apparently incapable of managing my domain(s) correctly. Firefox doesn't even store or read any (user-level) settings from the registry, so I can't just roll my own ADMX templates either.
Clearly what I should be doing is scripting scheduled tasks to run on every machine on the network on a regular basis that edit the prefs.js file in each users' Firefox profile and configures proxy & security settings there - couldn't be simpler.
Not really. They're not imposing anything; IE6 will still "work" with Youtube for basic functionality. Google are simply saying that they will no longer actively support IE6 and therefore cannot be sure that any future additions to the site will work correctly, or at all with it.
IE6 over 9 years old and it wasn't exactly top of the technology & standards tree when it was released. The only reason it's been supported this long is because XP refuses to die and people have only really started to adopt IE8 on a large scale in the last 6-12 months - IE7s adoption was hampered too much by the relative lack of success that Vista had.
So, it'll be like a normal game, only take ages to load, have terrible performance and be full of interstitial adverts? Though I realise with a lot of games these days those terms are relative.
While it's true that the burden of proof lies with Singh, part of his claim was that there isn't "a jot" of evidence to support the BCA's position and the BCA's insistence that there's loads of evidence that chiropractic "medicine" cures all, while failing to produce any of it in court doesn't appear to have sat well with Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, who is overseeing the case.
He went on to criticise the BCA’s reluctance to publish evidence to back up claims that chiropractic treatments could treat childhood asthma and other ailments.
“I’m just baffled. If there is reliable evidence, why hasn’t someone published it?”
The press are very careful to refer to "alleged" actions and "reported" events and make it clear that they are only expressing an opinion and not stating "fact", which will get you around most of the libel laws in the UK.
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Dongles can be defeated with emulators and RSA tokens can be generated artificially if you know the serial numbers.
Sorry, that's bollocks. You have one "reference" from 2003 that refers to minimum RAM required for XP as 250Mb and one that's just some guy posting a Hijackthis log and saying svchost is "making his PC run slow".
I've got a Win 7 x64 Desktop and a Win 7 x86 Laptop; the laptop hibernates at least twice daily and I never have any problems with it waking at all, nor with file system corruption, the desktop currently has 12 days of uptime (new hardware install a couple of weeks ago, it usually runs for a month or two between critical updates) and my svchost currently stands at 350Mb across 11 processes, most of which is the Desktop Window Manager.
Some shitty hardware (a lot of 3G cards for some reason) won't work after hibernating, but I've had that happen under both Windows & Linux, Oh, and Fedora refused to reconnect any of my mounted network shares after hibernating, so I guess Linux has its problems too.
Or perhaps the BBC's right-wing bias?
The BBC is everyone's scape goat; they're left wing, they're right wing, they're a government mouthpiece, they're too critical of the government, they spend too much on "high-brow elitist" programming, they're dumbing down too much, they waste too much money on sports rights, they don't have enough decent sports coverage. You name it, someone will be accusing the BBC of it.
Because without it they couldn't stop you from breaking the DRM and disseminating the How-To to a wider audience, who would then be very hard to catch actually infringing. With Anti-Circumvention laws you can both discourage people from breaking the DRM (or at least telling people about it) and take legal action against anyone who does, whether they've actually done anything "illegal" beyond circumventing the DRM or not.
Anti-Circumvention laws are "Attempted Copyright Infringement".
Anti-circumvention is a necessity because unbreakable DRM is an impossible dream; there simply isn't any way to give the user a lock and let them open it without also giving them the key, no matter how much you try and hide it.
On the upside, it could finally reverse the effects of the Eternal September by dramatically upping the level of technical knowledge required to operate anything interesting on the Internet.
So *you're* responsible for Windows ME.
Linux errors are usually more useful, descriptive...
Let's be honest, to 90% of users they're still meaningless, annoying & immediately dismissed.
That tends to only work once (depending on the IQ of your users).
GoW on the PC has the longest installer I have ever come across; it took over 15 minutes to install the bloody thing.
I didn't find the game itself that buggy or crashy, just mind-numbingly boring.
Ah USB, the only rectangular connector where you have to make 3 attempts before you get it the right way around.
I'm on their 20Mbit package at the moment; I don't really need any faster downstream at the moment, but I would like a faster upstream (currently 1Mbit), so what's the upstream going to be on the 100Mbit downstream package?
It's not a law, it's a treaty. Treaties are much better than laws on their own because while laws can easily be opposed by the public before being passed, treaties can be passed in secret and then used as a basis for forcing laws through on the grounds that they are a requirement of the treaty.
If your friend jumped off a cliff would you do it?
No, but if my friend said they liked a game and historically liked similar games to me then it might make me buy it.
Looks like it's been taken offline already.
Here's an idea for Mozilla and Google. Make your browsers configurable by Active Directory Group Policy Objects so that they can be locked down in "enterprise" environments like IE can be. This is surely the biggest barrier to corporate uptake of Firefox, Chrome, etc?
I've said it repeatedly, but I usually get shouted down as a luser windoze admin who is apparently incapable of managing my domain(s) correctly. Firefox doesn't even store or read any (user-level) settings from the registry, so I can't just roll my own ADMX templates either.
Clearly what I should be doing is scripting scheduled tasks to run on every machine on the network on a regular basis that edit the prefs.js file in each users' Firefox profile and configures proxy & security settings there - couldn't be simpler.
Not really. They're not imposing anything; IE6 will still "work" with Youtube for basic functionality. Google are simply saying that they will no longer actively support IE6 and therefore cannot be sure that any future additions to the site will work correctly, or at all with it.
IE6 over 9 years old and it wasn't exactly top of the technology & standards tree when it was released. The only reason it's been supported this long is because XP refuses to die and people have only really started to adopt IE8 on a large scale in the last 6-12 months - IE7s adoption was hampered too much by the relative lack of success that Vista had.
Flame or clever witicism? It could go either way.
So, it'll be like a normal game, only take ages to load, have terrible performance and be full of interstitial adverts? Though I realise with a lot of games these days those terms are relative.
Sorry, thinking of the US. Ignore me.
On the subject: http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/the-bbc-have-found-someone-whose-cancer-was-cured-by-homeopathy/
While it's true that the burden of proof lies with Singh, part of his claim was that there isn't "a jot" of evidence to support the BCA's position and the BCA's insistence that there's loads of evidence that chiropractic "medicine" cures all, while failing to produce any of it in court doesn't appear to have sat well with Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, who is overseeing the case.
Truth *can* be a defence, but it's not always a sufficient defence on its own.
He went on to criticise the BCA’s reluctance to publish evidence to back up claims that chiropractic treatments could treat childhood asthma and other ailments.
“I’m just baffled. If there is reliable evidence, why hasn’t someone published it?”
Why not indeed? I can't imagine...
The press are very careful to refer to "alleged" actions and "reported" events and make it clear that they are only expressing an opinion and not stating "fact", which will get you around most of the libel laws in the UK.