Thus the reason why I think if a DRM type of system is really going to work (Steam for one example), the government needs involvement, or at least a government funded agency.
So we have the government on one side having laws that enable DRM. Then we have government on the other side, being your external "fair-use" backup, for which you will have to pay some more. Oh, and don't forget who pays all those government employees. Yes, you.
Wouldn't it be easier to just scrap DRM altogether? Or at least make it legal to crack DRM again, like it was for the first 30 years of the software industry's life? You know, back when poor Microsoft was barely able to double its annual income?
While we're at it, how about completely scrapping the idea that intellectual property can be patented? At this point, it is doing the public (who are in charge of choosing people to enact law) ABSOLUTELY no good. Compare again with the old, pre-patent-frenzy days.
When it comes to laws, I think KISS is the way to go.
Back in my professional BeOS-programming days, a friend I was working with (Hi Steve!) told me about font-centred design, or a term similar to that. The idea is that the UI scales according to the user's preferred font size. Not only that, but fields that can accept text aren't limited to their original size, but grow as the user types more and more (yes, to a limit, but at least they *try*).
Being an early 1600x1200'er (circa 2000), I abhor any UI that turns a useful product or website into a barber-shop pole.
Surely anyone can see that the future is resolution-independent.
I am hoping that either SVG or something similar becomes the dominant graphics file type.
The ideal situation is when changing monitor resolutions only makes your display clearer or more pixellated.
Nothing moves or resizes.
In Quake III, your handicap is your maximum health. If you get more (from a superhealth for instance), your health will count down to this value instead of 100.
She can kill you easily with one ricket, and you will have a hard time killing her.
Then buy a Linux box from Wal-Mart. It's there when you pull the PC out of the box and turn it on.
Then when you decide to install Windows on another partition or drive, come back and tell us how easy that was.:-)
I'm disturbed the Socket 939 has had such a relatively short life.
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Am I the only one disappointed in this rather fast change to an even newer socket MB?
I'm sure there are lots of people who did what I did and hung on to their Socket A motherboards for a nice long time, ignoring the numbered sockets completely.
Now we get to skip right over them to the AM2.
CPU manufacturers should indeed be much more aware of the impact that changing sockets has.
I used to think AMD was such a manufacturer.
Look at how long Socket A lasted!
But this mess with the numbered sockets has burned all the goodwill AMD had built up on this score.
I think it has to be said that there are times when non-technical management has to deal with techno prima donnas who hold pojects up for the most ephemeric of reasons. It is incombent upon such managers to deal with said problem personalities and sometimes override them as need be.
Avoiding the whole situation ( by not hiring prima donnas), or at least educating the management chain in instances where such hirings cannot be avoided are the best courses of action.
I'm not saying this happened at NASA, I just wanted to balance out the somewhat one-sided point of view.
The effect of light being warped into orbit is the same as other light-bending effects - you will get distortions and possibly multiple images, like a mirage. Still, the light will be at a lower energy level, which means its wavelength will be shifted towards infrared. How much depends on lots of other stuff that is not in the scope of this reply.:-)
They all start with "F"! It must be that someone saw these shows filed under "F" and thought they had "failed", so they cancelled them.
Open Source can be closed; Free Software cannot
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releasing your code and allowing others to fork it are key parts of both Open Source and Free Software
Well, no, that's the whole point. If it's Open Source, the code does not have to be released, whereas if it is Free Software (e.g. GPL), it does. The code is free from being hidden away.
Open Source can become closed source. Free Software cannot. This is why companies have a hard time with Free Software -- they can't own their changes.
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smail was supposed to be loads easier to set up and use than sendmail, since back around 1986ish.
8mm ==> VHS ==> Laserdisc ==> DVD ==> avi ==> HR avi (½ HD) ==> HD avi
With all the problems surrounding legal HD content, everyone who knows anything is moving to HD and HR torrents.
Wouldn't it be easier to just scrap DRM altogether? Or at least make it legal to crack DRM again, like it was for the first 30 years of the software industry's life? You know, back when poor Microsoft was barely able to double its annual income?
While we're at it, how about completely scrapping the idea that intellectual property can be patented? At this point, it is doing the public (who are in charge of choosing people to enact law) ABSOLUTELY no good. Compare again with the old, pre-patent-frenzy days.
When it comes to laws, I think KISS is the way to go.
Welcome to 1984.
Being an early 1600x1200'er (circa 2000), I abhor any UI that turns a useful product or website into a barber-shop pole. Surely anyone can see that the future is resolution-independent. I am hoping that either SVG or something similar becomes the dominant graphics file type.
The ideal situation is when changing monitor resolutions only makes your display clearer or more pixellated. Nothing moves or resizes.
Ah well.
She can kill you easily with one ricket, and you will have a hard time killing her.
Then buy a Linux box from Wal-Mart. It's there when you pull the PC out of the box and turn it on. Then when you decide to install Windows on another partition or drive, come back and tell us how easy that was. :-)
iPods? Mac Minis?
CPU manufacturers should indeed be much more aware of the impact that changing sockets has. I used to think AMD was such a manufacturer. Look at how long Socket A lasted! But this mess with the numbered sockets has burned all the goodwill AMD had built up on this score.
What?
What????
e.g. a warp drive becomes possible in say 2046 - and the patent on the warp drive expired in 2023 because it was granted in 2006.
Voila!
.. and to read that you need a computer. Here, buy a Mac. Oh, wait..
All the 10-19 year-olds I know get the music from BitTorrent..
Actually I guess the peak was during the baby boom after WW2, wasn't it? Won't demand die off with the baby boomers?
And what about post-2050 - will the population shrink? Or remain stable?
Does it also mean all those de-CSS DVD cracks will be hosted, but blocked only in the US?
Avoiding the whole situation ( by not hiring prima donnas), or at least educating the management chain in instances where such hirings cannot be avoided are the best courses of action.
I'm not saying this happened at NASA, I just wanted to balance out the somewhat one-sided point of view.
The effect of light being warped into orbit is the same as other light-bending effects - you will get distortions and possibly multiple images, like a mirage. Still, the light will be at a lower energy level, which means its wavelength will be shifted towards infrared. How much depends on lots of other stuff that is not in the scope of this reply. :-)
They all start with "F"! It must be that someone saw these shows filed under "F" and thought they had "failed", so they cancelled them.
Open Source can become closed source. Free Software cannot. This is why companies have a hard time with Free Software -- they can't own their changes.
The real "older brother" might be NeXT on 68k.
Sounds like they've re-invented Eiffel. :-/
ob. disclaimer: I've applied for a job at OSAF to work on Chandler.
Here is a dierct link to the QuickTime movie of a lunar exploration.
In the US, is it not true that anyone can be put in jail indefinitely by being accused of terrorism?