But I just don't get this product. If you have a fast enough connection to download this kind of stuff, why would you waste your time watching TV? Just download (or stream if you are low on diskspace) something from your video repository you actually can choose to watch. IMHO the only reason to watch live tv would be news programs, and those can already be streamed (atleast from the public access channels)
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Has anybody ever seen Cyberlinks PowerCinema Linux? (http://www.cyberlink.com/eng/press_room/view_970. html)
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"Will Dell Europe be able to sell computers with linux installed and DVD playback already enabled? If not, why not?"
It is still up to a judge to rule on what evidence is real or not.
It the above mentioned case, email and IP addresses found in the userdatabase of a private tracker where enough to force the ISP to hand over the subscriber information.
Also to be noted: the ISP turned over the info for 2 of its customers before the judgment. For these 2 the email and IP where both run by the ISP, and since these email adresses where assigned by the ISP to the subscribers.
The biggest threat to your right of privacy if you are allegedly breaking the law is a spineless ISP.
"It was Prof. Pouwelse's scathing analysis of the RIAA's MediaSentry 'investigations' (PDF) in a case in the Netherlands that caused the courts in that country to direct the ISPs there not to turn over their subscribers' information (PDF), thus nipping in the bud the RIAA's intended litigation juggernaut in that country."
According to a projectionist I knew they already did this in 2002-2003. You might notice those "burn" marks, but also less noticable marks are on the reels.
It not that hard to find DECT phones that actually encrypt the basestationhandset communication. Just search for: dect encryption and the name of you favorite c.e. manufacturer *if they don't have it try Siemens or Philips instead)
For each file id the generator sends it will store the block checksums and build a hash index of them for rapid lookup.
Then the local file is read and a checksum is generated for the block beginning with the first byte of the local file. This block checksum is looked for in the set that was sent by the generator, and if no match is found, the non-matching byte will be appended to the non-matching data and the block starting at the next byte will be compared. This is what is referred to as the "rolling checksum"
If a block checksum match is found it is considered a matching block and any accumulated non-matching data will be sent to the receiver followed by the offset and length in the receiver's file of the matching block and the block checksum generator will be advanced to the next byte after the matching block.
Matching blocks can be identified in this way even if the blocks are reordered or at different offsets. This process is the very heart of the rsync algorithm. "
While you are right that rsync has a much simpler job, it is still based on exchanging a list of checksums.
A long, long time ago I was trying to download a Debian iso image. The howto to generate one was kinda like: -download "this list" of packages from you favorite mirror -cat *.deb > foo.iso -rsync the remote iso image to your local foo.iso
The result was an iso generated from files that could have been downloaded from n sources.
This method is still mentioned under the "Aargh! The script fails with an error - have I downloaded all those MBs in vain?!" section on http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
"Considering all the software that runs on MS and figuring in things like tax software, accounting, games, hardware that doesn't have linux drivers, etc. it would be more expensive to go to Linux for me then if I bought Vista."
You are clearly contradicting yourself. Imagine the savings with Linux, no new games, no hardware and no software to buy for it. So no extra costs. Clearly it's less expensive.
But more to the point: why did you buy Vista? What is you special need that 2000/XP can't fullfil?
"I meant license as in the thing you pay for when you get a piece of software on a CD with a license key. Not license as in the GPL or the EULA."
A software license is a software license is a software license.
"I mean, how would the BSA even audit something like that?"
They don't, unless you are for example redistributing to third parties it would be to hard. But businesses or organizations themselve have to prove to e.g. the BSA they are not in violation according to the license whenever they are asked to.
"Feel free to cite something to prove me wrong though."
Who cares, doing something wrong without getting caught is still doing wrong. For some reason Adobe though it was necessary to reiterate the fact that a user may not redistribute.
"Whether you agree or disagree, why would you be surprised at the actions of Norway?"
Well, maybe the fact that even though, your example, porn is illegal (now and has been for a very long time) in some places it is still available there now. Simply making something illegal doesn't make it disapear.
So yes I'm suprised. Laws against porn are IMHO just as idiotic as laws against (the practicing of) homosexuality.
There are people who believe that making stuff like prostitution and narcotics legal, will actually improve conditions for both the "producers" and "consumers".
"I bet if there was really a huge demand for this, we could create something just as good, if not better. I'm not sure if it's there yet, though."
Support for pushed email is already available by IMAP with the IDLE command since RFC 2177 (1997). Whether there are clients that actually support this I don't know.
To summarize. The JVM is slow because of bytecode since it has to be compiled to native code on the client. AVM2 is fast because by using bytecode it can compile to the most effecitive native code possible.
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A simple mencoder script or VLC will do the job.
But I just don't get this product. If you have a fast enough connection to download this kind of stuff, why would you waste your time watching TV? Just download (or stream if you are low on diskspace) something from your video repository you actually can choose to watch. IMHO the only reason to watch live tv would be news programs, and those can already be streamed (atleast from the public access channels)
Has anybody ever seen Cyberlinks PowerCinema Linux?. html)
(http://www.cyberlink.com/eng/press_room/view_970
"Will Dell Europe be able to sell computers with linux installed and DVD playback already enabled? If not, why not?"
No. EUCD.
You meant something like magnet URIs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet:_URI_scheme
argh:
%s/filted/lifted/g
So can you explain again what a fingerprint is worth again if they can be filted that easily (think gummy bears)?
It is still up to a judge to rule on what evidence is real or not.
It the above mentioned case, email and IP addresses found in the userdatabase of a private tracker where enough to force the ISP to hand over the subscriber information.
Also to be noted: the ISP turned over the info for 2 of its customers before the judgment. For these 2 the email and IP where both run by the ISP, and since these email adresses where assigned by the ISP to the subscribers.
The biggest threat to your right of privacy if you are allegedly breaking the law is a spineless ISP.
"It was Prof. Pouwelse's scathing analysis of the RIAA's MediaSentry 'investigations' (PDF) in a case in the Netherlands that caused the courts in that country to direct the ISPs there not to turn over their subscribers' information (PDF), thus nipping in the bud the RIAA's intended litigation juggernaut in that country."
..AA equiv.) won a case against UPC (an ISP), forcing them to hand over the subscribers information: http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/resultpage.aspx?snelz oeken=true&searchtype=ljn&ljn=AY6903&u_ljn=AY6903
And a couple of months later Brein (the dutch
(in dutch btw).
According to a projectionist I knew they already did this in 2002-2003. You might notice those "burn" marks, but also less noticable marks are on the reels.
It not that hard to find DECT phones that actually encrypt the basestationhandset communication. Just search for: dect encryption and the name of you favorite c.e. manufacturer *if they don't have it try Siemens or Philips instead)
it is a daemon!
rsync is very complex protocol (to me), it does find matching chunks at different offsets:
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/how-rsync-works.htm
"The sender process reads the file index numbers and associated block checksum sets one at a time from the generator.
For each file id the generator sends it will store the block checksums and build a hash index of them for rapid lookup.
Then the local file is read and a checksum is generated for the block beginning with the first byte of the local file. This block checksum is looked for in the set that was sent by the generator, and if no match is found, the non-matching byte will be appended to the non-matching data and the block starting at the next byte will be compared. This is what is referred to as the "rolling checksum"
If a block checksum match is found it is considered a matching block and any accumulated non-matching data will be sent to the receiver followed by the offset and length in the receiver's file of the matching block and the block checksum generator will be advanced to the next byte after the matching block.
Matching blocks can be identified in this way even if the blocks are reordered or at different offsets. This process is the very heart of the rsync algorithm. "
While you are right that rsync has a much simpler job, it is still based on exchanging a list of checksums.
A long, long time ago I was trying to download a Debian iso image. The howto to generate one was kinda like:
-download "this list" of packages from you favorite mirror
-cat *.deb > foo.iso
-rsync the remote iso image to your local foo.iso
The result was an iso generated from files that could have been downloaded from n sources.
This method is still mentioned under the "Aargh! The script fails with an error - have I downloaded all those MBs in vain?!" section on http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
This is exactly what rsync does (IIRC, it been a while since I last tried to read the whitepaper).
"Considering all the software that runs on MS and figuring in things like tax software, accounting, games, hardware that doesn't have linux drivers, etc. it would be more expensive to go to Linux for me then if I bought Vista."
You are clearly contradicting yourself. Imagine the savings with Linux, no new games, no hardware and no software to buy for it. So no extra costs. Clearly it's less expensive.
But more to the point: why did you buy Vista? What is you special need that 2000/XP can't fullfil?
"I meant license as in the thing you pay for when you get a piece of software on a CD with a license key. Not license as in the GPL or the EULA."
A software license is a software license is a software license.
"I mean, how would the BSA even audit something like that?"
They don't, unless you are for example redistributing to third parties it would be to hard. But businesses or organizations themselve have to prove to e.g. the BSA they are not in violation according to the license whenever they are asked to.
"Feel free to cite something to prove me wrong though."
Who cares, doing something wrong without getting caught is still doing wrong. For some reason Adobe though it was necessary to reiterate the fact that a user may not redistribute.
Is this the old java byte code is slow due to the JIT vs. the flex is fast because of its JIT argument?
BS, the Readme.txt in the installer.tgz:
/ ."
"Adobe Systems Incorporated
Flash Player 9 for Linux
Version 9.0.31.0
January 2007
[...]
Your use of this player is governed by the Adobe End User License Agreement
found at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/players/flash
Just think about the additional confusion the term "HD/DVD recorders" add.
I asked the local stores, every store has the same story: next shipment of PS3s will not be within the next 6 days :(
What are you talking about? The manual actually explains what the optional arg to --backup can be.
The version control method may be selected via the
--backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable.
Here are the values:
none, off
never make backups (even if --backup is given)
numbered, t
make numbered backups
existing, nil
numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
simple, never
always make simple backups
That is nothing close to mentioned "app bundle". I guess something like http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12841 was ment.
"Whether you agree or disagree, why would you be surprised at the actions of Norway?"
Well, maybe the fact that even though, your example, porn is illegal (now and has been for a very long time) in some places it is still available there now. Simply making something illegal doesn't make it disapear.
So yes I'm suprised. Laws against porn are IMHO just as idiotic as laws against (the practicing of) homosexuality.
There are people who believe that making stuff like prostitution and narcotics legal, will actually improve conditions for both the "producers" and "consumers".
"I bet if there was really a huge demand for this, we could create something just as good, if not better. I'm not sure if it's there yet, though."
Support for pushed email is already available by IMAP with the IDLE command since RFC 2177 (1997). Whether there are clients that actually support this I don't know.
Installing NoScript and creating a whitelist might be easier.
"It does not require client side compiles (eg java byte code) and runs faster than cross platform java can dream of."
= en_us&term=AVM2+JIT
You sure know what you are talking about:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc
To summarize. The JVM is slow because of bytecode since it has to be compiled to native code on the client. AVM2 is fast because by using bytecode it can compile to the most effecitive native code possible.