Because that would be the backward way. There are more kids out there than perverted freaks. Besides, kids aren't the only ones who get upset when they're doing research for a school/work project, think they've found what they were looking for, click the link, and get a "your attempt to access inappropriate material has been logged" followed by a chat from the boss...
Personally I find pornogrpahy disgusting and degrading. While you can't legislate morality, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with enforcing TLD usage, especially with a.prn TLD. Many of the porn sites out there are far worse in their tactics to trick and addict customers than any sleazy spyware manufacturer.
[Lindows] is illegal because Michael Robertson has not made the source code to Lindows available to the people who have purchased access, while still releasing the code under the GPL.
http://www.net2.com/lindows/source/
People who don't check the facts before posting bug me. This source page has been up for a while. Yes, this is the official Lindows.com source page. If it's not there, either they didn't change it, or the modifications have been pushed back to the main branch of whatever project was modified. Since LindowsOS is still not being commercially distributed (they are very careful to note this on their website), they don't need to host the other source code themselves; once LindowsOS is being sold, however, they will need to begin hosting source for all binaries they distribute.
What you're suggesting is that there will never again be another electronics company, and that we'll have to live with the giants we have now (that and startups out of college by rich peoples kids). While probably true, I have a hard time accepting that some entrepreneuring individual working out of a garage couldn't revolutionize the world once again.
Morons maybe, sleazeballs, perhaps, but selling? No. Lindows.com has, as of yet, not sold a single piece of software to anyone. The Insider program is a subscription type thing, where one of the services is access to internal software releases. The GPL allows internal releases. But hey, this is what happens when you hire a whole team of former MFC developers who've never read the GPL, and nobody with actual Linux experience. I strongly dislike the renaming stuff; but, if you look in the "Specs" page, you'll see "Derivative of: kinkatta" or whatever, as well as a link to source code. Finally, http://www.net2.com/lindows/source/. Source is already there.
MPEG-2 decoder/encoder, 1 slot Video I/O, 1 slot Video I/O, 1 slot Video I/O, 1 slotAudigy, 1 slot
Hmm.. yep, amateur videa editing does it. And just imagine what it takes for high-end... But then, all high-end video editing is done with Linux on alphas, or IRIX on mips.
There is no way that the tech industry is going to voluntarily cripple its equipment on just the media companies' say so.
Hasn't this happened already?
Take for instance... CSS RPC2 DVD-ROM drives
The thing I hate most about these drives is that if you change the region 8 times, the drive has to be DISCARDED (4 times yourself, 4 times changed by the manufacturer).
Macrovision on your 3D card ...and so on
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640x480, eh? I thought TiVo was 480x480, so wouldn't this be a step up? The best part would be the ability to convert to.VOB and make DVD's out of my amateur fimls! Now everybody can suffer through 30 minutes of motorcycles and lightsabers...
Wireless gigabit has been done, it's just very very expensive. Hopefully UWB (ultra wide-band) will change that, especially since UWB is untraceable and therefore unable to be regulated.
The problem with encoding to MPEG2 or MPEG4 is that there's a time lag; the video will never be less than 1/2 second behind, as it has to be encoded in 15 frame chunks (IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB). Take digital satellite TV for example; if you are fortunate enough to have local channels via satellite, put two TV's side-by-side: one using normal broadcast signals, the other attached to your DSS. There will be a 3-4 second delay on the DSS on average.
Well, you know what? "Fair use" is two words.
Grammar -- it's the single most misused facet of the English language on Slashdot.
Also, if the Utah (US?) Supreme Court decided it's legal for a company to edit your movies for you, then it's certainly legal to edit them yourself. Who says your archival copies can't be modified? While the fair use doctrine doesn't specifically provide for the ability to modify content, it could be interpreted to imply it to some extent, and nowhere is it prohibited. Distribution to those who don't own a copy already is what is (and should be) disallowed.
Obviously you know nothing about the PS2 arch. The Emotion Engine is actually several SGI-based chips that were tweaked and modified by Sony and packed up into just a couple chips, with a 297MHz R5900 MIPS CPU. The EE is a very powerful and complex system, and I think it rocks from a developer and gamer standpoint. Using a Wintel CPU in a game console is, IMO, a big mistake. The EE is specifically designed to be a game console; the Wintel arch is just a generic architecture with stuff games will never use, and lacking in areas where MIPS and EE together shine.
You speak of inherent problems with the EE. What are you talking about specifically? What situation do you say Sony is in now? PS2 outsold Xbox and GC combined last holiday season.
Rice boys.... Heh. The most amusing modification I saw was a Honda Accord or some other non-fast car with a very (very) large stainless steel "wing" on the back. It didn't even make the car look faster or better. Definitely furious, but far from fast.
The modifications that really make a difference almost always take place under the hood, invisible to the rice eye.
Speaking of debian... What is the name of the ncurses package? I want to apt-get install ncurses so I can build a kernel with menuconfig, and it says that it's in the database but doesn't have a package. (This is a pretty bare bones installation; I was surprised when ncurses wasn't already installed)
If you think that's bad... I once had a window open up with no TITLEBAR or toolbar. Luckily blackbox lets you right-click on the border to get a menu and close the window.
In related news, Debian and RedHat are getting along and producing a joint product called Red Planut Linux, Linus Torvalds won the lottery and donated 80% to the EFF and FSF, and Bill Gates' second and third personal jets collided into each other in a fatal accident.
But the original point was that it would be much, much easier now to pass laws like that, than it would be... say 150 years from now, when governments are developing artificial intelligence androids to fight their wars for them, amidst a whole hooplah of controversy.
Sure, Gentoo's nice, but... Even on fairly decent hardware (Duron 850@1GHz), compilation takes FOREVER. Who on earth has three days to spend selecting, compiling, and installing various packages? Everything definitely was faster, and bootup was 4x shorter than Mandrake, but sheesh. Now that I'm working full time, I don't have time to set up and install a source-based distribution to the point of productivity. Also, for some reason, no matter how many times I recompiled X and various libraries, Quake 3 would always hardlock on spawn.
I think you missed the point of the comment you replied to. He(/she) didn't say anything about what robots are capable of now. The suggestion was that laws (as in legal laws) would be implemented that would require all robots sophisticated enough to carry out those laws to follow them.
BTW, the biggest fly in the ointment for T(H)GSB is that everyone will clock on to see if it's working. People are like that. There will be record-breaking hit counts on that day. (-:
Sure, I don't think it'll work... and I agree with you about the record breaking hit counts.
I just figured, "Aah, what the heck," and put it in my sig.
I guess this means we can't invite people to "Come Inside" anymore... "Sorry folks, you're going to have to stand in the freezing rain, because Intel will sue me if I ask you to... uh...."
Uh yeah, but like.. The spray paint would block the light. Plus, I think that they didn't mean paintable in the traditional can-and-brush sense, but in a controlled laboratory they can apply it in a liquid state to manufactured panels and/or materials.
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If that's the case I must be WAY overdrawn...
Because that would be the backward way. There are more kids out there than perverted freaks. Besides, kids aren't the only ones who get upset when they're doing research for a school/work project, think they've found what they were looking for, click the link, and get a "your attempt to access inappropriate material has been logged" followed by a chat from the boss...
.prn TLD. Many of the porn sites out there are far worse in their tactics to trick and addict customers than any sleazy spyware manufacturer.
Personally I find pornogrpahy disgusting and degrading. While you can't legislate morality, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with enforcing TLD usage, especially with a
http://www.net2.com/lindows/source/
People who don't check the facts before posting bug me. This source page has been up for a while. Yes, this is the official Lindows.com source page. If it's not there, either they didn't change it, or the modifications have been pushed back to the main branch of whatever project was modified. Since LindowsOS is still not being commercially distributed (they are very careful to note this on their website), they don't need to host the other source code themselves; once LindowsOS is being sold, however, they will need to begin hosting source for all binaries they distribute.
What you're suggesting is that there will never again be another electronics company, and that we'll have to live with the giants we have now (that and startups out of college by rich peoples kids). While probably true, I have a hard time accepting that some entrepreneuring individual working out of a garage couldn't revolutionize the world once again.
Morons maybe, sleazeballs, perhaps, but selling? No. Lindows.com has, as of yet, not sold a single piece of software to anyone. The Insider program is a subscription type thing, where one of the services is access to internal software releases. The GPL allows internal releases. But hey, this is what happens when you hire a whole team of former MFC developers who've never read the GPL, and nobody with actual Linux experience.
I strongly dislike the renaming stuff; but, if you look in the "Specs" page, you'll see "Derivative of: kinkatta" or whatever, as well as a link to source code.
Finally, http://www.net2.com/lindows/source/. Source is already there.
Let's see...
MPEG-2 decoder/encoder, 1 slot
Video I/O, 1 slot
Video I/O, 1 slot
Video I/O, 1 slotAudigy, 1 slot
Hmm.. yep, amateur videa editing does it. And just imagine what it takes for high-end... But then, all high-end video editing is done with Linux on alphas, or IRIX on mips.
Hasn't this happened already?
Take for instance...
CSS
RPC2 DVD-ROM drives
Macrovision on your 3D card
...and so on
640x480, eh? I thought TiVo was 480x480, so wouldn't this be a step up? The best part would be the ability to convert to .VOB and make DVD's out of my amateur fimls! Now everybody can suffer through 30 minutes of motorcycles and lightsabers...
Wireless gigabit has been done, it's just very very expensive. Hopefully UWB (ultra wide-band) will change that, especially since UWB is untraceable and therefore unable to be regulated.
The problem with encoding to MPEG2 or MPEG4 is that there's a time lag; the video will never be less than 1/2 second behind, as it has to be encoded in 15 frame chunks (IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB). Take digital satellite TV for example; if you are fortunate enough to have local channels via satellite, put two TV's side-by-side: one using normal broadcast signals, the other attached to your DSS. There will be a 3-4 second delay on the DSS on average.
Well, you know what? "Fair use" is two words. Grammar -- it's the single most misused facet of the English language on Slashdot. Also, if the Utah (US?) Supreme Court decided it's legal for a company to edit your movies for you, then it's certainly legal to edit them yourself. Who says your archival copies can't be modified? While the fair use doctrine doesn't specifically provide for the ability to modify content, it could be interpreted to imply it to some extent, and nowhere is it prohibited. Distribution to those who don't own a copy already is what is (and should be) disallowed.
Obviously you know nothing about the PS2 arch. The Emotion Engine is actually several SGI-based chips that were tweaked and modified by Sony and packed up into just a couple chips, with a 297MHz R5900 MIPS CPU. The EE is a very powerful and complex system, and I think it rocks from a developer and gamer standpoint. Using a Wintel CPU in a game console is, IMO, a big mistake. The EE is specifically designed to be a game console; the Wintel arch is just a generic architecture with stuff games will never use, and lacking in areas where MIPS and EE together shine.
You speak of inherent problems with the EE. What are you talking about specifically? What situation do you say Sony is in now? PS2 outsold Xbox and GC combined last holiday season.
What a hilarious site!!! Orbs, contrails, UFO's, whee! LOL! It's a laugh a minute.
If you really bite into this stuff, you've got WAY too much time on your hands.
Sure, there's corruption and conspiracy in the government, but this stuff is just outrageous. We have a word for it: schizophrenia.
Rice boys.... Heh. The most amusing modification I saw was a Honda Accord or some other non-fast car with a very (very) large stainless steel "wing" on the back. It didn't even make the car look faster or better. Definitely furious, but far from fast.
The modifications that really make a difference almost always take place under the hood, invisible to the rice eye.
Speaking of debian... What is the name of the ncurses package? I want to apt-get install ncurses so I can build a kernel with menuconfig, and it says that it's in the database but doesn't have a package. (This is a pretty bare bones installation; I was surprised when ncurses wasn't already installed)
I once had a dial-up box r00ted within 6-12 hours of connecting. Just an innocent little RedHat 6.2 box. I'm positive it was FSGS's fault.
If you think that's bad... I once had a window open up with no TITLEBAR or toolbar. Luckily blackbox lets you right-click on the border to get a menu and close the window.
Now where have I heard this before... This post is cut-and-paste identical to some FUD that's all over the net.
In related news, Debian and RedHat are getting along and producing a joint product called Red Planut Linux, Linus Torvalds won the lottery and donated 80% to the EFF and FSF, and Bill Gates' second and third personal jets collided into each other in a fatal accident.
But the original point was that it would be much, much easier now to pass laws like that, than it would be ... say 150 years from now, when governments are developing artificial intelligence androids to fight their wars for them, amidst a whole hooplah of controversy.
Sure, Gentoo's nice, but... Even on fairly decent hardware (Duron 850@1GHz), compilation takes FOREVER. Who on earth has three days to spend selecting, compiling, and installing various packages? Everything definitely was faster, and bootup was 4x shorter than Mandrake, but sheesh. Now that I'm working full time, I don't have time to set up and install a source-based distribution to the point of productivity. Also, for some reason, no matter how many times I recompiled X and various libraries, Quake 3 would always hardlock on spawn.
I think you missed the point of the comment you replied to. He(/she) didn't say anything about what robots are capable of now. The suggestion was that laws (as in legal laws) would be implemented that would require all robots sophisticated enough to carry out those laws to follow them.
I guess this means we can't invite people to "Come Inside" anymore... "Sorry folks, you're going to have to stand in the freezing rain, because Intel will sue me if I ask you to ... uh...."
Uh yeah, but like.. The spray paint would block the light. Plus, I think that they didn't mean paintable in the traditional can-and-brush sense, but in a controlled laboratory they can apply it in a liquid state to manufactured panels and/or materials.