Once a serial arsonist used paper and gasoline to burn down 350 buildings, killing about 20 people in a month. He was facinated by fire. This happened in the US. For a determined terrorist, it just takes a can of gas, as what happened in Korea where 120 were killed and the man in question was just deranged and mentally disturbed. Banning things like this only cause inconvinience to normal people. Terrorists find a workaround.
Here in india, owning a gun is a nightmare, there are tonnes of documents and it takes ages. If somebody wants to own a gun it is actually a nightmare to do it legally, and guess what terrorists roam with AK-47s.
It means if i suspect EMI to be creating and album to harm me I can just take them to court without any proof. This is getting ridiclous. The record labels are not police, and even the police cant take you to court without a warrant and reasonable evidence. The univs should counter sue, after all i bet there will be enough lawyers!
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One step forward two steps back. Its all right when these guys make such laws, but there are so many loopholes in these laws which BSA ppl can interpret easily as they want. In the end all this DMCRA wont get you anywhere. Even if a few good men try to get it right your Hon. Senater Hollings will ensure that there are enough loopholes big enough to get a dinosaur through.
"There will be numerous bills this year that will take a run at the DMCA that will raise concerns for us," Cresanti said."
Giving rights to their customers is a concern to the corporations now. I wonder what happened to the great so called ideology "customer is the king" that these companies pretend to practice.
This happens occaisnaly. U see IpV6 has A.I. Embedded Logic cone addressing data pump. Today its not in a good mood dues to slashdotting.
Question: But are their enough/. users on Ipv6 to/. the network.
Answer: Dosentmatter buddy, even though I dont have v6, I tried clicking on it twice just to see what happens.
Tomorow is a weekend. So the network will be in a good mood.
Cant call ourselves slaves. though only proprietry solutions are there, there is enough competition in the market. Mentor, Synopsys, Cadence... and so on. Open source simulators are not really near yet. My guess is that verilog simulators will come out pretty soon, however VHDL will remain in infancy coz more of the hardware ppl are moving on to verilog.
According to extremetech...
There is 1.1 fps improvement for Jedi knight,
and this comes at 200$+
Isnt it better to invest this money in a graphics card...
Other benchmarks also dont show marked improvement. I guess this is due to delays introduced by the much larger die size... AMD's botched it for sure this time. I hope they bring down the pricing to a more sensible level.
IMHO, wont this be unfair. There are small manufacturers in WLAN area who provide wireless cards for notebooks. In such a case intel can easily produce the whole package and very much capture the notebook wireless market bu keeping operating margins low initially. After competition is eliminated then they can put any pricing to their advantage. Its like intel manufacturing PCs with intel motherboards and only those PCs with intel motherboards will be allowed to be named as Genuine intel.
Its always good to have peripherals separate from chip. Another danger is that intel can have a set of proprietry registers and pipelines which are not disclosed however the WLAN card from intel will be able to use it to give better performance!. Not really good i think. Its okay to have own WLAN cards but the way intel is going about is not really ethical
I would like to add here that many times communications satellites used for TV also are used for VSAT communications. On TV if the satellite has wobble booters in the receiver can compensate, but such satellites are pretty much useless for internet(VSAT).
We has a 128kbps VSAT terminal at college supplied by aging ernet satellite. Data rates used to come down to 2kbps yes kilo BITS. Such satellites are normally space junk, however this may allow us to sqeeze the last bit of life from the satellite, and this will result in cost of cummunications to come down pretty much. I wonder why didnt they think of it before!
Consumers' rights are pitted against industry copyright protection, with billions of dollars at stake, said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Inc., a Silicon Valley consulting firm.
Now that we have our rights equated with money, it will all come down to who has more money, and no prizes for guessing who.
this is certainly my first and probably my only 'Beowulf Cluster' joke
First I cant vouch for.. but definately it will be your last after you get modded to hell and back, and before you go for the ride.. dont forget to turn of that TAP, you dont want ATARI 2600 images travelling around your house.. do you;-) ?
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Yes we need it.
Imagine, just turn on the shower and you have a movie playing.
Feds at your door, just drink the water.. poof
The plus side is that now you can have internet access from your tap and finally we can stop bitching about cable companies....
Negatives:
Overclocking your AMD can vaporise your data... as if burnt motherboards werent enough;-)
Fixed line rates are 40paise(0.8 cents) per minute, and inspite of such low rates you have telcos making large profits in fixed line area. Now in GSM the rates are higher (4-5 cents/min). The reason is liscensing fee is very high, on the other hand for WLL (CDMA) the liscencing fee is same as fixed line. So apart from infrastucture costs no issue here. Big volumes = Profit
I think your friend does not like his uncle very much, a good way to take revenge.. slashdot the startup to the dot com heaven.... my god.. people can be paranoid;-)
Nope its not inaccurate. Actually all the moans cancel out. This has actually proved that number of moanings is even. This is kind of logical becoz normally there are 2 people moaning;-).....
On further research I found out that since right now the server is pounded by slashdot, the sounds are slowly approaching cries of help....
Better keep listning, soon you will hear the dying gasp too;-)
The root cause of such difference in other products and electronic items is that the lawmakers tend to see the internet/electronics/software as a different domain altogether. We have not so much advanced in the digital age that it comes naturally to us. Think, the senaters read their snail mail, but email is left unread.
The article talks compares this to auto makers authorizing repair only at specific places. Such a practice will be shot down immediately. But in case of the e-world, the big cartels have hyped this up as a specific domain where rules are different. And the law makers are also beginning to see this as such. Unless we break this mindset of the e-world as something different and obscure such practices will go unnoticed. This will keep happening until the common man, the silent majority does not start using infotech in daily life. For example if such a practice came in a budget automobile, there would be an outcry, because many many people use it, but in case of DVD, a small percentage of the users will ever go to Europe to Buy DVDs. We need to go a long way.. and going by the incresing restrictions on internet.. this will take a long time. No matter how hard the detracters try, this revolution will come and nobody can do anything about it:)
They will start making examples
Suppose, 20Mph is limit... they stop you.. then beat you to pulp in front of other drivers... how many will take chances next time? Of course we have rights(hopefully) and this cant happen, but as far as civil laws go... you have no rights.. money talks and it talks loud
RIAA MPAA have filed a suit against the ear. Apparantly people were storing data in neural networks without paying royalty using a highly sophisticated device ear. This device actualy can work around any copy protection mechanism to feed data into a neural network. Moreover this data can be broadcoast to other nodes using another devilish creation called the mouth and while doing so it rips of copy protection from stolen data.
The Courts have shown favourable response to the petition.. after all they dont want our poor homeless singers and bands to suffer. Probably earplugs will become mandatory at concerts.. insider sources said.
"Due to this stealing, our artists are so poor. Look at the music videos, they dont even have clothes to wear and have to appear in undergarments" said a RI** executive.
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hmm.. I guess OMAP takes care of that.. dosent it? Its the OPEN media platform..... you can use it.
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/press/backgrounder/oma p.shtml
the article is a bit misleading. Actually it is MPEG-4 which is being pushed. MPEG-4 is pretty save standard. Lots of chip vendors are incorporating it and this will kind of save it from patent troubles. As of now there is no liscensing/patent problem for this. If MPEG-4 is adopted as an industry standard it will be a big win for consumers..... Now only if they adopted ogg too!
This way we could have OGG for audio and MPEG4 for video. Current MEDIA processors are very advanced and low cost. So computation power wont be a bottleneck if a standard is evolved which uses both OGG and MPEG-4. M$ may be king in OS domain, but in the Chip and Digital entertainment industry its the likes of TI/Intel/ST etc which rule the roost... and they are going to push for all its worth.
In fact it is a very good thing. Normally hardware guys are not so touchy about software rights(most of the times) they are concerned with mostly selling hardware and if you buy hardware you get most software goodies for free.
We talk a lot about supporting indie bands and buying their music from their websites and all. But where is all this. All the media is in the big control
AOL,Murdoch, etc., so they wont give people information. How about the slashdot editors putting up a page that gets regularly updated.. with information about indie and small bands.. what genre are they, where can people buy their music and stuff.
I feel that rather than talking about extreme steps like boycott etc., slashdot should put up a page so that atleast slashdotters hit on it.... son it will show up on googles results too! More information the people will make things better.
We can have an ask slashdot story about indie and small bands and then the most informative posts can be used to compose the page initially.
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Here in india, owning a gun is a nightmare, there are tonnes of documents and it takes ages. If somebody wants to own a gun it is actually a nightmare to do it legally, and guess what terrorists roam with AK-47s.
In my opinion, your adminstration has gone mad.It means if i suspect EMI to be creating and album to harm me I can just take them to court without any proof.
This is getting ridiclous. The record labels are not police, and even the police cant take you to court without a warrant and reasonable evidence. The univs should counter sue, after all i bet there will be enough lawyers!
One step forward two steps back. Its all right when these guys make such laws, but there are so many loopholes in these laws which BSA ppl can interpret easily as they want. In the end all this DMCRA wont get you anywhere. Even if a few good men try to get it right your Hon. Senater Hollings will ensure that there are enough loopholes big enough to get a dinosaur through.
Giving rights to their customers is a concern to the corporations now. I wonder what happened to the great so called ideology "customer is the king" that these companies pretend to practice.
hey Taco. dont you have sense. In this oil scarce world you are going on V6s!!. guys dont listen to these nerds, stay on V4 and save the earth.
Question: But are their enough /. users on Ipv6 to /. the network.
Answer: Dosentmatter buddy, even though I dont have v6, I tried clicking on it twice just to see what happens.
Tomorow is a weekend. So the network will be in a good mood.
Cant call ourselves slaves. though only proprietry solutions are there, there is enough competition in the market. Mentor, Synopsys, Cadence... and so on. Open source simulators are not really near yet.
My guess is that verilog simulators will come out pretty soon, however VHDL will remain in infancy coz more of the hardware ppl are moving on to verilog.
There is 1.1 fps improvement for Jedi knight,
and this comes at 200$+ Isnt it better to invest this money in a graphics card...
Other benchmarks also dont show marked improvement. I guess this is due to delays introduced by the much larger die size...
AMD's botched it for sure this time. I hope they bring down the pricing to a more sensible level.
Now if someody asks me what am I doing on windows... I can say that Dennis also does that.
Its always good to have peripherals separate from chip. Another danger is that intel can have a set of proprietry registers and pipelines which are not disclosed however the WLAN card from intel will be able to use it to give better performance!. Not really good i think. Its okay to have own WLAN cards but the way intel is going about is not really ethical
We has a 128kbps VSAT terminal at college supplied by aging ernet satellite. Data rates used to come down to 2kbps yes kilo BITS. Such satellites are normally space junk, however this may allow us to sqeeze the last bit of life from the satellite, and this will result in cost of cummunications to come down pretty much. I wonder why didnt they think of it before!
Now that we have our rights equated with money, it will all come down to who has more money, and no prizes for guessing who.
First I cant vouch for.. but definately it will be your last after you get modded to hell and back, and before you go for the ride.. dont forget to turn of that TAP, you dont want ATARI 2600 images travelling around your house.. do you ;-) ?
Imagine, just turn on the shower and you have a movie playing.
Feds at your door, just drink the water.. poof
The plus side is that now you can have internet access from your tap and finally we can stop bitching about cable companies....
Negatives: ;-)
Overclocking your AMD can vaporise your data... as if burnt motherboards werent enough
Fixed line rates are 40paise(0.8 cents) per minute, and inspite of such low rates you have telcos making large profits in fixed line area. Now in GSM the rates are higher (4-5 cents/min). The reason is liscensing fee is very high, on the other hand for WLL (CDMA) the liscencing fee is same as fixed line. So apart from infrastucture costs no issue here. Big volumes = Profit
I think your friend does not like his uncle very much, a good way to take revenge.. slashdot the startup to the dot com heaven.... my god.. people can be paranoid ;-)
On further research I found out that since right now the server is pounded by slashdot, the sounds are slowly approaching cries of help....
Better keep listning, soon you will hear the dying gasp tooThe article talks compares this to auto makers authorizing repair only at specific places. Such a practice will be shot down immediately. But in case of the e-world, the big cartels have hyped this up as a specific domain where rules are different. And the law makers are also beginning to see this as such. Unless we break this mindset of the e-world as something different and obscure such practices will go unnoticed. This will keep happening until the common man, the silent majority does not start using infotech in daily life. For example if such a practice came in a budget automobile, there would be an outcry, because many many people use it, but in case of DVD, a small percentage of the users will ever go to Europe to Buy DVDs. We need to go a long way.. and going by the incresing restrictions on internet.. this will take a long time. No matter how hard the detracters try, this revolution will come and nobody can do anything about it :)
They will start making examples
Suppose, 20Mph is limit... they stop you.. then beat you to pulp in front of other drivers... how many will take chances next time? Of course we have rights(hopefully) and this cant happen, but as far as civil laws go... you have no rights.. money talks and it talks loud
The Courts have shown favourable response to the petition.. after all they dont want our poor homeless singers and bands to suffer. Probably earplugs will become mandatory at concerts.. insider sources said.
"Due to this stealing, our artists are so poor. Look at the music videos, they dont even have clothes to wear and have to appear in undergarments" said a RI** executive.+1 Insightful
Moderators are again on crack.
Guys if you want ot have crack atleast have the high quality one
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Slashdot : Where the safest place is *not* on the front page
hmm.. I guess OMAP takes care of that.. dosent it? Its the OPEN media platform..... you can use it.a p.shtml
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/press/backgrounder/om
This way we could have OGG for audio and MPEG4 for video. Current MEDIA processors are very advanced and low cost. So computation power wont be a bottleneck if a standard is evolved which uses both OGG and MPEG-4. M$ may be king in OS domain, but in the Chip and Digital entertainment industry its the likes of TI/Intel/ST etc which rule the roost... and they are going to push for all its worth.
In fact it is a very good thing. Normally hardware guys are not so touchy about software rights(most of the times) they are concerned with mostly selling hardware and if you buy hardware you get most software goodies for free.We talk a lot about supporting indie bands and buying their music from their websites and all. But where is all this. All the media is in the big control
AOL,Murdoch, etc., so they wont give people information. How about the slashdot editors putting up a page that gets regularly updated.. with information about indie and small bands.. what genre are they, where can people buy their music and stuff.
I feel that rather than talking about extreme steps like boycott etc., slashdot should put up a page so that atleast slashdotters hit on it.... son it will show up on googles results too! More information the people will make things better. We can have an ask slashdot story about indie and small bands and then the most informative posts can be used to compose the page initially.