Hopefully this would not attract too much Slashdot-style IANAL legal advice
You are proposing a massive campaign to solicit Slashdot-style IANAL legal advice, I think that a large amount of Slashdot-style IANAL advice might be the expected outcome.
TPB are clearly in violation of the law, and will likely face all sorts of penalties for moving their operations out of the country. Whether or not the law needs to change might be another issue, but I don't think there's any debate here that what they're doing is illegal...
Is this one of those things where you think that the whole world lives under US law?
Actually, even in the US, what sort of penalties could you possibly face for "moving operations out of the country"?
I have seen a couple of examples of scripts that interpret numbers starting with zero as an octal number
That would only come up with hard-coded values, though; so it may lead to some funny programmer cock-ups, but won't be affected by changing dates. I'm pretty sure there isn't a language insane enough to treat user input that way (or at least no relatively popular language insane enough).
I wonder if that is because of the pickup and play nature of those games versus the new games which take 50 hours to complete and completely envelope the person...
Maybe the problem isn't with the games, maybe this outside just got more boring? Besides, aren't there Terrorists outside?
I'd like to know the criteria by which this is being judged a success.
Well, here it is two years later, and we are still talking about that 10 minute movie. So I guess it has succeeded at being an "open source movie" and, ipso facto, the best "open source movie" there is, for what that's worth.
Don't get me wrong, I think all of this is great, I just wish that with words like "groundbreaking" being thrown around so much, that they made it a movie first and a software freedom manifesto second. The whole thing mostly feels like a demo for Blender, more than anything else.
I get it - vinyl is making a huge come back. The sales are soaring, the serious audiophiles, DJs, enthusiasts, etc buy nothing else; the CD (and probably digital downloads) are in their last death-throes - finally, vinyl's warmth, nuance, and various other magicks have won the day!
And always with the same identical comments, making the same identical points (yes, this is one of them).
Just give it up already, nobody cares about vinyl's magical properties that can only be experienced on $25,000 hardware and a mastering process that has little to do with any of today's recording companies'.
Yes, a 128kbps MP3 will sound like shit, but no, the obvious solution for most people isn't to go to the least convenient format since the wax cylinder (it is for some, but then there is also apparently a market for $1,000 wooden volume knobs).
Hey, I like some of his policies. Though I do think that many of his economic policies, in particular, are completely unworkable; and his "social" policies mostly regressive.
I was referring to the fact that, policies aside, the man is batshit insane. Did you watch his speech? Even if he came up with the best policies on earth, the "leader of the free world" just shouldn't be a crazy person.
Outside of Ron Paul I have zero enthusiasm for anybody on the Republican side and even at that I doubt I could bring myself to vote for him.
That was the best thing about yesterday - Ron Paul let some of his Batshit Crazy slip out. I can't see anyone claiming to support him, with a straight face, now (not that that was easy to picture before).
People post responses to my posts that come out of some left field twilight zone - as they have nothing to do with my post.
How do you figure?
You posted the usual "Isn't it hilarious how people here respond differently to different companies?", I posted my usual suspicion that it's because Microsoft and Sony spend more of their time being dicks.
This includes Sansa, Archos, iRiver, Cowon and others.
All Cowon players support Ogg out of the box (as well as just about every single other audio and video format). They actually have a really nice line-up all around; some of the best sound quality you will find in portables, too.
Now if only they hadn't crippled the A3 with that "you've-got-to-be-joking" battery life...
somebody please give me an example of why I should ever want to control my dishwasher from my phone or my web browser.
I would love to be able to do that! Of course I'm assuming I will also be able to collect my dirty dishes off the living room floor, drag them to the kitchen, and load the said dishwasher, all from my browser.
Taking drugst to improve your performance is cheating.
Oh, get off it. Cheating at what, life? Like the article said, the real world isn't an organized competition - if you are willing to risk your health to improve your performance at something, that's entirely your business. As long as it's legal, of course.
These people are scum. They lower standards. They try to create the impression of talent, were there is none.
Poppycock. First of all, they raise stanards, if anything; it's just that some people are whining that they raise them "unfairly" (a completely meaningless term in this context). Secondly, no amount of Ritalin is going to produce talent. It's not like you can pop a pill and suddenly become an engineer without training, it just lets you sit at your computer longer.
None of this is fundamentally different from the massive amounts of caffeine that people chung every day, it's just a more extreme version of the same idea. So, are people who use caffeine to stay up later also scum, then?
when only a complete moron would run these things as a single JBOD volume without any fault tolerance
RAID10 is a perfectly legitimate configuration for a great many applications; redundancy isn't the only reason people get RAID devices, you know.
Anyway, I think it's a fairly limited audience that wants more than 3TB in a cheap-ass desk-side thingy. Seriously, you'd want an 8x1TB RAID5 array on a single, "consumer grade" power supply? Might as well run it as JBOD (actually, that would probably be safer). By the time you get 8 drives in there, you probably want something along the lines of this, with crazy things like a real RAID controller, redundant power , etc. (and doesn't put your 8 drive array behind a dinky GigE interface). It's five times more expensive (sans drives), but you get what you pay for (all things considered, it's still cheap and far from "Enterprise").
Since those who want the maximum amount of space for the absolute lowest price can build their own so easily, who are they going to sell these to?
So, my guess is that they just can't make these things as expandable as you suggest and still be able to sell them for ~$500 to the majority of their customers.
+ is javascripts and pythons string addition operator, presumably because they didn't want to confuse by overloading the standard record deference operator (.), like perl does
I mostly found this amusing because of the comment about language bashing. Let's see... wasn't there a somewhat popular language that had used '->' as a dereference operator for a couple of decades already, when JavaScript and Python were created?
Anyway, "type error" on string concatenation in Perl - nice one.
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Hopefully this would not attract too much Slashdot-style IANAL legal advice
You are proposing a massive campaign to solicit Slashdot-style IANAL legal advice, I think that a large amount of Slashdot-style IANAL advice might be the expected outcome.
TPB are clearly in violation of the law, and will likely face all sorts of penalties for moving their operations out of the country. Whether or not the law needs to change might be another issue, but I don't think there's any debate here that what they're doing is illegal...
Is this one of those things where you think that the whole world lives under US law?
Actually, even in the US, what sort of penalties could you possibly face for "moving operations out of the country"?
Yeah, kind of like how Christ was born so close to the changeover from BC to AD.
I don't know if that's all that impressive - probably quite a few people were born within 4 years of that date.
I have seen a couple of examples of scripts that interpret numbers starting with zero as an octal number
That would only come up with hard-coded values, though; so it may lead to some funny programmer cock-ups, but won't be affected by changing dates. I'm pretty sure there isn't a language insane enough to treat user input that way (or at least no relatively popular language insane enough).
I wonder if that is because of the pickup and play nature of those games versus the new games which take 50 hours to complete and completely envelope the person...
Maybe the problem isn't with the games, maybe this outside just got more boring? Besides, aren't there Terrorists outside?
I'd like to know the criteria by which this is being judged a success.
Well, here it is two years later, and we are still talking about that 10 minute movie. So I guess it has succeeded at being an "open source movie" and, ipso facto, the best "open source movie" there is, for what that's worth.
Don't get me wrong, I think all of this is great, I just wish that with words like "groundbreaking" being thrown around so much, that they made it a movie first and a software freedom manifesto second. The whole thing mostly feels like a demo for Blender, more than anything else.
a 128kbps mp3 played on an iPod is probably going to sound better than a well-worn vinyl record of the same recording
Blasphemy! Everybody knows that it's the clicks, pops, hissing, and screeching that give it the warmth.
I get it - vinyl is making a huge come back. The sales are soaring, the serious audiophiles, DJs, enthusiasts, etc buy nothing else; the CD (and probably digital downloads) are in their last death-throes - finally, vinyl's warmth, nuance, and various other magicks have won the day!
My question is, how many freaking times do we need to hear about it?
And always with the same identical comments, making the same identical points (yes, this is one of them).
Just give it up already, nobody cares about vinyl's magical properties that can only be experienced on $25,000 hardware and a mastering process that has little to do with any of today's recording companies'.
Yes, a 128kbps MP3 will sound like shit, but no, the obvious solution for most people isn't to go to the least convenient format since the wax cylinder (it is for some, but then there is also apparently a market for $1,000 wooden volume knobs).
Hey, I like some of his policies. Though I do think that many of his economic policies, in particular, are completely unworkable; and his "social" policies mostly regressive.
I was referring to the fact that, policies aside, the man is batshit insane. Did you watch his speech? Even if he came up with the best policies on earth, the "leader of the free world" just shouldn't be a crazy person.
Outside of Ron Paul I have zero enthusiasm for anybody on the Republican side and even at that I doubt I could bring myself to vote for him.
That was the best thing about yesterday - Ron Paul let some of his Batshit Crazy slip out. I can't see anyone claiming to support him, with a straight face, now (not that that was easy to picture before).
People post responses to my posts that come out of some left field twilight zone - as they have nothing to do with my post.
How do you figure?
You posted the usual "Isn't it hilarious how people here respond differently to different companies?", I posted my usual suspicion that it's because Microsoft and Sony spend more of their time being dicks.
Seems fairly straightforward.
Yeah, it's weird. It's almost as if someone's past behavior influences how people respond to them. It's madness, I know.
what's that in Libraries of Congress per second?
About 1.1 LoCs/fortnight
(hey, turned out to be a very convenient unit).
The mathematics only explain why they are shiny; they are "so beautiful" because of a stupendous advertising campaign started in the 50s.
This includes Sansa, Archos, iRiver, Cowon and others.
All Cowon players support Ogg out of the box (as well as just about every single other audio and video format). They actually have a really nice line-up all around; some of the best sound quality you will find in portables, too.
Now if only they hadn't crippled the A3 with that "you've-got-to-be-joking" battery life...
Because they're expensive and suck a lot of power (therefore are heavy and don't last long between charges).
Yes, that is the perfect criticism of the U110, which weighs 1Kg and has an 8 hour battery life (definitely won't be cheap, though).
Yeah, the Soviet Union and Russia were notorious for manufacturing crap military equipment.
Wait a minute...
somebody please give me an example of why I should ever want to control my dishwasher from my phone or my web browser.
I would love to be able to do that! Of course I'm assuming I will also be able to collect my dirty dishes off the living room floor, drag them to the kitchen, and load the said dishwasher, all from my browser.
Otherwise, it seems kinda useless...
Taking drugst to improve your performance is cheating.
Oh, get off it. Cheating at what, life? Like the article said, the real world isn't an organized competition - if you are willing to risk your health to improve your performance at something, that's entirely your business. As long as it's legal, of course.
These people are scum. They lower standards. They try to create the impression of talent, were there is none.
Poppycock. First of all, they raise stanards, if anything; it's just that some people are whining that they raise them "unfairly" (a completely meaningless term in this context). Secondly, no amount of Ritalin is going to produce talent. It's not like you can pop a pill and suddenly become an engineer without training, it just lets you sit at your computer longer.
None of this is fundamentally different from the massive amounts of caffeine that people chung every day, it's just a more extreme version of the same idea. So, are people who use caffeine to stay up later also scum, then?
when only a complete moron would run these things as a single JBOD volume without any fault tolerance
RAID10 is a perfectly legitimate configuration for a great many applications; redundancy isn't the only reason people get RAID devices, you know.
Anyway, I think it's a fairly limited audience that wants more than 3TB in a cheap-ass desk-side thingy. Seriously, you'd want an 8x1TB RAID5 array on a single, "consumer grade" power supply? Might as well run it as JBOD (actually, that would probably be safer). By the time you get 8 drives in there, you probably want something along the lines of this, with crazy things like a real RAID controller, redundant power , etc. (and doesn't put your 8 drive array behind a dinky GigE interface). It's five times more expensive (sans drives), but you get what you pay for (all things considered, it's still cheap and far from "Enterprise").
Since those who want the maximum amount of space for the absolute lowest price can build their own so easily, who are they going to sell these to?
So, my guess is that they just can't make these things as expandable as you suggest and still be able to sell them for ~$500 to the majority of their customers.
Does this mean that I'll finally be able to allow servers to bind to port 80, without having to run the whole thing as root? Please?
Apache does pretty well with "downgrading" its running privileges, but many others, not so much.
Yes, there shouldn't be a single sentence about Firefox that doesn't gush about how much of an underdog it is. Good thing you jumped in there.
It's just a web browser, get a grip.
You know, it's cute to refer to "the big four" browsers, but you could've at least listed what you think those are - we are not mind readers.
Had it been "the big one and the one that just edged into relevance", then most people would know what you meant.
Read it again, it's 0.045%
+ is javascripts and pythons string addition operator, presumably because they didn't want to confuse by overloading the standard record deference operator (.), like perl does
I mostly found this amusing because of the comment about language bashing. Let's see... wasn't there a somewhat popular language that had used '->' as a dereference operator for a couple of decades already, when JavaScript and Python were created?
Anyway, "type error" on string concatenation in Perl - nice one.