In other words, microsoft is going to stay rich by turning "open.net" into "mostly-open, provided you can't beat us at,.net".
Actually that's Sun's plan for Java..Except for the fact that Sun isn't that rich to begin with..
CDs with their paltry 16 bit sampling format are themselves lossy when compared to Real Life. So just saying not to go Lossy->Lossy is useless. Yes, there will be artifact build up, but if the person reencoding their music can't hear it, who the fuck cares?
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How is that a big deviation from the GPL? The GPL has a very similar clause, except that it is more ambiguous.
The argument is that you still legally own the copyright even after you declare it in the public domain. Previously works would be in the public domain unless copyright were specifically claimed, but since the law has changed such that all works are now considered automatically copywritten, its unclear (from a legal standpoint) if you can actually then go and disclaim your copyright over a work you have created. The natural expiration still applies (for now..though these days its so long out that it might as well be forever), but in that time period you MAY in fact be the copyright holder even if you attempted to force the work into the public domain.
In short, the laws don't specifically say you can give up your copyright on a work and since the right to put something into the public domain before its natural expiration hasn't been challenged in court, its still a grey area.
If you take so many pictures that you use up 64mb in a few hours most of them are probably total boring shit that should be deleted anyway.
Unless you're taking pictures of hottie models or something. If you were you wouldn't be using this camera (or most any digital camera, I'd hope) to do it.
I wonder what OSX support is like, I assume it will mount it like any USB mass storage device.
You might want to check that to be sure before you buy it. I have no specific information but the article did mention it doesn't directly mount under Windows Explorer on Windows which leads me to believe it uses a slightly non-standard USB imaging driver, which may mean it needs specific OSX support.
It does mean millions of pixels. This camera can also take pictures in 1,280 by 960 resolution (the ~1.3 megapixels).
Its unclear if the 1280x960 resolution is just some fancy upscan of the lower res mode or what in the review...And yes, the writeup above (and the review) are short on information and long on confusing statements.
Sounds more like a big positive ad for P4s with NVidia Quadros rather than Linux, really. The machines just happen to run Linux because they're a UNIX shop moving over to PC hardware.
I especially liked the hypebole about Linux being so fast it causes RSI. Er?? I didn't know Linux had some magical CPU performance enhancement system that makes it run software so much faster than other operating systems on the same hardware...
Just because the Judge ruled that they do, in fact own all the 'virtual property' in the world (and why shouldn't they? its all just bits on the harddrive in their server) doesn't really say anything about the general applicability of EULAs. The time to start worrying is when some ridiculous clause of a EULA (Microsoft..Most P2P software) is broken and enforced, not when something that seems pretty much like common sense is enforced (regardless of whether it was mentioned in the EULA....)
Way too big, way too heavy, too much extra crap that's not needed for a portable storage device.
Would this thing have gotten a good review if it were running WinCE instead of Linux? And if so, would Slashdot have linked to the review? I'm guessing no.
I don't care much about the "big brother" aspects implied. If you aren't required to have a PDA, then there's nothing to see here, move along. But this just strikes me as completely stupid.
A much more friendly and less 'technical for the sake of being technical' solution is just to have a text messenger built in, possibly with a vibrate/alert feature on the PDA so one PDA holder can alert the other if he/she is being sought. That gives the person being sought the ability to filter based on whether or not they in fact want to be found. And even that is a bit of a stretch since most college students seem to have cellphones which could be used for the same purpose. So all-in-all this is a non-story except to highlight again that companies (and universities) are all too often persuaded to do things based on some perceived coolness factor rather than being based on practical applications.
Based on reading the article it seems more like a block or two would be shutdown (and on a weekend, in the business district to boot). Not really that big a deal. It happens in other cities like LA, NY, and Boston fairly regularly.
But you couldn't just steal the account -- if you did, the original owner would talk to Sony and get the account shut down. Not to mention if you did that, it would be illegal (selling EQ accounts may be against Sony's AUP, but its not illegal..Hacking into an Everquest account on the other hand most certainly is).
Its all Direct3D based right now, but seems to be fairly well abstracted...Someone would need to port it to OpenGL for it to work under Linux (or force people to run it under WineX maybe).
Actually Crystal Space has tons more features, but it loses out in the screenshot wars as all the demos and screenies of CS are HORRIBLE. But that's due to shitty artists, not lack of features.
Strange how many cranks the NASA Breakthrough Physics Program gives respectability to. NASA's least-funded irrelevant sideshow picks up every nut that comes along, investigates their claim, and nothing comes of it. Nut carries on with career saying 'Yep, NASA were interested, and then they covered it up! Big oil interests leaning on the gub'mint, see, don't care for the little guy, with one of these you could be rich!'
Strange how many cranks Linus gives respectability to. The non-funded Linux sideshow picks up every nut that comes along, investigates their patches and nothing comes of it. Nut carries on with career saying 'Yep, Linus was interested and then he didn't integrate my patch! Alan Cox is leaning on Linux, see, don't care for the litty guy!
Um, my point in the above is that NASA (and Linus) aren't wrong to be inclusive. Sometimes these 'crackpots' are really on to something. Often they are not, but when they are its usually more than worth having dealt with all the ones who weren't.
My guess is you're going to get modded down or not modded at all, here on Slashdot. But these points are very valid. Sometimes security through obsecurity IS the only possible solution (though clearly it can be worked around if someone wants to bad enough) because REAL security would just be too expensive. Real-time online games are the most common instance of this being true.
Now that Quake2 source code is released, any faith you might have had in a cheat-free game is gone because with the source code, hackers can very easily add cheats that are much harder to detect than the "aimbot" cheats that are popular even on hacked closed source games....
Spyware does virtually whatever it wants. That's the true evil. Even if a certain piece of Spyware is practically harmless, its the fact that it COULD be reading your inbox & sending to homebase withour your knowledge that makes it an outrage.
The special effects in The Matrix were pretty run of the mill. SW: TPM had much better visual effects (orders of magnitude more original and technically sophisticated). Sadly, since nobody likes George Lucas, ILM got screwed.
Is there any reason why we cannot write an article stating "Microsoft Closed source enables Terrorists to easially render 90% of the information market paralized"... (after all, there is far more 'hard' evidence in the form of email-worms etc than there is behind what has been written in this article).
You can write all the articles you want, but nobody's going to read them if you don't have the money needed to get the word out to the public.
The "free" versions are just cut down versions of the full software. A demo, if you will. It costs them very little to produce the "free" versions if they already have the full version available for that platform. Also, there's little reason for the people using the full version to create content to use Quicktime if people need to pay a lot of money to view the content, thus the free version is made available on all supported platforms.
Linux users are unlikely to pay for the full version, and though there's a lot of Linux users on Slashdot, desktop Linux users don't even register as a blip in the grand scheme of things and thus there's not much sense in doing a port of any of the software to Linux. They'd be very unlikely to recoup any of their development costs and the only thanks they'd get from the Linux crowd is a big "fuck you Apple" for not releasing the source code anyway.
I won't even get into the issues related to trying to support all versions of Linux because Linux users expect any software they get to run on old kernels they are running on their 486s...
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In other words, microsoft is going to stay rich by turning "open .net" into "mostly-open, provided you can't beat us at, .net".
Actually that's Sun's plan for Java..Except for the fact that Sun isn't that rich to begin with..
Also speaking as a tax payer, I say: Fuck you, assmunch.
CDs with their paltry 16 bit sampling format are themselves lossy when compared to Real Life. So just saying not to go Lossy->Lossy is useless. Yes, there will be artifact build up, but if the person reencoding their music can't hear it, who the fuck cares?
How is that a big deviation from the GPL? The GPL has a very similar clause, except that it is more ambiguous.
In short, the laws don't specifically say you can give up your copyright on a work and since the right to put something into the public domain before its natural expiration hasn't been challenged in court, its still a grey area.
Unless you're taking pictures of hottie models or something. If you were you wouldn't be using this camera (or most any digital camera, I'd hope) to do it.
You might want to check that to be sure before you buy it. I have no specific information but the article did mention it doesn't directly mount under Windows Explorer on Windows which leads me to believe it uses a slightly non-standard USB imaging driver, which may mean it needs specific OSX support.
Its unclear if the 1280x960 resolution is just some fancy upscan of the lower res mode or what in the review...And yes, the writeup above (and the review) are short on information and long on confusing statements.
I especially liked the hypebole about Linux being so fast it causes RSI. Er?? I didn't know Linux had some magical CPU performance enhancement system that makes it run software so much faster than other operating systems on the same hardware...
Just because the Judge ruled that they do, in fact own all the 'virtual property' in the world (and why shouldn't they? its all just bits on the harddrive in their server) doesn't really say anything about the general applicability of EULAs. The time to start worrying is when some ridiculous clause of a EULA (Microsoft..Most P2P software) is broken and enforced, not when something that seems pretty much like common sense is enforced (regardless of whether it was mentioned in the EULA....)
Would this thing have gotten a good review if it were running WinCE instead of Linux? And if so, would Slashdot have linked to the review? I'm guessing no.
A much more friendly and less 'technical for the sake of being technical' solution is just to have a text messenger built in, possibly with a vibrate/alert feature on the PDA so one PDA holder can alert the other if he/she is being sought. That gives the person being sought the ability to filter based on whether or not they in fact want to be found. And even that is a bit of a stretch since most college students seem to have cellphones which could be used for the same purpose. So all-in-all this is a non-story except to highlight again that companies (and universities) are all too often persuaded to do things based on some perceived coolness factor rather than being based on practical applications.
Based on reading the article it seems more like a block or two would be shutdown (and on a weekend, in the business district to boot). Not really that big a deal. It happens in other cities like LA, NY, and Boston fairly regularly.
Fool!
software != air. Its not like there's all this naturally growing software out there that Microsoft is trying to charge us to access... Jeez.
My question would be how often did he get his ass beat in school for having such a pansy-ass name?
Its all Direct3D based right now, but seems to be fairly well abstracted...Someone would need to port it to OpenGL for it to work under Linux (or force people to run it under WineX maybe).
Actually Crystal Space has tons more features, but it loses out in the screenshot wars as all the demos and screenies of CS are HORRIBLE. But that's due to shitty artists, not lack of features.
Strange how many cranks Linus gives respectability to. The non-funded Linux sideshow picks up every nut that comes along, investigates their patches and nothing comes of it. Nut carries on with career saying 'Yep, Linus was interested and then he didn't integrate my patch! Alan Cox is leaning on Linux, see, don't care for the litty guy!
Um, my point in the above is that NASA (and Linus) aren't wrong to be inclusive. Sometimes these 'crackpots' are really on to something. Often they are not, but when they are its usually more than worth having dealt with all the ones who weren't.
Now that Quake2 source code is released, any faith you might have had in a cheat-free game is gone because with the source code, hackers can very easily add cheats that are much harder to detect than the "aimbot" cheats that are popular even on hacked closed source games....
That was suggested in the article. Surely you read the article before commenting?
Spyware does virtually whatever it wants. That's the true evil. Even if a certain piece of Spyware is practically harmless, its the fact that it COULD be reading your inbox & sending to homebase withour your knowledge that makes it an outrage.
The special effects in The Matrix were pretty run of the mill. SW: TPM had much better visual effects (orders of magnitude more original and technically sophisticated). Sadly, since nobody likes George Lucas, ILM got screwed.
You can write all the articles you want, but nobody's going to read them if you don't have the money needed to get the word out to the public.
Linux users are unlikely to pay for the full version, and though there's a lot of Linux users on Slashdot, desktop Linux users don't even register as a blip in the grand scheme of things and thus there's not much sense in doing a port of any of the software to Linux. They'd be very unlikely to recoup any of their development costs and the only thanks they'd get from the Linux crowd is a big "fuck you Apple" for not releasing the source code anyway.
I won't even get into the issues related to trying to support all versions of Linux because Linux users expect any software they get to run on old kernels they are running on their 486s...