True not everything is a conspiracy,However I dont know about you but it would not supprise me in the least if a cartel or something close to what the original poster said did happen and I would not call his opinion a conspiracy as I would Imagine that if such a state of affairs did eventually come about the negotiations preceeding the formation of such a cartel would not,(for the most part), be done in shady backrooms with the lights off but in an open and blatent manner as the two biggest players who have the most to lose from jabber are aol/microsoft and I dought they would care if the majority of there users knew about such a cartel and even if they did would they really be likely to do any thing at all about it.
"Serious gamers are always going to be looking for a platform that can satisfy their needs. Consoles work as 99% of the people who buy them want pure gaming satisfaction. Thus, hardcore gamers are generally console owners. "
I would dissagree with this point.The most 'hardcore' Gamers I know are pc gamers who spend from 100 - 300 euro on just graphic's cards so they can play the latest and greatest fps or whatever.
While not everybody who own's a pc is serious gamer thoese who are generally spend quite a considerable amount on there setup and quite often buy a second pc or upgrade there old pc to play multi player games.
I do not like the console gaming experience all that much , I think fps's on consoles especially are shit,(golden eye being an exception), and generally if I am playing anything on a console It would either be a fighting game like teken or a rpg of some sort.Consoles are cheap and easy to use,(relative to a gaming pc),the majority of people who own a conole however are not 'Hardcore Gamers' but rather casual gamers who want short bouts of entertainment without any setup hassel.
Pc gamers are willing to put alot more effert into there gaming experience,(Downloading drivers fiddeling with patches),many pc gamers own multiple pc's and many more drag there systems long distances to friends houses for lan party's. In my opinion pc gamers are more hardcore.
As to linux and gaming well Personally I am happy with q3 urban terror and hmm3 and I am looking foreward to the new doom game , ALso I enjoy the huge variety of open source free games on offer as well as all the vintage games + all of the emulators that are availbke Iam happy now and I know things will only get better for linux and gaming.
This whole what you can and can not do with a movie or a piece of music you buy situation has gone to far already and I know that we are not half way down the proverbial road yet.
This whole conflict over copying cds and the like comes from the fact that Copyright and freedom of speech can no longer exist side by side within the internet in it's current form. Some thing has got to give in this struggle either law or technology.
Law's will be passed and there effectiveness will be judged by there inforcability , p2p networks will evolve and so will the music industry's tactic's to destroy them but at the end of the day whatever any one says or thinks some one is going to suffer and that person is you and me.
What the world will be like in 10 years time is any one's guess but one thing is for sure there will be plenty more stories like this .
is any one,(audiophiles aside), Going to care? Most people are happy lisening to 128kps mp3's,(which is ruffly half the sound quality of averege minidisks I think),and the main reason most people bought cd's and converted to them from tapes and vinyl was for convienience,(easy to get to the song you want etc),more than any thing else.
My main point is aside from superior audio quality,(which your average person won't really notice ),what does sacd have to offer and will it be enough to get joe six pack to buy a whole new system to play it?
Is there anyone here who even remotely know's his ass from his elbow about good jewellery and or is actually a jeweller?
Every one is throwing there ten cent's around talking about eithical diamond's from canada,emerald's, saphire's,white gold and what not but I have yet to see one well informed comment disscussing what makes a stone more or less valuable , the different kinds of diamonds,(red diamonds from russia , yellow diamonds etc )and the different jewellery brand's,(cartier for example),and there workmanship / prices.All I see is a bunch of geek's talking about something they have relatively no knoweledge about.
You are completly right. Democracy is all about balance , right now the democracies of the world are pivited away from public interests and geared more towards corporate interests.
Having Money get's things done protesting and other forms of non money based complaints to public representatives do not not seem to do all that much this is the big problem with democracy today.
Fascism does get thing's done and democracy does promote mediocracy , but in terms of running a country I would rather live under a democracy any day.
Doesnt this already happen in Greece with banner adds during football matches telivised there ?This whole adds within a program thing really does raise the question of how crap does tv have to get before we stop watching it,I mean whats next a tv channel that is nothing but a series of shiny pictures and sounds which are actually just add's, oh wait thats mtv.
What we need is decent broadband at an affordable price,until that happens the record industry will be able to hang on to its crappy business model cause no dial up 56k userbase p2p network will be able to evolve to the same standard of audiogalaxy for example.
I dought what the riaa are trying to do now will be effective at stopping people sharing music or in incouraging people to buy there artists music. It has been said before but I will say it again the main aim of this 'war on music sharing' is one of control,the music industry wishes to control the manner in which new music is presented to us and thus where bands have to go if they wish to make it big, the sharing of music over the interenet undermines this position.
The only way I could see the music industry having any further success in this war would be for them to become more intergrated into isps and at an isp level blacklist people who trade music , aol/time warner would be one group in a perfect position to do this.If all the major labels started buying into isps and trowing people of for trading music and then placing these people on a black list which would ban them collectively from all riaa assossiated isps as well as harrassing all non riaa isps for allowing pirates on there service , mabey then they might see a decrease in music sharing, but then again would any of this really benifit them in the long run or would it just really piss off lots of people and cost them alot of money and customers ?
I hate listening to music on tapes because it takes time to get to the tracks I want. I like cds because they allow me to skip songs quickly and get where I want to go on the cd.
It could be said that the reason why most people like dvds over video tapes is the same reason why most people prefer cds to tapes.I can see why a person would want to skip alot of tracks on a cd but why would a person constantly want to do the same thing with a movie ?Ok I can understand fast forwarding adds and such , but apart from that don't most people just watch a movie from start to finish 99% of the time?
Clearly dvd's are alot more convienient than video tapes and this coupled with a reasonable price is why people buy them.
The music Industrys problem is that all of the new formats they plan to offer the public allow the public to do less than cds allow the public to do now and that the public in general are perfectly happy to listen to 128kps mp3s and consider the quality of the afore mentioned mp3s to be acceptable and hence do not really care all that much for the super dooper quality that the music industrys ultra copy protected new formats offer.Basicly dvds offer me usefull features that video tapes do not have at a reasonable price,All the proposed copyprotected music formats offer me is a pian in the ass.
Sorry about that you are correct.However the bsd licence does in my opinion have its weak points as well as its strong ones, that is all I wished to say .
"FUD. Code cannot be yanked from the code-base. You can't "un-license" code like that. I can take the code and add to it and sell it without revealing my source, but it will still exist in the *BSD code bases for all to see/use/whatever."
Well you can fork code that's put out under the bsd licence and change that code's licence to a very unfriendly licence which may have terms which would not allow the comunity to use any changes or signifigant developments which were made within the forked code which was placed under the new licence.You can not un-licence the code but the licence permits forking and the making off modifications to licence terms.
I looked at what file types were supported and then I looked at the extension at the end of the file that I need open office to acces,(I do not handel office 95 and therefore do not know that much about it), and I did not see the file extension and persumed that open office did not support it and therefore I did not bother to download it and try it out.
Does any one know of a way to convert office 95 files into something that could be used by either star office or open office.
My company has a large mailing list of customers stored in office 95,The only way I can convince my company to switch to linux is if we can use some sort of office suit which can access these files.
does any one know of anything which would fit my requirments ? I looked at open office before and I do not think it does.
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"Burying the ad-aware clause deep in a clickthrough agreement. This may meet the legal requirement, but certainly not the ethical one."
I agree with you, However over all The guy does Have a point in my opinion.When You installed the software which had spyware bundelded within it you,(by the act of installing this software which may not have given you a choice about installing the spyware), consented to installing that software and its components,you may not like the spyware and you may use a program like adware to remove it but it was you who installed the software which had the spyware bundeled within it , no one forced you to use the software with which the spyware came.
The guy has made a valid point and people should take note,if adware can remove programs why cant spyware?And what is the difference bettween this say and the copy protection on games ? Why can I remove spyware and not crack software ?I am not advocating piracy and I am not a defender of spyware, all I am saying is that this issue is complicated and Deserves some serious thought,the guy has made a point.I can forsee quite a number of/.headlines being devoted to this sort of thing in coming times.
I was in the market intialy for a tv capture card and a seperate 3d card for my gaming needs.The os's I run are mandrake,freebsd and win2k.
When I first saw the ati all in wonder pro,(before the first aiw review was posted on slashdot ),I had little prior experience with ati and thought that for the money this could well be the card for me.
The features which I found attractive were that:
*It seemed to be a decent enough gaming card.
*It had the ability to capture tv and video,(at what one would presume would be decent quality for the price ),
*It had a cool remote
*The promise of open drivers appealed to me due to the current selection of os's I am running.
Now before purchasing I decided to do a little research to see if the card would live up to my expectations,The answer was that the card did not and Now I will explain why not.
I looked at many,many reviews of this card and All of the reviews I looked at were done under windows , the reason for this was , to put it bluntly,that the linux drivers for the card are crap.They do not work correctly and are by all reports extremely inconsistant,(some things work some things dont,cause crashes,not good preformance etc),However from what I could discern the foundations were there I could still use some of the cards features under linux and as I am obliged to run win2k I could still use all of the cards features under windows.
However under further investigation It turned out that the windows drivers and the windows software by all reports was also shit.It was at that point that I decided to not buy ati and take my cash elsewhere.
I am still in the market for a capture card and a decent 3d card for gaming which wont break the bank, as it is I am quite busy so this is not the biggest problem for me right now so I am willing to wait , but when it comes time for me to buy in a months time I can not see ati's aiw drivers for windows or linux being much better and hence I will have to shop elsewhere.
" not for some notion that authors have some property right, or some right to make a profit but from the expectation that the PUBLIC DOMAIN will be enriched".
In europe the situation is different, there is no fair use clause.The link below is an anlysis of copyright vrs freespeech in europe , it makes a good if not scary read.
http://www.ivir.nl/publications/hugenholtz/PBH-E ng elberg.doc
i.e , you pay alot for unlimited bandwith,but if you use under a certain amount you pay less next month. Sort of like car insurance where if you do not crash the car/make any claims your premiums go down.This would be a better way if it was workable for isp's to control prices than just plain caping bandwith.
Also I would like to point out that alot of isp's advertisement's are misleading and give the impression that they are offering unlimited bandwith when actualy they are not, I say this as there seem's to be alot of angry comment's here giving out about people who are heavy bandwith users and these people do not seem to take into account that alot of the time isp's can be misleading in the way they advertise there service, at the end of the day if you sell your service as unlimited it should be unlimited, if it is not , then do not advertise or mislead people into thinking that it is, personaly I think people should get what they payed for and not have there account's frozen because they did not read the fine print.
In my opinion they are not out to stop people trading warez or to catch the groups that crack the software what they want to do is make a quick buck of people who can afford to pay , i.e business's who have pirated software installed,which was either installed with the boss's knoweledge or by one of the staff, they do not care either way they win and some one has to pay the fine they levy.
This sort of thing is happening all around the world.In Dublin city I Have seen people in shiny bright red satin coats handing out flier's in the city center promising a reward if you phone a number and turn in your company for pirating software.
The difference bettween denounce's click and report method and the phone and report method is that with the phone and report method you get paid if the boss get's busted.
This sort of employee informer culture idea has some interesting implication's , for both boss and staff.
If the staff install the warez without the knoweledge of the boss is the boss liable? Does the boss really know what the staff are downloading or are using the office cd copier to copy,in short how clued in are bosses about warez these days ?
This whole attitude of informing on your company primarily targets people who are not on the best term's with there company, these people In my mind could be very likely candidates,(if they were given notice that they were to be laid off), to go into the office and download/install a fair old bit of warez,(perhaps using some one elses password), and report there company, especially if they were earning a bit of money in the process
The main thing's I can see this realy doing is making bosses alot more paranoid about what there staff are doing and generating alot more legal desputes over liability,(i.e who installed what and why ).
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True not everything is a conspiracy ,However I dont know about you but it would not supprise me in the least if a cartel or something close to what the original poster said did happen and I would not call his opinion a conspiracy as I would Imagine that if such a state of affairs did eventually come about the negotiations preceeding the formation of such a cartel would not ,(for the most part), be done in shady backrooms with the lights off but in an open and blatent manner as the two biggest players who have the most to lose from jabber are aol/microsoft and I dought they would care if the majority of there users knew about such a cartel and even if they did would they really be likely to do any thing at all about it.
"Serious gamers are always going to be looking for a platform that can satisfy their needs. Consoles work as 99% of the people who buy them want pure gaming satisfaction. Thus, hardcore gamers are generally console owners. "
,(golden eye being an exception), and generally if I am playing anything on a console It would either be a fighting game like teken or a rpg of some sort.Consoles are cheap and easy to use ,(relative to a gaming pc),the majority of people who own a conole however are not 'Hardcore Gamers'
I would dissagree with this point.The most 'hardcore' Gamers I know are pc gamers who spend from 100 - 300 euro on just graphic's cards so they can play the latest and greatest fps or whatever.
While not everybody who own's a pc is serious gamer thoese who are generally spend quite a considerable amount on there setup and quite often buy a second pc or upgrade there old pc to play multi player games.
I do not like the console gaming experience all that much , I think fps's on consoles especially are shit
but rather casual gamers who want short bouts of entertainment without any setup hassel.
Pc gamers are willing to put alot more effert into there gaming experience,(Downloading drivers fiddeling with patches),many pc gamers own multiple pc's and many more drag there systems long distances to friends houses for lan party's. In my opinion pc gamers are more hardcore.
As to linux and gaming well Personally I am happy with q3 urban terror and hmm3 and I am looking foreward to the new doom game , ALso I enjoy the huge variety of open source free games on offer as well as all the vintage games + all of the emulators that are availbke Iam happy now and I know things will only get better for linux and gaming.
This whole what you can and can not do with a movie or a piece of music you buy situation has gone to far already and I know that we are not half way down the proverbial road yet.
This whole conflict over copying cds and the like comes from the fact that Copyright and freedom of speech can no longer exist side by side within the internet in it's current form. Some thing has got to give in this struggle either law or technology.
Law's will be passed and there effectiveness will be judged by there inforcability , p2p networks will evolve and so will the music industry's tactic's to destroy them but at the end of the day whatever any one says or thinks some one is going to suffer and that person is you and me.
What the world will be like in 10 years time is any one's guess but one thing is for sure there will be plenty more stories like this .
is any one ,(audiophiles aside), Going to care? Most people are happy lisening to 128kps mp3's ,(which is ruffly half the sound quality of averege minidisks I think),and the main reason most people bought cd's and converted to them from tapes and vinyl was for convienience ,(easy to get to the song you want etc),more than any thing else.
,(which your average person won't really notice ),what does sacd have to offer and will it be enough to get joe six pack to buy a whole new system to play it?
My main point is aside from superior audio quality
Thanks for the info your comment was both informed and original and your sig link was noted.
Urban terror mod for quake 3 rocks :) in my opinion it is way better than sof2 multi player.... just wanted to say that.
Is there anyone here who even remotely know's his ass from his elbow about good jewellery and or is actually a jeweller?
,emerald's, saphire's,white gold and what not but I have yet to see one well informed comment disscussing what makes a stone more or less valuable , the different kinds of diamonds,(red diamonds from russia , yellow diamonds etc )and the different jewellery brand's ,(cartier for example) ,and there workmanship / prices .All I see is a bunch of geek's talking about something they have relatively no knoweledge about .
Every one is throwing there ten cent's around talking about eithical diamond's from canada
You are completly right. Democracy is all about balance , right now the democracies of the world are pivited away from public interests and geared more towards corporate interests.
Having Money get's things done protesting and other forms of non money based complaints to public representatives do not not seem to do all that much
this is the big problem with democracy today.
Fascism does get thing's done and democracy does promote mediocracy , but in terms of running a country I would rather live under a democracy any day.
Doesnt this already happen in Greece with banner adds during football matches telivised there ?This whole adds within a program thing really does raise the question of how crap does tv have to get before we stop watching it,I mean whats next a tv channel that is nothing but a series of shiny pictures and sounds which are actually just add's, oh wait thats mtv.
All's Fair in love and war, isnt it ?
What we need is decent broadband at an affordable price ,until that happens the record industry will be able to hang on to its crappy business model cause no dial up 56k userbase p2p network will be able to evolve to the same standard of audiogalaxy for example.
,the music industry wishes to control the manner in which new music is presented to us and thus where bands have to go if they wish to make it big, the sharing of music over the interenet undermines this position .
I dought what the riaa are trying to do now will be effective at stopping people sharing music or in incouraging people to buy there artists music. It has been said before but I will say it again
the main aim of this 'war on music sharing' is one of control
The only way I could see the music industry having any further success in this war would be for them to become more intergrated into isps and at an isp level blacklist people who trade music , aol/time warner would be one group in a perfect position to do this.If all the major labels started buying into isps and trowing people of for trading music and then placing these people on a black list which would ban them collectively from all riaa assossiated isps as well as harrassing all non riaa isps for allowing pirates on there service , mabey then they might see a decrease in music sharing, but then again would any of this really benifit them in the long run or would it just really piss off lots of people and cost them alot of money and customers
?
I hate listening to music on tapes because it takes time to get to the tracks I want. I like cds because they allow me to skip songs quickly and get where I want to go on the cd.
.I can see why a person would want to skip alot of tracks on a cd but why would a person constantly want to do the same thing with a movie ?Ok I can understand fast forwarding adds and such , but apart from that don't most people just watch a movie from start to finish 99% of the time?
It could be said that the reason why most people like dvds over video tapes is the same reason why most people prefer cds to tapes
Clearly dvd's are alot more convienient than video tapes and this coupled with a reasonable price is why people buy them.
The music Industrys problem is that all of the new formats they plan to offer the public allow the public to do less than cds allow the public to do now and that the public in general are perfectly happy to listen to 128kps mp3s and consider the quality of the afore mentioned mp3s to be acceptable and hence do not really care all that much for the super dooper quality that the music industrys ultra copy protected new formats offer.Basicly dvds offer me usefull features that video tapes do not have at a reasonable price,All the proposed copyprotected music formats offer me is a pian in the ass.
Sorry about that you are correct.However the bsd licence does in my opinion have its weak points as well as its strong ones, that is all I wished to say .
"FUD. Code cannot be yanked from the code-base. You can't "un-license" code like that. I can take the code and add to it and sell it without revealing my source, but it will still exist in the *BSD code bases for all to see/use/whatever."
Well you can fork code that's put out under the bsd licence and change that code's licence to a very unfriendly licence which may have terms which would not allow the comunity to use any changes or signifigant developments which were made within the forked code which was placed under the new licence.You can not un-licence the code but the licence permits forking and the making off modifications to licence terms.
sig heil mein root!!
IT WILL HAPPEN ONE DAY!
I looked at what file types were supported and then I looked at the extension at the end of the file that I need open office to acces,(I do not handel office 95 and therefore do not know that much about it), and I did not see the file extension and persumed that open office did not support it and therefore I did not bother to download it and try it out.
Does any one know of a way to convert office 95 files into something that could be used by either star office or open office.
,The only way I can convince
My company has a large mailing list of customers stored in office 95
my company to switch to linux is if we can use some sort of office suit which can access these files.
does any one know of anything which would fit my requirments ? I looked at open office before and I do not think it does.
"Burying the ad-aware clause deep in a clickthrough agreement. This may meet the legal requirement, but certainly not the ethical one."
,you may not like the spyware and you may use a program like adware to remove it but it was you who installed the software which had the spyware bundeled within it , no one forced you to use the software with which the spyware came.
.I can forsee quite a number of /.headlines being devoted to this sort of thing in coming times.
I agree with you, However over all The guy does Have a point in my opinion.When You installed the software which had spyware bundelded within it you,(by the act of installing this software which may not have given you a choice about installing the spyware), consented to installing that software and its components
The guy has made a valid point and people should take note,if adware can remove programs why cant spyware?And what is the difference bettween this say and the copy protection on games ? Why can I remove spyware and not crack software ?I am not advocating piracy and I am not a defender of spyware, all I am saying is that this issue is complicated and Deserves some serious thought,the guy has made a point
I was in the market intialy for a tv capture card and a seperate 3d card for my gaming needs.The os's I run are mandrake,freebsd and win2k.
,(before the first aiw review was posted on slashdot ),I had little prior experience with ati and thought that for the money this could well be the card for me .
:
,The answer was that the card did not and Now I will explain why not.
,many reviews of this card and All of the reviews I looked at were done under windows , the reason for this was , to put it bluntly ,that the linux drivers for the card are crap.They do not work correctly and are by all reports extremely inconsistant ,(some things work some things dont ,cause crashes ,not good preformance etc),However from what I could discern the foundations were there I could still use some of the cards features under linux and as I am obliged to run win2k I could still use all of the cards features under windows.
.
When I first saw the ati all in wonder pro
The features which I found attractive were that
*It seemed to be a decent enough gaming card.
*It had the ability to capture tv and video,(at what one would presume would be decent quality for the price ),
*It had a cool remote
*The promise of open drivers appealed to me due to the current selection of os's I am running.
Now before purchasing I decided to do a little research to see if the card would live up to my expectations
I looked at many
However under further investigation It turned out that the windows drivers and the windows software by all reports was also shit.It was at that point that I decided to not buy ati and take my cash elsewhere
I am still in the market for a capture card and a decent 3d card for gaming which wont break the bank, as it is I am quite busy so this is not the biggest problem for me right now so I am willing to wait , but when it comes time for me to buy in a months time I can not see ati's aiw drivers for windows or linux being much better and hence I will have to shop elsewhere.
And bridges were built for troles to live under.Go read up on the billy goats gruff
" not for some notion that authors have some property right, or some right to make a profit but from the expectation that the PUBLIC DOMAIN will be enriched".
E ng elberg.doc
In europe the situation is different, there is no fair use clause.The link below is an anlysis of copyright vrs freespeech in europe , it makes a good if not scary read.
http://www.ivir.nl/publications/hugenholtz/PBH-
i.e , you pay alot for unlimited bandwith ,but if you use under a certain amount you pay less next month. Sort of like car insurance where if you do not crash the car/make any claims your premiums go down.This would be a better way if it was workable for isp's to control prices than just plain caping bandwith.
Also I would like to point out that alot of isp's advertisement's are misleading and give the impression that they are offering unlimited bandwith when actualy they are not, I say this as there seem's to be alot of angry comment's here giving out about people who are heavy bandwith users and these people do not seem to take into account that alot of the time isp's can be misleading in the way they advertise there service, at the end of the day if you sell your service as unlimited it should be unlimited, if it is not , then do not advertise or mislead people into thinking that it is, personaly I think people should get what they payed for and not have there account's frozen because they did not read the fine print.
In my opinion they are not out to stop people trading warez or to catch the groups that crack the software what they want to do is make a quick buck of people who can afford to pay , i.e business's who have pirated software ,which was either installed with the boss's knoweledge or by one of the staff, they do not care either way they win and some one has to pay the fine they levy.
installed
This sort of thing is happening all around the world.In Dublin city I Have seen people in shiny bright red satin coats handing out flier's in the city center promising a reward if you phone a number and turn in your company for pirating software.
,in short how clued in are bosses about warez these days ?
,(i.e who installed what and why ).
The difference bettween denounce's click and report method and the phone and report method is that with the phone and report method you get paid if the boss get's busted.
This sort of employee informer culture idea has some interesting implication's , for both boss and staff.
If the staff install the warez without the knoweledge of the boss is the boss liable?
Does the boss really know what the staff are downloading or are using the office cd copier to copy
This whole attitude of informing on your company
primarily targets people who are not on the best term's with there company, these people In my mind could be very likely candidates,(if they were given notice that they were to be laid off), to go into the office and download/install a fair old bit of warez,(perhaps using some one elses password), and report there company, especially if they were earning a bit of money in the process
The main thing's I can see this realy doing is making bosses alot more paranoid about what there staff are doing and generating alot more legal desputes over liability