I'm glad that someone such as boucher is taking this up seriously now
However, I still feel that the only way to get the DMCA changed is to get joe public behind the changes... highlight to the non-slashdot reading public why and how their "right" of fair use of something they have bought is being taken away... Do that and the DMCA will have to be changed (of course... its not as easy as that - but nothing is)
I cant wait until we get some cards and reviews of those cards - but what does a press release mean? Absolutely nothing Anyone can take any product and make a glowing press release over it to get everyone excited about it, but that doesnt say anything for the silicon, or its support chipsets, or its drivers when it finally reaches production
70hz means that I can only get 70 refreshes per second?
Whats the point of me buying the geforce 4 if I cant play quake at 150 fps - when the graphics card isnt the bottle neck the monitor decides to give me a crappy fps!
If cost is the only factor, then why did they bother supplying, for instance, a CPU?
the machine has to be able to do the job its intended for - and it cant be independant of windows (as it was said to be - to avoid the M$ "tax") if it has hardware specifically designed for windows
Hell, I'd prefer they didnt ship with a modem atall instead of a semi-modem
did walmart use a modem designed for windows on a machine that did not have windows pre-installed?
Sure, that particular modem can be supported under linux (and other operating systems?), but the clear point of these machines was that they did not have windows pre-loaded
so why use components that are designed for windows and often wont work with other operating systems?
My nephew is now 5. About a year or so ago, I gave him one of my old transformers - the last one I had left (after selling most of them, loosing them or violently throwing them against my bedroom wall)
It was the same one as is the cover picture for the transformers home page
He was absolutely thrilled and has spent many hours playing with it and thats all without the TV series to get his interest going
I do hope they bring transformers back but I think it would be better as a new cartoon rather than just reshowing the old ones... get some new high tech transformers too
IANAL, but I seem to remember someone telling me that your employer is not legally allowed to decrease your salary? that would make sense because otherwise its just another form of constructive dismissal
Is that wrong? does it only apply to permanent decreases? or a certain percentage?
or do / did the workers at this company have the opertunity to take redundancy or sign a waver over their rights not to have a pay decrease?
There have been several pieces of software which have been relased and then patched within weeks of the release... infact, wasnt XP one of those products?
As long as the delay is reasonable, and there are good reasons to delay (which I'm sure there are) then dont complain!
debian are doing us all a favour by not releasing something their note sure of quite yet
My job definitely includes giving direct input into the feature set for future releases of Visual C++, to make sure that the product has what the C++ community needs.
Note that by "the C++ community," I mean everyone who works for or with C++, on all compilers and platforms--that includes in-the-trenches systems and application developers
So... when are we going to see the linux kernel compiled on VC++?
So basically they will keep on sueing until google prevents returning certain pages which detail this information?
I dread to think when someone decides to sue google over the DMCA for allowing people to easily circumvent copy protection mechanisms by searching for a crack
Google isnt responsible for the results they return - are they?
As far as my contract with my cable provider goes, I am entitled to take as much of the champagne as I can get through my straw.
I am not limited by how much I can drink, only how fast I can drink it
Its like those "eat all you can for £5" places
the ISP's are hedging their bets that on average people will eat less than £5 worth of pizza and when it turns out that people eat more of the cheese and tomato pizza, their taking it off the menu
If the ISP's cant cope with me eating as much cheese and tomato pizza as I want to eat, then they should either charge me more or tell me, in my contract, that once I've eaten 5 slices I can only have one slice every hour
But neither is it fair to tell the subscribers what they can and cant use their connection for.
The only fair solution (that I can think of) is to introduce some bandwidth limiting/quotaing that disuades people from using this p2p applications in an unfair way
That way the customer still gets to choose exactly what they want to do with the bandwidth they have paid for
Customers shouldnt be subsidising other customers, whether it be for them to run p2p stuff or for them to have a webserver, or anything like that
Cableco's are trying to keep the pricing structure and t&c the same for everyone - but it just isnt going to work when there are people who use the connections in very different ways
Whats next? their going to ban masquerading or other forms of connection sharing 'cause its unfair on the people who only have one computer connected?
Why do ISPS always tell us what services we can and cant run on our computers? Its fair enough to limit our bandwidth - but why can they say "your not permitted to run a www server 'cause it requires too much bandwidth" there are MANY ways to use bandwidth and its just not possible to have an exhaustive list of things that use it "unfairly"...
I wouldnt have anything to complain about if they provided us with a daily quota (or something) whereby if you exceeded it then it reduced your bandwidth to a modem (but the quota added up up to a limit if it wasnt all used during a particular day) But telling us we cant run specific programs?... that just isnt on imo we pay for the bandwidth, we should be able to use it how we like if these hogging programs are causing problems then the telco should look at methods other than blocking specific programs to fix the problem
there was never anything as sophisticated as that used for grading papers...
I heard a rumour that grades were assigned by how close the teacher got to the target while holding the paper in her hand in a game of "pin the tail on the donkey"
As with all stats, the whole point of having more people is to get an accurate view of the WHOLE POPULATION - not just the population which is represented by a single user, or 15 users...
Those 15 users might all be completely computer literate in which case usability issues are minimal/not obvious
or they all might be computer illiterate in which case everything is a usability issue...
He needed to use a much larger sample due to the differences between the way that each person looks at a website... an issue for one is not an issue for someone else
All of his group might well have all had the same opinion of a particular potential issue, by saying that its not an issue atall - whereas a million other kids would be stumped completely...
If the kids that were chosen were completely at random from the WHOLE population then yes, the study means something... if its not completely random then it means a lot less
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The point is that it is being sent to microsoft without consent of the user
I believe programs that perform such acts are commonly known as spyware
while its not supprising that microsoft is incorporating spyware, it is certainly newsworthy that the company who provides the majority of the worlds OS's is using it to spy on what they do (or potentially using it to do so - I have no idea what microsofts policy on the information harvested is)
There can be many servers - just like there can be many ICQ servers (and indeed there are) these servers can be linked (indeed, they are) you can have stand alone servers (I believe there was an ICQ server downloadable?) anyone can download and start up their own ICQ network
gnutella is based on the principle that the client is the server for other clients
IRC is based on the principle that clients connect to a server which relays information the IRC servers network can be considered to be a peer to peer operation, but irc chat by normal clients cant...
By a centralized system, its not exclusive to situations where there is one and only one server that EVERYONE has to use, but centralized systems are ones that can be shut off thus preventing clients from connecting
if the clients are the servers (as in gnutella) then its decentralized
otherwise its still centralized
Just because its centralized, doesnt mean there is a realistic way of shutting it down
DNS is centralized but its been designed to be difficult to shut down (by unauthorised parties that is)
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I'm glad that someone such as boucher is taking this up seriously now
However, I still feel that the only way to get the DMCA changed is to get joe public behind the changes... highlight to the non-slashdot reading public why and how their "right" of fair use of something they have bought is being taken away... Do that and the DMCA will have to be changed
(of course... its not as easy as that - but nothing is)
I cant wait until we get some cards and reviews of those cards - but what does a press release mean?
... ... ...
Absolutely nothing
Anyone can take any product and make a glowing press release over it to get everyone excited about it, but that doesnt say anything for the silicon, or its support chipsets, or its drivers when it finally reaches production
until then
There is a reason to get a faster refresh rate...
70hz means that I can only get 70 refreshes per second?
Whats the point of me buying the geforce 4 if I cant play quake at 150 fps - when the graphics card isnt the bottle neck the monitor decides to give me a crappy fps!
does the xbox really need any help with that?
If cost is the only factor, then why did they bother supplying, for instance, a CPU?
the machine has to be able to do the job its intended for - and it cant be independant of windows (as it was said to be - to avoid the M$ "tax") if it has hardware specifically designed for windows
Hell, I'd prefer they didnt ship with a modem atall instead of a semi-modem
did walmart use a modem designed for windows on a machine that did not have windows pre-installed?
Sure, that particular modem can be supported under linux (and other operating systems?), but the clear point of these machines was that they did not have windows pre-loaded
so why use components that are designed for windows and often wont work with other operating systems?
I have a friend, in arizona, who uses wireless broadband very similar to that described here
However, in bad weather conditions, it becomes completely unusable - especially during storms.
if it wasnt for the 12 month contract, she would have switched to cable ages ago due to the unreliable service
My nephew is now 5. About a year or so ago, I gave him one of my old transformers - the last one I had left (after selling most of them, loosing them or violently throwing them against my bedroom wall)
It was the same one as is the cover picture for the transformers home page
He was absolutely thrilled and has spent many hours playing with it
and thats all without the TV series to get his interest going
I do hope they bring transformers back
but I think it would be better as a new cartoon rather than just reshowing the old ones...
get some new high tech transformers too
IANAL, but I seem to remember someone telling me that your employer is not legally allowed to decrease your salary? that would make sense because otherwise its just another form of constructive dismissal
Is that wrong? does it only apply to permanent decreases? or a certain percentage?
or do / did the workers at this company have the opertunity to take redundancy or sign a waver over their rights not to have a pay decrease?
I'm glad I only earn $59K/year!
There have been several pieces of software which have been relased and then patched within weeks of the release... infact, wasnt XP one of those products?
As long as the delay is reasonable, and there are good reasons to delay (which I'm sure there are) then dont complain!
debian are doing us all a favour by not releasing something their note sure of quite yet
Wow - where can I get a computer with a USB port (which mine is slightly lacking) for $15 with one of these cards bundled?
BARGAIN!
I would hope no distro includes 2.5
atleast while kernel.org is calling it a beta kernel
Wow!
new games???
great! well worth the download!
and I spose including KDE 3.0 is a plus point too...
So basically they will keep on sueing until google prevents returning certain pages which detail this information?
I dread to think when someone decides to sue google over the DMCA for allowing people to easily circumvent copy protection mechanisms by searching for a crack
Google isnt responsible for the results they return - are they?
Yes we have paid for the "whole meal"
As far as my contract with my cable provider goes, I am entitled to take as much of the champagne as I can get through my straw.
I am not limited by how much I can drink, only how fast I can drink it
Its like those "eat all you can for £5" places
the ISP's are hedging their bets that on average people will eat less than £5 worth of pizza and when it turns out that people eat more of the cheese and tomato pizza, their taking it off the menu
If the ISP's cant cope with me eating as much cheese and tomato pizza as I want to eat, then they should either charge me more or tell me, in my contract, that once I've eaten 5 slices I can only have one slice every hour
No, I agree, thats not fair
But neither is it fair to tell the subscribers what they can and cant use their connection for.
The only fair solution (that I can think of) is to introduce some bandwidth limiting/quotaing that disuades people from using this p2p applications in an unfair way
That way the customer still gets to choose exactly what they want to do with the bandwidth they have paid for
Customers shouldnt be subsidising other customers, whether it be for them to run p2p stuff or for them to have a webserver, or anything like that
Cableco's are trying to keep the pricing structure and t&c the same for everyone - but it just isnt going to work when there are people who use the connections in very different ways
Whats next? their going to ban masquerading or other forms of connection sharing 'cause its unfair on the people who only have one computer connected?
Why do ISPS always tell us what services we can and cant run on our computers?
Its fair enough to limit our bandwidth - but why can they say "your not permitted to run a www server 'cause it requires too much bandwidth"
there are MANY ways to use bandwidth and its just not possible to have an exhaustive list of things that use it "unfairly"...
I wouldnt have anything to complain about if they provided us with a daily quota (or something) whereby if you exceeded it then it reduced your bandwidth to a modem (but the quota added up up to a limit if it wasnt all used during a particular day)
But telling us we cant run specific programs?... that just isnt on imo
we pay for the bandwidth, we should be able to use it how we like
if these hogging programs are causing problems then the telco should look at methods other than blocking specific programs to fix the problem
there was never anything as sophisticated as that used for grading papers...
I heard a rumour that grades were assigned by how close the teacher got to the target while holding the paper in her hand in a game of "pin the tail on the donkey"
that slashdot posting a link would indicate that it doesnt do horrible things(tm) to your system / browsing experience....
guess not...
As with all stats, the whole point of having more people is to get an accurate view of the WHOLE POPULATION - not just the population which is represented by a single user, or 15 users...
Those 15 users might all be completely computer literate in which case usability issues are minimal/not obvious or they all might be computer illiterate in which case everything is a usability issue...
He needed to use a much larger sample due to the differences between the way that each person looks at a website... an issue for one is not an issue for someone else All of his group might well have all had the same opinion of a particular potential issue, by saying that its not an issue atall - whereas a million other kids would be stumped completely...
If the kids that were chosen were completely at random from the WHOLE population then yes, the study means something... if its not completely random then it means a lot less
The point is that it is being sent to microsoft without consent of the user
I believe programs that perform such acts are commonly known as spyware
while its not supprising that microsoft is incorporating spyware, it is certainly newsworthy that the company who provides the majority of the worlds OS's is using it to spy on what they do (or potentially using it to do so - I have no idea what microsofts policy on the information harvested is)
There is work for IRC servers using ssl - atleast one has already been made, but I cant remember which server its based on
;)
clients that can use it include the psybnc bouncer and a proper client, but I cant remember which one...
a quick search on google for ssl ircd shows some interesting results
No
IRC is a centralized system
There can be many servers - just like there can be many ICQ servers (and indeed there are)
these servers can be linked (indeed, they are)
you can have stand alone servers (I believe there was an ICQ server downloadable?)
anyone can download and start up their own ICQ network
gnutella is based on the principle that the client is the server for other clients
IRC is based on the principle that clients connect to a server which relays information
the IRC servers network can be considered to be a peer to peer operation, but irc chat by normal clients cant...
By a centralized system, its not exclusive to situations where there is one and only one server that EVERYONE has to use, but centralized systems are ones that can be shut off thus preventing clients from connecting
if the clients are the servers (as in gnutella) then its decentralized
otherwise its still centralized
Just because its centralized, doesnt mean there is a realistic way of shutting it down
DNS is centralized but its been designed to be difficult to shut down (by unauthorised parties that is)