One thing that keeps baffling me is what the US citizens will take from companies. Here in Denmark, if you sell something as unlimited you damned well better be prepared to offer it else you will get your ass wouped for false advertisement.
We even have requirements for companies to explicitly tell how much you have to pay in total if the service is with a minimum sign up period.
There is one slight difference between Canada and Antigua. Canada relies a lot on US, while Antigua isn't as bound. As far as I recall Antigua plans to not recognize the US as a legal part of WTO and can therefore in their rights start selling copies of anything that should have been protected by US copyright. And I think the rest of us can legally buy anything produced in Antigua because they and we are legal members of WTO.
I think the US has to smarten up real fast about this or they might end up getting a slap on the wrist.
Some quite nice groups. One point for me though is I already own most of these, so there really isn't much point in buying them again since the law around here allows for me to rip the stuff anyways. But kudos to Apple and EMI to do the right thing [TM], it only took the wrath of EU to enlighten them.
You should also note that while they may say that you are only allowed to run it on their hardware you bought the license for the software and you (at least here in Denmark) are pretty much in your own right to do damned well whatever pleases you with said license.
Well according to South Park swapping music means Lars Ulrik can't get his gold plated shark tank and Britney Spears has to fly around in a Gulfstream IV - it means they get to live in slightly less luxury.
I'd just like to point out that blackboard is an online web application (at least here), so the guys making it probably tested it on XP with IE 7.0 and assumed it would work under Vista if it worked under XP.
HA! 20MB? A lot of people fill that in a week. at work the central IT department has limited the amount of email you are allowed to have to 50MB. We get tons of support requests from people with filled up accounts.
While I do like that excerpt you posted, one that springs more to mind was this one:
3. Execution of a mutual general release of all claims in my office's usual form. The RIAA form of release I have seen will not be used. It is my practice in these kinds of cases to require that the plaintiffs indemnity my clients against claims by third parties as part of my general release language. (E.g., your clients sue a site for posting guitar tabs to copyrighted music; my client visits the site, read the tabs, plays them on his guitar, and get sued by way of cross-claim by the guitar tab site). My form of release also anticipates class action litigation that is in the works at several SoCal class-action offices on RICO, Unfair Practices Act (Bus & Prof. Code 17200 et seq.) and other grounds against RIAA, MediaSentry, and all of your named clients in the Merchant action. My clients will agree to opt out of any such litigation; the release language is tailored to your clients are not giving up any defenses they might otherwise have to the class claims.
Emphasis mine. Seems to me that RIAA might be facing some rather nasty problems soon.
You should keep care to know that the copy operation hasn't completed necessarily under Linux. A good example is ext 3, where it can take as much as 5 seconds before it even thinks of writing the log to the disc.
Try doing a sync after you have made a copy of a file - the operation isn't over until sync completes.
You know, its not just whacking them together with super glue, theres such things as controllers and cables. Even if you went with duct tape and gave MacGyver a piece of string I don't think you (or he) could make it work.
Now I know you probably hate microsoft beyond anything else, but if you really want a car analogy, microsoft XP is in fact the sort of reliable petrol hungry beast you would get with a supercar.
And I'm definitely getting me one of these laptops right after I got me a Bugatti Veyron.
but also GPUs, I installed one of these bad boys: thermaltake schooner, but before I bought it I did some research and the reviewers claimed that the x800 pro from ATI would run at about 92 degrees Celsius under load, that was a bit worrying, but I took the chance and installed it. My card has never been above 80 with that heat sink, and I think the difference is in how and what type of compound used. I didn't use the supplied compound, but went with arctic silver instead, also I paid special notice to the instructions, most GPUs are slightly concave, so you have to be extra careful when applying the paste.
Bullshit. A chain of stores here in Denmark called Tiger has made their own record company and charges 20 Dkr (about $3) per CD, they sign up all sorts of indie bands, they produce true CDs, not the DRMed crap. And a fun fact is they sell about 3-4000 cds per band, that is a lot of CDs for an indie band, heck its a lot of CDs for any band here in Denmark.
People are willing to pay the right price for a CD.
Also even midrange NICs can be capable of collecting a set of packets before interrupting, onboard NICs hardly ever does that, so you will get more interrupts, thus context shift and thus lower performance. But as others has pointed out the guy doing the review has no clue what he is doing - but that should match pretty well with the people buying it, so it might be a win-win situation.
Also Google has the money to fight, YouTube could face bankruptcy through litigation. Anyone suing them now knows they better be damned sure they are in their rights to do so or they are in for a world of hurt.
No not equivalent, it needs to be better. A few years back equivalent would have been enough, now you need the customers back. Another fine example of (D)RM hurting the buisness is the movie 300 (and others). It doesn't get released until the 30th around here, but it is already possible to download it from the net on a DVD, granted it is a screener, but you get the comfort of your own home when watching it. I already got my tickets to 300, and I'm sticking to watching it in the cinema, but a less expected movie would have a hard time getting me to the cinema, since the product is somewhat worse than what the "competition" is offering.
A nice fix would be to ensure I could watch it from DVD from day 1 - and then remove all those stupid commercials from the DVD, I want to watch the movie and I already payed for it, bug off!
Running Beryl on a somewhat faster machine with default install it runs smooth as you guys say, but when you start cranking up the eye candy the performance drops (especially blur effects).
But one thing I've noticed is it is very very VERY memory hungry, in fact I think windows XP might be a tad envious. (Currently Beryl et al. will eat about 300MB). I haven't tried vista so I don't know how much their eye candy eats up, and I'm not going to try it since nvidia won't make drivers for my MB chip set.
Seriously, I have installed ubuntu linux on 3 different laptops with ATI graphics and several desktops also with ATI graphics boards - all of them newer than radeon 9500. I just followed the guide for ATI boards on ubuntu wiki and all worked like expected.
Could we please do away with the ATI drivers doesn't work on linux mantra?
Yes you WILL have problems with the fglrx drivers and older boards, but so fucking what? Those boards are 4+ years old, buy a new one!
' If Shell prevails on that count, sites like Google will have to get online publishers to 'opt in' before they can be crawled, radically changing the nature of Web search."'
No that would only change the nature of the web for US citizens, just like the online internet gamble thingie, the rest of us will shrug and move about our businesses as usual.
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One thing that keeps baffling me is what the US citizens will take from companies. Here in Denmark, if you sell something as unlimited you damned well better be prepared to offer it else you will get your ass wouped for false advertisement.
We even have requirements for companies to explicitly tell how much you have to pay in total if the service is with a minimum sign up period.
Once managed to hit a mains with a nail while hanging up a picture, nice n sparky.
Yeah I got em on CDs and ripped to MP3. Oh and I don't own an iPod.
There is one slight difference between Canada and Antigua. Canada relies a lot on US, while Antigua isn't as bound. As far as I recall Antigua plans to not recognize the US as a legal part of WTO and can therefore in their rights start selling copies of anything that should have been protected by US copyright. And I think the rest of us can legally buy anything produced in Antigua because they and we are legal members of WTO.
I think the US has to smarten up real fast about this or they might end up getting a slap on the wrist.
Some quite nice groups. One point for me though is I already own most of these, so there really isn't much point in buying them again since the law around here allows for me to rip the stuff anyways. But kudos to Apple and EMI to do the right thing [TM], it only took the wrath of EU to enlighten them.
You should also note that while they may say that you are only allowed to run it on their hardware you bought the license for the software and you (at least here in Denmark) are pretty much in your own right to do damned well whatever pleases you with said license.
Well according to South Park swapping music means Lars Ulrik can't get his gold plated shark tank and Britney Spears has to fly around in a Gulfstream IV - it means they get to live in slightly less luxury.
Also the fact that Brian has a blackhole engine running next to the pgsql.
I'd just like to point out that blackboard is an online web application (at least here), so the guys making it probably tested it on XP with IE 7.0 and assumed it would work under Vista if it worked under XP.
HA! 20MB? A lot of people fill that in a week. at work the central IT department has limited the amount of email you are allowed to have to 50MB. We get tons of support requests from people with filled up accounts.
You should keep care to know that the copy operation hasn't completed necessarily under Linux. A good example is ext 3, where it can take as much as 5 seconds before it even thinks of writing the log to the disc.
Try doing a sync after you have made a copy of a file - the operation isn't over until sync completes.
You know, its not just whacking them together with super glue, theres such things as controllers and cables. Even if you went with duct tape and gave MacGyver a piece of string I don't think you (or he) could make it work.
Now I know you probably hate microsoft beyond anything else, but if you really want a car analogy, microsoft XP is in fact the sort of reliable petrol hungry beast you would get with a supercar.
:D
And I'm definitely getting me one of these laptops right after I got me a Bugatti Veyron.
A man can dream
but also GPUs, I installed one of these bad boys: thermaltake schooner, but before I bought it I did some research and the reviewers claimed that the x800 pro from ATI would run at about 92 degrees Celsius under load, that was a bit worrying, but I took the chance and installed it. My card has never been above 80 with that heat sink, and I think the difference is in how and what type of compound used. I didn't use the supplied compound, but went with arctic silver instead, also I paid special notice to the instructions, most GPUs are slightly concave, so you have to be extra careful when applying the paste.
Bullshit. A chain of stores here in Denmark called Tiger has made their own record company and charges 20 Dkr (about $3) per CD, they sign up all sorts of indie bands, they produce true CDs, not the DRMed crap. And a fun fact is they sell about 3-4000 cds per band, that is a lot of CDs for an indie band, heck its a lot of CDs for any band here in Denmark.
People are willing to pay the right price for a CD.
Then someone starts complaining to the police, then they pinpoint the origin of your box and you get "pwnd". Very good idea.
Also even midrange NICs can be capable of collecting a set of packets before interrupting, onboard NICs hardly ever does that, so you will get more interrupts, thus context shift and thus lower performance. But as others has pointed out the guy doing the review has no clue what he is doing - but that should match pretty well with the people buying it, so it might be a win-win situation.
Also Google has the money to fight, YouTube could face bankruptcy through litigation. Anyone suing them now knows they better be damned sure they are in their rights to do so or they are in for a world of hurt.
Are you a member of a union? Have you raised the issue with your employer?
In my experience very few people are able to read you mind, so I usually try talking it over with them if there is an issue.
No not equivalent, it needs to be better. A few years back equivalent would have been enough, now you need the customers back. Another fine example of (D)RM hurting the buisness is the movie 300 (and others). It doesn't get released until the 30th around here, but it is already possible to download it from the net on a DVD, granted it is a screener, but you get the comfort of your own home when watching it. I already got my tickets to 300, and I'm sticking to watching it in the cinema, but a less expected movie would have a hard time getting me to the cinema, since the product is somewhat worse than what the "competition" is offering.
A nice fix would be to ensure I could watch it from DVD from day 1 - and then remove all those stupid commercials from the DVD, I want to watch the movie and I already payed for it, bug off!
Running Beryl on a somewhat faster machine with default install it runs smooth as you guys say, but when you start cranking up the eye candy the performance drops (especially blur effects).
But one thing I've noticed is it is very very VERY memory hungry, in fact I think windows XP might be a tad envious. (Currently Beryl et al. will eat about 300MB). I haven't tried vista so I don't know how much their eye candy eats up, and I'm not going to try it since nvidia won't make drivers for my MB chip set.
Seriously, I have installed ubuntu linux on 3 different laptops with ATI graphics and several desktops also with ATI graphics boards - all of them newer than radeon 9500. I just followed the guide for ATI boards on ubuntu wiki and all worked like expected.
Could we please do away with the ATI drivers doesn't work on linux mantra?
Yes you WILL have problems with the fglrx drivers and older boards, but so fucking what? Those boards are 4+ years old, buy a new one!
Each of those companies has local divisions around here (EU), just a matter of moving the offending stuff or lose buisness.
' If Shell prevails on that count, sites like Google will have to get online publishers to 'opt in' before they can be crawled, radically changing the nature of Web search."'
No that would only change the nature of the web for US citizens, just like the online internet gamble thingie, the rest of us will shrug and move about our businesses as usual.