neither do I. Just as if I buy a ford, I'd like to reserve the right to turn it into swiss cheese with a minigun or take shots at it with a.50 caliber gizzly from 300yds, etc.
However, I was commenting on their handling of the situation. And thanks to the DMCA and Sony-Pro-Bono Act and the like (thx the politicians who have been "purchased"), the only legal argument (at least in the US and other lobby-corrupted govts) for PlayFair is to be able to use it "normally" under a different operating system or device.
Their (Apple) handling of the situation is similar to that of the CSS-folks and they lost. The best method is and was to knock down PlayFair's only legal footing, but no, they did something that would most likely put them closer to SCO in the public image standing (not quite at SCO level yet but closer than....let's say the Pope).
What about Canada? The recent court rulings have been pro-consumer so it might be safe-haven for PlayFair.
Or how about the Norway? The courts there said that DeCSS (AAC-DRM is to music as CSS is to video) didn't infringe, especially since the intent of the utility was not to make illegal distribution but to enable normal use on unsupported systems (OS's).
One way (and better than what they did) to get rid of Playfair is for Apple to release a Linux player to eliminate the main legal objective for PlayFair.
O yea, as for that first post that essentially says "Take it or leave it,"...well..would you buy a car that has its hood welded shut? And I tend to argee with this guy; the pro's don't outweigh the cons. Why buy a cake that no one can eat when the intention is to eat it?
We've all known that lawyers (SCO, etc.) and insurance ppl are the old skool parasites/bloodsuckers (excluding gold digging spouses and politicians, etc.), but from the looks of it, there are bloodsuckers of bloodsuckers (insurers against SCO).
There SERIOUSLY needs to be a major reform of the courts to reduce frivolous lawsuits and thusly reduce insurance rates (good for work-comp rates in california too). Maybe REALLY steep fines for those filing frivolous lawsuits or lawsuits with the express intent to get a settlement, just like how some lawsuits have a ludacrisly high penalty payouts (think "tobacco" lawsuits).
good to hear. Hopefully this goes the whole nine yards and sets a precedence and forces another GPL violator, Sigma Designs, Inc. (for using XVID source without keeping it open), DVD player manufacturers, and other bad WLAN ppl into compliance.
wait, under the anti-camcorder law, doesn't it specify any and all devices that digitize scenery? That would include nvg's.
And isn't there some sort of reasonable expectation of privacy in a dark theater? (aka one of the traditional make-out places) If that's true, the projectionist violated the anti-voyeur laws in California and probably some Federal survelliance laws.
Anyways, looks like there's gonna be a market for portable IR light sources (as jammers).
It's only useful in total immersion cooling if and only if it's cheaper than fluorinert (by 3M). Of course, due to the low boiling point of Sapphire, it would be necessary to isolate the cpu and probably the gpu and cool them with normal watercooling and the rest can be submerged in sapphire, which will also help reduce the build up of dust, enemy of efficient cooling.
BTW, TIC is nothing new. There are these crazy New Zealanders who bought 2 gallons of fluorinert, priced at 500 bucks a gallon (and you thought gas prices in california was bad), submerged their entire setup in it and cooled the liquid. Unfortunately, LN2's temp was well below the freezing point of fluorinert. Here's a linkie
Between the faulty mini ipod's (as/.'ed a few days ago) and the ford's faulty fuel system and steering column, I think I have been odds with a two bullet russian roulette.
Maybe they should've coupled the mini ipod with the OTHER mini; the mini cooper.
if the wintel cartel is still in business, then Intel's DRM may also be a way to prevent linux on PDA's. Luckily, if that were the case, I'm hoping that Sharp would complain (enuf to force intel not to implement the anti-linux portion of their conquest) as their PDA's use an OS based on Linux.
What about ClearView and the shock-jock Howard Stern issue?
Though he may be nasty looking, he still has the right to free speech (luckily, we aren't bound to have to listen to it; his "guests" are another matter.).
doesn't this CTO of cray remind you of someone? "There IS no Linux in high-performance clusters."
"There IS no Americans in Iraq."
OMG! It's the former Iraqi mis-Informed-ation minister!
Especially when 2004 has been dubbed the year of the penguin, it's wreckless to claim that Linux can't be used in HPC's. Hell, just look at the current top500 list. There's no Cray in the top 10 but there are two Linux based clusters there (and one based on OSX [FreeBSB based]).
I think it'll be good for teaching as most schools will already have windows machines and you know how pricey those sparcs are. And the fact that they don't have to restart the machine and use a boot-selector, helps reduce f*ck ups by the admins at the said schools and also helps reduce the security factor of being able to select the boot, though linux to begin with would be better...and using a winex/etc. type of setup is better.
In essence, it's more of a demo of their skillz. Gotta give 'em braggin' rights though more braggin' rights goes to those who got Micro$oft software to run on linux.
more proof that the record label execs didn't take Business 101 and/or got a correspondence degree in business without earning it.
Business 101 topics: - Don't bite the hand that feeds you. - Don't overcharge when people aren't buying. - Don't bundle crap with crap. - Don't accuse potential customers of being anything but just that; customers.
One of the major advantages to open source is that it keeps everyone honest; no funny schtuff.
With closed source, it might work fine in test cases but there might be code hidden/lurking in the shadows that does something other than what's intended. If a cyberterrorist (or some a-hole) adds code that can be remotely activated and wreak havoc, it's harder to detect it if the code is like a black box (a mystery), and more likely to be detected in a clear box.
Just like ppl aren't likely to buy a car if you can't pop the hood, closed source shouldn't be either; especially if you're paying lots of money for it.
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neither do I. Just as if I buy a ford, I'd like to reserve the right to turn it into swiss cheese with a minigun or take shots at it with a .50 caliber gizzly from 300yds, etc.
....let's say the Pope).
However, I was commenting on their handling of the situation. And thanks to the DMCA and Sony-Pro-Bono Act and the like (thx the politicians who have been "purchased"), the only legal argument (at least in the US and other lobby-corrupted govts) for PlayFair is to be able to use it "normally" under a different operating system or device.
Their (Apple) handling of the situation is similar to that of the CSS-folks and they lost. The best method is and was to knock down PlayFair's only legal footing, but no, they did something that would most likely put them closer to SCO in the public image standing (not quite at SCO level yet but closer than
I argee. They should make an SDK available for free for private (non-profit/freeware) use and a reasonable licensing fee for commercial use.
What about Canada? The recent court rulings have been pro-consumer so it might be safe-haven for PlayFair.
...well..would you buy a car that has its hood welded shut? And I tend to argee with this guy; the pro's don't outweigh the cons. Why buy a cake that no one can eat when the intention is to eat it?
Or how about the Norway? The courts there said that DeCSS (AAC-DRM is to music as CSS is to video) didn't infringe, especially since the intent of the utility was not to make illegal distribution but to enable normal use on unsupported systems (OS's).
One way (and better than what they did) to get rid of Playfair is for Apple to release a Linux player to eliminate the main legal objective for PlayFair.
O yea, as for that first post that essentially says "Take it or leave it,"
We've all known that lawyers (SCO, etc.) and insurance ppl are the old skool parasites/bloodsuckers (excluding gold digging spouses and politicians, etc.), but from the looks of it, there are bloodsuckers of bloodsuckers (insurers against SCO).
There SERIOUSLY needs to be a major reform of the courts to reduce frivolous lawsuits and thusly reduce insurance rates (good for work-comp rates in california too). Maybe REALLY steep fines for those filing frivolous lawsuits or lawsuits with the express intent to get a settlement, just like how some lawsuits have a ludacrisly high penalty payouts (think "tobacco" lawsuits).
'twas sarcasm/a funny.
good to hear. Hopefully this goes the whole nine yards and sets a precedence and forces another GPL violator, Sigma Designs, Inc. (for using XVID source without keeping it open), DVD player manufacturers, and other bad WLAN ppl into compliance.
thx alot...now I can't use toilet paper....gotta find some leaves from now on.
wait, under the anti-camcorder law, doesn't it specify any and all devices that digitize scenery? That would include nvg's.
And isn't there some sort of reasonable expectation of privacy in a dark theater? (aka one of the traditional make-out places) If that's true, the projectionist violated the anti-voyeur laws in California and probably some Federal survelliance laws.
Anyways, looks like there's gonna be a market for portable IR light sources (as jammers).
btw, it was /.'ed too.
It's only useful in total immersion cooling if and only if it's cheaper than fluorinert (by 3M).
Of course, due to the low boiling point of Sapphire, it would be necessary to isolate the cpu and probably the gpu and cool them with normal watercooling and the rest can be submerged in sapphire, which will also help reduce the build up of dust, enemy of efficient cooling.
BTW, TIC is nothing new. There are these crazy New Zealanders who bought 2 gallons of fluorinert, priced at 500 bucks a gallon (and you thought gas prices in california was bad), submerged their entire setup in it and cooled the liquid.
Unfortunately, LN2's temp was well below the freezing point of fluorinert. Here's a linkie
Between the faulty mini ipod's (as /.'ed a few days ago) and the ford's faulty fuel system and steering column, I think I have been odds with a two bullet russian roulette.
Maybe they should've coupled the mini ipod with the OTHER mini; the mini cooper.
and they say california's education system is so bad.
the guy posting must be using one of those flawy pentium cpu's....or is in PR/marketing/spindoc
if the wintel cartel is still in business, then Intel's DRM may also be a way to prevent linux on PDA's. Luckily, if that were the case, I'm hoping that Sharp would complain (enuf to force intel not to implement the anti-linux portion of their conquest) as their PDA's use an OS based on Linux.
What about ClearView and the shock-jock Howard Stern issue?
Though he may be nasty looking, he still has the right to free speech (luckily, we aren't bound to have to listen to it; his "guests" are another matter.).
doesn't this CTO of cray remind you of someone?
"There IS no Linux in high-performance clusters."
"There IS no Americans in Iraq."
OMG! It's the former Iraqi mis-Informed-ation minister!
Especially when 2004 has been dubbed the year of the penguin, it's wreckless to claim that Linux can't be used in HPC's.
Hell, just look at the current top500 list. There's no Cray in the top 10 but there are two Linux based clusters there (and one based on OSX [FreeBSB based]).
Here's a few:
NCSA's IA32 Linux cluster
NCSA's IA32 Linux cluster
Space Simulator Clust at Los Alamos (SS51G based; makes me proud as I have a SS51G too)
Beowulf - used in many Linux clustering projects
Linux clusters at Los Alamos (they seem to have more than one)
Virginia Tech's Supercomputer X
I think it'll be good for teaching as most schools will already have windows machines and you know how pricey those sparcs are. And the fact that they don't have to restart the machine and use a boot-selector, helps reduce f*ck ups by the admins at the said schools and also helps reduce the security factor of being able to select the boot, though linux to begin with would be better...and using a winex/etc. type of setup is better.
In essence, it's more of a demo of their skillz.
Gotta give 'em braggin' rights though more braggin' rights goes to those who got Micro$oft software to run on linux.
Wonder when a 2.6.x kernel version will be out.
wtf again...more like Offtopic than anything else.
wtf.
more proof that the record label execs didn't take Business 101 and/or got a correspondence degree in business without earning it.
Business 101 topics:
- Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
- Don't overcharge when people aren't buying.
- Don't bundle crap with crap.
- Don't accuse potential customers of being anything but just that; customers.
maybe the point was to be able to use all (A, B, G, etc.) simutaneously (aka, in parallel when/where possible) in one affordable package.
if that's the case, then I guess others can have something similar by using several chips "in parallel"
no 'g'?
but it's a good idea.
Hopefully, other chipset makers (TI, etc.) follow suit, which in turn will reduce costs (thx to competition).
Of course, if it can do all three, 'b', 'a', 'g' separately, and each with the parallel-ness, that would kick ass.
One of the major advantages to open source is that it keeps everyone honest; no funny schtuff.
With closed source, it might work fine in test cases but there might be code hidden/lurking in the shadows that does something other than what's intended. If a cyberterrorist (or some a-hole) adds code that can be remotely activated and wreak havoc, it's harder to detect it if the code is like a black box (a mystery), and more likely to be detected in a clear box.
Just like ppl aren't likely to buy a car if you can't pop the hood, closed source shouldn't be either; especially if you're paying lots of money for it.
The govna~ (governator) and I groped...does that count?
j/k.