"Now that the court has ordered Verizon to live up to its obligation under the law, we look forward to contacting the account holder whose identity we were seeking so we can let them know that what they are doing is illegal."
RIAA : Now we know that you didn't know that all of this was illegal, so we're not going to press charges, sue you, or suck every last penny out of your lifeless corpse that we can under (over?) the law. We're just friendly people who want the best for the consumers!
Say I'm an average user who knows what I'm doing on a computer. I've read enough to know that I don't like the idea of a company deciding what I can and can't do on my own system, whether it be Windows or Linux based. What specific benefits will your new BIOS give me without forcing me to do anything I don't want to that I can't get from a non Palladium-enabled/DRM capable computer?
"My dog has gotten 'someone has a crush on you' e-mail messages -- she's a cute dog, but no one has a crush on her,"... and you have an e-mail address for your dog because.....
Unfortunately, it's not at all just a software issue with ambiguous "illegal" messages. If Billy has his way, Palladium will make sure that you don't ever visit any site that Microsoft didn't provide the server for. Not only will you get grief for having the most popular OS on the market, you'll get it for owning a processor too.
Yes, those senders who are legit about it have to eat some cost. However, there are many smtp servers that don't require any kind of authentication and are absolutely free to anyone who wants to use them. All I have to do is load up a huge list of e-mails and use some freeware to send spam to 10,000 receipients overnight with my cable modem. For the not-so-honest spammer (which it's safe to say that many of them are), all you need is some poor ISP's unprotected smtp server.
Re:No such thing as IMAX dome screen...
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Gaming on the IMAX
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Yes, actually, there is. Yes, there is also another version of the screen made by IMAX that is a tall, flat screen. However, many museums house a large, domed format made by IMAX (hence the confusion). While the flat IMAX is cool, the domed one wins hands down in immersiveness...
Image how much more bandwidth we'll need for something like this. Now, someone will be able to download the latest 5 GB demo of Quake IV while sitting in 5 o'clock rush hour traffic. Multiply that by all the other people in the traffic jam trying to hit the same access point - how do they plan to counter-act the massive load on each access point if this got popular. This is a whole new bandwidth hog that'll take a lot of planning to get right and useable...
Why is QuickTime still around?
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QuickTime 6 Is Out
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There are so many different great streaming alternatives to the old-fashioned QuickTime format, why hasn't QuickTime lost it's punch? Maybe it's just the old apple-dedicated trying to support their company. ASF is just too good to go on with QuickTime...
At least with Flash, you know that any old browser than can install it will be able to view the "improved" site. From what I understand, it's pretty universal.
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"Now that the court has ordered Verizon to live up to its obligation under the law, we look forward to contacting the account holder whose identity we were seeking so we can let them know that what they are doing is illegal."
RIAA : Now we know that you didn't know that all of this was illegal, so we're not going to press charges, sue you, or suck every last penny out of your lifeless corpse that we can under (over?) the law. We're just friendly people who want the best for the consumers!
Yeah, right...
Say I'm an average user who knows what I'm doing on a computer. I've read enough to know that I don't like the idea of a company deciding what I can and can't do on my own system, whether it be Windows or Linux based. What specific benefits will your new BIOS give me without forcing me to do anything I don't want to that I can't get from a non Palladium-enabled/DRM capable computer?
FP
"My dog has gotten 'someone has a crush on you' e-mail messages -- she's a cute dog, but no one has a crush on her," ... and you have an e-mail address for your dog because.....
Unfortunately, it's not at all just a software issue with ambiguous "illegal" messages. If Billy has his way, Palladium will make sure that you don't ever visit any site that Microsoft didn't provide the server for. Not only will you get grief for having the most popular OS on the market, you'll get it for owning a processor too.
Yes, those senders who are legit about it have to eat some cost. However, there are many smtp servers that don't require any kind of authentication and are absolutely free to anyone who wants to use them. All I have to do is load up a huge list of e-mails and use some freeware to send spam to 10,000 receipients overnight with my cable modem. For the not-so-honest spammer (which it's safe to say that many of them are), all you need is some poor ISP's unprotected smtp server.
Yes, actually, there is. Yes, there is also another version of the screen made by IMAX that is a tall, flat screen. However, many museums house a large, domed format made by IMAX (hence the confusion). While the flat IMAX is cool, the domed one wins hands down in immersiveness...
Image how much more bandwidth we'll need for something like this. Now, someone will be able to download the latest 5 GB demo of Quake IV while sitting in 5 o'clock rush hour traffic. Multiply that by all the other people in the traffic jam trying to hit the same access point - how do they plan to counter-act the massive load on each access point if this got popular. This is a whole new bandwidth hog that'll take a lot of planning to get right and useable...
There are so many different great streaming alternatives to the old-fashioned QuickTime format, why hasn't QuickTime lost it's punch? Maybe it's just the old apple-dedicated trying to support their company. ASF is just too good to go on with QuickTime...
Makes me want to switch to Democrat...almost... =) Check out a letter that he wrote to the RIAA... http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/riaaletter.htm
At least with Flash, you know that any old browser than can install it will be able to view the "improved" site. From what I understand, it's pretty universal. --
If one were to not wish to join the trolls, might he crash the channel instead? Hmmm...
Arcade 1.1b This version of Arcade, released on June 28, 2002, included the following changes: - Removed nasty NIMBA virus - Fired security admin