Just because a law etc doesn't specifically mention the internet or online communication/commerce etc doesn't mean it doesn't affect it (either directly or indirectly). Trust me, the Patriot Act in general has lots of nasties that can affect online "rights."
In addition, I've found that YRO on Slashdot can often be though of as "Your Rights, Online"... as in an online update of what's important that's happening with the laws etc that might affect your life one way or another.
You know, if they know that *you* bought a copy of "Stupid White Men..." they'll probably also know relatively how many copies sold. Knowing that such items are becoming increasingly popular would be more effective than knowing you as an individual bought one.
Mistakes of the kind even a mediocre professional software developer would never make...they package drivers from these closed interface hardware shops, written by hardware engineers without the first clue about software development.
Hmmm, I see you've owned an ATI video card at some point as well? Seriously, security issues aside, bad drivers are one of the big reasons windows can perform like crud. With more than one ATI card I've had the choice of:
a) Use MS certified driver and sacrifice functionality
b) Use ATI drivers and sacrifice stability.
The problem in my experience with inkjets for "occasional pages" is it really depends on what you call occasional. I used to work in schools where the inkjets went between periods of "high use", "used not often" and summer break (not used). The low/no use periods would cause the ink to dry up and the microjets to become clogged, rendering the printers fairly useless.
But the market did make a solution in a way, you created your own market.
Different scenario though. In that case why couldn't the local populace get together and create a hosting-center for an anti-porn proxy through which all could connect?
Having the government legislate that the ISP's must provide filters is like legislating that Al's Burger Joint must provide vegan cousines because some people find meat extremely distasteful.
My question though would be whether ISP's can charge customers for this service... is there anything that says that even after making it ready they can't charge for making it available (as a service).
Yes, but should the government be forcing this "option." If it's an option that consumers want, then it can be offered as a service. That's how the free market works, you choose your service provider based on quality, price, and offerings.
Basically, he outlined a lot of details about how he handles his business, and his opinions on tats in general. As he pointed out, he himself (and his significant other) have plenty of tats, but...
a) None over a certain size
b) None on the face, or generally in areas that are so visible as to stand out when you are in formal-wear
For some people, tattoos are about being rebellious. For others, they are an artform. I've seen some beautiful tattoos, and must say I much more greatly respect an "artistic" tattoo than a skull-and-dagger on the arm (this includes some very "cultish" tattoos which, while frightening for some I'm sure, still look very interesting and artistic).
Yes, but to be realistic the "little old lady" client will be much easier to work with initially if you have a nice short and pants than if you have ragged cut-offs, a skull+dagger tattoo, and quadrupal pierced ears. Yes, you might impress her on the end, but only after you've done a lot more to overcome initial impressions than "Joe Normal" from the next cubicle over did...
I find the amount of general irresponsibility within those I know aged 20-30 rather astounding. Not that I'm a saint mind, but frankly I find that a good number of my peers lack in judgement, respect, and general tolerance.
No, I'm not religious or fanatical, but the number of people I know that are very uncareful about "protection," drink/smoke themselves comatose, street-race or otherwise drive in a retarded manner, drink and drive, etc etc is just disturbing. Perhaps it's also that nowadays there are more ways to win a Darwin than people realize. 200 years ago we didn't have great speeding engines of death, if you got pissed at the barn dance you walked home. There were less complex machines capable of frying/gouging/dismembering you in the workplace, etc. We didn't know about the dangers of smoking, etc
Partially I must blame the current financial-social system though. When it often takes two working peoples to make a decent life... the upper/middle-class citizens are less able to reproduce, and the "lower" class (wage-class) often have less ability to support children on their own or offer continuing education, etc.
I'd almost forgotten about Tomb Raider, myself. Besides the fact that it focussed a bit much on the boobage of "Lara" (which, to be fair was in line with the game), it wasn't an overly bad movie. Not a bad one surely, but better than I had expected.
Final Fantasy... it wasn't really much different than one might expect from other sci-fi CGI/anime style movies. It also wasn't "Final Fantasy." It had a few gamelike elements such as the Shinra-style soldiers amd "Cid", but frankly lacked a lot of the common features of FF games (magic, a big freakin' sword, etc) which is one of the things I'm looking forward to for Advent Children to fix...
Speaking of AC, I hear little on it now. Anyone got details on a US release date or even better a Japanese Sub?
Well, it could be said that there aren't many multi-core-using apps because there aren't currently a lot of multicore CPU's out there. If multicore CPU's start proliferating on most desktops, then we'll likely see more programs taking advantage of it. Just like any other CPU/GPU/SPU/etc technology eventually they'll likely become common in most media apps/games
Which might mean that PS3 is going to cost more, as they will focus more on console sales than game sales.
That being said though, one of the more annoying issues with making games on linux is that a large portion of the video cards out there run craptacular in the 3d arena. Will Sony create/ship drivers to make linux run PS3-friendly? Given that the hardware would be the same for everyone, linux-PS3 games might just take off... and of course they could be ported to PC as well (or vise-versa) in the future.
Yes, but if offering is not illegal distribution... and a download must occur first, how hard is it to step to the next level where "a provenly illicit download must occur."
If offering isn't a crime, and somebody with a copy of the "Beatles Greatest Hits" downloads from me a song from that album in mp3 format, then there was in fact no true infringement occuring. We're taking baby steps here, but I can see the RIAA having to prove that:
a) A download occured
b) The download was illicit (downloader didn't own a copy of the material)
c) The download wasn't initiated by somebody working for the RIAA, which would be in a way entrapment and in another way imply RIAA condoning of such download.
You should consider that in warfare (electronic or physical) one of the major breakers isn't manpower but technology. A country with an armed force of a a million soldiers carrying rifles isn't going to do much against several thousand fighter-jets, laser-guided bombs, battleships, and tanks.
The internet is a bit of a different battleground though, your tech doesn't have to be good so long as you can 0WNZ3R somebody else's tech... and trust me there are lots of powerful botnets etc there out on the market...
The first complain I got when swapping Eudora users to Thunderbird (due to an issue Eudora has where it downloads messages from the POP3 server and eats them somehow) was that things were "different." Some of the VP's refused to switch. If they'd been outlook users switching to Evolution, etc it would have been easier because Evolution looks enough like Outlook that they don't have to bend their brain around it.
A lot of people argue that interface copying is a lack of originality. I find that you can make a snazzy interface, but even if it's easier to use for a newbie the existing users are going to bitch and complain that the "F5 key works differently and doesn't do what I expected"...
Innovative, featureful, and easy-to-use interfaces are great to attract newer users.
Interfaces similar in function and design are more useful in grabbing existing users set in their ways. Being that a larger portion of the market uses MS products (either in-company or from users with home experience, or both), quite often they are the ones targetting in UI design.
So exactly how did she identify herself? What if she was simply trying to remove somebody else's pictures... how would Yahoo have verified it. Better to go through an agency such as the police etc to get a legal takedown notice...
On the other hand, this sort of thing can happen in many ways. Alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.girlfriends on the newsgroups is filled with "ex-girlfriend" pictures from snubbed boyfriends... and once you've been downloaded by a few thousand newgroup users those pics aren't dissappearing anytime fast.
"Trying to get pictures off the internet is like trying to remove pee from a pool" is a good analogy"
My ZD7000 has a defect (they all do, it seems) wherein running RAM-intensive applications causes the machine to shutdown or reboot if you have RAM installed in the secondary slot. This applies primarily to graphics apps such as photoshop and GIMP, but could also affect games etc.
So I've been running 512MB instead off 750MB-1GB for awhile now, HP will not do anything to help me out (and 1GB singular DIMMs of laptop RAM are not cheap)
Sound works, though without hardware mixing.
Video works, with acceleration and widescreen (1200x900) using the NVidia driver.
Ethernet works
Volume etc keys work (using hotkeys package)
Software power-down works (ACPID)
Wireless works (using a windows driver through NDISwrapper, some functionality lost compared to native drivers)
USB works
Haven't tried firewire
Parallel works
DVD playback, CD-burning works
PCMCIA works
Internal winmodem - NOT working (interferes with soundcard)
Internal ENE cardreader - NOT working
I use this laptop on a regular basis. Generally I only boot to windows (dual-boot) to run Half-Life 2 (which would probably work on wine anyhow), use the internal cardreader, or windows-specific apps. For modem a Xircom PCMCIA card handles things well.
I would love to see HP and their parts suppliers further support linux, particularly the internal cardreader and perhaps the winmodem.
You don't need an encryption key, just a passworded proxy... preferably with an autoconfiguration URL so that users can easily set it up (and then enter a password).
Slashdot Mirror
Check out the book "The Science of Superman"
Basically it goes into a premise of why Superman would be super, and how his powers might work based on real-world theory and even science.
Just because a law etc doesn't specifically mention the internet or online communication/commerce etc doesn't mean it doesn't affect it (either directly or indirectly). Trust me, the Patriot Act in general has lots of nasties that can affect online "rights."
In addition, I've found that YRO on Slashdot can often be though of as "Your Rights, Online"... as in an online update of what's important that's happening with the laws etc that might affect your life one way or another.
You know, if they know that *you* bought a copy of "Stupid White Men..." they'll probably also know relatively how many copies sold. Knowing that such items are becoming increasingly popular would be more effective than knowing you as an individual bought one.
Humans aren't the only organisms that will suffer from CO2 suffocation, you know...
Mistakes of the kind even a mediocre professional software developer would never make...they package drivers from these closed interface hardware shops, written by hardware engineers without the first clue about software development.
Hmmm, I see you've owned an ATI video card at some point as well? Seriously, security issues aside, bad drivers are one of the big reasons windows can perform like crud. With more than one ATI card I've had the choice of:
a) Use MS certified driver and sacrifice functionality
b) Use ATI drivers and sacrifice stability.
only 30% of the IP's (possibly physical machines) out there, run non-Window's OS's
A lot of routers etc out there run on a linux/BSD/etc derivative. Are they counted?
User pirates OS
OS reqires somewhat recent mac hardware
User cannot pirate hardware and must buy it
Apple profits on hardware...
The problem in my experience with inkjets for "occasional pages" is it really depends on what you call occasional. I used to work in schools where the inkjets went between periods of "high use", "used not often" and summer break (not used). The low/no use periods would cause the ink to dry up and the microjets to become clogged, rendering the printers fairly useless.
But the market did make a solution in a way, you created your own market.
Different scenario though. In that case why couldn't the local populace get together and create a hosting-center for an anti-porn proxy through which all could connect?
Having the government legislate that the ISP's must provide filters is like legislating that Al's Burger Joint must provide vegan cousines because some people find meat extremely distasteful.
My question though would be whether ISP's can charge customers for this service... is there anything that says that even after making it ready they can't charge for making it available (as a service).
Yes, but should the government be forcing this "option." If it's an option that consumers want, then it can be offered as a service. That's how the free market works, you choose your service provider based on quality, price, and offerings.
Basically, he outlined a lot of details about how he handles his business, and his opinions on tats in general. As he pointed out, he himself (and his significant other) have plenty of tats, but...
a) None over a certain size
b) None on the face, or generally in areas that are so visible as to stand out when you are in formal-wear
For some people, tattoos are about being rebellious. For others, they are an artform. I've seen some beautiful tattoos, and must say I much more greatly respect an "artistic" tattoo than a skull-and-dagger on the arm (this includes some very "cultish" tattoos which, while frightening for some I'm sure, still look very interesting and artistic).
Yes, but to be realistic the "little old lady" client will be much easier to work with initially if you have a nice short and pants than if you have ragged cut-offs, a skull+dagger tattoo, and quadrupal pierced ears. Yes, you might impress her on the end, but only after you've done a lot more to overcome initial impressions than "Joe Normal" from the next cubicle over did...
I find the amount of general irresponsibility within those I know aged 20-30 rather astounding. Not that I'm a saint mind, but frankly I find that a good number of my peers lack in judgement, respect, and general tolerance.
No, I'm not religious or fanatical, but the number of people I know that are very uncareful about "protection," drink/smoke themselves comatose, street-race or otherwise drive in a retarded manner, drink and drive, etc etc is just disturbing. Perhaps it's also that nowadays there are more ways to win a Darwin than people realize. 200 years ago we didn't have great speeding engines of death, if you got pissed at the barn dance you walked home. There were less complex machines capable of frying/gouging/dismembering you in the workplace, etc. We didn't know about the dangers of smoking, etc
Partially I must blame the current financial-social system though. When it often takes two working peoples to make a decent life... the upper/middle-class citizens are less able to reproduce, and the "lower" class (wage-class) often have less ability to support children on their own or offer continuing education, etc.
I'd almost forgotten about Tomb Raider, myself. Besides the fact that it focussed a bit much on the boobage of "Lara" (which, to be fair was in line with the game), it wasn't an overly bad movie. Not a bad one surely, but better than I had expected.
Final Fantasy... it wasn't really much different than one might expect from other sci-fi CGI/anime style movies. It also wasn't "Final Fantasy." It had a few gamelike elements such as the Shinra-style soldiers amd "Cid", but frankly lacked a lot of the common features of FF games (magic, a big freakin' sword, etc) which is one of the things I'm looking forward to for Advent Children to fix...
Speaking of AC, I hear little on it now. Anyone got details on a US release date or even better a Japanese Sub?
Well, it could be said that there aren't many multi-core-using apps because there aren't currently a lot of multicore CPU's out there. If multicore CPU's start proliferating on most desktops, then we'll likely see more programs taking advantage of it. Just like any other CPU/GPU/SPU/etc technology eventually they'll likely become common in most media apps/games
Which might mean that PS3 is going to cost more, as they will focus more on console sales than game sales.
That being said though, one of the more annoying issues with making games on linux is that a large portion of the video cards out there run craptacular in the 3d arena. Will Sony create/ship drivers to make linux run PS3-friendly? Given that the hardware would be the same for everyone, linux-PS3 games might just take off... and of course they could be ported to PC as well (or vise-versa) in the future.
Think: Encrypted signals descrambled for more pay-on-request services, anti-copying bits, and much, much more.
Yes, but if offering is not illegal distribution... and a download must occur first, how hard is it to step to the next level where "a provenly illicit download must occur."
If offering isn't a crime, and somebody with a copy of the "Beatles Greatest Hits" downloads from me a song from that album in mp3 format, then there was in fact no true infringement occuring. We're taking baby steps here, but I can see the RIAA having to prove that:
a) A download occured
b) The download was illicit (downloader didn't own a copy of the material)
c) The download wasn't initiated by somebody working for the RIAA, which would be in a way entrapment and in another way imply RIAA condoning of such download.
You should consider that in warfare (electronic or physical) one of the major breakers isn't manpower but technology. A country with an armed force of a a million soldiers carrying rifles isn't going to do much against several thousand fighter-jets, laser-guided bombs, battleships, and tanks.
The internet is a bit of a different battleground though, your tech doesn't have to be good so long as you can 0WNZ3R somebody else's tech... and trust me there are lots of powerful botnets etc there out on the market...
This is the only reference to TA I've found was there another that was better?
The first complain I got when swapping Eudora users to Thunderbird (due to an issue Eudora has where it downloads messages from the POP3 server and eats them somehow) was that things were "different." Some of the VP's refused to switch. If they'd been outlook users switching to Evolution, etc it would have been easier because Evolution looks enough like Outlook that they don't have to bend their brain around it.
A lot of people argue that interface copying is a lack of originality. I find that you can make a snazzy interface, but even if it's easier to use for a newbie the existing users are going to bitch and complain that the "F5 key works differently and doesn't do what I expected"...
Innovative, featureful, and easy-to-use interfaces are great to attract newer users.
Interfaces similar in function and design are more useful in grabbing existing users set in their ways. Being that a larger portion of the market uses MS products (either in-company or from users with home experience, or both), quite often they are the ones targetting in UI design.
So exactly how did she identify herself? What if she was simply trying to remove somebody else's pictures... how would Yahoo have verified it. Better to go through an agency such as the police etc to get a legal takedown notice...
On the other hand, this sort of thing can happen in many ways. Alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.girlfriends on the newsgroups is filled with "ex-girlfriend" pictures from snubbed boyfriends... and once you've been downloaded by a few thousand newgroup users those pics aren't dissappearing anytime fast.
"Trying to get pictures off the internet is like trying to remove pee from a pool" is a good analogy"
My ZD7000 has a defect (they all do, it seems) wherein running RAM-intensive applications causes the machine to shutdown or reboot if you have RAM installed in the secondary slot. This applies primarily to graphics apps such as photoshop and GIMP, but could also affect games etc.
So I've been running 512MB instead off 750MB-1GB for awhile now, HP will not do anything to help me out (and 1GB singular DIMMs of laptop RAM are not cheap)
(HP Pavillion ZD7000)
Sound works, though without hardware mixing.
Video works, with acceleration and widescreen (1200x900) using the NVidia driver.
Ethernet works
Volume etc keys work (using hotkeys package)
Software power-down works (ACPID)
Wireless works (using a windows driver through NDISwrapper, some functionality lost compared to native drivers)
USB works
Haven't tried firewire
Parallel works
DVD playback, CD-burning works
PCMCIA works
Internal winmodem - NOT working (interferes with soundcard)
Internal ENE cardreader - NOT working
I use this laptop on a regular basis. Generally I only boot to windows (dual-boot) to run Half-Life 2 (which would probably work on wine anyhow), use the internal cardreader, or windows-specific apps. For modem a Xircom PCMCIA card handles things well.
I would love to see HP and their parts suppliers further support linux, particularly the internal cardreader and perhaps the winmodem.
You don't need an encryption key, just a passworded proxy... preferably with an autoconfiguration URL so that users can easily set it up (and then enter a password).