Not that it isn't an interesting concept, but I hav troubles seeing the advantage of this project. OK, so you have a board for which the source is open, but which lacks many of the features of modern video cards. Alternately, you can have a more modern video card, but barring using the proprietary drivers perhaps you can't use the modern features.
If this project took off I could see it becoming something impressive, but at the moment open-source-but-outdated isn't much better than a card with a card that has reverse-engineered drivers and is newer-but-driver-outdated.
I had a big arguement once with a very Christian friends in regards to music that was labelled "Christian" Vs that which just had a theme based around many "faith" values.
There are quite a few games, many RPG's in fact, that deal with moral issues that fall close to religion. You don't have to say "This game is Christian" and have a character who kneels down and sings a hymn after every battle... how about more games that are just in line with the values that society seems to be losing?
And I have no moral problem lying under oath to those bastards.
To further the parent. You aren't lying to the RIAA, you are lying to a judge. That's a crime in itself... so even if you get off the hook for fileswapping you can be nailed for perjury.
What differentiates a situation where I am UNABLE to comply from a situation where I AM able, but FAIL to comply??
Now I do believe you aren't required to incriminate yourself anyhow, they have to prove you committed the crime... let your lawyer do the talking in this case. Once you start talking though, you aren't allowed to be so selective. You might tell the truth but be omissive in some ways and still get off... but if you get caught in a lie you're quite screwed.
So if I keep a spare drive of the same type as my main storage media that has plenty clean/authorized content... write a little extra to it to make "recent content" then swap it with the drive that had all my mp3's... how exactly would you know? This assumes also of course that swap/etc are also stored on said drive and not the root drive?
Of course, unless you are really doing something you know is wrong and/or are really paranoid - why bother? I'm sure as heck not going to invest in a spare 160GB drive to spare in mild event that the MPAA/RIAA or anyone else come a'knockin. I'd rather spend my money other places
How would monitor email have stopped this scenario? You already knew the email was sent, that the sender screwed it for everyone, and it was already sent. Would it have prevented this situation if you'd had open access to his inbox?
I can see reasons for blocking unauthorized download, attachments etc. I do not see a reason for them to actively monitor all your messages. This is no different than spying on a phone conversation, or possibly lifting your mail (if you get a personal letter at work, it's still your letter).
consider the number of people who are hurt or killed when they hit them with cars...
I don't see how one could consider a large stationary object dangerous in this case. Any large rather-immutable object is going to cause injury when you slam into it at high speed... it's like saying that cliffs or steep hills shouldn't be near highways because they are equally dangerous if you impact with them.
Sorry, but a stationary telephone pole isn't hurting anyone. I'd say that the impacter is damaging the pole, and the injury caused by impact to an object of large mass nonspecific to whether the impacted object is in fact a telephone pole.
Ummm, sorry, while the US does have their share of religious nutbags, you make it sound like the religion itself is originating in the US. The Catholic church actually originates in Europe, and trust me there are quite a number of highly influential church bodies there crusading against same-sex marriage in N. America...
Yes, there are US religious groups attempting to influence Canadian politics, so are Canadian and European religous groups. I don't personally agree with a lot of it, but I don't think this is the case of Americans tell Canadians what to do, rather it's religious groups telling gov't/citizenry what to do.
I will mention however, that many of the products produced by China etc are knockoffs. Some can compete with the original goods fairly evenly, some can't on basis of quality etc, and some do better.
For example, let's look at things like:
a) Digital Media: China isn't making "similar" items, they are copying, exactly, the foreign items. They aren't making a movie/CD like the one in theatre, but rather copying the existing media. Therefore, no production costs, low reproduction costs, and a whole lotta profit for a product that *seems* legit but isn't
b) Clothing/Textiles/etc: Hell, a lot of these things are *already* made in China. Quality isn't much of a concern here, and sometimes China can even win out (better quality than the poorer countries that product the original item). Sometimes the Chinese item is better or the same. Again, often they copy others' designs, but often enough those designs are fad-based. Some clothing is an original idea, others are the same 'ol same ol' with a popular log on them. Some waryiness should take place here though, it might look like the original but you've got a 25/50/25 chance on the quality (better/same/worse).
c) Electronics: You have to be careful here. China makes some decent products but there is also a lot of stuff that is cheap in both cost and quality. Quite often this reminds me of the old Simpsons episode where Homer is looking at a new TV, and goes through brands like Sorny and Magnetbox... looks-the-same doesn't quite cut it in the electronics industry. This is not to say that all Chinese electronics suck, more often it is the "imitiation" brands that do. Some Chinese-named brands are quite good such as the Mp3 player I have for which I don't even know the english name of the producing country... awesome amp, battery life, slim size. It looks like some other brands but doesn't claim to be them. My watch on the other hand claims to be an expensive swiss, looks the same until you get in the shower and it fogs up (in other words I'm not believing the "water resistance claims on the back).
There's some issues with using general words/names etc as trademarks though. Depending on the country, MS has found that attempting to enforce ownership of the "Windows" name meets with varying success
Ummm... does make PC games from time to time. I have a copy of Freelancer sitting on my shelves... promising game but rather repetetive and boring over time, still it's an MS PC-based game though.
Wouldn't it be much nicer if you could have a dupe-moderation score. If enough people mod an article as dupe, you can skip by having a threshold in your user settings....
In many cases randomized samples are taken for prosecution simple because it is too difficult/expensive/etc to prosecute en-masse. When a cop pulls up behind you with his lights blaring, is it his fault that he doesn't pull over the other 2-3 vehicles near you that were also speeding? Maybe he'll have a partner or a car down the road which can catch another, but he simply can't manage to snag you all.
OK, so that's speeding tickets. Perhaps murderers are treated more strongly? How about plea bargains then, a hardcore criminal might get off so that police can nab one of more other hardcore criminals... quite often this happen with organized crime.
There's nothing wrong with random selection, it's part of the deterrance value in the criminal process. Better than if a cop hauls you in because he didn't like your tie or something stupid such as that.
And thus, the police would get a warrant, and they would recieve co-operation. Why does somebody always have to make it a "please think about the children" issue.
The RIAA is fully capable of persuing this manner further, through the proper channels, just like everyone else. We're not "standing up for pirates," but rather standing up for the rights that we all share.
Where I could see 4GB of storage coming in useful would be simply as a portable drive. Make that baby would like a standard USB drive and suddenly my phone becomes a whole lot more useful.
Of course, that isn't likely to happen since the phone companies will want to lock the phone so you have to transfer all files through the cellular network at big $$$ each... even my current phone though capable of USB transfer has had such features disabled.
Quash the former, accidentally hit submit before finishing (damn oversensitive touchpad). There are a lot of wonderful ideas currently that simply won't reach fruition due to copyright issues. There are also a lot of good things that wouldn't exist today without copyright.
What I was going to throw in is that there are a lot of things that both depend on and are threatened by copyright. On one hand, the copyright keeps the blatant forgeries down. On the other, others can blast them based on similar products/components. Copyrights (and moreso patents) give with one hand and take with another. The biggest problem nowadays is not their existance, but that the rules that govern them allow them to be easily abused.
How about things that would have been invented, or followed through with. How many great concepts have been quashed because components/etc would infringe upon existing copyrights (or worse, patents)
Chances are that a website with a Chinese URL isn't going to be of much use to you. Even if you could figure out the URL, chances are the pages would also be in Chinese and you wouldn't be able to read them. Of course, if you can understand enough Chinese to read the pages, then you can probably understand enough to type in the URL's...
You might want to check out the manufacturer Vs shipper warranty. I'm not sure if 90 days is standard, but I know a lot of stuff I buy tends to have a 1yr+ manufacturer warranty, while the company you buy it from might only accept RMA returns for the first 90 days...
For my desktop machine I've used debian 'unstable' for quite awhile and had very good luck with it.
I've had good luck with "backports" for finding packages to upgrade my decrepit stable packages, and for those that want to mix+match just add something like:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable clamav samba
or
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing apache apache-ssl
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XP has to be cracked to get around the on-line activation
Not true, the corporate editions I believe ignore the online validation requirement.
Besides, I'd rather have a cracked version that ignores validation than having to deal with that whole spiele every install.
But nicer when you can go places with it, or at least without fears of persecution...
Not that it isn't an interesting concept, but I hav troubles seeing the advantage of this project. OK, so you have a board for which the source is open, but which lacks many of the features of modern video cards. Alternately, you can have a more modern video card, but barring using the proprietary drivers perhaps you can't use the modern features.
If this project took off I could see it becoming something impressive, but at the moment open-source-but-outdated isn't much better than a card with a card that has reverse-engineered drivers and is newer-but-driver-outdated.
I had a big arguement once with a very Christian friends in regards to music that was labelled "Christian" Vs that which just had a theme based around many "faith" values.
There are quite a few games, many RPG's in fact, that deal with moral issues that fall close to religion. You don't have to say "This game is Christian" and have a character who kneels down and sings a hymn after every battle... how about more games that are just in line with the values that society seems to be losing?
Then I can ditch both my existing PSU and my UPS... no more power outages for me!
Now I just have to wait for enermax to release their NCLR-PSU001 line of PSU's...
And I have no moral problem lying under oath to those bastards.
To further the parent. You aren't lying to the RIAA, you are lying to a judge. That's a crime in itself... so even if you get off the hook for fileswapping you can be nailed for perjury. What differentiates a situation where I am UNABLE to comply from a situation where I AM able, but FAIL to comply?? Now I do believe you aren't required to incriminate yourself anyhow, they have to prove you committed the crime... let your lawyer do the talking in this case. Once you start talking though, you aren't allowed to be so selective. You might tell the truth but be omissive in some ways and still get off... but if you get caught in a lie you're quite screwed.
So if I keep a spare drive of the same type as my main storage media that has plenty clean/authorized content... write a little extra to it to make "recent content" then swap it with the drive that had all my mp3's... how exactly would you know? This assumes also of course that swap/etc are also stored on said drive and not the root drive?
Of course, unless you are really doing something you know is wrong and/or are really paranoid - why bother? I'm sure as heck not going to invest in a spare 160GB drive to spare in mild event that the MPAA/RIAA or anyone else come a'knockin. I'd rather spend my money other places
How would monitor email have stopped this scenario? You already knew the email was sent, that the sender screwed it for everyone, and it was already sent. Would it have prevented this situation if you'd had open access to his inbox?
I can see reasons for blocking unauthorized download, attachments etc. I do not see a reason for them to actively monitor all your messages. This is no different than spying on a phone conversation, or possibly lifting your mail (if you get a personal letter at work, it's still your letter).
consider the number of people who are hurt or killed when they hit them with cars...
I don't see how one could consider a large stationary object dangerous in this case. Any large rather-immutable object is going to cause injury when you slam into it at high speed... it's like saying that cliffs or steep hills shouldn't be near highways because they are equally dangerous if you impact with them.
Sorry, but a stationary telephone pole isn't hurting anyone. I'd say that the impacter is damaging the pole, and the injury caused by impact to an object of large mass nonspecific to whether the impacted object is in fact a telephone pole.
Ummm, sorry, while the US does have their share of religious nutbags, you make it sound like the religion itself is originating in the US. The Catholic church actually originates in Europe, and trust me there are quite a number of highly influential church bodies there crusading against same-sex marriage in N. America...
Yes, there are US religious groups attempting to influence Canadian politics, so are Canadian and European religous groups. I don't personally agree with a lot of it, but I don't think this is the case of Americans tell Canadians what to do, rather it's religious groups telling gov't/citizenry what to do.
Sanctions, political bribes, and well placed "incentives" or just plain tricky wording...
I will mention however, that many of the products produced by China etc are knockoffs. Some can compete with the original goods fairly evenly, some can't on basis of quality etc, and some do better.
For example, let's look at things like:
a) Digital Media: China isn't making "similar" items, they are copying, exactly, the foreign items. They aren't making a movie/CD like the one in theatre, but rather copying the existing media. Therefore, no production costs, low reproduction costs, and a whole lotta profit for a product that *seems* legit but isn't
b) Clothing/Textiles/etc: Hell, a lot of these things are *already* made in China. Quality isn't much of a concern here, and sometimes China can even win out (better quality than the poorer countries that product the original item). Sometimes the Chinese item is better or the same. Again, often they copy others' designs, but often enough those designs are fad-based. Some clothing is an original idea, others are the same 'ol same ol' with a popular log on them. Some waryiness should take place here though, it might look like the original but you've got a 25/50/25 chance on the quality (better/same/worse).
c) Electronics: You have to be careful here. China makes some decent products but there is also a lot of stuff that is cheap in both cost and quality. Quite often this reminds me of the old Simpsons episode where Homer is looking at a new TV, and goes through brands like Sorny and Magnetbox... looks-the-same doesn't quite cut it in the electronics industry. This is not to say that all Chinese electronics suck, more often it is the "imitiation" brands that do. Some Chinese-named brands are quite good such as the Mp3 player I have for which I don't even know the english name of the producing country... awesome amp, battery life, slim size. It looks like some other brands but doesn't claim to be them. My watch on the other hand claims to be an expensive swiss, looks the same until you get in the shower and it fogs up (in other words I'm not believing the "water resistance claims on the back).
There's some issues with using general words/names etc as trademarks though. Depending on the country, MS has found that attempting to enforce ownership of the "Windows" name meets with varying success
Ummm... does make PC games from time to time. I have a copy of Freelancer sitting on my shelves... promising game but rather repetetive and boring over time, still it's an MS PC-based game though.
Wouldn't it be much nicer if you could have a dupe-moderation score. If enough people mod an article as dupe, you can skip by having a threshold in your user settings....
While I don't support this particular case...
In many cases randomized samples are taken for prosecution simple because it is too difficult/expensive/etc to prosecute en-masse. When a cop pulls up behind you with his lights blaring, is it his fault that he doesn't pull over the other 2-3 vehicles near you that were also speeding? Maybe he'll have a partner or a car down the road which can catch another, but he simply can't manage to snag you all.
OK, so that's speeding tickets. Perhaps murderers are treated more strongly? How about plea bargains then, a hardcore criminal might get off so that police can nab one of more other hardcore criminals... quite often this happen with organized crime.
There's nothing wrong with random selection, it's part of the deterrance value in the criminal process. Better than if a cop hauls you in because he didn't like your tie or something stupid such as that.
And thus, the police would get a warrant, and they would recieve co-operation. Why does somebody always have to make it a "please think about the children" issue.
The RIAA is fully capable of persuing this manner further, through the proper channels, just like everyone else. We're not "standing up for pirates," but rather standing up for the rights that we all share.
Where I could see 4GB of storage coming in useful would be simply as a portable drive. Make that baby would like a standard USB drive and suddenly my phone becomes a whole lot more useful.
Of course, that isn't likely to happen since the phone companies will want to lock the phone so you have to transfer all files through the cellular network at big $$$ each... even my current phone though capable of USB transfer has had such features disabled.
Quash the former, accidentally hit submit before finishing (damn oversensitive touchpad). There are a lot of wonderful ideas currently that simply won't reach fruition due to copyright issues. There are also a lot of good things that wouldn't exist today without copyright.
What I was going to throw in is that there are a lot of things that both depend on and are threatened by copyright. On one hand, the copyright keeps the blatant forgeries down. On the other, others can blast them based on similar products/components. Copyrights (and moreso patents) give with one hand and take with another. The biggest problem nowadays is not their existance, but that the rules that govern them allow them to be easily abused.
How about things that would have been invented, or followed through with. How many great concepts have been quashed because components/etc would infringe upon existing copyrights (or worse, patents)
Chances are that a website with a Chinese URL isn't going to be of much use to you. Even if you could figure out the URL, chances are the pages would also be in Chinese and you wouldn't be able to read them. Of course, if you can understand enough Chinese to read the pages, then you can probably understand enough to type in the URL's...
Many ISPs exempt their own networks from filtering... particularly blacklists, etc.
You might want to check out the manufacturer Vs shipper warranty. I'm not sure if 90 days is standard, but I know a lot of stuff I buy tends to have a 1yr+ manufacturer warranty, while the company you buy it from might only accept RMA returns for the first 90 days...
For my desktop machine I've used debian 'unstable' for quite awhile and had very good luck with it.
I've had good luck with "backports" for finding packages to upgrade my decrepit stable packages, and for those that want to mix+match just add something like:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable clamav samba
or
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing apache apache-ssl