Their victory is not complete though because what they don't want to happen still happens. As long as definance continues then they can't claim victory. Sure, they're trying to use this for the basis of the legal system, but they're not quite all the way there. See the victory of the DeCSS for an example.
A company can not just barge into another country and demand their wants and rules be met. They have no legal clout, they filed no suit, it's as if someone from the next town over from where you live barges into your house and tells you to stop using your alarm clock to wake up in the morning because he created the alarm-buzzer noise.
If they cave though, then bullying becomes a legal and effective way of getting your way, and we're all screwed.
a = 1, first
b = 2, second
c = 3, third
c++ = 3 + 1, or 4, fourth
d = 4 as well, fifth
increment c by 1, should get the fourth, also known as d. c++ = fourth = should be the letter d. so if d really comes after c, then what would c + 1 be?
Before C came B, before B came A, and after C came C++, ++ meaning +1, or in other words, D. So if the next language is D does C++ become C 1/2? or C.5?...someone had to sacrifice the karma to say it
One of the largest difficulties in forecasting weather is something called the "chaos effect". It's the theory that one small change in one portion of the world can lead to drastic changes down the line in another portion of the world, such as the wind from the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Asia eventually adding just a bit more speed of wind to a super hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanes are huge heat-transfer engines. The only reason that hurricanes form is to transfer heat in the atmosphere from the tropical latitudes to the temperate and polar latitudes, thus helping keeping the world at stable temperatures. Severe hail storms in the American midwest are a way for dryer air to head east off the slopes of the Rockey mountains to the eastern United States, thus keeping the east from being as muggy as a tropical rainforest in the afternoon.
Say you nudge a category five hurricane south of hitting Miami, Florida. Instead, it strikes near Havana, Cuba, causing considerable damage and devistation. In a time where altering the weather is obvious, the Cuban government is outraged, and begins to launch terror attacks in the southern United States due to the high death toll caused by the Americans changing the path of the hurricane instead of hitting Miami and causing billions of dollars of damage. This example shows one effect - if the weather could be controled by westen nations, smaller nations, or other western nations would retaliate with terrorism, or all out war, thus causing much more widespread damage than the hurricane would ever do.
The hurricane, and others like it, are directed south, or out to sea in the Atlantic, away from the eastern seaboard of the United States. As a result, the western coastline of Europe, espically the British Isles, get lashed by severe windstorms in the fall, while the eastern United States freezes in much colder airmasses going unmoderated from Canada. A number of hurricanes passing over the same portion of water creates upwelling, thus changing a considerable amount of the sea surface temperature in the Atlantic, messing up the North Atlantic Oscillation, and throwing weather patterns in the eastern United States and Europe into chaos in the wintertime.
Severe thunderstorms are prevented in the central United States, preventing dryer air from flowing east to offer relief to high heat indexes in the Eastern United States. With the lack of dry air, heatwaves intensify, and thousands die in large metro areas thanks to the already present heat-island effect. (300+ alone died in 1 weekend in a Chicago heatwave in the 90's)
In the end, the worldwide weather patterns are thrown into chaos, which is thus controlled by more chaos, and so on and so forth, until the process gets out of control even of the weather controllers, and then the average person, the average you & I, get to suffer for it.
This project, above all others, should be halted immeidately, for our sake.
Sure Windows is a monopoly, sure they have cheated to get to where they are, but having Windows around, no matter if any of you want to admit it or not, is a very good thing. They bring a level of stability to what would otherwise be a chatoic computer world. The internet would be no where near as popular now as it is if it wasn't for a simple, easy to understand standard for tens of millions of people to use - Windows. Are you really suggesting that you would want to see people who show up to buy a computer have to choose between which Linux distro to have installed on it? You really want to explain to 50 year old dads buying a computer so their daughter can get online and do that "chatting" thing how to recomplie a kernal?
Perhaps for a moment you should tone down the Windows rhetoric and not look at Windows as something that is going chew up the rest of the computer world until there is nothing but windows. Think of it as a gateway. People get intelligent on Windows, they move up to Linux. The linux movement is growing, Windows isn't killing it. So perhaps until windows starts trying to squash individual distros into oblivion, people in the community here can back off on the anti-windows rhetoric.
And besides... how many of you uber 1337/.ers out there started out with windows, or are using windows right now?
They're a software company. At the moment they happen to be in the lead. Deal with it.
1984 delt with an ongoing war between two super powers after they had obliterated the major cities of the world in the 1960's, and going on to enslave the population through socialism run-a-mock. The book is one man's attempt to change the system within, which goes on to be slapped in his face hard when the system has such total control, he could peacefully resist for a thousand years, it would still make no difference and he would still get caught.
This article... is about trademarking the word Windows. I think you're streatching, a little.
Where are you diging this up from? I've had family members who have died from smoking, was their death faked for me by the left?
Air pollution is getting worse, try breathing country air compared to the air in Detroit where I live.
No homeless in the country? Have you ever left the pedistol you're on and visited, oh I don't know, ANY inner city?
Want examples of women being paid less than men? Let me take you to the k-mart where I used to work where I would get a $0.35 raise and a woman would only get a $0.25 raise.
Of course cigarette smoking dosen't cost the public money, because people who are suffering from lung cancer don't go to the hospital, right?
Animals don't have rights? Tell me that again when the ecosystem is in shambles and we don't have anything to eat.
No species going extinct per day? Oh what do you care, they're just insignifigant bugs.
Nuclear power isn't dangerous? Go visit Eastern Europe and tell people that.
For the love of God, think before you sound tremendously stupid, but above all, remember that no one political party is out to "get you", and so no one political party is going to make up world history and scientific breakthroughs over the past century! I suppose man never landed on the moon too, right?
Mr. Bush, did the Secret Service tell you how to use the Internet without AOL yet? It's okay, you don't have to use it just because it has "America" in the name and it talks to you when you have mail. Come, George. Let me tell you how Al Gore created the internet....
It unties the potentially tied-behind-back hands of Asian countries who have rampant pirating issues of Microsoft products. If free OSes become a hit in Asia, Gates can not eventually have Asia in his back pocket when he comes calling for Licensing Fees, and Asia gets to save tons of money with not having to pay for Windows & Upgrades, which eventually puts them on an equal footing with Western countries, so more competition, so on so on.... advantage? Everyone.
Well open your eyes and realize that there are plenty more terrorist attacks that have occured aside from the WTC, and by many different groups of people as well.
Thank you for your racist-sounding remark. All terrorists are not Arabian. Ask people in central & south America, and Ireland, if you need more conformation on that. Second, yes, making light of such a tragic figurative loss of life, I will definately be ashamed for making a joke now.
Actually there is a fairly signifigant portion of the geek community that would dance in the streets if Redmond, WA, was bombed (or at least one building in particular)... even if in the figurative sence:)
I believe Yahoo, back in the 'net boom days, declared itself unhackable, about a week before it was knocked offline for a few hours from a DoS attack.
And by the way, what would happen if you DoS attacked this central uber server? If all traffic is routed through it, wouldn't that in theory turn the internet, or at least the portion controled (having traffic flow through it) by it, turn off?
Yes but this filler news is stuck inbetween the weatherman who can't predict and the "aww look at the cute ~insert animal story here~", it's a portion of the news people probably don't pay much attention to, and I highly doubt that an one minunte news clip is going to cause people to realize how bad the RIAA is, or let people formulate opinions in any which way. The story needs *real* exposure, from network news shows, where they can concieveably donate a half hour or an hour to the whole RIAA/P2P story. One minutne might satisfy people who know the situation in the "ahh, it's finally getting out there!" aspect, but for Joe NonGeek, it will still amount to just about "yeah yeah yeah... hurry this up, I want to see Friends".
It's sad to realize, that when you step back, all that this will amount to is a good chuckle for the geek community and a *shrug* so what? from the record industry. What needes to happen is for publications on what the RIAA is doing to reach farther than the tech community and get on mainstream news. Of course, for reasons you can already probably figure out, it won't.
With the exit of AMD (in a few years, anyhow) from competing directly with Intel, it's nice to see there may, just may, be some hope for chip competition in the future.
Just think of the obviousness of it all. To post, you need time. Jobs tend to take up time, as does school for the younger ones, or just plain old life for all ages. If your life has more activities then you will post less often.
Well of course. If you blame the ecomomy then eventually you would have to blame the governent, and in this world we just can't do that. So yes, bloggers are the root of all joblessness in the world, because it just makes sence!
If the MPAA is going after the company because it wants profits, and not because it wants to prevent the software from being available on a potential mass-market, could this mean the MPAA may be accepting the potential for movies to be burned to DVD-R? Maybe they'll let up if they can get a chunk of the profit? Probably not, but one can dream...
Or here's something even farther out there. The money is there, it's all being plunked into defense though. Maybe if the U.S. could stop various evil-deemed countries we could focus on greater goals.
Then again, look who is in power.
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Again, just because it has happened, does that mean it is right and we should all just stand by and watch it happen?
Have they won yet?
Thank you for turning a typo into a good point. I owe you karma.
Their victory is not complete though because what they don't want to happen still happens. As long as definance continues then they can't claim victory. Sure, they're trying to use this for the basis of the legal system, but they're not quite all the way there. See the victory of the DeCSS for an example.
A company can not just barge into another country and demand their wants and rules be met. They have no legal clout, they filed no suit, it's as if someone from the next town over from where you live barges into your house and tells you to stop using your alarm clock to wake up in the morning because he created the alarm-buzzer noise.
If they cave though, then bullying becomes a legal and effective way of getting your way, and we're all screwed.
a = 1, first
b = 2, second
c = 3, third
c++ = 3 + 1, or 4, fourth
d = 4 as well, fifth
increment c by 1, should get the fourth, also known as d. c++ = fourth = should be the letter d. so if d really comes after c, then what would c + 1 be?
duh?
Before C came B, before B came A, and after C came C++, ++ meaning +1, or in other words, D. So if the next language is D does C++ become C 1/2? or C.5? ...someone had to sacrifice the karma to say it
this screams for a Wierd Al parody
One of the largest difficulties in forecasting weather is something called the "chaos effect". It's the theory that one small change in one portion of the world can lead to drastic changes down the line in another portion of the world, such as the wind from the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Asia eventually adding just a bit more speed of wind to a super hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanes are huge heat-transfer engines. The only reason that hurricanes form is to transfer heat in the atmosphere from the tropical latitudes to the temperate and polar latitudes, thus helping keeping the world at stable temperatures. Severe hail storms in the American midwest are a way for dryer air to head east off the slopes of the Rockey mountains to the eastern United States, thus keeping the east from being as muggy as a tropical rainforest in the afternoon.
Say you nudge a category five hurricane south of hitting Miami, Florida. Instead, it strikes near Havana, Cuba, causing considerable damage and devistation. In a time where altering the weather is obvious, the Cuban government is outraged, and begins to launch terror attacks in the southern United States due to the high death toll caused by the Americans changing the path of the hurricane instead of hitting Miami and causing billions of dollars of damage. This example shows one effect - if the weather could be controled by westen nations, smaller nations, or other western nations would retaliate with terrorism, or all out war, thus causing much more widespread damage than the hurricane would ever do.
The hurricane, and others like it, are directed south, or out to sea in the Atlantic, away from the eastern seaboard of the United States. As a result, the western coastline of Europe, espically the British Isles, get lashed by severe windstorms in the fall, while the eastern United States freezes in much colder airmasses going unmoderated from Canada. A number of hurricanes passing over the same portion of water creates upwelling, thus changing a considerable amount of the sea surface temperature in the Atlantic, messing up the North Atlantic Oscillation, and throwing weather patterns in the eastern United States and Europe into chaos in the wintertime.
Severe thunderstorms are prevented in the central United States, preventing dryer air from flowing east to offer relief to high heat indexes in the Eastern United States. With the lack of dry air, heatwaves intensify, and thousands die in large metro areas thanks to the already present heat-island effect. (300+ alone died in 1 weekend in a Chicago heatwave in the 90's)
In the end, the worldwide weather patterns are thrown into chaos, which is thus controlled by more chaos, and so on and so forth, until the process gets out of control even of the weather controllers, and then the average person, the average you & I, get to suffer for it.
This project, above all others, should be halted immeidately, for our sake.
Sure Windows is a monopoly, sure they have cheated to get to where they are, but having Windows around, no matter if any of you want to admit it or not, is a very good thing. They bring a level of stability to what would otherwise be a chatoic computer world. The internet would be no where near as popular now as it is if it wasn't for a simple, easy to understand standard for tens of millions of people to use - Windows. Are you really suggesting that you would want to see people who show up to buy a computer have to choose between which Linux distro to have installed on it? You really want to explain to 50 year old dads buying a computer so their daughter can get online and do that "chatting" thing how to recomplie a kernal?
/.ers out there started out with windows, or are using windows right now?
Perhaps for a moment you should tone down the Windows rhetoric and not look at Windows as something that is going chew up the rest of the computer world until there is nothing but windows. Think of it as a gateway. People get intelligent on Windows, they move up to Linux. The linux movement is growing, Windows isn't killing it. So perhaps until windows starts trying to squash individual distros into oblivion, people in the community here can back off on the anti-windows rhetoric.
And besides... how many of you uber 1337
They're a software company. At the moment they happen to be in the lead. Deal with it.
1984 delt with an ongoing war between two super powers after they had obliterated the major cities of the world in the 1960's, and going on to enslave the population through socialism run-a-mock. The book is one man's attempt to change the system within, which goes on to be slapped in his face hard when the system has such total control, he could peacefully resist for a thousand years, it would still make no difference and he would still get caught.
This article... is about trademarking the word Windows. I think you're streatching, a little.
Where are you diging this up from? I've had family members who have died from smoking, was their death faked for me by the left?
Air pollution is getting worse, try breathing country air compared to the air in Detroit where I live.
No homeless in the country? Have you ever left the pedistol you're on and visited, oh I don't know, ANY inner city?
Want examples of women being paid less than men? Let me take you to the k-mart where I used to work where I would get a $0.35 raise and a woman would only get a $0.25 raise.
Of course cigarette smoking dosen't cost the public money, because people who are suffering from lung cancer don't go to the hospital, right?
Animals don't have rights? Tell me that again when the ecosystem is in shambles and we don't have anything to eat.
No species going extinct per day? Oh what do you care, they're just insignifigant bugs.
Nuclear power isn't dangerous? Go visit Eastern Europe and tell people that.
For the love of God, think before you sound tremendously stupid, but above all, remember that no one political party is out to "get you", and so no one political party is going to make up world history and scientific breakthroughs over the past century! I suppose man never landed on the moon too, right?
Mr. Bush, did the Secret Service tell you how to use the Internet without AOL yet? It's okay, you don't have to use it just because it has "America" in the name and it talks to you when you have mail. Come, George. Let me tell you how Al Gore created the internet....
It unties the potentially tied-behind-back hands of Asian countries who have rampant pirating issues of Microsoft products. If free OSes become a hit in Asia, Gates can not eventually have Asia in his back pocket when he comes calling for Licensing Fees, and Asia gets to save tons of money with not having to pay for Windows & Upgrades, which eventually puts them on an equal footing with Western countries, so more competition, so on so on.... advantage? Everyone.
Well open your eyes and realize that there are plenty more terrorist attacks that have occured aside from the WTC, and by many different groups of people as well.
Thank you for your racist-sounding remark. All terrorists are not Arabian. Ask people in central & south America, and Ireland, if you need more conformation on that. Second, yes, making light of such a tragic figurative loss of life, I will definately be ashamed for making a joke now.
Actually there is a fairly signifigant portion of the geek community that would dance in the streets if Redmond, WA, was bombed (or at least one building in particular)... even if in the figurative sence :)
I believe Yahoo, back in the 'net boom days, declared itself unhackable, about a week before it was knocked offline for a few hours from a DoS attack.
And by the way, what would happen if you DoS attacked this central uber server? If all traffic is routed through it, wouldn't that in theory turn the internet, or at least the portion controled (having traffic flow through it) by it, turn off?
I know a game even worse than that... mastering verb tenses :)
Yes but this filler news is stuck inbetween the weatherman who can't predict and the "aww look at the cute ~insert animal story here~", it's a portion of the news people probably don't pay much attention to, and I highly doubt that an one minunte news clip is going to cause people to realize how bad the RIAA is, or let people formulate opinions in any which way. The story needs *real* exposure, from network news shows, where they can concieveably donate a half hour or an hour to the whole RIAA/P2P story. One minutne might satisfy people who know the situation in the "ahh, it's finally getting out there!" aspect, but for Joe NonGeek, it will still amount to just about "yeah yeah yeah... hurry this up, I want to see Friends".
It's sad to realize, that when you step back, all that this will amount to is a good chuckle for the geek community and a *shrug* so what? from the record industry. What needes to happen is for publications on what the RIAA is doing to reach farther than the tech community and get on mainstream news. Of course, for reasons you can already probably figure out, it won't.
With the exit of AMD (in a few years, anyhow) from competing directly with Intel, it's nice to see there may, just may, be some hope for chip competition in the future.
Just think of the obviousness of it all. To post, you need time. Jobs tend to take up time, as does school for the younger ones, or just plain old life for all ages. If your life has more activities then you will post less often.
Well of course. If you blame the ecomomy then eventually you would have to blame the governent, and in this world we just can't do that. So yes, bloggers are the root of all joblessness in the world, because it just makes sence!
If the MPAA is going after the company because it wants profits, and not because it wants to prevent the software from being available on a potential mass-market, could this mean the MPAA may be accepting the potential for movies to be burned to DVD-R? Maybe they'll let up if they can get a chunk of the profit? Probably not, but one can dream...
Or here's something even farther out there. The money is there, it's all being plunked into defense though. Maybe if the U.S. could stop various evil-deemed countries we could focus on greater goals. Then again, look who is in power.