Looking at the graphs and data, I'd hardly call it dramatic and wave it around yet -- ooh, apache's growing, and microsoft isn't, and soone they'll switch and we'll all be right back here again.
If it can stay like that long enough, then maybe that's something to talk about.
Put out really buggy software that infuriates mac users -- aside from the subconcious associations of frustration associated with Macs, new users will also reject Macs as inferior -- "they can't even run the same applications without crashing"
Not that I'm implying Macs _arn't_ inferior, of course...
Well that makes sense -- what with all this space elevator talk running around, we should just build it out of fiber-optics and tie the other end to the moon, thus killing two birds with one stone, as well at the entire earth when the cord pulls the moon out of its non-geo-stationary orbit and destroying the world.
Oh right -- so that I'm still on topic (yeah too late), they should attach wireless repeaters to the back of all the penguins, and use them to relay the signal to shore...
I expect they'll be around quite a while -- personally I'd still rather spend $20 for 50 cd-rs, and $80 for a fast CD-Burner, than $50 for 5 dvd-rs, and $450 for a slow DVD-Burner.
Anyone know how long it takes to burn a 4.7GB DVD on one of those drives?
Actually, since you'd have to buy VB6, the _easiest_ way to write apps would be EBV3.0 (embedded Visual Basic). It's a free download from Microsoft's site, but it'll only write apps for Windows CE (PocketPC, HPC, etc).
Also included is embedded Visual C++, which I suggest you look at instead if you have any Win32 experience at all.
They arn't acting against people who simply download them -- if I read the article correctly, they're "decoying" themselves as hosting MP3s in order to lure RIAA into launching an attack on them. In this case, they've identified a RIAA attacker, and thus block that IP/computer from their network.
It is, still, a fuzzy form of entrapment I suppose, but at least in this case they're waiting for that person to make an attack on their computer, thus making the aggressive move.
Although it may not actually persecute those who try and research areas that certain execs don't want probed, it does provide those companys the opportunity to bring legal action against them.
As I see it, there are few people who want to pay the legal fees, go through the hassle, and take the risk, regardless of whether or not the DMCA _should_ put them at risk.
So while it may not be the final authority, it's enough of an opening that those with money and power can abuse it.
Nah, you're right, if there's no competition between the markets, there's no problem.
_EXCEPT_, and this is big, you're causing defamation to an established trademark.
Godzilla is very established, and by using a trademark (Mozilla, reptile) that is so similar they're indirectly diminishing the Godzilla trademark. Whereas everyone though "giant reptile, Oh Godzilla" before, perhaps now some people think "reptile, zilla, oh the browser".
The FCC has the power to make regulations and "laws" as it sees fit, under its jurisdiction. The way and breadth of these powers were designated when it was created. You can appeal these regulations in a true court of law as unconstitutional, of course, or in some cases that they overstepped their authority.
Same way the IRS makes tax regulations that they can bitch-slap you over;)
"2) Natural magnetic induction from the Earth's magnetic field. I don't know what the terminology for this is, but this concept was explored recently with the use of a thin tether drug behind a space shuttle. The difference in the magnetic field at different locations of a conducter generates electricity."
Not only does that sound... a little unbelievable in the context that I originally heard it, but if it _is_ applicable then you'd need to have it in a non-geosynchronous orbit, as it'd be the changing magnetic field that induces electricity. You can't just stick a magnet on a wire and "poof" you have electricity (I wish =] )
Unless, of course the warranty means absolutely nothing to you because you're the kind of person who hack into your machine and fix it rather than send it back to Dell. Or, of course, you're upgrading because your machine is old, which incidentally means you're out of warranty anyway.
A lot of people that linux is _attempting_ to target are previous win32 users?
So we could be making it easier for them to jump onto the bandwagon.
Alternatively, it really does make things easier. Looking through LETTER.TXT and Letter.txt and so forth can make it harder to figure out which one it is your really want. (I know, just don't name them that in the first place). Consider you go to re-save an old document, but accidentally capitalize the first letter this time -- now you have two copies that are very similar in name, and might end up using the old version by accident.
Case sensitivity, in a purist sense, is good. Case sensitivity, in a realistic sense, can be a hinderance.
We could develop a form of avatar acting -- one character actually acting, being motion captured, and then transformed into someone totally different for display.
I'd actually like to see this kind of thing applied to a theatre setting. Sounds like a good basis for some visual art.
Whats with writing all this functionality into the base language itself? If I don't have to worry about it, I can write horrible, sloppy code, and.... not worry about it!
Soon we'll be able to just tell the compiler the idea of what we want, and it'll write the program for us!!
*flame mode* Garbage collections is for wusses! _Real_ programmers write everything from the ground up, every time! */flame mode*
The problems arise with the invasive laws the US makes that protect its own companies, that other countries then have to leeway to intevene on.
For instance, in the article he mentions the bill allowing companies to perform a DNS attack on copyright abusers -- which under European law might be illegal, but is the US going to let the EU prosecute US companies? No, so this law affect everyone, regardless of their own laws.
I don't think the point is that the US is the only country that can do this. That's simply to inflame and get his point across.
However, the rest of the world (in general) seems to be getting pissed off about the US's overbearing (in general) attitude.
This is simply another facet of the problem.
Ultimately, it comes down to the US being an irresponsible "global community member" and acting like it's actions dont affect anyone -- or when they do, who cares what _they_ think?
"Unlike biometrics like fingerprinting and face recognition (see "Face Recognition", TR Nov 2001), light printing doesn't rely on image-processing. Instead, the device measures wavelengths of reflected light, which requires considerably less computing power."
So, its a fairly different method, meaning different solutions to it application.
"Norton says, "but the point is that fingerprint technology cannot determine 'liveness.' You can't foil the Lumidigm system with fake or dead tissue.""
So, maybe it's more reliable?
Either way tho, I agree with the guy down there who disbelieves it -- if you're measuring the wavelength of reflected light, couldn't that change drastically (enough to make it useless) over time?
Slight difference in the feasability. I mean, seriously, what're they _supposed_ to do with high speed access and a cd-burner. It's not like there's anything else to do on the net, right?
Well anyway, you can't regulate handing out a cd-burner, but you can regulate a computer under your control.
And who said anything about breaking into someone's house? Now you're just being provocative.
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Looking at the graphs and data, I'd hardly call it dramatic and wave it around yet -- ooh, apache's growing, and microsoft isn't, and soone they'll switch and we'll all be right back here again.
If it can stay like that long enough, then maybe that's something to talk about.
Put out really buggy software that infuriates mac users -- aside from the subconcious associations of frustration associated with Macs, new users will also reject Macs as inferior -- "they can't even run the same applications without crashing"
Not that I'm implying Macs _arn't_ inferior, of course...
Well that makes sense -- what with all this space elevator talk running around, we should just build it out of fiber-optics and tie the other end to the moon, thus killing two birds with one stone, as well at the entire earth when the cord pulls the moon out of its non-geo-stationary orbit and destroying the world.
Oh right -- so that I'm still on topic (yeah too late), they should attach wireless repeaters to the back of all the penguins, and use them to relay the signal to shore...
Or am I at the wrong pole again?
Um, over 1600 kilometers? You wouldn't even have a line-of-site at that range!
Or are you intending to place powered repeaters every so often along the route, over the south pole...
I expect they'll be around quite a while -- personally I'd still rather spend $20 for 50 cd-rs, and $80 for a fast CD-Burner, than $50 for 5 dvd-rs, and $450 for a slow DVD-Burner.
Anyone know how long it takes to burn a 4.7GB DVD on one of those drives?
Actually, since you'd have to buy VB6, the _easiest_ way to write apps would be EBV3.0 (embedded Visual Basic). It's a free download from Microsoft's site, but it'll only write apps for Windows CE (PocketPC, HPC, etc).
Also included is embedded Visual C++, which I suggest you look at instead if you have any Win32 experience at all.
They arn't acting against people who simply download them -- if I read the article correctly, they're "decoying" themselves as hosting MP3s in order to lure RIAA into launching an attack on them. In this case, they've identified a RIAA attacker, and thus block that IP/computer from their network.
It is, still, a fuzzy form of entrapment I suppose, but at least in this case they're waiting for that person to make an attack on their computer, thus making the aggressive move.
Although it may not actually persecute those who try and research areas that certain execs don't want probed, it does provide those companys the opportunity to bring legal action against them.
As I see it, there are few people who want to pay the legal fees, go through the hassle, and take the risk, regardless of whether or not the DMCA _should_ put them at risk.
So while it may not be the final authority, it's enough of an opening that those with money and power can abuse it.
Nah, you're right, if there's no competition between the markets, there's no problem.
_EXCEPT_, and this is big, you're causing defamation to an established trademark.
Godzilla is very established, and by using a trademark (Mozilla, reptile) that is so similar they're indirectly diminishing the Godzilla trademark. Whereas everyone though "giant reptile, Oh Godzilla" before, perhaps now some people think "reptile, zilla, oh the browser".
Or something like that.
Hey, I'm not a... ah screw it.
The FCC has the power to make regulations and "laws" as it sees fit, under its jurisdiction. The way and breadth of these powers were designated when it was created.
;)
You can appeal these regulations in a true court of law as unconstitutional, of course, or in some cases that they overstepped their authority.
Same way the IRS makes tax regulations that they can bitch-slap you over
"2) Natural magnetic induction from the Earth's magnetic field.
I don't know what the terminology for this is, but this concept
was explored recently with the use of a thin tether drug
behind a space shuttle. The difference in the magnetic field at
different locations of a conducter generates electricity."
Not only does that sound... a little unbelievable in the context that I originally heard it, but if it _is_ applicable then you'd need to have it in a non-geosynchronous orbit, as it'd be the changing magnetic field that induces electricity. You can't just stick a magnet on a wire and "poof" you have electricity (I wish =] )
Unless, of course the warranty means absolutely nothing to you because you're the kind of person who hack into your machine and fix it rather than send it back to Dell.
Or, of course, you're upgrading because your machine is old, which incidentally means you're out of warranty anyway.
A lot of people that linux is _attempting_ to target are previous win32 users?
So we could be making it easier for them to jump onto the bandwagon.
Alternatively, it really does make things easier. Looking through LETTER.TXT and Letter.txt and so forth can make it harder to figure out which one it is your really want. (I know, just don't name them that in the first place). Consider you go to re-save an old document, but accidentally capitalize the first letter this time -- now you have two copies that are very similar in name, and might end up using the old version by accident.
Case sensitivity, in a purist sense, is good.
Case sensitivity, in a realistic sense, can be a hinderance.
We could develop a form of avatar acting -- one character actually acting, being motion captured, and then transformed into someone totally different for display.
I'd actually like to see this kind of thing applied to a theatre setting. Sounds like a good basis for some visual art.
How come we get away with a 9-digit unique ID, whereas in Japan (with less population, surely) they need an 11-digit one?
So don't cheat on your wife!
Why are the examples of why _not_ to have these things always immoral?
You just want to shirk responsibility...
It seems silly to have a right to be an asshole.
You can be an asshole, but you have to deal with those consequences.
America != United States
Good lord
While we're at it,
England != Great Britain
and
England is not the capital of London.
United States != All that is good in the world and
Nationalism == Racism, as far as some of us (Humans) take it.
"You can do anything if you try hard enough"
Me: "It doesn't matter how hard I flap my arms, I'll never be able to fly!"
Only now I see it can be done!
'Xcuse me while I go stand out in the middle of a field and flap my arms like a airtraffic conductor having an epilectic seizure.
Whats with writing all this functionality into the base language itself? If I don't have to worry about it, I can write horrible, sloppy code, and.... not worry about it!
Soon we'll be able to just tell the compiler the idea of what we want, and it'll write the program for us!!
*flame mode*
Garbage collections is for wusses! _Real_ programmers write everything from the ground up, every time!
*/flame mode*
The problems arise with the invasive laws the US makes that protect its own companies, that other countries then have to leeway to intevene on.
For instance, in the article he mentions the bill allowing companies to perform a DNS attack on copyright abusers -- which under European law might be illegal, but is the US going to let the EU prosecute US companies? No, so this law affect everyone, regardless of their own laws.
I don't think the point is that the US is the only country that can do this. That's simply to inflame and get his point across.
However, the rest of the world (in general) seems to be getting pissed off about the US's overbearing (in general) attitude.
This is simply another facet of the problem.
Ultimately, it comes down to the US being an irresponsible "global community member" and acting like it's actions dont affect anyone -- or when they do, who cares what _they_ think?
But, don't you lose all your assets when you die, regardless of if you're frozen?
So you wouldn't have any money when you came back. And you'd have to pay for everything up front.
Or, someone could set up a kind of escrow service, where they hold your money as "theirs" but promise to give it back.
Sounds like a system just waiting to be raped, uh, I mean reaped.
Well, let's go read the article:
"Unlike biometrics like fingerprinting and face recognition (see "Face Recognition", TR Nov 2001), light printing doesn't rely on image-processing. Instead, the device measures wavelengths of reflected light, which requires considerably less computing power."
So, its a fairly different method, meaning different solutions to it application.
"Norton says, "but the point is that fingerprint technology cannot determine 'liveness.' You can't foil the Lumidigm system with fake or dead tissue.""
So, maybe it's more reliable?
Either way tho, I agree with the guy down there who disbelieves it -- if you're measuring the wavelength of reflected light, couldn't that change drastically (enough to make it useless) over time?
Slight difference in the feasability. I mean, seriously, what're they _supposed_ to do with high speed access and a cd-burner. It's not like there's anything else to do on the net, right?
Well anyway, you can't regulate handing out a cd-burner, but you can regulate a computer under your control.
And who said anything about breaking into someone's house? Now you're just being provocative.
And if you're going to give people the ability to do something illegal, you've got to at least make an effort to intervene.
It's like handing a kid some candy and saying, "here, don't eat this".