That's true, but the unfair trade practices empower the FTC, not the FCC. It's gotta be the right authority exercised by the right agency.
The FCC is the regulatory agency for all wire and radio transmitting companies in the US. So, one could argue that they have the power, pursuant to USC 47.
I don't even have to look up one of those terms to tell you what it means.
Frame matched sound: Where sounds and video frames are synchronized, possibly also meaning that certain key frames are always played, with frame skips done as appropriate to get that frame to match up to when a certain part of a sound is playing.
Not a hard concept, particularly if you've ever edited a movie in flash (because key frames are an important concept in flash).
And one has to wonder when and how many publishers will come to conclusion that it's not beneficial to focus on that relatively small group.
I think you mean developer, not publisher. You'll see why I make this distinction in a moment.
Infinity Ward (publisher: Activision) seem to have realized that already. See Also: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Whereas Valve (publisher: EA) and Blizzard (publisher: Activision) care considerably more about their PC market than their console market. See Also: Team Fortress 2 (Valve) and any Blizzard property.
You're contradicting TFA without any evidence. TFA provided quite a lot of evidence to support its position such as:
Actually, you did his work for him. Emphasis added:
It's common knowledge that OpenGL... has first access to new GPU features via vendor extensions.
Vendor extensions are not part of the standard, which makes this statement from TFA misleading at best, outright lying at worst. These extensions usually don't make it into the OpenGL standard until years after DirectX has added them, as was pointed out by another poster elsewhere in this thread.
Of course, the best thing would be for municipalities to take over telecommunications pipes to the home as a public service like water, sewers, and roads, but that would require us to remind ourselves of how government is not evil and exists to serve the people. In this kind of scenario, telecommunication companies could become hired help under contract to government to provide maintenance, content, and other things.
This is precisely the reason that the Telcos are suing to stop municipalities from making their own broadband companies... to stop municipalities from owning the lines, thus breaking the Telcos' monopoly/duopoly by introducing competition.
Ahh, but does the government actually provide good roads? Sure, there are universal roads around America that you don't generally have to pay to use on-demand. But I think we've all gotten used to a universal crappy standard of excuses for roads. When was the last time roads were actually innovated on? Probably in the 1950s for most states.
That's because the Federal govt made the mistake of having the states fund road upkeep.
I don't know about the state you live in, but the one I live in (Michigan) is required to have a balanced budget. They can't just spend fictional money like the Federal govt can.
Incidentally, road upkeep costs more in the northern states due to the freeze/thaw cycle and its effect on roads.
Nothing in the text of this item specifies the fact that it's related to the USA. Just saying "Federal", "Congress" or "national" doesn't imply it's American. Believe it or not folks, the internet does actually extend beyond Hawaii.
While you're right the 3 words you mentioned don't, "Federal Communications Commission" or "FCC" is strictly American.
Unfortunately, it didn't occur to the US Government that, when subsidizing the construction of the various copper/fiber/etc... lines, to keep ownership of said lines.
If you ask a university's Comp Sci. program, they'll most likely say either suggest some combination of 4-5 Calculus classes (Calculus I-IV and Multi-variable Calculus).
Strict mode is a client setting, which means that you're always at the mercy of applications turning it off and inserting garbage. And there's the "IGNORE" keyword to allow that too. There is no way to make a MySQL server reject all incoming bad data.
Strict mode is a server setting passed on either the command-line while starting mysqld (you know, the server daemon) or in its configuration file in the [mysqld] section, and only super-users (users with the SUPER privilege) can change it at run time.
Hell, the page you linked to is titled "Server SQL Modes", which should have been a big clue that you were wrong.
I understand the concern - that MySQL will be an in-house "competitor" for resources to Oracle's database. However, why wouldn't they be complimentary?
That's the big mystery.
Microsoft seems to be doing ok with both SQL Server and SQL Server Express. It helps that the migration between the two is mind-numbingly simple.
If Oracle set up an easy way to migrate from MySQL to Oracle, and they renamed MySQL into "Oracle Express", there you go.
Because the majority of the people who make that content depend on it for their livelihoods and don't make much money. So while your argument might make sense when talking about a Disney movie from the 1920s, it makes almost no sense when referring to anything made within the last decade, which I have a hunch is the time period most people are pirating. I don't hear a lot of calls to go after people pirating Gershwin tunes.
To remind you, the crux of the GP's argument is that "nothing goes to the public domain anymore."
In the United States, this wasn't the case prior to the Copyright Act of 1976, which changed copyright from 28-56 years (the second 28-year term wasn't automatic) to the author's life plus 50 years / 75 (?) years for corporations).
No, no, no! You're doing it wrong! It's: 1. Feed and clothe the starving orphans in Africa. 2. They're recruited into military factions because they're healthy enough 3. ??? 4. Profit!
It used to be one IP per HTTP Vhost until named-based virtual hosting came along. You can't do that with SSL, though. When I worked at a major hosting provider, it was not uncommon for a single server to have 25-30 IPs on it to run a bunch of SSL vhosts.
The TLS protocol has support for name-based TLS virtual hosts. However, there's at least one major web server, whose name is the same as a Native American tribe, that doesn't properly support this out of the box.
More realistically, given that my phone, web-server, car, camera, email, GPS unit, home security system, etc. all should have their own IP address, we need at least 20x what a 32 bit address space can provide. And then you've to add the 'wasted space' so that we can allocate blocks of addresses in a logical fashion.
This is a straw-man, as not all devices need publicly addressable IPs, which is the current issue with the IPv4 space.
I get prompted for upgrades on my Mac maybe once a week where as it's nearly a daily happening with the PCs
What bizzaro world PC are you running? Microsoft takes a lot of flak for its updates, most of which are because they only release updates on the second Tuesday of each month, thus delaying somewhat important security updates.
Yes, Microsoft occasionally releases out-of-band updates, but I only remember two or three in the past year.
I have never understood the hate-on some people have for Stallman and the FSF. Stallman's accomplishments are really amazing. He's no doubt a mad genius -- but still a genius despite his eccentricity. What he has to say is almost always +5 interesting, whether or not I agree with it or not. It's too bad he doesn't contribute to slashdot.
Because these days, Stallman comes off as an anti-progressive luddite.
No, seriously, by his own admission, Stallman prints off web sites to read them! I can understand this if it were 10-15 years ago, but he said this in 2009!
I work for a state government, and we also get (as far as I know) top notch support from Microsoft. I suppose it helps that we're also one of their biggest clients (presumably) for Bing Maps.
Whereas Nintendo was protecting their franchise with the release of the CD-i rapes of Zelda. I'm sure whatever the amateur fans made couldn't have been as bad.
The CD-i Zelda games weren't made by Nintendo, but were apparently made by Philips to exploit a loop-hole in Nintendo's contract with Philips for the SNES CD-ROM addon. Even though said addon never came out.
Why would Nintendo bother? They are certainly capable of writing their own stories, even ones that have extremely little content.
For example, here's the complete story for Majora's Mask: Link is looking for Navi when he gets ambushed by Skull Kid. Skull Kid steals Link's horse and Ocarina of Time, and Link is turned into a Deku Scrub. Link has 3 Days (with a Groundhog Day effect) in which to find 4 masks to stop the Skull Kid from crashing the moon into the planet.
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The FCC is the regulatory agency for all wire and radio transmitting companies in the US. So, one could argue that they have the power, pursuant to USC 47.
I don't even have to look up one of those terms to tell you what it means.
Frame matched sound: Where sounds and video frames are synchronized, possibly also meaning that certain key frames are always played, with frame skips done as appropriate to get that frame to match up to when a certain part of a sound is playing.
Not a hard concept, particularly if you've ever edited a movie in flash (because key frames are an important concept in flash).
I think you mean developer, not publisher. You'll see why I make this distinction in a moment.
Infinity Ward (publisher: Activision) seem to have realized that already. See Also: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Whereas Valve (publisher: EA) and Blizzard (publisher: Activision) care considerably more about their PC market than their console market. See Also: Team Fortress 2 (Valve) and any Blizzard property.
Actually, you did his work for him. Emphasis added:
Vendor extensions are not part of the standard, which makes this statement from TFA misleading at best, outright lying at worst. These extensions usually don't make it into the OpenGL standard until years after DirectX has added them, as was pointed out by another poster elsewhere in this thread.
This is precisely the reason that the Telcos are suing to stop municipalities from making their own broadband companies... to stop municipalities from owning the lines, thus breaking the Telcos' monopoly/duopoly by introducing competition.
That's because the Federal govt made the mistake of having the states fund road upkeep.
I don't know about the state you live in, but the one I live in (Michigan) is required to have a balanced budget. They can't just spend fictional money like the Federal govt can.
Incidentally, road upkeep costs more in the northern states due to the freeze/thaw cycle and its effect on roads.
While you're right the 3 words you mentioned don't, "Federal Communications Commission" or "FCC" is strictly American.
Unfortunately, it didn't occur to the US Government that, when subsidizing the construction of the various copper/fiber/etc... lines, to keep ownership of said lines.
Ooh, I need to save this quote for later use. Or just the USC number and chapter.
If by "obvious choice" you mean "obvious choice not to run it due to privacy concerns" then I agree.
There's no way I'd want Google to be able to geolocate devices, considering how much information Google already collects about people.
If you ask a university's Comp Sci. program, they'll most likely say either suggest some combination of 4-5 Calculus classes (Calculus I-IV and Multi-variable Calculus).
Strict mode is a server setting passed on either the command-line while starting mysqld (you know, the server daemon) or in its configuration file in the [mysqld] section, and only super-users (users with the SUPER privilege) can change it at run time.
Hell, the page you linked to is titled "Server SQL Modes", which should have been a big clue that you were wrong.
He should have kept MySQL instead of trading it for what was behind door number one!
Rather than, say, Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?
To remind you, the crux of the GP's argument is that "nothing goes to the public domain anymore."
In the United States, this wasn't the case prior to the Copyright Act of 1976, which changed copyright from 28-56 years (the second 28-year term wasn't automatic) to the author's life plus 50 years / 75 (?) years for corporations).
No, no, no! You're doing it wrong! It's:
1. Feed and clothe the starving orphans in Africa.
2. They're recruited into military factions because they're healthy enough
3. ???
4. Profit!
The TLS protocol has support for name-based TLS virtual hosts. However, there's at least one major web server, whose name is the same as a Native American tribe, that doesn't properly support this out of the box.
This is a straw-man, as not all devices need publicly addressable IPs, which is the current issue with the IPv4 space.
What bizzaro world PC are you running? Microsoft takes a lot of flak for its updates, most of which are because they only release updates on the second Tuesday of each month, thus delaying somewhat important security updates.
Yes, Microsoft occasionally releases out-of-band updates, but I only remember two or three in the past year.
Because these days, Stallman comes off as an anti-progressive luddite.
No, seriously, by his own admission, Stallman prints off web sites to read them! I can understand this if it were 10-15 years ago, but he said this in 2009!
Java would have died years ago if it wasn't for IBM, Oracle, and (to a lesser extent) Red Hat propping it up for the past 5+ years.
I work for a state government, and we also get (as far as I know) top notch support from Microsoft. I suppose it helps that we're also one of their biggest clients (presumably) for Bing Maps.
The CD-i Zelda games weren't made by Nintendo, but were apparently made by Philips to exploit a loop-hole in Nintendo's contract with Philips for the SNES CD-ROM addon. Even though said addon never came out.
Why would Nintendo bother? They are certainly capable of writing their own stories, even ones that have extremely little content.
For example, here's the complete story for Majora's Mask:
Link is looking for Navi when he gets ambushed by Skull Kid. Skull Kid steals Link's horse and Ocarina of Time, and Link is turned into a Deku Scrub. Link has 3 Days (with a Groundhog Day effect) in which to find 4 masks to stop the Skull Kid from crashing the moon into the planet.
Why is putting it in 1970 a pain? Because time_t is signed, that gives us the range of 1901 December 13 20:45:52 UTC to 2038 January 19 03:14:07 UTC.
That's 136 or so years from a 32-bit value.