why is it people are so ready to believe every so called green product? this curtain idea is so obviously flawed it's amazing anyone is buying it as real in the first place.
for a start, you do realise this is about the worst way to collect solar power? 2nd, claiming it can produce 70% of our power need is a total lie - base load people, learn what it is.
vista is easier to use than most distro's. the inability of linux programmers to suck up their pride and just admit this and do something to fix it is what's kept linux off the desktop for the last 5 years.
lots of people would drop linux like a hot potato if windows had the same level of openess. face it, windows is the standard and has all the vendor support and all the market share. if it was open, linux wouldn't have much of a reason to live.
err the cardboard box cartel thing resulted in a WIN for the ACCC and the biggest ever corperate fine handed out in australian history. pick another example. fuel prices are high due to factors well outside of the ACCC's ability to regulate - servo operators already operate on a razor thin margin of a few cents per litre, the real driving force is increased international demand and overseas oil cartels. so again, please try a different example.
ACCC action has nothing to do with ebay stopping the trial, it's more likely the very public backlash they are feeling.
you'd still have the same skills with or without your disability i think. there are some terrible genetic illnesses that we should definately use this to help wipe out. seen the guy who grows toe nails all over his body?
uh, why would a law in france affect google in the USA, and is there even such a thing as common carrier status in france?
this law is pretty even handed. 3 strikes and you lose internet access for UP TO a year, so you know it's going to be less. this is much better than being sued and having the RIAA france eating up court time filing john doe suits.
yeah right it's really growing, next your going to tell me this is the year of the linux desktop. after all that's what it'll mean if this is actually going anywhere. otherwise i wish they would make a decent windows driver to start with....
the consumer requirement is there because this kind of hardware is aimed at people like gamers. i can fully apprechiate that offering linux drivers would benefit routers and raid card manufacturers, but really what is AMD going to gain by this? as you said nvidia has a lock on the linux 3d market... but a lock on a pathetic 0.1% of the overall market isn't anything to crow about, and it's certainly not going to turn the companies fortunes around. how about they manage to write a decent WINDOWS driver first?
cisco is hardly consumer hardware. please provide some facts to back up their increased sales in the consumer market, because i don't see their linux offerings as being more than a gimic.
If they found life on mars you'd spend the next 20 years disproving all the nay sayers claiming the bacteria is really contamination from earth. there are some people who have great emotional investment in there not being life anywhere but earth, and they will do anything to be right.
Name me one hardware vendor in the consumer sector of the market that has significantly increased market share and profits by developing for linux. can't name one can you? right that's because partnering up with linux is like becoming an MS partner, it's the death knell for your company. company's make a push into linux when they become desperate for any attention they can get.
amd/ati would be far better off focusing 100% on capturing the windows market THEN they would have the clout to affect some changes.
nice place, i went rafting there and then had some really nice beer brewed locally. i liked it so much i bought a gallon jar of it and i have it on my cabinet right now.
" and I am just now downloading the torrent" right there, it isn't your recording it's someone elses. they are distributing it and THAT is infringment.
you've always had the right to copy media you own and recording tv shows has always been legal. it's distribution you don't have the right to. and to shoot down your anlogy, it's more like door locks being invented and then locking you out of your own house.
In our tv's and dvd recorders we are being forced to pay for the copyprotection schemes operating in them. i had a $6000 tv set drop a hdmi port due to a faulty hdcp signal. why the hell should i even be forced into having hdcp to start with? we need to fight back in the only way possible - with our wallets.
and the insane part about it all, is that it's not stopping piracy. it NEVER will. whole seasons are still on bittorrent in HD.
bureaucratic nonsense is just as bad at large companies as it is in the government. the real reason to so called best and brightest aren't working at DARPA is because they aren't working ANYWHERE - they are all still living in academic land chasing soft research grants
i've always wondered how these people end up getting caught. i'd imagine a sting or someone blabbing to the cops would be it, because on a technical level it's almost impossible to catch them. typically they have their bots log into an IRC channel and the bots listen for commands, the botnet owner can just remote in through a hacked machine and issue the commands.
I had a machine of mine fall victim to one of those automated ssh attacks and it was very interesting to sit back and disect the guts of the botnet. all the botnets passwords and commands were logged on my machine and i was able to take control over a few machines as a test, but at some point the people running the botnet figured out i was on it and locked me out (probably with some master password for just such occasions). as a whole i was impressed with just how simple the botnet was run - the people running it didn't appear to have or need any real skill at all and i wouldn't be suprised if it was prepackaged software.
what a load of nonsense. this has nothing to do with a foriegn oppresive ruler nor is this the 1800's where "justice" was a pretty loose term. this guy went to court, got to say his bit and was proven wrong. a far cry from just being told to suck it. how precious does this guy think he is to ignore the law of the land?
So this guy was told be a court of law to stop making false claims, but he thinks because he feels he is right and the court is wrong that's grounds to ignore the sourt order?
and he is suprised they are coming after him why???? here's a news flash for him - if you've been shown to be wrong in a court room, there's a good chance you really ARE wrong and a little self examination is in order.
although the indefinate jail term is pure nonesense he should still expect to go to jail for 6 months or so over it.
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why is it people are so ready to believe every so called green product? this curtain idea is so obviously flawed it's amazing anyone is buying it as real in the first place.
for a start, you do realise this is about the worst way to collect solar power? 2nd, claiming it can produce 70% of our power need is a total lie - base load people, learn what it is.
yeah right. they are just collecting all this data for shits and giggles.
vista is easier to use than most distro's. the inability of linux programmers to suck up their pride and just admit this and do something to fix it is what's kept linux off the desktop for the last 5 years.
lots of people would drop linux like a hot potato if windows had the same level of openess. face it, windows is the standard and has all the vendor support and all the market share. if it was open, linux wouldn't have much of a reason to live.
ACCC action has nothing to do with ebay stopping the trial, it's more likely the very public backlash they are feeling.
you'd still have the same skills with or without your disability i think. there are some terrible genetic illnesses that we should definately use this to help wipe out. seen the guy who grows toe nails all over his body?
this law is pretty even handed. 3 strikes and you lose internet access for UP TO a year, so you know it's going to be less. this is much better than being sued and having the RIAA france eating up court time filing john doe suits.
yeah right it's really growing, next your going to tell me this is the year of the linux desktop. after all that's what it'll mean if this is actually going anywhere. otherwise i wish they would make a decent windows driver to start with....
the consumer requirement is there because this kind of hardware is aimed at people like gamers. i can fully apprechiate that offering linux drivers would benefit routers and raid card manufacturers, but really what is AMD going to gain by this? as you said nvidia has a lock on the linux 3d market... but a lock on a pathetic 0.1% of the overall market isn't anything to crow about, and it's certainly not going to turn the companies fortunes around. how about they manage to write a decent WINDOWS driver first?
cisco is hardly consumer hardware. please provide some facts to back up their increased sales in the consumer market, because i don't see their linux offerings as being more than a gimic.
If they found life on mars you'd spend the next 20 years disproving all the nay sayers claiming the bacteria is really contamination from earth. there are some people who have great emotional investment in there not being life anywhere but earth, and they will do anything to be right.
amd/ati would be far better off focusing 100% on capturing the windows market THEN they would have the clout to affect some changes.
glad i don't own AMD stocks. this is a wasted effort and will ultimately fail. no one makes games for linux - the tools just aren't good enough.
if you ever had to deal with the money or management side of things you would be singing a different tune.
nice place, i went rafting there and then had some really nice beer brewed locally. i liked it so much i bought a gallon jar of it and i have it on my cabinet right now.
" and I am just now downloading the torrent" right there, it isn't your recording it's someone elses. they are distributing it and THAT is infringment.
you've always had the right to copy media you own and recording tv shows has always been legal. it's distribution you don't have the right to. and to shoot down your anlogy, it's more like door locks being invented and then locking you out of your own house.
and the insane part about it all, is that it's not stopping piracy. it NEVER will. whole seasons are still on bittorrent in HD.
bureaucratic nonsense is just as bad at large companies as it is in the government. the real reason to so called best and brightest aren't working at DARPA is because they aren't working ANYWHERE - they are all still living in academic land chasing soft research grants
I had a machine of mine fall victim to one of those automated ssh attacks and it was very interesting to sit back and disect the guts of the botnet. all the botnets passwords and commands were logged on my machine and i was able to take control over a few machines as a test, but at some point the people running the botnet figured out i was on it and locked me out (probably with some master password for just such occasions). as a whole i was impressed with just how simple the botnet was run - the people running it didn't appear to have or need any real skill at all and i wouldn't be suprised if it was prepackaged software.
what a load of nonsense. this has nothing to do with a foriegn oppresive ruler nor is this the 1800's where "justice" was a pretty loose term. this guy went to court, got to say his bit and was proven wrong. a far cry from just being told to suck it. how precious does this guy think he is to ignore the law of the land?
... not everything needs an internet connection
and he is suprised they are coming after him why???? here's a news flash for him - if you've been shown to be wrong in a court room, there's a good chance you really ARE wrong and a little self examination is in order.
although the indefinate jail term is pure nonesense he should still expect to go to jail for 6 months or so over it.
nonsense. failure to build enough dams is the only reason water is a problem. it's the infrastructure that's lacking not the rare resource.
a hummer that burns baby seals for fuel - just blew my load.