it's not meant for keeping the movies on, merely for storing the movie while it downloads... you'll be pre-fetching it while out at work or asleep or whatever, then watching it, then it'll time out after a few days or a few plays and stop playing... After it stops playing, you have three options, pay to unlock it for a few more days, pay to burn it to DVD, or delete it.
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those "teanbeat style" photos of Bill Gates from 1985 aren't much to think about either... I showed them to the other devs at work and several of them went very queasy around the gills...
Looks like the NeoOffice guys got off their butts and decided to do it rather than stay put and wait for others to do it for them... Nice one guys... More power to your fingers. The others who were expecting it to be done for them by the OOo team should hang their heads in shame... First rule of Opensource... if you want it, then get on and do it... otherwise you could find yourself waiting forever...
Nice to know... I'm downloading the live demo as a quick way of installing a low spec (hardware requirements wise) Linux onto an old Cyrix MII 300 MHz machine... That machine has currently got an old install of Mandrake 7.0 with KDE 1.whatever on it... getting a bit dated, but it's what I started with and it's got happy memories for me... I won't be wiping that disk, just use another 6 gig disk I found in the drawer...
FirstSource monitors for the first uploads of a client's intellectual property to the eDonkey and Bit Torrent networks. When the system spots a file name matching the client's content, it initiates a download to confirm that the file is what it appears to be. Once the content is validated, the system captures the IP (Internet Protocol) address and identifying information of other users downloading and sharing the pirated material.
They have to be able to download it from the bittorrent network first in order to ascertain that it actually IS their copyright material... more and more bittorrent networks are going "members only" where you have to actually join and log in to the server in order for your IP to be authorised for that torrent... Any sensible network runner will have several clauses in the joining procedure where the prospective new member will have to be reccomended by an existing member or else they'll have to declare that they are not acting for or as agents of RIAA/MPAA etc.
All they're gonna do is drive users with any sense underground... whilst only the newbies with no sense will get picked on...
Expect to see more closed torrent networks springing up... rather like speakeasies did back in the old "Prohibition" days... Prohibition didn't work very well now did it... all it did was make normal people lawbreakers and give an opportunity for organised crime to fill the void created by the lack of easily available drink.
In fact, all the RIAA and MPAA members have got to do is to actually take advantage of bittorrent, and create a perfectly legal means of people getting their hands on movies early in the distribution cycle by making them available on pay per torrent servers, where you actually pay for the privilege of getting the movie first, well before it hits the cinemas.
that's part of the problem... Secret OEM agreements that act as a huge disincentive to the retail chains selling bare boxes... that and a marketing campaign that blatantly accused those who were buying bare boxes of piracy. All that has tended to "lock out" other operating systems from being installed on PCs for sale through the retail channels. After all, as you say, if you buy a x86 PC these days it comes with ms-windows... why bother to chuck it off in favour of some "unknown" OS...
same with MS illegally bundling media player and integrating IE so deeply into ms-windows that it's impossible to uninstall it... if your computer comes with a media player/browser that "does the job" effectively for free, why install another one that you have to pay for to get full features...
Big companies that are effectively monopolies should be competing on merit... not on locking out the small fry and locking in the customers
Don't knock it... something like that would be ideal for coating the insides of tents etc. to quickly create "secure" processing areas. And if anybody's wondering about patenting that idea... forget it... it's already patented. My brother holds a patent for doing that very same thing with his own special goop...
Another factor at the time, five years ago, was that it took an hour to compress a 256x256 greyscale image on a 300MHz machine. Nowadays that isnt a factor
What do you mean it isn't a factor??? of course it's a factor... even on a 3 GHz machine that hour has only come down to 6 minutes...
Yes... at work most of us have dual display 450 MHz machines running NT4... why??? coz it does the job we need it to do... running Visual Sourcesafe and Office 97 Pro is all we system analysts need... the code crunchers get the fancy machines... Mind you, I'm using Firefox to read and post this with...
Christmas at my Daughter's house... her machine was playing up and I'd bought her a 256Mb USB Keydrive to use to keep her important data on...
cut a long story short... how the heck do you install a USB key drive onto a win98 system that has no internet connection and the driver files are only to be found on the USB drive that win98 recognises as new hardware, but won't actually scan it for the drivers as it hasn't allocated it a drive letter yet... well, Knoppix saved the day and allowed me to get the drivers copied off to a fresh directory on her hard drive so that win98 could then find them...
She now wants me to set it up dual boot for her as she was mightily impressed with how far Linux has come in the few years since she last played with it (Mandrake 7.2)
> Let me begin by giving you a timeline: > > December 15th: I send Linus a mail with a subject line of > "RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bypass with locked stack" > December 27th: The PaX team sends Linus a mail with a subject line of > "2.6.9+ mlockall/expand_down DoS by unprivileged users" > January 2nd: The PaX team resends the previous mail to Linux and Andrew > Morton > > Between December 15th and today, Linus has committed many changes to > the kernel. Between January 2nd and today, Andrew Morton has committed > several changes to the kernel. 3 weeks is a sufficient amount of time > to be able to expect even a reply about a given vulnerability. A patch > for the vulnerability was attached to the mails, and in the PaX team's > mails, a working exploit as well. Private notification of > vulnerabilities is a privilege, and when that privilege is abused by not > responding promptly, it deserves to be revoked.
and he's made the assumption that Linus has actually seen the email??? After no reply for a day, he should have resent the email and kept resending it until Linus had sent him an acknowlegement... bloody stupid to send a critical email and assume receipt
The goal of the BSD license is to make all software better.
But it doesn't... say you've written a program and BSD licensed it... someone else takes your code, fixes some bugs you weren't aware of, makes improvements to it and sells the result under a closed source license... how the f do you get those bugfixes and improvements back into your own program now... they're under absolutely NO obligation to put their improvements back into the common pot. Those who persist in advocating the BSD license are fools... why else do you think Microsoft loves BSD and hates the GPL so much...
By the way, the goal of the GPL isn't to make ALL software free, it's to ensure that code released under it's terms remains available for improvement and that all improvements to it are put back into the common pot.
very important... and a lot of people don't really get why... anyone who bitches about his gpl'd program being used by the military to suppress indigenous tribes with fails to appreciate that vital freedom. It's double edged and you have to fully appreciate this. If your conscience can't cope with it, then don't release it under an open source license. Use your own license to tie it down so that you can deny them the use of your program.
Nothing sucks more to basically being locked out of a free software project just because you don't happen to have the newest version of some proprietary software that is a important component in the toolchain.
this is what annoys the heck of me when people write GPL licensed java programs that depend on Sun's java runtime to run. And why RMS is so right to point out about the Java trap.
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I find penguins to be rather tough and greasy... ;-)
it's not meant for keeping the movies on, merely for storing the movie while it downloads... you'll be pre-fetching it while out at work or asleep or whatever, then watching it, then it'll time out after a few days or a few plays and stop playing... After it stops playing, you have three options, pay to unlock it for a few more days, pay to burn it to DVD, or delete it.
those "teanbeat style" photos of Bill Gates from 1985 aren't much to think about either... I showed them to the other devs at work and several of them went very queasy around the gills...
will they play .ogg files??? :)
Surely Copyright infringement is only a civil matter.
does it work with Linux when printing over that network interface??? I just googled using "canon" + "i4000r" + "linux" and got NO hits at all...
only robots dance for you...
there's some microsoft fan boys in here who've had a "sense of humour" failure...
Looks like the NeoOffice guys got off their butts and decided to do it rather than stay put and wait for others to do it for them... Nice one guys... More power to your fingers. The others who were expecting it to be done for them by the OOo team should hang their heads in shame... First rule of Opensource... if you want it, then get on and do it... otherwise you could find yourself waiting forever...
Nice to know... I'm downloading the live demo as a quick way of installing a low spec (hardware requirements wise) Linux onto an old Cyrix MII 300 MHz machine... That machine has currently got an old install of Mandrake 7.0 with KDE 1.whatever on it... getting a bit dated, but it's what I started with and it's got happy memories for me... I won't be wiping that disk, just use another 6 gig disk I found in the drawer...
They have to be able to download it from the bittorrent network first in order to ascertain that it actually IS their copyright material... more and more bittorrent networks are going "members only" where you have to actually join and log in to the server in order for your IP to be authorised for that torrent... Any sensible network runner will have several clauses in the joining procedure where the prospective new member will have to be reccomended by an existing member or else they'll have to declare that they are not acting for or as agents of RIAA/MPAA etc.
All they're gonna do is drive users with any sense underground... whilst only the newbies with no sense will get picked on...
Expect to see more closed torrent networks springing up... rather like speakeasies did back in the old "Prohibition" days... Prohibition didn't work very well now did it... all it did was make normal people lawbreakers and give an opportunity for organised crime to fill the void created by the lack of easily available drink.
In fact, all the RIAA and MPAA members have got to do is to actually take advantage of bittorrent, and create a perfectly legal means of people getting their hands on movies early in the distribution cycle by making them available on pay per torrent servers, where you actually pay for the privilege of getting the movie first, well before it hits the cinemas.
Hmmm... wonder why...
that's part of the problem... Secret OEM agreements that act as a huge disincentive to the retail chains selling bare boxes... that and a marketing campaign that blatantly accused those who were buying bare boxes of piracy. All that has tended to "lock out" other operating systems from being installed on PCs for sale through the retail channels. After all, as you say, if you buy a x86 PC these days it comes with ms-windows... why bother to chuck it off in favour of some "unknown" OS...
same with MS illegally bundling media player and integrating IE so deeply into ms-windows that it's impossible to uninstall it... if your computer comes with a media player/browser that "does the job" effectively for free, why install another one that you have to pay for to get full features...
Big companies that are effectively monopolies should be competing on merit... not on locking out the small fry and locking in the customers
Don't knock it... something like that would be ideal for coating the insides of tents etc. to quickly create "secure" processing areas. And if anybody's wondering about patenting that idea... forget it... it's already patented. My brother holds a patent for doing that very same thing with his own special goop...
What do you mean it isn't a factor??? of course it's a factor... even on a 3 GHz machine that hour has only come down to 6 minutes...
Yes... at work most of us have dual display 450 MHz machines running NT4... why??? coz it does the job we need it to do... running Visual Sourcesafe and Office 97 Pro is all we system analysts need... the code crunchers get the fancy machines... Mind you, I'm using Firefox to read and post this with...
did he patent it???
cut a long story short... how the heck do you install a USB key drive onto a win98 system that has no internet connection and the driver files are only to be found on the USB drive that win98 recognises as new hardware, but won't actually scan it for the drivers as it hasn't allocated it a drive letter yet... well, Knoppix saved the day and allowed me to get the drivers copied off to a fresh directory on her hard drive so that win98 could then find them...
She now wants me to set it up dual boot for her as she was mightily impressed with how far Linux has come in the few years since she last played with it (Mandrake 7.2)
I far rather be a GNU "marxist" than a BSD fool
But it doesn't... say you've written a program and BSD licensed it... someone else takes your code, fixes some bugs you weren't aware of, makes improvements to it and sells the result under a closed source license... how the f do you get those bugfixes and improvements back into your own program now... they're under absolutely NO obligation to put their improvements back into the common pot. Those who persist in advocating the BSD license are fools... why else do you think Microsoft loves BSD and hates the GPL so much...
By the way, the goal of the GPL isn't to make ALL software free, it's to ensure that code released under it's terms remains available for improvement and that all improvements to it are put back into the common pot.
very important... and a lot of people don't really get why... anyone who bitches about his gpl'd program being used by the military to suppress indigenous tribes with fails to appreciate that vital freedom. It's double edged and you have to fully appreciate this. If your conscience can't cope with it, then don't release it under an open source license. Use your own license to tie it down so that you can deny them the use of your program.
this is what annoys the heck of me when people write GPL licensed java programs that depend on Sun's java runtime to run. And why RMS is so right to point out about the Java trap.
you didn't get very far down the page then... that appears to have been a "prototype"... he did much better jobs further down the page.
you won't have much choice in the matter... all new phones will soon have it or it's siblings...