I believe this will have a positive impact on the cost and maintenance of my future car. Lowering the cost from the current $100 to a future of $25 for one sensor/device may not have much of an effect, but for 100 different sensors it should have a very positive effect. And with the many manufacturere producing standards compliant sensors/devices the reliability of our vehicles is also bound to increase. I jut have a few questions here:
1. How will the DMCA affect this? Will we still be able to work on our own cars or will that be circumvention subject to DMCA? How about modifying the software (hacking in the pure sense) the software that runs my car - Will I be able to do that legally?
2. What about the black boxes that are now standard in cars? What data will it now store? Who owns that data? Who controls that data? Can I erase it? Can I refuse to let it be recorded? What happens when GPS is integrated?
3. What happens when I sell my car? Is the software included like it is now? Or does it have to be relicensed like when I sell a computer?
2. This is an accepted part of the RIAA business model.
Now I wonder how much music this girl will actually buy (and influence her friends to buy) as she enters her prime music consumer years. What about all those magazines, posters and concerts she will never buy because of this? Who is really getting hurt?
And each major distribution is like your favorite brewshop. Pick and choose your ingredients and handcraft a brew to you taste. As with many brewshops, most of the ingredients have the same origin. Customers stay with a particular shop because of the little extras they offer like support, recipes, etc. You can make each install or batch as strong or weak as you wish, as light or as dark.
Also, as with homebrew, several methods are available for different levels of expertise. The precompiled distributions are like using malt extract while distros that you compile (LFS, Gentoo, etc.) are more like the full grain versions made at home. Run-from-a-disc versions (Knoppix, etc.) are like the kits at Wal-Mart - easy to get started with, but not much in the way of customization.
And just like homebrew, we love GNU/Linux for those same reasons: We don't want someone else to choose for us. We want to know how it works or how its made. And free is good - both beer and speech.
From what I have seen the vast majority of your efforts go to protect corporations and companies with vast resources. Can you give some examples where your department has helped individuals or the underdog versus a major company? How about examples where your department has exonerated those falsely accused?
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Make that "Nerdvana."
I believe this will have a positive impact on the cost and maintenance of my future car. Lowering the cost from the current $100 to a future of $25 for one sensor/device may not have much of an effect, but for 100 different sensors it should have a very positive effect. And with the many manufacturere producing standards compliant sensors/devices the reliability of our vehicles is also bound to increase. I jut have a few questions here:
1. How will the DMCA affect this? Will we still be able to work on our own cars or will that be circumvention subject to DMCA? How about modifying the software (hacking in the pure sense) the software that runs my car - Will I be able to do that legally?
2. What about the black boxes that are now standard in cars? What data will it now store? Who owns that data? Who controls that data? Can I erase it? Can I refuse to let it be recorded? What happens when GPS is integrated?
3. What happens when I sell my car? Is the software included like it is now? Or does it have to be relicensed like when I sell a computer?
Well, it looks like this will drive down the price of current single-layer DVD-R's (hopefully).
It also appears to comply with standard to play/read in all current DVD players/readers.
Backups will take fewer disks! Now what about the speed?
Isn't instant messaging a web service? And hasn't Microsoft already promised to cut off non-paying clients such as Gaim?
Or does this mean that MS is going to open Messenger to other clients like Gaim?
Let's see what happens October 15th.....
And the amazing things are:
1. The RIAA honestly believes this is justified.
2. This is an accepted part of the RIAA business model.
Now I wonder how much music this girl will actually buy (and influence her friends to buy) as she enters her prime music consumer years. What about all those magazines, posters and concerts she will never buy because of this? Who is really getting hurt?
And each major distribution is like your favorite brewshop. Pick and choose your ingredients and handcraft a brew to you taste. As with many brewshops, most of the ingredients have the same origin. Customers stay with a particular shop because of the little extras they offer like support, recipes, etc. You can make each install or batch as strong or weak as you wish, as light or as dark.
Also, as with homebrew, several methods are available for different levels of expertise. The precompiled distributions are like using malt extract while distros that you compile (LFS, Gentoo, etc.) are more like the full grain versions made at home. Run-from-a-disc versions (Knoppix, etc.) are like the kits at Wal-Mart - easy to get started with, but not much in the way of customization.
And just like homebrew, we love GNU/Linux for those same reasons: We don't want someone else to choose for us. We want to know how it works or how its made. And free is good - both beer and speech.
Homebrewing since 1996, Linux since 2001.
.... is Mr Project. OSS for the Gnome environment.
From what I have seen the vast majority of your efforts go to protect corporations and companies with vast resources. Can you give some examples where your department has helped individuals or the underdog versus a major company? How about examples where your department has exonerated those falsely accused?