Ah - these days we have the 'terrorist ghost', earlier we had the 'communist ghost'.
I wonder what's next.
The worst thing is that the gullible public falls for it. Especially those that aren't up to date with all details - like members of various courts.
It is of course possible that there are terrorist factions that makes money from counterfeiting and duplication of music&movies, but considering that counterfeit products often are cheap and sometimes have bad quality it must be a minor source of income when all production costs are paid. And download from torrents must be a very thin source of income.
It must be a lot easier to make money from cocaine and other drugs since they have a much higher price when they are offered to the consumer. Weapons are also more interesting to trade in for terrorists. Transfer of a load of AK47:s and other items to an African country can provide a decent profit. Think Somalia & pirates and where they did get their weapons.
Extortion and various types of scams are also good income sources. Check out Hells Angels, Bandidos and other organized crime gangs. Just be aware that those gangs are the soldiers on the field, connect the traces and you can end up in surprising places.
I'm just waiting for the next thing that can appear when this technology is applied - the commercial break detector that detects that you have a targeted commercial and instead pauses the recording or displays a neutral image.
It also depends on what type of filesystem you use. A journaling filesystem like ext3 can wear down a disk a lot faster than a non-journaling filesystem.
With CS I assume you mean Computer Science. If you say that CS is C-sharp, you should have specified C#, which I refer to as C-hash.
Anyway - knowing more than one programming language is never wrong. The experience gained in one language can be reused for another.
And when a particularly tricky problem arises that can be easily solved in another language you can use that language for that solution - if you are able to figure out how to make them interact.
Knowing a language doesn't mean that you have to be an expert in that language, it only means that you can adapt to a different way and perspective of thinking. It's never wasted to learn a new programming language, but some are not very useful in reality - like brainfuck.
What I'm saying isn't that mobile devices are insignificant as they are, but that the lack of performance on a mobile device will have disgusting results for some flash content - especially commercials that sometimes bog down even a decent stationary PC.
It only takes one such flash junk piece to make things dreadful, so that will make people hesistant to use flash on their mobile devices.
To make things like YouTube and pr0n sites work you have to have Flash. The day YouTube et al changes to something else is the day that Silverlight will become significant.
VHS all over again!
But then there is the use of AdBlock etc. that kills flash ads, so using a flash item to analyze the use and spread of flash may be grossly misleading.
Of course - in some cases devices actually lacks Flash for one reason or another, but this is more on specialized devices and mobile devices where performance and bandwidth is at a premium and Flash will bog down the device into oblivion if the performance-hogging flash ad was to be presented.
This trial is in itself important for the net, since TPB didn't carry the content themselves, just references to it.
This means that if they are convicted it may be illegal to have links to questionable content.
If they aren't convicted it will require a different approach by authorities, the record and movie industry to figure out a way to manage their income.
The only catch with digital transmissions compared to analog ones is that even though they have better sound in many cases they require a certain signal to noise ratio to be able to be transmitted. A very noisy analog radio station may still be heard even if it's noisy.
If it's possible to enjoy is another issue, but for voice transmissions that may provide superior range since the human brain is able to discard interference a lot better than any digital filter.
And when voice can't be heard anymore you may still be able to go CW and run Morse code.
If you are going to buy pre-made computers with an operating system, what do you expect? The market for computers without an operating system is zero, so nobody sells them that way. You can, however, put your own together for often somewhat less than the cost of the pre-made computer.
You can't even buy a computer WITHOUT an operating system even if you want, how to prove that the market is zero if the option is missing?
We are paying Microsoft Tax - even if we don't use their operating system. And if we do, we may pay it twice because their licensing terms screws us.
I was referring both to the available downloadable media, which the media industry attempts to clog down with DRM junk and also the failure to present the media online in a user-friendly shop format and at reasonable prices.
If that had been fulfilled at an early stage already before it started to be too common with file sharing of MP3:s and other formats then they would have had less of a problem with sites like Pirate Bay.
The trial is something of "shooting the messenger".
And the most obvious problem is that the music and movie industry did create this problem themselves by ignoring the customers and not providing the formats they wanted.
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Ah - these days we have the 'terrorist ghost', earlier we had the 'communist ghost'.
I wonder what's next.
The worst thing is that the gullible public falls for it. Especially those that aren't up to date with all details - like members of various courts.
It is of course possible that there are terrorist factions that makes money from counterfeiting and duplication of music&movies, but considering that counterfeit products often are cheap and sometimes have bad quality it must be a minor source of income when all production costs are paid. And download from torrents must be a very thin source of income.
It must be a lot easier to make money from cocaine and other drugs since they have a much higher price when they are offered to the consumer. Weapons are also more interesting to trade in for terrorists. Transfer of a load of AK47:s and other items to an African country can provide a decent profit. Think Somalia & pirates and where they did get their weapons.
Extortion and various types of scams are also good income sources. Check out Hells Angels, Bandidos and other organized crime gangs. Just be aware that those gangs are the soldiers on the field, connect the traces and you can end up in surprising places.
And who in the western world would buy such a bootlegged movie anyway?
It's just to wait until it gets ripped from DVD or blu-ray, which will happen soon enough.
I'm just waiting for the next thing that can appear when this technology is applied - the commercial break detector that detects that you have a targeted commercial and instead pauses the recording or displays a neutral image.
It also depends on what type of filesystem you use. A journaling filesystem like ext3 can wear down a disk a lot faster than a non-journaling filesystem.
It has even been considered here to require a license to have a computer since it's able to play broadcasted TV.
Weird...
With CS I assume you mean Computer Science. If you say that CS is C-sharp, you should have specified C#, which I refer to as C-hash.
Anyway - knowing more than one programming language is never wrong. The experience gained in one language can be reused for another.
And when a particularly tricky problem arises that can be easily solved in another language you can use that language for that solution - if you are able to figure out how to make them interact.
Knowing a language doesn't mean that you have to be an expert in that language, it only means that you can adapt to a different way and perspective of thinking. It's never wasted to learn a new programming language, but some are not very useful in reality - like brainfuck.
Anything that's offensive will be blocked, so the aussies will stick to watch flowers and waterfalls and only happy news on the web.
Big brother is watching you! But who is watching the watchmen?
Another problem is that sites on the net changes all the time and one site may appear and another disappear. And who frees old blocked addresses?
And how much bribes did Microsoft pay to get the suit dismissed?
I think that's a valid question since it's a lot of money at stake for Microsoft and they have tipped the odds earlier in the OOXML circus.
What I'm saying isn't that mobile devices are insignificant as they are, but that the lack of performance on a mobile device will have disgusting results for some flash content - especially commercials that sometimes bog down even a decent stationary PC.
It only takes one such flash junk piece to make things dreadful, so that will make people hesistant to use flash on their mobile devices.
And most protective measures on the net against this are leaking like a colander.
Is it possible to be really competent and work for Microsoft?
To make things like YouTube and pr0n sites work you have to have Flash. The day YouTube et al changes to something else is the day that Silverlight will become significant.
VHS all over again!
But then there is the use of AdBlock etc. that kills flash ads, so using a flash item to analyze the use and spread of flash may be grossly misleading.
Of course - in some cases devices actually lacks Flash for one reason or another, but this is more on specialized devices and mobile devices where performance and bandwidth is at a premium and Flash will bog down the device into oblivion if the performance-hogging flash ad was to be presented.
And this isn't a Men in Black flashing device?
And with Office 2007 the user interface went completely bonkers.
Maybe they wanted it easier - but I can't call it better. I'm still getting dandruff from it.
And many EULA:s won't even hold in court.
The good side of this is that it will be a great way to track down telemarketers running hidden numbers.
This trial is in itself important for the net, since TPB didn't carry the content themselves, just references to it.
This means that if they are convicted it may be illegal to have links to questionable content.
If they aren't convicted it will require a different approach by authorities, the record and movie industry to figure out a way to manage their income.
This is far from over.
Not to mention using select foreign plates.
How do you think a Russian or Polish plate will be handled?
New goal for terrorists - trigger the response in the armor making the wearer look weird and become exhausted.
But to interpret it a human is still better than a machine.
The only catch with digital transmissions compared to analog ones is that even though they have better sound in many cases they require a certain signal to noise ratio to be able to be transmitted. A very noisy analog radio station may still be heard even if it's noisy.
If it's possible to enjoy is another issue, but for voice transmissions that may provide superior range since the human brain is able to discard interference a lot better than any digital filter.
And when voice can't be heard anymore you may still be able to go CW and run Morse code.
If you are going to buy pre-made computers with an operating system, what do you expect? The market for computers without an operating system is zero, so nobody sells them that way. You can, however, put your own together for often somewhat less than the cost of the pre-made computer.
You can't even buy a computer WITHOUT an operating system even if you want, how to prove that the market is zero if the option is missing?
We are paying Microsoft Tax - even if we don't use their operating system. And if we do, we may pay it twice because their licensing terms screws us.
I was referring both to the available downloadable media, which the media industry attempts to clog down with DRM junk and also the failure to present the media online in a user-friendly shop format and at reasonable prices.
If that had been fulfilled at an early stage already before it started to be too common with file sharing of MP3:s and other formats then they would have had less of a problem with sites like Pirate Bay.
The trial is something of "shooting the messenger".
And the most obvious problem is that the music and movie industry did create this problem themselves by ignoring the customers and not providing the formats they wanted.
It was launched by the operating system. So I would call that bounty on the person responsible for Autorun/Autolaunch functionality in Windows.
If you provide functionality that can be abused - it will.