So assuming that the "free for all to use" license applied to the images previously, does this mean that they cannot replublish a revised "Linspire" presentation with those now CC linsences images?
Copyright is implict - he doesn't have to put a license up to be covered. His work == his copyright. Personal use of it on someone's desktop can fall under fair-use, but incorporating it into your product's main sales speel does not. Publishing a license for it would have helped clarify the issue of course.
I'll second that. I've used Xine on (Mandrake|SuSE|RedHat) Linux since my K6-500 days, because it was smoothest and fastest on my machine at the time. I still use it on my XP-2600 today. Only found one DVD it couldn't play (Ecks vs Severn, IIRC) and that bug's been fixed now too, I think.
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Fair enough, I'm just saying that the act of getting out of the way should not have been fatal. All she had to do was change lanes. Yanking on the wheel at 100 km/h and then putting your car in a ditch is something that shows a complete lack of car control - something which doesn't seem to get addressed. She screwed up and he got blamed for it.
Just to counter the "but he was speeding" argument, 1) it misses the point 2) would she have had the same panic reaction if she saw an X5 or M-series filling her mirror at 130 km/h? I think she probably would have.
I did not know that, although I do use libdvdcss myself - mostly with Xine for watching DVDs. I thought it was an (more or less) extension of the work done in the creation of DeCSS. I've been unable to find any disclaimer saying otherwise, which lead me to that conclusion... although the licensing does suggest it is independant work.:-/
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What's the point of being able to go 250mph on the ground when you could either kill someone or get a big ticket?
Oh yeah, 95 km/h == safe, 105 km/h == menace to society. Plenty of people get killed around town at 50 km/h. Plenty of people get killed and broken at 70 km/h. It's not speed that kills, it's bad driving/lack of attention/lack of maintenance. But it's easier to blame speed than it is to address the 80% of the driving population who can bearly keep it on the road.
Tickets are mostly about revenue collection. Here in NZ we have just had "stealth" speed cameras and Police in hot Civics and old vans introduced. The 10 km/h waiver is now at the officers descretion. On Friday night, they'll have 6 patrol cars turn up to bust a group of boy racers burning it up on the outskirts of town. And y'know what, they now take *days* to turn up after your house has been broken into.
BTW, anyone remember that German lady who crashed her little car when she swerved hard after she freaked out from seeing a BMW behind her doing 250 km/h or so? She was in the fast lane doing about 100 km/h. Idiot driving on her part? Oh no, it's that evil speeding person's fault.
Yes, I'm sick of the automotive FUD that's been spread for that last decade or two.
And to answer your question, possibly they're targeting folks who want to play on the racetrack, or play on the few unrestricted sections of autobahn left.
It shows that Microsoft is playing nice with the competition. If TurboLinux has licensed Windows Media codecs, who do you think it licensed them from? Could this mean Microsoft is changing strategy, or does it just mean they have licensed MPlayer and are using the free-to-download codecs?
One thing that bugs me is the phrase "PowerDVD for Linux enables legal playback of DVD movies" - implying that it's illegal to use DeCSS based solutions to do so. Not in my Asian Pacific country it's not. Still, it's on the US site I guess...
I'm not defending the company in question, and presumably notifications were being sent as per usual. My point is that the reports were possibly being intercepted by some admin or middle manager who wouldn't have made a difference. Going by the amount of spam coming out of this place, odds are it generated some amount of revenue for some department within the company, so unless the issue is raised at an appropriate level it's not going to get addressed.
When you're blocking a national carrier I think that different rules need to apply. This is possibly the first that a higher-up has known about it. I'd imagine that the interest now shown is a direct result of someone being told to "deal with it". Had a formal registered request (with results spelled out) been made to someone with authority it's quite likely it wouldn't have come to this.
OTOH, it might have been viewed as attempted to exert unreasonable leverage. One organisation telling another to stop or we'll tell our friends you're bad. Spam can be caught fairly effectively on a message by message basis, so I don't think this is particularly worthwhile action anyway. Yes, it would be nice if we didn't have to deal with it, but whatever, they made a fuss and it'll probably get sorted - along with adding a great deal of ill-will towards AHBL.
What a bunch of arrogant fucksticks. I can just see them sitting in their cubes making jokes about how all Spain's base are belong to them, or how the pwned Spain's email.
How about sending the Telco's CEO a registered letter, pointing out what will happen within a month if things don't change? How about being reasonable about the situation, before asserting your self-imposed authority on an entire country? If things don't change within a month or so, sure, blacklist them - but don't just pull that shit out of the blue. It's unfair to the 95% of Spanish Internet users that aren't fucking the system up. It's also why I don't use services like these.
If that has was the case I'll eat my words, but there's nothing in the "announcement" suggesting that anything of the sort happened.
In my admittedly biased American oppinion, the people who have arrogance problems are the rest of the world.
Oh right, of course. It's EVERYBODY ELSE that's got the problem. Newflash: When all your friends start acting weird, it's not them that have lost the plot.
The suing company bought another company that originally held the patent. Then waited a bit, tried to "negotiate" (I read that as "extort") with some big name companies, and has now chosen to sue after discussions failed.
My solution to this particular problem: Do not allow companies to hold patents. All patents must be held by an individual, and cannot be transferred. If an individual wants to license exclusive usage to a company that's fine (the company can sponsor the holders ligigation if needed) but the company cannot hold it.
Also note the wording. Nice little qualifier on the front there, "We believe that..." - it's not a fact, just their source's belief. If they're wrong, their arse is covered.
A well implmented bad design is still a bad design. It might not segfault, but it can still screw your indexes if the algorithm was wrong in the first place.
Yes. I've done it with the BrookGPU library and two Nvidia cards (1 AGP, 1 PCI). The benchmark wasn't that much faster though, presumably because the datasets weren't big enough to just leave the cards running -I suspect the main CPU was too busy feeding them to get any real work done.
Y'know what really sucks about that story? The magic black box probably contained about $40 worth of parts, and the defective one was probably woth around $0.30. And the box was probably swapped with a previously repaired one - I bet they didn't give you the old one back after removing it, eh?
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So assuming that the "free for all to use" license applied to the images previously, does this mean that they cannot replublish a revised "Linspire" presentation with those now CC linsences images?
Copyright is implict - he doesn't have to put a license up to be covered. His work == his copyright. Personal use of it on someone's desktop can fall under fair-use, but incorporating it into your product's main sales speel does not. Publishing a license for it would have helped clarify the issue of course.
I'll second that. I've used Xine on (Mandrake|SuSE|RedHat) Linux since my K6-500 days, because it was smoothest and fastest on my machine at the time. I still use it on my XP-2600 today. Only found one DVD it couldn't play (Ecks vs Severn, IIRC) and that bug's been fixed now too, I think.
Fair enough, I'm just saying that the act of getting out of the way should not have been fatal. All she had to do was change lanes. Yanking on the wheel at 100 km/h and then putting your car in a ditch is something that shows a complete lack of car control - something which doesn't seem to get addressed. She screwed up and he got blamed for it.
Just to counter the "but he was speeding" argument, 1) it misses the point 2) would she have had the same panic reaction if she saw an X5 or M-series filling her mirror at 130 km/h? I think she probably would have.
I did not know that, although I do use libdvdcss myself - mostly with Xine for watching DVDs. I thought it was an (more or less) extension of the work done in the creation of DeCSS. I've been unable to find any disclaimer saying otherwise, which lead me to that conclusion... although the licensing does suggest it is independant work. :-/
What's the point of being able to go 250mph on the ground when you could either kill someone or get a big ticket?
Oh yeah, 95 km/h == safe, 105 km/h == menace to society. Plenty of people get killed around town at 50 km/h. Plenty of people get killed and broken at 70 km/h. It's not speed that kills, it's bad driving/lack of attention/lack of maintenance. But it's easier to blame speed than it is to address the 80% of the driving population who can bearly keep it on the road.
Tickets are mostly about revenue collection. Here in NZ we have just had "stealth" speed cameras and Police in hot Civics and old vans introduced. The 10 km/h waiver is now at the officers descretion. On Friday night, they'll have 6 patrol cars turn up to bust a group of boy racers burning it up on the outskirts of town. And y'know what, they now take *days* to turn up after your house has been broken into.
BTW, anyone remember that German lady who crashed her little car when she swerved hard after she freaked out from seeing a BMW behind her doing 250 km/h or so? She was in the fast lane doing about 100 km/h. Idiot driving on her part? Oh no, it's that evil speeding person's fault.
Yes, I'm sick of the automotive FUD that's been spread for that last decade or two.
And to answer your question, possibly they're targeting folks who want to play on the racetrack, or play on the few unrestricted sections of autobahn left.
It shows that Microsoft is playing nice with the competition. If TurboLinux has licensed Windows Media codecs, who do you think it licensed them from? Could this mean Microsoft is changing strategy, or does it just mean they have licensed MPlayer and are using the free-to-download codecs?
One thing that bugs me is the phrase "PowerDVD for Linux enables legal playback of DVD movies" - implying that it's illegal to use DeCSS based solutions to do so. Not in my Asian Pacific country it's not. Still, it's on the US site I guess...
You can buy a W8 4-motion Passat from VW. Maybe VAG have got their W motors to a production ready state...
BTW, last I heard, Lamborghini was owned by an Indeonesion group.
Mirrored contacts?
I have a hard enough time descerning reality as it is.
I'm not defending the company in question, and presumably notifications were being sent as per usual. My point is that the reports were possibly being intercepted by some admin or middle manager who wouldn't have made a difference. Going by the amount of spam coming out of this place, odds are it generated some amount of revenue for some department within the company, so unless the issue is raised at an appropriate level it's not going to get addressed.
When you're blocking a national carrier I think that different rules need to apply. This is possibly the first that a higher-up has known about it. I'd imagine that the interest now shown is a direct result of someone being told to "deal with it". Had a formal registered request (with results spelled out) been made to someone with authority it's quite likely it wouldn't have come to this.
OTOH, it might have been viewed as attempted to exert unreasonable leverage. One organisation telling another to stop or we'll tell our friends you're bad. Spam can be caught fairly effectively on a message by message basis, so I don't think this is particularly worthwhile action anyway. Yes, it would be nice if we didn't have to deal with it, but whatever, they made a fuss and it'll probably get sorted - along with adding a great deal of ill-will towards AHBL.
What a bunch of arrogant fucksticks. I can just see them sitting in their cubes making jokes about how all Spain's base are belong to them, or how the pwned Spain's email.
How about sending the Telco's CEO a registered letter, pointing out what will happen within a month if things don't change? How about being reasonable about the situation, before asserting your self-imposed authority on an entire country? If things don't change within a month or so, sure, blacklist them - but don't just pull that shit out of the blue. It's unfair to the 95% of Spanish Internet users that aren't fucking the system up. It's also why I don't use services like these.
If that has was the case I'll eat my words, but there's nothing in the "announcement" suggesting that anything of the sort happened.
That's been going on in Japan for quite some time now...
In my admittedly biased American oppinion, the people who have arrogance problems are the rest of the world.
Oh right, of course. It's EVERYBODY ELSE that's got the problem. Newflash: When all your friends start acting weird, it's not them that have lost the plot.
The suing company bought another company that originally held the patent. Then waited a bit, tried to "negotiate" (I read that as "extort") with some big name companies, and has now chosen to sue after discussions failed.
My solution to this particular problem: Do not allow companies to hold patents. All patents must be held by an individual, and cannot be transferred. If an individual wants to license exclusive usage to a company that's fine (the company can sponsor the holders ligigation if needed) but the company cannot hold it.
Also note the wording. Nice little qualifier on the front there, "We believe that..." - it's not a fact, just their source's belief. If they're wrong, their arse is covered.
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Data transfer via quantum entanglement can go faster.
A well implmented bad design is still a bad design. It might not segfault, but it can still screw your indexes if the algorithm was wrong in the first place.
/just saying
Do it or we'll see you in court. Yeh, that's some choice alright. As for the covertness, how many staff and students do you think know about it?
*cough* MPlayer *cough*
Yes. I've done it with the BrookGPU library and two Nvidia cards (1 AGP, 1 PCI). The benchmark wasn't that much faster though, presumably because the datasets weren't big enough to just leave the cards running -I suspect the main CPU was too busy feeding them to get any real work done.
Not if the purpose is to output to a recording or viewing device, but they're probably planning to use it with PCI-X anyway.
Alias has Maya for Linux. Newtek has Lightwave rendering node software for Linux. There are a few other 3D packages like AC3D too.
Y'know what really sucks about that story? The magic black box probably contained about $40 worth of parts, and the defective one was probably woth around $0.30. And the box was probably swapped with a previously repaired one - I bet they didn't give you the old one back after removing it, eh?