The Manageing Director has no clue about this, and is going on what his developers told him.
Developers saw MPlayer as an easy solution to their problem and figured they wouldn't get caught, but were wrong, and are now desparately covering their arses.
Yes, it's a huge rip-off. But hey, it's OK because Telecom is owned wholly by owned subsidiaries of Ameritech and now "a variety of institutional investors". Thanks for selling us out, New Zealand government - the NZ telco market is Pwn3d.
How cool would it be if the United Nations stepped up and proposed something like this. Imagine what could be done if the EU, USA, Japan, China, India et all got their shit together and worked on a combined project like this. The costs would be much more managable too.
What's radiation? Electromagnetic waves / particles right? Eg, gamma radiation being high-energy photons. So, wave theory being what it is, we need to produce a field of anti-photons, and cancel out the "bad" radiation coming into the spacecraft. No problem producing photons and radiation, but phasing might be hard. So maybe an alternating/varying phase approach? Even if you only get half of them, it all helps.
Sounds pretty trippy, but who knows... a few years back, electronic noise cancellers would have been sci-fi stuff.
Back in the day, even the old Amigas were doing that shit. Newtek released the Video Toaster in 1990, and I'm sure there were countless other commercial video solutions that could do similar DVR things.
Plus if theatres are going to put twenty minutes of commercials and psuedo-news about the entertainment industry before showing the movie that we have paid for...
We are actually paying to see 20+ minutes of advertisements, and this astounds me. I went to see LOTR a while back and as if a 3 hour film isn't long enough, I sat through 20 minutes of advertising at the start of it - that I paid 27 NZD to see! Sure, I'll obviously not buy anything from the advertisers, but is the public really so pacified that they accept this crap? Have we come to accept this visual and informational pollution everywhere? Viva la revolutione.
Ignoring the American targeting of your post, they're fair points you've raised. What happens to space colonists as far as sovereignty goes? Will it be ther same old shit, someone gets there first then someone bigger comes along and has a small war followed by decades of bickering and restitution, or will individuals and countries be replaced by corporations with the wars fought in courtrooms? Or will Lunites think "Fuck It" and just get on with the business of living together, and turn their backs on Earth once they are self sufficient?
How do they define sales anyway? Last I heard, the charts were based on sales to the record stores who could return unsold media, and generally bought what they were told to by the distributors anyway. And of course, the radio stations play what is deemed to be popular, and kiddies buy what they hear on the radio. It gets circular real fast...
I have to say I agree completely. As you say, the willingness to get charged is an asset, and geeks in many countries are facing strong and stronger laws against this kind of action. Anyone know any good hackers in countries that can't be touched by your laws? If all of this spam that comes through Asia or whereever can happen because "we" can't touch them, why can't the reverse happen?
How about a Ralsky bounty? How about a $10K (or whatever) kitty to pay to the keen fellows who take him and his cohorts down? Given the amount being spent on filtering, bandwidth, and support issues, even the big boys could find a way to divert some cash to a needy cause.
Like many ex-hoons/ex-racers/ex-ricers;-) I can easily travel faster than the traffic flow when subject to the same speed limits. Some countries have corners, and some folks think a corner means hit the brakes and crawl around it then nail it back to cruising speed for the next straight. I don't, and so travel the same ground faster than grandma. These are the same tools who drive at 92-95 kmh in a 100 kmh zone and accelerate to 120 as you overtake them.
Enforcing a physical 100 kmh limit (for example) would result in every one travelling at 85. And lots more head-on accidents while people get used to the idea of driving at the lowest common denominator.
Brain damage is one thing, but life damage on the other hand is a whole other issue. I won't get into that, because I wouldn't want to insult your intelligence...
New Zealand has never let reality get in the way of a good government sponsored propaganda advertising campaign.
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Military innovation is usually classified, non-exportable, insanely expensnive, etc, etc, for years...
NASA innovation is most often rapidly usable.
I'm guessing they see it as a source of funds, wereas the military see it as a potential weapon.
Or to put it another way - this isn't about domain names at all. It's about trademark protection.
true, but law is biased towards corporations. the drone at the counter can't film you, but the company can. no, i don't see any difference either.
I'll hazard a guess here:
The Manageing Director has no clue about this, and is going on what his developers told him.
Developers saw MPlayer as an easy solution to their problem and figured they wouldn't get caught, but were wrong, and are now desparately covering their arses.
Microsoft made a 300 million dollar investment in Xtra. There's info on the Telecom and Xtra websites.
Here are the tables for Xtra, and part of New Zealand Telecom, part owned by Microsoft, and ADSL monopoly for most of the country.
Home: http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,5123,203086-2023 43,00.html
Yes, it's a huge rip-off. But hey, it's OK because Telecom is owned wholly by owned subsidiaries of Ameritech and now "a variety of institutional investors". Thanks for selling us out, New Zealand government - the NZ telco market is Pwn3d.Business: http://www.xtra.co.nz/products/0,,5804,00.html
I just ran WINE from bash, to launch the ReactOS cmd.exe, in order to run a Win32 CLI executed Assembler - that needs GUI output.
Yes, my head did hurt making that happen. It appears to be something to do with WINE's multiple parameter handling being dodgy.
What about a Linux compiler shootout? There's more compilers out there than just gcc.
Novell must be pretty sure about it all. Look how many Linux companies they've bought into/out over the last year or so.
How cool would it be if the United Nations stepped up and proposed something like this. Imagine what could be done if the EU, USA, Japan, China, India et all got their shit together and worked on a combined project like this. The costs would be much more managable too.
What's radiation? Electromagnetic waves / particles right? Eg, gamma radiation being high-energy photons. So, wave theory being what it is, we need to produce a field of anti-photons, and cancel out the "bad" radiation coming into the spacecraft. No problem producing photons and radiation, but phasing might be hard. So maybe an alternating/varying phase approach? Even if you only get half of them, it all helps.
Sounds pretty trippy, but who knows... a few years back, electronic noise cancellers would have been sci-fi stuff.
/too much coffee
Freudian slip perhaps?
Back in the day, even the old Amigas were doing that shit. Newtek released the Video Toaster in 1990, and I'm sure there were countless other commercial video solutions that could do similar DVR things.
My favourite pop-up blocker with Mozilla, with Opera a close second. I'd go with Opera if it weren't for Adblock from Mozdev.org.
You can do it ghetto style by alternating the left/right images rapidly too. There's some flicker, but it creates the illusion of depth.
We are actually paying to see 20+ minutes of advertisements, and this astounds me. I went to see LOTR a while back and as if a 3 hour film isn't long enough, I sat through 20 minutes of advertising at the start of it - that I paid 27 NZD to see! Sure, I'll obviously not buy anything from the advertisers, but is the public really so pacified that they accept this crap? Have we come to accept this visual and informational pollution everywhere? Viva la revolutione.
Since LiteStep came out.
Stupid AC.
Ignoring the American targeting of your post, they're fair points you've raised. What happens to space colonists as far as sovereignty goes? Will it be ther same old shit, someone gets there first then someone bigger comes along and has a small war followed by decades of bickering and restitution, or will individuals and countries be replaced by corporations with the wars fought in courtrooms? Or will Lunites think "Fuck It" and just get on with the business of living together, and turn their backs on Earth once they are self sufficient?
Copyright already covers this, and as previously stated, most are "insider" jobs anyway. This law is just to scare people.
How do they define sales anyway? Last I heard, the charts were based on sales to the record stores who could return unsold media, and generally bought what they were told to by the distributors anyway. And of course, the radio stations play what is deemed to be popular, and kiddies buy what they hear on the radio. It gets circular real fast...
I have to say I agree completely. As you say, the willingness to get charged is an asset, and geeks in many countries are facing strong and stronger laws against this kind of action. Anyone know any good hackers in countries that can't be touched by your laws? If all of this spam that comes through Asia or whereever can happen because "we" can't touch them, why can't the reverse happen?
How about a Ralsky bounty? How about a $10K (or whatever) kitty to pay to the keen fellows who take him and his cohorts down? Given the amount being spent on filtering, bandwidth, and support issues, even the big boys could find a way to divert some cash to a needy cause.
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
Maybe somebody is trying to DDOS Kevin Bacon?
Like many ex-hoons/ex-racers/ex-ricers ;-) I can easily travel faster than the traffic flow when subject to the same speed limits. Some countries have corners, and some folks think a corner means hit the brakes and crawl around it then nail it back to cruising speed for the next straight. I don't, and so travel the same ground faster than grandma. These are the same tools who drive at 92-95 kmh in a 100 kmh zone and accelerate to 120 as you overtake them.
Enforcing a physical 100 kmh limit (for example) would result in every one travelling at 85. And lots more head-on accidents while people get used to the idea of driving at the lowest common denominator.
Yup. Welcome to our free society.
Brain damage is one thing, but life damage on the other hand is a whole other issue. I won't get into that, because I wouldn't want to insult your intelligence... New Zealand has never let reality get in the way of a good government sponsored propaganda advertising campaign.