So where is this mythical 1.0 card that is currently commercially available WITHOUT purchasing a complete system? The only card that I've seen is the ATI card which is only sold to system manufacturers.
Actually it is called MLB Extra Innings. Who is your satellite provider? The major ones provide MLB Extra Innings. Blackout rules are a joke with MLB because they do reach out much farther than should be, but I don't see how you are not offered MLB Extra Innings anymore.
This was true up until this year. MLB signed a sort of exclusive deal with DirecTV that ended up forcing other providers to match DirecTV's price. Dish wanted to negotiate their own rates and did not want to pay what DirecTV was offering. MLB would not budge (at least according to Dish Network). Read more about it here.
Can you guarantee me that the source code will compile and operate on what ever the target system is? The point of the VM is that it virtualizes the system that it is running on. It's up to the VM on the host OS to do that guarantee. Once that is done, then all that needs to be done is target the application build to run on the VM, not one of dozens of different OSs or hardware platforms. Sure "Hello World" or your basic application may run fine when you just "make; make install" it, but for something much more complex, relaying on specific hardware or OS features, it may not work as intended.
I thought Eurowannabes would be more into the F1-circuit then Indy car. Either way, from where my seats have been the last couple of years at the 500 (1/2 way between turns 1 and 2), the term rednecks wouldn't be too far off. Drunk rednecks may be a better description. I cringe to thing what the Brickyard is like.
If someone came in and stole a copy of windows, the net effect would be -1(profit of selling Windows)
Doesn't this make the invalid assumption that the customer would have purchased a license to begin with? You can not lose something that might not have been yours to begin with.
There is a specific exemption for those communities as their "needs" are different the a younger population. There are requirements though for what can and can't count as a senior community though.
Sure Microsoft can go after companies with legal threats, but ultimately the patents would have to come out. You can't sue and not be prepared for the information to become public. There was a little software company in Utah that is finding this out. Is this just SCO vs. IBM where SCO has been replaced by a much bigger company that isn't going to run out of money in 5 years?
Ok so what is the difference between a phone call or e-mail sent today and a note or letter 218 years ago? The phone call or e-mail is just easier to tap or read, but they still should be afforded the same essential privacy from government snooping on them.
Obtain and attain have similar meanings, but they are not the same. Obtain means to come into possession of while attain means to achieve or to gain with effort. Obtain does not imply effort to acquire. For example you can obtain or buy a candy bar through a purchase, but you can't obtain a college degree (disregarding diploma mills). You must attain the degree through hard work at a college or university. Therefor the candy bar is obtainable but the degree is attainable.
The original post by megamerican is the better worded sentence.
Your analogy is flawed. A better example would have been the guy at the stoplight is washing his own windshield. You want the windshield and the guy wants paid for what he was washing. You don't want to pay, so you take the windshield anyways saying that it fits your car better then what he was using it for.
So in other words exactly what the manufacturer wants then? If a manufacturer had proposed it, everyone would be all up in arms about it. If the government wants it under the guise of "it will stop terrorism" then it a great idea!
There is a difference between your example and the one in the story though. In your example, it's not copyright infringement (usually civil matter), but rather child pornography (criminal matter). If you owned the copyright for the movie ChildPorn.avi and had evidence that the RIAA's IP address downloaded it, then you could go after them. However you probably would be in more trouble then they would.
Besides, the RIAA themselves likely never have actual possession of the media. Their attorneys or "forensic experts" would. And if either found out that there was child porn on the drives, a simple call to the authorities would put you in more trouble then what the RIAA ever could have hoped for...and at a cheaper price as they no longer really have to go after you. The government would do it for free.
My belief is that they don't have a right to look at it at all without hard evidence that I've been downloading illegally. The police are the only ones given the ability to search with probable cause only. Discovery for court purposes is one thing, do they search each defendant's home top to bottom to find any hidden hard drives? Do they 'interview' neighbors and friends to see if there is a missing hard drive they are just 'holding'?
Remember that if you are involved in a case directly with the RIAA, you are dealing with a civil matter. There is no automatic presumption of innocence per se. All the RIAA has to do is convince the judge that there might be evidence on the hard drive in order to have the drive enter the case. For copyright infringement of material online, it's not a hard thing to prove.
Can you sue for someone polluting your home with rogue radio waves?
No more then the neighbor can sue you for sending your waves into his house. However if your waves and his waves act together to make a connection, and he didn't authorize it, then yes, he could sue.
So if this ends up working for the White House, in the future will we see businesses using My Space, public FTP servers, chat rooms and HotMail to conduct business because it will allow them to sidestep SOx compliance?
Yeah, a great deal of that is because you can download a linux ISO that is already mostly up-to-date with patches. With Windows, you're stuck with whatever you have pressed on the CD.
Perhaps you should look up slipstreaming updates into a Windows installation before you speak incorrectly on the topic. Just about all updates and service packs, including hot fixes, can be slipstreamed onto a new install disc much like the current Linux distro's daily/weekly/monthly offerings.
While we all get your point, is it really fair to compare the latest Ubuntu or whatever disto with an operating system that had it's original release in October 2001? Give me a install CD that has all the recent updates slipstreamed in already...like your Linux distro likely has already, and I can put http, https, php, java, tomcat, mysql, mail server, ftp server, remote X access, and the desktop set up the way I want it too in under 1 hour 45 minutes too.
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So where is this mythical 1.0 card that is currently commercially available WITHOUT purchasing a complete system? The only card that I've seen is the ATI card which is only sold to system manufacturers.
This was true up until this year. MLB signed a sort of exclusive deal with DirecTV that ended up forcing other providers to match DirecTV's price. Dish wanted to negotiate their own rates and did not want to pay what DirecTV was offering. MLB would not budge (at least according to Dish Network). Read more about it here.
Can you guarantee me that the source code will compile and operate on what ever the target system is? The point of the VM is that it virtualizes the system that it is running on. It's up to the VM on the host OS to do that guarantee. Once that is done, then all that needs to be done is target the application build to run on the VM, not one of dozens of different OSs or hardware platforms. Sure "Hello World" or your basic application may run fine when you just "make; make install" it, but for something much more complex, relaying on specific hardware or OS features, it may not work as intended.
I thought Eurowannabes would be more into the F1-circuit then Indy car. Either way, from where my seats have been the last couple of years at the 500 (1/2 way between turns 1 and 2), the term rednecks wouldn't be too far off. Drunk rednecks may be a better description. I cringe to thing what the Brickyard is like.
There is a specific exemption for those communities as their "needs" are different the a younger population. There are requirements though for what can and can't count as a senior community though.
Didn't you get the memo that the Constitution doesn't apply very much any more?
I have plenty of bandwidth. I just don't want to see the ads. Maybe Firefox can load them and display them on my /dev/null monitor.
Sure Microsoft can go after companies with legal threats, but ultimately the patents would have to come out. You can't sue and not be prepared for the information to become public. There was a little software company in Utah that is finding this out. Is this just SCO vs. IBM where SCO has been replaced by a much bigger company that isn't going to run out of money in 5 years?
Ok so what is the difference between a phone call or e-mail sent today and a note or letter 218 years ago? The phone call or e-mail is just easier to tap or read, but they still should be afforded the same essential privacy from government snooping on them.
Your post would be better if that link actually was what it once was. These days it's just a domain for sale sign.
Maybe they have presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Wish we had that over here.
I know. But the original post in question was conveying sarcasm and whit. It's modded +5 Funny because there isn't a +5 Sarcastically Funny.
Obtain and attain have similar meanings, but they are not the same. Obtain means to come into possession of while attain means to achieve or to gain with effort. Obtain does not imply effort to acquire. For example you can obtain or buy a candy bar through a purchase, but you can't obtain a college degree (disregarding diploma mills). You must attain the degree through hard work at a college or university. Therefor the candy bar is obtainable but the degree is attainable.
The original post by megamerican is the better worded sentence.
Your analogy is flawed. A better example would have been the guy at the stoplight is washing his own windshield. You want the windshield and the guy wants paid for what he was washing. You don't want to pay, so you take the windshield anyways saying that it fits your car better then what he was using it for.
So in other words exactly what the manufacturer wants then? If a manufacturer had proposed it, everyone would be all up in arms about it. If the government wants it under the guise of "it will stop terrorism" then it a great idea!
There is a difference between your example and the one in the story though. In your example, it's not copyright infringement (usually civil matter), but rather child pornography (criminal matter). If you owned the copyright for the movie ChildPorn.avi and had evidence that the RIAA's IP address downloaded it, then you could go after them. However you probably would be in more trouble then they would.
Besides, the RIAA themselves likely never have actual possession of the media. Their attorneys or "forensic experts" would. And if either found out that there was child porn on the drives, a simple call to the authorities would put you in more trouble then what the RIAA ever could have hoped for...and at a cheaper price as they no longer really have to go after you. The government would do it for free.
So if this ends up working for the White House, in the future will we see businesses using My Space, public FTP servers, chat rooms and HotMail to conduct business because it will allow them to sidestep SOx compliance?
While we all get your point, is it really fair to compare the latest Ubuntu or whatever disto with an operating system that had it's original release in October 2001? Give me a install CD that has all the recent updates slipstreamed in already...like your Linux distro likely has already, and I can put http, https, php, java, tomcat, mysql, mail server, ftp server, remote X access, and the desktop set up the way I want it too in under 1 hour 45 minutes too.