It is sad that only people with lots of money stand a decent chance of walking away free, either innocent or guilty. What a retarded justice system of yours.
Let's see. If people are reading this in/., they most probably already own a computer, so it is hard to say that it will be much more expensive than buying a second-hand console.
Second, most emulators allow you to use USB joysticks. So there goes the argument of two people crammed in front of a keyboard. Also, most decent (and that doesn't mean expensive) GPUs today sport some sort of TV-OUT capability, so you can just play the games in your TV-set.
I concede that sometimes emulation isn't up to pair with the original console. But that doesn't mean it is always inferior.
While Tom's and similar sites have become flea markets over the years, I've yet to see detailed benchmarks in the Register. There are some info you can only get from these greedy NDA signers, and while they might be biased or downright lies, they still aren't available anywhere else.
that's the beauty of tags; you can tag them both. In fact, I'd like to see a fs built around tags instead of directories someday. So that I will not be modded OT, I'd add that the current patent system might be both evil and good. In theory, it should protect the small guy who invents something on his owm from big bad companies. In practice, since you need a sheetload of money to patent something, and patents that are obviously invalid are usually granted, it all works in reverse. Alas, I agree that anything not phisical in nature couldn't be patented. This DNA patenting makes my DNA feel sick deep inside.
That consensus does not equals truth. And I truly astonished to see someone's else criticize the new status quo that accepted, conventional science is achieving; not unlike most religions had a short time ago. Here in/. anyways. But, since the consensus proves that most respected scientific authorities *think* that we should do something about global warming, it would be foolish not to do so. After all, if we assume we are not omniscient (I guess most people would agree on that, even if some people actually think we can get to be) then we can only act to the best of our knowledge. And the best of our knowledge say we are fscking the planet we dwell in.
I am brazilian. As such, I've seen that most foreign people simply don't understand the socio-economics of developing countries.
An anedoctal evidence: I have some relatives in Italy, and I visited there once or twice. They live in the most developed and well-fared north, somewhere near Brescia, not too far from Milano. Brescia itself has some 200k habitants, and the city they lived in should have some 20-30k. One night, after showing me around, they asked me (quite seriously) if I was distressed from the "big cities", seeing so many people and cars and so on. I looked back at them nonplused, I suppose. I grew up in Sao Paulo, go look in wikipedia how big is that. But I understand that people from Europe and US mostly believe that all Brazilians live either in huts around the Amazon forest or in very poor "favelas" around Rio de Janeiro, where they can conveniently get dressed up (or down?) for Carnaval. Well, I am not trying to say there is a large percentage of the population in Brazil and other developing countries that is indeed very poor and has not access to technology (a recent survey says around 40% of brazilians never used a computer, and 60% never entered "the Internets"). But most people here have some kind of access to school, however poor and lacking resources they might be, and they are not naive helpless savages as you might guess. People need opportunities to grow. Sending US$100 worth of food to poor people might do some well to those that indeed do not have enough to eat, and I'd urge responsible people to donate (or even better, get engaged in) reliable organizations that do that task. But giving away food won't put the poor people around here, India or Africa in the right way, where they can build a self-sustainable industry and technology to compete with today developed countries. So, either some people are simply ignorant or naive enough to understand this, or perhaps they are beginning to get worried that someday the countries that supply food and raw materials to them today at bargain prices won't be there anymore.
In what world are you living in? Ballmer said himself that the deal would exclusively "protect" SUSE costumers and only them. If it was already extended to all Linux distros then why would MS seek a new deal with Red Hat? Besides, Novell's distribution of Linux is by far almost like any other general purpose distros like RH or Mandriva, take a few packages off if you will. So, MS is NOT acknowledging there is no patent problem with (GNU/)Linux; quite the opposite. They are sending a string hint there are problems (eitheir this is true or not remains to be seen) and saying the only way to be protected is to sign a deal.
In fact, your 3) is a blatant lie: MS did not promise no patent attacks on Linux Software used by Novell; they promised no patent attacks on Novell's customers. That's leaps and bounds different.
immediate consequences:
1) MS market value plumbers.
2) EU governments promotes en-masse migration to Linux.
3) MS shareholders actually take over and try to do some damage control, but no one will trust in MS again, including any conscious americans enterpreneus;
4) the rest of the world follow suit to EU (yeah, there is life outside EU and US! incidentally more than 2 billion people live in China and India, and China alone will surpass US in economic activity given time).
5) MS is just one more example of management gone horribly wrong in textbooks.
Too bad no one even at MS would be stupid and arrogant enough to try it. Not to mention all sold copies of Windows would still work as well as existing contracts, mitigating the cost and urgency of migration. If MS screwed with that, then UE would sue them to smithereens even on US grounds.
PSDB stands for Brazilian Social Democratic Party. MG is the state he was ellected. PSDB is one of the biggest parties here, the former president Fernando H. Cardoso belongs to it.
Now, forgive me. I am brazilian and I must digest these facts. It won't be easy to be the joke of the whole Internet if this law passes... oh wait, I won't access it.
Really, I don't get it. The guy can be the best coder in the world _and_ be a murderer. Why does it have to be a XOR? From what I read from kernel mailing lists, Torvalds isn't the finest person to deal with. Perhaps the problem is putting people on pedestals to start with. One should respect them for their abilities, but that doesn't mean they are nice people. I mean, suppose he is proven guilty beyond doubt. Would it be right to dump ReiserFS from my machines because the writer is a murderer? The code is fine, the code has nothing to do with the murder. It seems just stupid to me thinking there is or ther should be any relationship between the two things.
Am I not really trying to troll here; in my mind there is a clear separation between ReiserFS and Hans Reiser's personality, whatever it may be.
Say, you are a dictator of a country the US deeply dislikes. In fact, you are listed as belonging to the Axis of Evil. Another country in similar situation is invaded, its dictator, even being a former US ally, is brought down, on the premises of having WMD, which turns out to be quite a fat bold lie, and despite actually allowing UN to inspect, albeit reluctantely. Now, tell me, what would YOU do if you were such a dictator? Bush sent a clear message to all unstable governments around the world: it doesn't matter whether you have nukes or chemical weapons, we'll use them as an excuse to invade you if we see fit. NK probably feels a lot safer now, and it is no wonder Iran is trying to get their nukes as soon as possible. Thanks to Bush, the world became again a scarier place.
Guys, you got it all wrong. Any system of transportation that relies on driving a 1 1/2 ton of metal to get a 80kg person to a certain point is inefficient, ber it oil, eletric, nuclear or antimatter based. I understand the car industry is one of the driving forces of economy, and I myself live in a country which has much fewer railways than yours, and rely strongly on trucks for long distance tranportation of goods (planly stupid). But if you are really interested in lowering pollution levels you got to accept a change in your paradigma, not only a minor adjustment in how things work presently. Mass based tranportation is the way to go.
You read it wrong. AFAI understand american law (and that's not very far) it is a grey area whether copying copyrighted, legally purchased, even nonDRMed material is legal or not. Basically he said that until that is settled, answering the other questions is moot. Come on, I am not even american and I got that one.
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In a racing game, we are the pilots. I highly doubt real pilots pay any attention to ads either in the track or in their opponents' cars.
It is sad that only people with lots of money stand a decent chance of walking away free, either innocent or guilty. What a retarded justice system of yours.
Let's see. If people are reading this in /., they most probably already own a computer, so it is hard to say that it will be much more expensive than buying a second-hand console.
Second, most emulators allow you to use USB joysticks. So there goes the argument of two people crammed in front of a keyboard. Also, most decent (and that doesn't mean expensive) GPUs today sport some sort of TV-OUT capability, so you can just play the games in your TV-set.
I concede that sometimes emulation isn't up to pair with the original console. But that doesn't mean it is always inferior.
While Tom's and similar sites have become flea markets over the years, I've yet to see detailed benchmarks in the Register. There are some info you can only get from these greedy NDA signers, and while they might be biased or downright lies, they still aren't available anywhere else.
Are they all busy bidding on cheapo PS3s on eBay?
The last distribution that made a shady deal with MS to attack Linux was Caldera. Would you deploy Caldera today?
that's the beauty of tags; you can tag them both. In fact, I'd like to see a fs built around tags instead of directories someday. So that I will not be modded OT, I'd add that the current patent system might be both evil and good. In theory, it should protect the small guy who invents something on his owm from big bad companies. In practice, since you need a sheetload of money to patent something, and patents that are obviously invalid are usually granted, it all works in reverse. Alas, I agree that anything not phisical in nature couldn't be patented. This DNA patenting makes my DNA feel sick deep inside.
That consensus does not equals truth. And I truly astonished to see someone's else criticize the new status quo that accepted, conventional science is achieving; not unlike most religions had a short time ago. Here in /. anyways. But, since the consensus proves that most respected scientific authorities *think* that we should do something about global warming, it would be foolish not to do so. After all, if we assume we are not omniscient (I guess most people would agree on that, even if some people actually think we can get to be) then we can only act to the best of our knowledge. And the best of our knowledge say we are fscking the planet we dwell in.
help us.
then it will be in a quantum state that is 50% up and 50% down. That was easy, though I guess we need a Schroedinger's pot of butter too.
I am brazilian. As such, I've seen that most foreign people simply don't understand the socio-economics of developing countries.
An anedoctal evidence: I have some relatives in Italy, and I visited there once or twice. They live in the most developed and well-fared north, somewhere near Brescia, not too far from Milano. Brescia itself has some 200k habitants, and the city they lived in should have some 20-30k. One night, after showing me around, they asked me (quite seriously) if I was distressed from the "big cities", seeing so many people and cars and so on. I looked back at them nonplused, I suppose. I grew up in Sao Paulo, go look in wikipedia how big is that. But I understand that people from Europe and US mostly believe that all Brazilians live either in huts around the Amazon forest or in very poor "favelas" around Rio de Janeiro, where they can conveniently get dressed up (or down?) for Carnaval. Well, I am not trying to say there is a large percentage of the population in Brazil and other developing countries that is indeed very poor and has not access to technology (a recent survey says around 40% of brazilians never used a computer, and 60% never entered "the Internets"). But most people here have some kind of access to school, however poor and lacking resources they might be, and they are not naive helpless savages as you might guess. People need opportunities to grow. Sending US$100 worth of food to poor people might do some well to those that indeed do not have enough to eat, and I'd urge responsible people to donate (or even better, get engaged in) reliable organizations that do that task. But giving away food won't put the poor people around here, India or Africa in the right way, where they can build a self-sustainable industry and technology to compete with today developed countries. So, either some people are simply ignorant or naive enough to understand this, or perhaps they are beginning to get worried that someday the countries that supply food and raw materials to them today at bargain prices won't be there anymore.
In what world are you living in? Ballmer said himself that the deal would exclusively "protect" SUSE costumers and only them. If it was already extended to all Linux distros then why would MS seek a new deal with Red Hat? Besides, Novell's distribution of Linux is by far almost like any other general purpose distros like RH or Mandriva, take a few packages off if you will. So, MS is NOT acknowledging there is no patent problem with (GNU/)Linux; quite the opposite. They are sending a string hint there are problems (eitheir this is true or not remains to be seen) and saying the only way to be protected is to sign a deal.
In fact, your 3) is a blatant lie: MS did not promise no patent attacks on Linux Software used by Novell; they promised no patent attacks on Novell's customers. That's leaps and bounds different.
How even Slashdot readers are uniformed about breaking DRM and copy-protection in general.
immediate consequences: 1) MS market value plumbers. 2) EU governments promotes en-masse migration to Linux. 3) MS shareholders actually take over and try to do some damage control, but no one will trust in MS again, including any conscious americans enterpreneus; 4) the rest of the world follow suit to EU (yeah, there is life outside EU and US! incidentally more than 2 billion people live in China and India, and China alone will surpass US in economic activity given time). 5) MS is just one more example of management gone horribly wrong in textbooks. Too bad no one even at MS would be stupid and arrogant enough to try it. Not to mention all sold copies of Windows would still work as well as existing contracts, mitigating the cost and urgency of migration. If MS screwed with that, then UE would sue them to smithereens even on US grounds.
PSDB stands for Brazilian Social Democratic Party. MG is the state he was ellected. PSDB is one of the biggest parties here, the former president Fernando H. Cardoso belongs to it. Now, forgive me. I am brazilian and I must digest these facts. It won't be easy to be the joke of the whole Internet if this law passes... oh wait, I won't access it.
In other countries people photocopy books and leave them in the library? How insightful.
Really, I don't get it. The guy can be the best coder in the world _and_ be a murderer. Why does it have to be a XOR? From what I read from kernel mailing lists, Torvalds isn't the finest person to deal with. Perhaps the problem is putting people on pedestals to start with. One should respect them for their abilities, but that doesn't mean they are nice people. I mean, suppose he is proven guilty beyond doubt. Would it be right to dump ReiserFS from my machines because the writer is a murderer? The code is fine, the code has nothing to do with the murder. It seems just stupid to me thinking there is or ther should be any relationship between the two things. Am I not really trying to troll here; in my mind there is a clear separation between ReiserFS and Hans Reiser's personality, whatever it may be.
Say, you are a dictator of a country the US deeply dislikes. In fact, you are listed as belonging to the Axis of Evil. Another country in similar situation is invaded, its dictator, even being a former US ally, is brought down, on the premises of having WMD, which turns out to be quite a fat bold lie, and despite actually allowing UN to inspect, albeit reluctantely. Now, tell me, what would YOU do if you were such a dictator? Bush sent a clear message to all unstable governments around the world: it doesn't matter whether you have nukes or chemical weapons, we'll use them as an excuse to invade you if we see fit. NK probably feels a lot safer now, and it is no wonder Iran is trying to get their nukes as soon as possible. Thanks to Bush, the world became again a scarier place.
police shoots people before they actualy run or steal something. That way, there is no risk of they getting away.
You always had to pick a invalid number since we started using eletronic ballots here. 0, 00, 000 or so on will do fine.
They have Atheros' cards. Completely different beasts really.
OMG, anything but public transport!
Guys, you got it all wrong. Any system of transportation that relies on driving a 1 1/2 ton of metal to get a 80kg person to a certain point is inefficient, ber it oil, eletric, nuclear or antimatter based. I understand the car industry is one of the driving forces of economy, and I myself live in a country which has much fewer railways than yours, and rely strongly on trucks for long distance tranportation of goods (planly stupid). But if you are really interested in lowering pollution levels you got to accept a change in your paradigma, not only a minor adjustment in how things work presently. Mass based tranportation is the way to go.
theyre tricsy nassty hobittsess!!!
Maybe? in what world you people live? As for the GP's other Big Brothers, excuse me, wasn't Saddam Hussein a former ally of yours?
You read it wrong. AFAI understand american law (and that's not very far) it is a grey area whether copying copyrighted, legally purchased, even nonDRMed material is legal or not. Basically he said that until that is settled, answering the other questions is moot. Come on, I am not even american and I got that one.