That would mean more people to sue->more money for lawyers->less money for the RIAA. Wonder how many people the can sue without it hitting their finances adversely.
While the odds might be low if you just look at the number of users, your odds go up dramatically if you are sharing 1000s of files. Out of the tens of millions, I suspect only a few 1000 would have that many files.
But then, the RIAA still has the problem of prosecuting Elbonia swappers.
All the people sued in this case have been sharing more than 1000 songs. It is clear that their intent was piracy. Whether the RIAA is scum or not is irrevelent. These users took a major risk and are now paying for it.
And the new product lines from Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM, etc are MUCH cheaper too! Yeah, they may not be as "cool" or as high-performing as Macs for some applications but the cost of Macs just doesn't justify it for me.
If this case goes against DirecTV, I'm sure there will be multiple lawsuits against the RIAA and SCO. For example, the RIAA sent an extortion letter to a professor for having a perfectly legal file on his website, just because the filename looked suspicious. I'm sure there are multiple such cases, with all the extortion letters being churned out by SCO and RIAA lawyers. I hope a precedent is set and an end is put to this Big Corporation/Scummy Lawyer extortion alliance.
I'm glad someone has had the balls to do this. DirecTV is yet another extortion corporation like SCO. Demanding money to not file a lawsuit seems to be in style these days. Before you realise it, the US government will make it legal for these scumbag corporations to do an anal probe on you and you will have to pay up if you want to avoid being anal probed.
The BIOS is still needed to program the chipset to a point where the system can boot. OSes may not use BIOS interrupt handlers but by no means is that the only role of the BIOS.
I still don't see how Open source BIOS developers are going to get the latest and greatest chipset documents, errata, etc. These are typically provided only to BIOS vendors and board makers and have very restrictive NDAs around them. Open source BIOS might work for chipset that is many years old and has enough documentation in the open.
yeah it boots a 5 year old chipset. Open source BIOS isn't going to happen. Most chipset vendors are extremely secretive about their chipset and by the time the chipset documentation becomes available to Open Source coders, the chipset is already obselete.
Are there CD based MP3 players with a lot of RAM (64-128 MB)? Perhaps pre-fetching the MP3 files into the RAM and then playing it would make CD based MP3 players better for jogging.
Actually here's an older slashdot story about record companies demanding royalties for used CD sales. They have always been SOBs and always will be:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/14/2111220.shtm l?tid=141
Myrinet eats CPU when sending data?? You must be using the suckiest driver and firmware possible. And Infiniband has lower latency than Myrinet????
Infiniband is a combination of protocol and hardware and actually Infiniband has slightly higher latencies than the best MPI implementations on Myrinet.
Myrinet is a just a piece of hardware.
You can write firmware in Myrinet to do almost everything in the Lanai processor present in the card itself, without consuming any CPU cycles. The performance you get out of Myrinet entirely depends on the libraries you are using.
Was just trying to point out that even with an expensive interconnect such as Myrinet, the economics of apple just doesn't work out. But then, even if you are using a cluster of G5s, to get any reasonable super-computing power out of it, you would need a low latency (expensive) interconnect.
Overpriced G5s for what? Instead of buying 1 G5, you could set up 4 top-of-the-line AMD processors, cluster it using Myrinet.. and all that would probably cost about as much or slightly more than G5. Apple may have a good processor that is one of the highest performers... but it costs way too much to be worth it.
A while ago, I heard that philips wasn't going to allow the crippled CDs to be called Compact Discs because it doesn't follow the Compact Disc Spec. Is that true or does anymore have more information about that?
I don't see anything that specifically says you have to pay $150k per DOWNLOAD. It seems more like $150k per file you share. The title is a little misleading about that. Or have the RIAA really started targeting leeches too?
Er.. why don't you read before you bloody spout. SCO was fined for making claims that Linux contained SCO intellectual property. And it was fined for one specific web-page that contained those claims.
Now if SCO is sending invoices to individuals, they are making multiple such claims and should be fined for each instance.
In Germany, SCO got fined $10,800 for one offense. If they send multiple extortion letters, they will be fined for each letter.
Or alternately, I hope the US courts wake up and follow the lead of the German courts.
HP told me that an identical unit to the one I reviewed -- except for substituting either a 48X CD-ROM or CD-RW for the combo drive -- would cost $467 with Linux, $519 with Windows XP Home, or $589 for Windows XP Professional
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That would mean more people to sue->more money for lawyers->less money for the RIAA. Wonder how many people the can sue without it hitting their finances adversely.
While the odds might be low if you just look at the number of users, your odds go up dramatically if you are sharing 1000s of files. Out of the tens of millions, I suspect only a few 1000 would have that many files. But then, the RIAA still has the problem of prosecuting Elbonia swappers.
All the people sued in this case have been sharing more than 1000 songs. It is clear that their intent was piracy. Whether the RIAA is scum or not is irrevelent. These users took a major risk and are now paying for it.
And the new product lines from Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM, etc are MUCH cheaper too! Yeah, they may not be as "cool" or as high-performing as Macs for some applications but the cost of Macs just doesn't justify it for me.
Sounds more like something created bored, jobless folks. People are extremely gullible.
If this case goes against DirecTV, I'm sure there will be multiple lawsuits against the RIAA and SCO. For example, the RIAA sent an extortion letter to a professor for having a perfectly legal file on his website, just because the filename looked suspicious. I'm sure there are multiple such cases, with all the extortion letters being churned out by SCO and RIAA lawyers. I hope a precedent is set and an end is put to this Big Corporation/Scummy Lawyer extortion alliance.
I'm glad someone has had the balls to do this. DirecTV is yet another extortion corporation like SCO. Demanding money to not file a lawsuit seems to be in style these days. Before you realise it, the US government will make it legal for these scumbag corporations to do an anal probe on you and you will have to pay up if you want to avoid being anal probed.
The webcam site is slashdotted. Can someone with adequate bandwidth put up webcams in the same 600 locations and broadcast? Thank you.
The BIOS is still needed to program the chipset to a point where the system can boot. OSes may not use BIOS interrupt handlers but by no means is that the only role of the BIOS.
I still don't see how Open source BIOS developers are going to get the latest and greatest chipset documents, errata, etc. These are typically provided only to BIOS vendors and board makers and have very restrictive NDAs around them. Open source BIOS might work for chipset that is many years old and has enough documentation in the open.
yeah it boots a 5 year old chipset. Open source BIOS isn't going to happen. Most chipset vendors are extremely secretive about their chipset and by the time the chipset documentation becomes available to Open Source coders, the chipset is already obselete.
The voice quality is infinitely better than shitty CDMA
Are there CD based MP3 players with a lot of RAM (64-128 MB)? Perhaps pre-fetching the MP3 files into the RAM and then playing it would make CD based MP3 players better for jogging.
I still prefer CD based MP3 players. The media is cheap, and the the player is cheap.
Actually here's an older slashdot story about record companies demanding royalties for used CD sales. They have always been SOBs and always will be: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/14/2111220.shtm l?tid=141
This is hilarious. I'd like to see how the RIAA spins this. After all, they haven't ever whined about used CDs being sold.
Myrinet eats CPU when sending data?? You must be using the suckiest driver and firmware possible. And Infiniband has lower latency than Myrinet???? Infiniband is a combination of protocol and hardware and actually Infiniband has slightly higher latencies than the best MPI implementations on Myrinet. Myrinet is a just a piece of hardware. You can write firmware in Myrinet to do almost everything in the Lanai processor present in the card itself, without consuming any CPU cycles. The performance you get out of Myrinet entirely depends on the libraries you are using.
Was just trying to point out that even with an expensive interconnect such as Myrinet, the economics of apple just doesn't work out. But then, even if you are using a cluster of G5s, to get any reasonable super-computing power out of it, you would need a low latency (expensive) interconnect.
Overpriced G5s for what? Instead of buying 1 G5, you could set up 4 top-of-the-line AMD processors, cluster it using Myrinet.. and all that would probably cost about as much or slightly more than G5. Apple may have a good processor that is one of the highest performers... but it costs way too much to be worth it.
A while ago, I heard that philips wasn't going to allow the crippled CDs to be called Compact Discs because it doesn't follow the Compact Disc Spec. Is that true or does anymore have more information about that?
Yes, and if they demand money from people before the claim is settled, wouldn't that amount to a violation of the court order?
I don't see anything that specifically says you have to pay $150k per DOWNLOAD. It seems more like $150k per file you share. The title is a little misleading about that. Or have the RIAA really started targeting leeches too?
Er.. why don't you read before you bloody spout. SCO was fined for making claims that Linux contained SCO intellectual property. And it was fined for one specific web-page that contained those claims. Now if SCO is sending invoices to individuals, they are making multiple such claims and should be fined for each instance.
In Germany, SCO got fined $10,800 for one offense. If they send multiple extortion letters, they will be fined for each letter. Or alternately, I hope the US courts wake up and follow the lead of the German courts.