And you really think that they can erase all traces of information? Seriously? With this request they cemented this information in thousand places and sites, they got themselves in spotlight, instead of living their own lifes and dealing with fact that they actually took someone's life.
The fact that they served their time doesn't change the fact. They did it. They where fully convinced. Period. In their minds, they will have to live with that. If it was I, I would be more worried about my soul than what other thinks about me.
I think these people deserve more kicking, because I rarely doubt that this German law can be or could be enforced this way. They just want to erase the fact. No sugar. Germany Wikipedia just gave up, not wanting to deal with lawsuits (because they simply have no money to defend themselves). I really doubt that real test in court would stand. I hope someone with more money in Germany would take this to court, for clarity sake.
...and I think it is major win for all of us. Without Firefox it would be harder for Opera, Chrome, Safari to shine. Firefox pushed compatibility level of writing web pages, so for last years usually when you have done with FF, page worked for rest of bunch too (ok, except JS which is still major PITA). Yes, our mighty fox have experienced several shortcomings time after time, but overall, it have been smooth ride.
Ohh, and it has been excellent study case and example that with clever crowd marketing, art team and testing open source products also can be "simply cool" [tm].
"If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're buying mostly good press from the tech media".
Knowing how things happen in media today - hint: in economical downturn even serious press are easy to buy - this is only a half joke.
First of all, using Fedora as stable release for desktop is a joke, seriously:) It is good for trying out bloody edge things, but nothing more.
PA has improved very seriously during last year, and CPU problems have gone at least for me and Ubuntu users I know. Some new issues have popped up though, but I think someone could say that those bugs you mentioned are not valid anymore. And believe me I was very angry how PA came into existence (buggy as hell, forced in default install), but now I have to admit that Lennart have proven some of his points (I really can't imagine desktop without some of PA features I have used to. And it is not a network streaming). Of course, it would be better if he avoided flame wars with users and other developers. Attitude matters.
Of course, you are entitled to have your own opinion.
That's stupid because I avoid to buy from such people. And I think I am not only one.
Good salesman do it's own training and won't feed such bullshit. But they are rare to find. Usually they are the same people which like to work with customers and don't mind stupid questions.
First of all, it's old fashioned greed. I am very sure lawsuit is driven by lawyers, not founders themselves. Second, it could destroy Skype - and I really hope it does. I have my own share of dissatisfaction of Skype, but more or less my basic argument not to used - it is closed and not standartised. It eats resources like crazy. It has serious problems with quality of voice calls. And I'm tired of Skype not providing any way for thirty party to integrate their protocol in their products.
Most of my friends already uses Google Talk via various clients. Lots of them use also SIP services. Some two years ago lot of shops offered Skype accounts as call in for consulting. Not anymore. Skype is banned from many enterprises.
With serious improvements within ffmpeg stack, w32codecs as mandatory package is already gone for some time. Most of newest netbook oriented distros (Moblin, Maemo, Ubuntu Netbook Remix) uses Gstreamer as multimedia engine, which has serious developers working for speeding up things for ARM platform. Also I bet ffmpeg guys already have been working on this.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, world is already knows much more about software patent regime currently in power in US. So I really don't see the way how this could be accepted globally. Even WIPO wouldn't help.
In fact, someone has to tell Bill that US is not "standard" anymore. I simply don't see how Russia, EU, China accept this. And those are biggest trade parners for US. Bear in mind that it you can't do this with some "committee stuffing" like they did for OOXML. Usually it requires a goverment agreement, a parlament agreement and withstanding heat from critics which will be very loud.
It sounds more like trying to paint a bike shed, or something for shareholders to explain why they can't sell Word.
Nope, it is right. There is special note however - indent is important. Musician who writes a song about guy who is fed up with life and want peace and happiness isn't targeting someone to make sucide, he just expreses the way he feels sometime (or maybe all the time). If someone it gives last punch to do what they intended to do - well, it's harsh, but more or less it's still their decision to listen to this music.
These adults aim was to harm emotionally girl as much as possible. They had a reason, indent and they did it without any remorse. It could get clasified in some countries as 'driving someone to sucide' and is criminal case. Strangely, US dismiss such responsibility about humans.
Of course it is BS, it is more or less doable, comparing to penalties which they will get themselves into if they won't comply. It's interesting that they just don't use 'lost sales' argument. It could have some consequences for Dell too?
Anyway, this case is ugly as it can get about software patents. It is not traditional troll case, but still I don't like it - I don't like software patents at all.
Vanilla Windows XP is almost as useless as paperweight when installed on laptop. You need to chase newest drivers, including the ones for power management, to get 3 hours or more.
OF COURSE, when you buy OEM Windows XP already installed on computer, it has all drivers you need to run computer succesfully (duh, it wouldn't be broken if it wouldn't).
Because rules of stock market are practically just nothing but the air? In theory, there are checks and there are balances, but they are so ridiculously impotent, that it is not even worth to talk about.
Ok, let's be honest here - Wachowski brothers fooled geeks masterfully, period. In the end, it was all about pacifistic ideology (Machines have lot of reasons to hate us - include a briliant 'New Renaissance' anime, which lays out sad truth about how everything went wrong and rings frighteningly true about human nature - essential if you want to understand underpinnings of Matrix mythos) and sad, but necessary self-sacrifice (not a best parts of Anime and Eastern Philosophy) not the "kill them all" or "machines can't control us, system can't control me" which lot of geeks obviously had been waiting for.
In fact, it was very CLEAR in at the end of the second movie that nice, but false sense of security is gone. Nada, zing, nothing. And everyone waited that squidy blow-up scene sets up a Matrix-within-Matrix, while main shocking case was Architect and it's announcement. It is classic human psyche and rejection. Everything went very, very (well, too much) smoothly in first movie and first part of second movie. And then it is all gone.
That's WHY it was hard to accept mess of the third movie. Because it was a mess. It wasn't sleek 'I can jump and hit like Kangoroo' Neo battles, even with 100 Smiths anymore. It was all about survival. And it was about sailing away as far as it could get from first two movies. Face it, it was hard for us to admit that we are not in happy land anymore, that Neo has a choice - but in same time actually, no, he doesn't. He has to go and do what all he can do to stop the war, stop Smith. He has to loose everything and everyone. It's clear that some parts of act III are overdone and some feel a little campy (because action within Matrix feels forced, except last fight), but in the end, everything fits, everything mades sense. That's why I like it, I suppose.
Not to mentioning that Gnash and Swfdec already have achieved usefulness as Flash player replacements (I use Swfdec for viewing Flash, only some minor video services doesn't work, but Youtube does).
Because people in power, if they are not very inteligent, will end up fucking people over anyway. Why? Because it's how our survival instinct works. Simply as that.
When people will stop claim that human being is misterious God's creature and will start to understand themselves and their nature, then maybe something will change. But human doesn't want to understand that, because he is afraid that won't be 'survivalish' enough anymore.
It doesn't change the fact that it is a public place (bars, pubs, restoraunts are has controlled access too, but they are public places in same time). As if you have got your camera into the concert where cameras are forbidden, get home and publish photos of naked soloist, thought luck for management and PR, but you OWN pictures you made.
And as some slashdotters already mentioned, this right can't change ownership automagically just because someone doesn't like it. However, you COULD have problems when publishing photos of the some special artist without agreement. But not transfering of rights.
If legally they KNOW that what was done was illegal and tried to hid it (and somehow their actions speak very loud about such posibility), it is criminal offense. EVERYWHERE. Even in Swiss.
Well, to be frank, Y2K didn't happen partly because it was hype, sure, and partly because everyone jumped on it and if there was serious systems which could fail, they were fixed. Claiming that all it was hot air would be going in same absolutes like claiming that it could have definitely caused end of the world.
This time, I am not so sure that it is Y2K type. It could be pure sensationalism, sure, but such virus can be written by anyone. I simply see it as virus authors so far haven't been interested of causing damage to PCs - mostly because they need them to do their DDoSing and spam spewing.
This will be ugly and exciting at once. First of all, I bet all mob supported worm writers will be fuming, because someone broke silent agreement that there should be no destructive viruses, otherwise people would start to actually care. And if people care => more correctly patched boxes => less posibility to own them => no profit at all.
Second, it will send very interesting message to people who have ignored subject of IT security so far. Imagine company with 100 computers suddenly standing on nothing but the air - no data, no OSes to work with, nothing. Third, I am afraid that some control maniacs (those who usually end with having an actual power to be maniacal) will use it as an excuse to impose more control on Internet. Of course, it will be laughted at by serious IT security specs, but those freaks will freak out and it will be interesting and frightening at same time.
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And you really think that they can erase all traces of information? Seriously? With this request they cemented this information in thousand places and sites, they got themselves in spotlight, instead of living their own lifes and dealing with fact that they actually took someone's life.
The fact that they served their time doesn't change the fact. They did it. They where fully convinced. Period. In their minds, they will have to live with that. If it was I, I would be more worried about my soul than what other thinks about me.
I think these people deserve more kicking, because I rarely doubt that this German law can be or could be enforced this way. They just want to erase the fact. No sugar. Germany Wikipedia just gave up, not wanting to deal with lawsuits (because they simply have no money to defend themselves). I really doubt that real test in court would stand. I hope someone with more money in Germany would take this to court, for clarity sake.
But why do you assume that belief is something to do with reality?
Belief is just that - belief. Trusting without proof. People do that for more trivial things like God or infinity of Universe.
...and I think it is major win for all of us. Without Firefox it would be harder for Opera, Chrome, Safari to shine. Firefox pushed compatibility level of writing web pages, so for last years usually when you have done with FF, page worked for rest of bunch too (ok, except JS which is still major PITA). Yes, our mighty fox have experienced several shortcomings time after time, but overall, it have been smooth ride.
Ohh, and it has been excellent study case and example that with clever crowd marketing, art team and testing open source products also can be "simply cool" [tm].
"If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're buying mostly good press from the tech media".
Knowing how things happen in media today - hint: in economical downturn even serious press are easy to buy - this is only a half joke.
Watchmen was kinda non-standard - for me in good sense, for some others maybe worse. At least I treat it as complete.
For other movies...well...there are lot of good movies this year...but very good or exceptional....thought luck.
First of all, using Fedora as stable release for desktop is a joke, seriously :) It is good for trying out bloody edge things, but nothing more.
PA has improved very seriously during last year, and CPU problems have gone at least for me and Ubuntu users I know. Some new issues have popped up though, but I think someone could say that those bugs you mentioned are not valid anymore. And believe me I was very angry how PA came into existence (buggy as hell, forced in default install), but now I have to admit that Lennart have proven some of his points (I really can't imagine desktop without some of PA features I have used to. And it is not a network streaming). Of course, it would be better if he avoided flame wars with users and other developers. Attitude matters.
Of course, you are entitled to have your own opinion.
That's stupid because I avoid to buy from such people. And I think I am not only one.
Good salesman do it's own training and won't feed such bullshit. But they are rare to find. Usually they are the same people which like to work with customers and don't mind stupid questions.
This also is known as 'illegal abuse of monopoly state'. Just sayin.
...but suing for taxes are second most popular way how more "alternatively democratic" countries deal with opposition in business :)
Anyway, as far as I know, deal is more or less dead in the water, so probably it is for the best.
First of all, it's old fashioned greed. I am very sure lawsuit is driven by lawyers, not founders themselves. Second, it could destroy Skype - and I really hope it does. I have my own share of dissatisfaction of Skype, but more or less my basic argument not to used - it is closed and not standartised. It eats resources like crazy. It has serious problems with quality of voice calls. And I'm tired of Skype not providing any way for thirty party to integrate their protocol in their products.
Most of my friends already uses Google Talk via various clients. Lots of them use also SIP services. Some two years ago lot of shops offered Skype accounts as call in for consulting. Not anymore. Skype is banned from many enterprises.
With serious improvements within ffmpeg stack, w32codecs as mandatory package is already gone for some time. Most of newest netbook oriented distros (Moblin, Maemo, Ubuntu Netbook Remix) uses Gstreamer as multimedia engine, which has serious developers working for speeding up things for ARM platform. Also I bet ffmpeg guys already have been working on this.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, world is already knows much more about software patent regime currently in power in US. So I really don't see the way how this could be accepted globally. Even WIPO wouldn't help.
In fact, someone has to tell Bill that US is not "standard" anymore. I simply don't see how Russia, EU, China accept this. And those are biggest trade parners for US. Bear in mind that it you can't do this with some "committee stuffing" like they did for OOXML. Usually it requires a goverment agreement, a parlament agreement and withstanding heat from critics which will be very loud.
It sounds more like trying to paint a bike shed, or something for shareholders to explain why they can't sell Word.
Yes, sorry, my fault. I was very tired when wrote that post.
Nope, it is right. There is special note however - indent is important. Musician who writes a song about guy who is fed up with life and want peace and happiness isn't targeting someone to make sucide, he just expreses the way he feels sometime (or maybe all the time). If someone it gives last punch to do what they intended to do - well, it's harsh, but more or less it's still their decision to listen to this music.
These adults aim was to harm emotionally girl as much as possible. They had a reason, indent and they did it without any remorse. It could get clasified in some countries as 'driving someone to sucide' and is criminal case. Strangely, US dismiss such responsibility about humans.
Of course it is BS, it is more or less doable, comparing to penalties which they will get themselves into if they won't comply. It's interesting that they just don't use 'lost sales' argument. It could have some consequences for Dell too?
Anyway, this case is ugly as it can get about software patents. It is not traditional troll case, but still I don't like it - I don't like software patents at all.
Awww, poor lads. They desperately trying to avoid "to google" problem? :) Then they are way too late :)
What a bullshit, sorry man for swearing.
Vanilla Windows XP is almost as useless as paperweight when installed on laptop. You need to chase newest drivers, including the ones for power management, to get 3 hours or more.
OF COURSE, when you buy OEM Windows XP already installed on computer, it has all drivers you need to run computer succesfully (duh, it wouldn't be broken if it wouldn't).
So it is classical oranges to apples scenario.
Because rules of stock market are practically just nothing but the air? In theory, there are checks and there are balances, but they are so ridiculously impotent, that it is not even worth to talk about.
Ok, let's be honest here - Wachowski brothers fooled geeks masterfully, period. In the end, it was all about pacifistic ideology (Machines have lot of reasons to hate us - include a briliant 'New Renaissance' anime, which lays out sad truth about how everything went wrong and rings frighteningly true about human nature - essential if you want to understand underpinnings of Matrix mythos) and sad, but necessary self-sacrifice (not a best parts of Anime and Eastern Philosophy) not the "kill them all" or "machines can't control us, system can't control me" which lot of geeks obviously had been waiting for.
In fact, it was very CLEAR in at the end of the second movie that nice, but false sense of security is gone. Nada, zing, nothing. And everyone waited that squidy blow-up scene sets up a Matrix-within-Matrix, while main shocking case was Architect and it's announcement. It is classic human psyche and rejection. Everything went very, very (well, too much) smoothly in first movie and first part of second movie. And then it is all gone.
That's WHY it was hard to accept mess of the third movie. Because it was a mess. It wasn't sleek 'I can jump and hit like Kangoroo' Neo battles, even with 100 Smiths anymore. It was all about survival. And it was about sailing away as far as it could get from first two movies. Face it, it was hard for us to admit that we are not in happy land anymore, that Neo has a choice - but in same time actually, no, he doesn't. He has to go and do what all he can do to stop the war, stop Smith. He has to loose everything and everyone. It's clear that some parts of act III are overdone and some feel a little campy (because action within Matrix feels forced, except last fight), but in the end, everything fits, everything mades sense. That's why I like it, I suppose.
Not to mentioning that Gnash and Swfdec already have achieved usefulness as Flash player replacements (I use Swfdec for viewing Flash, only some minor video services doesn't work, but Youtube does).
Because people in power, if they are not very inteligent, will end up fucking people over anyway. Why? Because it's how our survival instinct works. Simply as that.
When people will stop claim that human being is misterious God's creature and will start to understand themselves and their nature, then maybe something will change. But human doesn't want to understand that, because he is afraid that won't be 'survivalish' enough anymore.
Nope for you too.
It doesn't change the fact that it is a public place (bars, pubs, restoraunts are has controlled access too, but they are public places in same time). As if you have got your camera into the concert where cameras are forbidden, get home and publish photos of naked soloist, thought luck for management and PR, but you OWN pictures you made.
And as some slashdotters already mentioned, this right can't change ownership automagically just because someone doesn't like it. However, you COULD have problems when publishing photos of the some special artist without agreement. But not transfering of rights.
Hmmm, no.
If legally they KNOW that what was done was illegal and tried to hid it (and somehow their actions speak very loud about such posibility), it is criminal offense. EVERYWHERE. Even in Swiss.
Well, to be frank, Y2K didn't happen partly because it was hype, sure, and partly because everyone jumped on it and if there was serious systems which could fail, they were fixed. Claiming that all it was hot air would be going in same absolutes like claiming that it could have definitely caused end of the world.
This time, I am not so sure that it is Y2K type. It could be pure sensationalism, sure, but such virus can be written by anyone. I simply see it as virus authors so far haven't been interested of causing damage to PCs - mostly because they need them to do their DDoSing and spam spewing.
This will be ugly and exciting at once. First of all, I bet all mob supported worm writers will be fuming, because someone broke silent agreement that there should be no destructive viruses, otherwise people would start to actually care. And if people care => more correctly patched boxes => less posibility to own them => no profit at all.
Second, it will send very interesting message to people who have ignored subject of IT security so far. Imagine company with 100 computers suddenly standing on nothing but the air - no data, no OSes to work with, nothing. Third, I am afraid that some control maniacs (those who usually end with having an actual power to be maniacal) will use it as an excuse to impose more control on Internet. Of course, it will be laughted at by serious IT security specs, but those freaks will freak out and it will be interesting and frightening at same time.