I thought we were meant to be the good guys that don't do this kind of thing. We should do the right thing even if it is harder otherwise what are we fighting for?
How can you rely on a confession extracted by force anyway? At least I know I'd say/admit to anything to just stop having my fingernails pulled out with pliers or whatever.
yeah, Its another case where those making and enforcing the law don't have a clue about the technology in common use by modern society. To be honest, I always thought the UK authorities were generally more in-touch on this than the US authorities, but it seems not.
Ahhh but the RIAA have managed to set the legal precedent that merely "making available" of copyrighted material on the internet makes you guilty of distributing it.
Therefore the law company themselves are guilty of inciting their own breach of copyright.
Wild guess here but it probably really is computationally faster than the what was the fastest computer in the world of say 20 years ago. Rather than a sense of the word 'supercomputer' being devalued, maybe its definition just needs to keep up with the times.
Amazing that Microsoft are so short-sighted that they don't consider this important enough to include the fix in SP1. Think of the potential loss of important files just because this thing doesn't report when it fails. OK 16400 is a lot of files but its not unrealistic number. Just my windows directory alone has about 15800 files (not that I would want to copy it). I just hope this bug directly adversely affects enough managers that make purchasing decisions to drive a few more to adopt Linux as a company-wide platform instead of windows.
Upgrade to (insert favourite Linux distro here) then. Much better security model, functionality etc. than any MS product. YOu can just install any package including applications just by asking and don't even have to find where to download it from, e.g.: apt-get install gimp No phone home crap spying on your usage and providing backdoors to allow MS to plant DRM etc. and god-knows-what else on your PC. The proportion of gain over cost of Linux is infinite as its cost is basically 0
Is it just me, or does anyone else also see that Microsoft started to go downhill faster and market even more shitty products than normal just after Gates handed the keys to Ballmer.
OK I should have said "useful" features to eliminate the eyecandy, then No it really doesn't. In day-to-day usage, XP already does everything Vista does already. And more actually. Vista is way more limited in a functionality/usability/workflow sense than XP. For example I can play DVD's fine under XP on my existing hardware but not under Vista only because of Vista's DRM.
Also if I want to move files around, under XP I can do it without the endless streams of annoying confirmational dialog boxes that keep asking the same questions under Vista.
There's not even a "dont treat me like a newbie" checkbox anywhere to turn that crap off.
You are given an offer to purchase the phone at a discounted rate on the basis that you also agree to a fixed term contract. If you buy the phone, its yours from day 1. The issue is that nearly all cell carriers advertise phones with the OEM's model number. If you go to the manufacturers website to look at specs you get misinformed because most carriers actually disable functionality already in the phone so they can force you into buying their services.
For example my phone can actually play any MP3 as a ringtone, however when you buy it from Cingular/AT&T they have disabled that feature with a software lock so you are forced to either use the crappy default tones or buy (only) their ringtones at inflated prices through their online service.
We all know about the extra disk usage (11GB windows dir compared to 2GB for XP), ram usage (about 750MB used by vista even when doing nothing), vista's performance slow-ups etc.
The really wierd thing is, for all of the extra it takes,it doesn't seem to be offering the user any more features or functionality than XP already does (except translucent window borders).
In fact in quite a few cases Vista has less usability than XP. Even with UAC turned off, the extra confirmational dialog boxes whenever you copy files or folders around are massively annoying and unavoidable. Also since downgrading to Vista from XP I can't play my own DVD's on my PC any more because of DRM.
So you're telling me Onstar isn't even optional? So when you buy a new GM car, you are obliged to pay for Onstar in the price of the car then pay again to have it removed? Wow. I guess thats just another reason I'll never buy a GM-brand car.
Nearly all distros these days, you just boot off the CD and answer some simple questions, just as you do with Windows. In fact, it seems to me that Fedora and Ubuntu are actually easier to install than Windows. Also with Linux you don't have to find and enter your CD key or authenticate your OS with the manufacturer.
>> is this really the best they could do with their time?
Dude loosen up. Ya know, not everything you do has to be for some practical purpose. In fact things that are the most fun tend to be the most pointless.
There are a couple of fundamental issues with the Xwing shape for conventional flight (i.e. with aerodynamics ). The nose is so long and so far forward of the wings that it will just want to continually nose dive itself in the ground. One option might be to fit canards to the nose to provide some lift at the front but of course that would not be true to the movie. The wings themselves can't provide any lift because they have no camber. Even if they were made with some camber, the wings not being horizontal to the ground or each other (when in the open position) would cause unnecessary countering stresses so issues in the overall efficiency and lift produced by the wings. The wings are not swept back so all sorts of potentially terminal stress-related issues would occur at high speed, especially when approaching the speed of sound.
>> If the RIAA, BMG, SONY, UMG, EMI, etc keep on proclaiming to the masses that they own the music, they will be killed off like the dinosaurs they are.
I think its already happening and they know it. Thats why they're trying to tighten their grip. The thing is, they're parasites. They don't add any value to the music produced by the musicians and just suck the artists profits away. The only thing record companies used to have was absolute control over the marketplace so musicians used to have to suck it up and sign whatever their restrictive contracts said, just to get a chance to make money. But now there's no justification for record companies to exist anymore as they don't even have that as the internet has empowered everyone for direct marketing. So what you are watching are the death-throes of an overly restrictive industry of leeches that can't adjust their greed to survive.
The same applies to all religion, not just Muslim. It certainly wasn't rational scientific research (or even good religion) that led to the outbreak of school teachers in the US teaching "intelligent design".
I was thinking exactly the same thing, and wondering why they would even need to make a new device. I can't really even guess what could be different about it compared to a normal DVD player, if the Mpeg stream was encoded as 1920*1080 the decoder should just pick that right up.
I came to the conclusion that it can't require any change to the DVD drive itself (unless it was to speedit up to get higher transfer rate for sustained HD). It more likely the supporting electronics that decode. Perhaps their normal players only have enough internal ram or CPU power or whatever to only decode upto conventional DVD (720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL) images.
I used to work as a software consultant for a large company who shall remain nameless, making those in-car systems that integrate Navigation/cellphone/internet/car control all in one built-in unit in the car's dashboard. They wanted to get away from their usual approach of having to make a whole new custom system for each car project, so we made a custom hardware platform running Windows-CE that we could sell to different car manufacturers just by modifying the front panel and changing some of the graphics.
Anyway I just told you all that to establish my experience and tell you that porting CE to a custom platform and developing drivers etc. for CE sucks very badly compared to doing the same with Linux due partly to the poor documentation and lack of support from Microsoft, and also that CE itself and its APIs are very badly designed and structured compared to Linux.
It sounds like OLED should be much cheaper to mass produce than LCD so these prices are artificially high and should come down fast once they get the kinks worked out.
Call me when there's a 50" full HD spec(1920x1080) one for sale around the same price as LCD and plasma are now.
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I thought we were meant to be the good guys that don't do this kind of thing. We should do the right thing even if it is harder otherwise what are we fighting for?
How can you rely on a confession extracted by force anyway? At least I know I'd say/admit to anything to just stop having my fingernails pulled out with pliers or whatever.
Sounds like yet another major invasion of privacy under the guise of something else.
yeah,
Its another case where those making and enforcing the law don't have a clue about the technology in common use by modern society.
To be honest, I always thought the UK authorities were generally more in-touch on this than the US authorities, but it seems not.
Ahhh but the RIAA have managed to set the legal precedent that merely "making available" of copyrighted material on the internet makes you guilty of distributing it.
Therefore the law company themselves are guilty of inciting their own breach of copyright.
Wild guess here but it probably really is computationally faster than the what was the fastest computer in the world of say 20 years ago.
Rather than a sense of the word 'supercomputer' being devalued, maybe its definition just needs to keep up with the times.
Amazing that Microsoft are so short-sighted that they don't consider this important enough to include the fix in SP1.
Think of the potential loss of important files just because this thing doesn't report when it fails.
OK 16400 is a lot of files but its not unrealistic number. Just my windows directory alone has about 15800 files (not that I would want to copy it).
I just hope this bug directly adversely affects enough managers that make purchasing decisions to drive a few more to adopt Linux as a company-wide platform instead of windows.
Upgrade to (insert favourite Linux distro here) then.
Much better security model, functionality etc. than any MS product.
YOu can just install any package including applications just by asking and don't even have to find where to download it from, e.g.: apt-get install gimp
No phone home crap spying on your usage and providing backdoors to allow MS to plant DRM etc. and god-knows-what else on your PC.
The proportion of gain over cost of Linux is infinite as its cost is basically 0
Is it just me, or does anyone else also see that Microsoft started to go downhill faster and market even more shitty products than normal just after Gates handed the keys to Ballmer.
OK I should have said "useful" features to eliminate the eyecandy, then No it really doesn't. In day-to-day usage, XP already does everything Vista does already. And more actually. Vista is way more limited in a functionality/usability/workflow sense than XP. For example I can play DVD's fine under XP on my existing hardware but not under Vista only because of Vista's DRM.
Also if I want to move files around, under XP I can do it without the endless streams of annoying confirmational dialog boxes that keep asking the same questions under Vista.
There's not even a "dont treat me like a newbie" checkbox anywhere to turn that crap off.
Wrong.
You are given an offer to purchase the phone at a discounted rate on the basis that you also agree to a fixed term contract.
If you buy the phone, its yours from day 1.
The issue is that nearly all cell carriers advertise phones with the OEM's model number. If you go to the manufacturers website to look at specs you get misinformed because most carriers actually disable functionality already in the phone so they can force you into buying their services.
For example my phone can actually play any MP3 as a ringtone, however when you buy it from Cingular/AT&T they have disabled that feature with a software lock so you are forced to either use the crappy default tones or buy (only) their ringtones at inflated prices through their online service.
We all know about the extra disk usage (11GB windows dir compared to 2GB for XP), ram usage (about 750MB used by vista even when doing nothing), vista's performance slow-ups etc.
The really wierd thing is, for all of the extra it takes,it doesn't seem to be offering the user any more features or functionality than XP already does (except translucent window borders).
In fact in quite a few cases Vista has less usability than XP. Even with UAC turned off, the extra confirmational dialog boxes whenever you copy files or folders around are massively annoying and unavoidable. Also since downgrading to Vista from XP I can't play my own DVD's on my PC any more because of DRM.
So you're telling me Onstar isn't even optional? So when you buy a new GM car, you are obliged to pay for Onstar in the price of the car then pay again to have it removed?
Wow.
I guess thats just another reason I'll never buy a GM-brand car.
gets thrown out of court with the prosecution being charged all costs and damages for timewasting.
Actually its one of the changes for Vista that I hate. I just want one overall volume control, not on a per-app basis.
Bungle is leaving Microsoft? I guess that only leaves Zippy....
Nearly all distros these days, you just boot off the CD and answer some simple questions, just as you do with Windows. In fact, it seems to me that Fedora and Ubuntu are actually easier to install than Windows.
Also with Linux you don't have to find and enter your CD key or authenticate your OS with the manufacturer.
I want a haemmoroid named in my honour.
It woun't be radioactive, it will just big a big deep lake of bullshit.
>> is this really the best they could do with their time?
Dude loosen up. Ya know, not everything you do has to be for some practical purpose. In fact things that are the most fun tend to be the most pointless.
There are a couple of fundamental issues with the Xwing shape for conventional flight (i.e. with aerodynamics ).
The nose is so long and so far forward of the wings that it will just want to continually nose dive itself in the ground. One option might be to fit canards to the nose to provide some lift at the front but of course that would not be true to the movie.
The wings themselves can't provide any lift because they have no camber. Even if they were made with some camber, the wings not being horizontal to the ground or each other (when in the open position) would cause unnecessary countering stresses so issues in the overall efficiency and lift produced by the wings.
The wings are not swept back so all sorts of potentially terminal stress-related issues would occur at high speed, especially when approaching the speed of sound.
>> If the RIAA, BMG, SONY, UMG, EMI, etc keep on proclaiming to the masses that they own the music, they will be killed off like the dinosaurs they are.
I think its already happening and they know it. Thats why they're trying to tighten their grip. The thing is, they're parasites. They don't add any value to the music produced by the musicians and just suck the artists profits away. The only thing record companies used to have was absolute control over the marketplace so musicians used to have to suck it up and sign whatever their restrictive contracts said, just to get a chance to make money.
But now there's no justification for record companies to exist anymore as they don't even have that as the internet has empowered everyone for direct marketing. So what you are watching are the death-throes of an overly restrictive industry of leeches that can't adjust their greed to survive.
The same applies to all religion, not just Muslim. It certainly wasn't rational scientific research (or even good religion) that led to the outbreak of school teachers in the US teaching "intelligent design".
I was thinking exactly the same thing, and wondering why they would even need to make a new device. I can't really even guess what could be different about it compared to a normal DVD player, if the Mpeg stream was encoded as 1920*1080 the decoder should just pick that right up.
I came to the conclusion that it can't require any change to the DVD drive itself (unless it was to speedit up to get higher transfer rate for sustained HD). It more likely the supporting electronics that decode. Perhaps their normal players only have enough internal ram or CPU power or whatever to only decode upto conventional DVD (720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL) images.
I used to work as a software consultant for a large company who shall remain nameless, making those in-car systems that integrate Navigation/cellphone/internet/car control all in one built-in unit in the car's dashboard.
They wanted to get away from their usual approach of having to make a whole new custom system for each car project, so we made a custom hardware platform running Windows-CE that we could sell to different car manufacturers just by modifying the front panel and changing some of the graphics.
Anyway I just told you all that to establish my experience and tell you that porting CE to a custom platform and developing drivers etc. for CE sucks very badly compared to doing the same with Linux due partly to the poor documentation and lack of support from Microsoft, and also that CE itself and its APIs are very badly designed and structured compared to Linux.
960 x 540? why are they even bothering with that?
It sounds like OLED should be much cheaper to mass produce than LCD so these prices are artificially high and should come down fast once they get the kinks worked out.
Call me when there's a 50" full HD spec(1920x1080) one for sale around the same price as LCD and plasma are now.