I think that was exactly his point - the often-idolised soldiers are just as fucked up as the rest of us - some are good, some are not good. He's taking them down of their pedestal and putting them in the bar, where we all want to be.
Well, if you don't know what a person is or what murder is, maybe discussing capital murder might not be a great idea.:)
Microkernels, from what I understand, do take a (slight) performance hit, but are far more stable. If we adopted them in our current OSs, they would be slightly slower, but they'd be far more future proof, with less problems than we see now on the desktop (pick your OS - they all have these issues - dodgy drivers, etc.).
I know what you're saying, but it doesn't change the fact the site obviously knows it's dealing with copyrighted material, and is facilitating people downloading it, and is making money off it. That means it's engaging in copyright infringement for a profit, which is a criminal offense in many places. I know it doesn't host anything, but the fact it's not doing anything to get rid of copyrighted material it has indexed that is brought to its attention means it's complicit in the infringement, which is exactly what the case claims.
Not being rude, but that doesn't mean a thing. Firstly, those are just your experiences, and secondly, it's going to take more than a few people thinking "oh" to actually tip the status-quo of desktoppery we see every day. At most, if what you experienced was repeated en masse, it's a start of the change, not the middle of it.
They do make money from it (see the adverts on their site). They also host the.torrent files, which are a key piece of information needed to download. If they only had magnet hashes, then fair enough. They also host the main trackers, which co-ordinates the infringement. I don't want them to get into any trouble, though - I use it a lot, and certainly don't agree with the MPAA and RIAA shit-storming nice folks.
Not even close. TPB only have torrents, 99.9% (at least) of which are of copyrighted material. TPB knows this. TPB also host the torrent files, and also run a tracker for these downloads. To claim they don't know what they're doing, which would be their only defense, is not going to hold much water, as they obviously are well-aware of what they're doing. If Google is told it has copyrighted material, it will remove it from its indexes and caches. ISPs also, if they're hosting copyrighted material, have to remove it unless they want to face prosecution.
Actually, if you couple the fact they know you can get copyrighted material off TPB, and they know the TPB has received X in money from advertisers, then you have a case that they're making money off copyright infringement, which (in many countries) elevates the civil offense to a criminal one. If they didn't have advertising and took no donations from people, but were given their hosting and bandwidth by another party, their position would look a lot better. As it is, they might have to show that 100% of their revenue goes back into the site, and never into anyone's pocket, and keep doing so, in order to avoid criminal prosecution. IANAL, etc. bleh blah.
Copyright infringement is NOT theft under ANY western country's law. None. You said it yourself - it's "copyright infringement". Theft is the act of illegally depriving someone of something. "Harry Potter and the Whatever of Whatever" didn't magically disappear from the studio, stores, and cinemas when someone downloaded it.
I don't know about the law, but what about copyright infringement for monetary gain? That's a criminal offense in some countries (the UK), and can result in being imprisoned.
Not to nit-pick, but Google indexes everything it can get its hands on. The Pirate Bay knowingly index torrents, knowing full-well what they're doing. Google can claim they have no idea. If Google ran a site that purposefully listed torrents, and also ran a tracker for said torrents to be tracked on, then you'd have a point. I still don't think The Pirate Bay deserves to get assreamed in court, though.
I've been using Vista for months, on an average Dell computer, and it's fine. It's fast, runs everything I want, doesn't crash, and gives me no problems. I don't know where all this hatred comes from.
Plenty of folks use DX10 at the moment. More are using it every single day. As for using OpenOffice, it's not 100% compatible. Documents saved don't look the same, you're never guaranteed compatibility, and those two facts alone mean it's not ready to be used alongside MSOffice for document editing and sharing. And no, you can't run MSOffice under Wine with any guarantee it'll work fine.
And games? You've given me 5 examples. Fantastic. I, however, play more games than those 5, so your argument needs work.
It's not a punishment, but an attempt to recoup the losses the copyright holder had from someone not paying for their material. I'm not arguing with you - it's retarded. By this logic, the RIAA thinks everyone who downloaded a track seeded it to 150,000 other people, as opposed to the more normal assumption of a share ratio of 1:1.something, 1:2 at best. Gah.
Which is a shame, as the iPhone's camera is really bad. There should be a fund you can donate to in order to supply these women, these vital women, with decent cameraphones.
Does it say that a particular jurisdiction has found them guilty of fraud? Nope. Fraud can be decided by anyone - you're confusing that with a court of law charging someone with fraud. As everyone using PayPal's service are bound by their Ts&Cs, they have every right to call fraud on anything on their network should they want to.
If you think the OS is the GUI, then fine - you got me. But, if you know the OS isn't the GUI, and you knew of the new features of Vista, read this post for a decent break-down of some areas Vista excels at.
Care to enlighten us to this crippling DRM that is dragging Vista down? As I've yet to be stopped doing anything with any media I have. I rip DVDs, I take off DRM from downloaded tracks, everything I've done on XP and Linux.
But what if there are some things you want to load (say, DirectX 10) which you can't load in Gentoo? Are you supposed to rejoice in the fact you got to choose which components you wanted in your functionality-lacking OS install? Being able to customise an OS install is not as important as being able to use that OS to perform tasks you want. I can't use Gentoo because it doesn't run the applications I need (Adobe, Office, games). Not that I'm knocking Gentoo, I just don't see how your argument is anything but fanboyish nose-cutting/face-spiting posturing, desperately trying to ilicit "hear hear"s from the rest of the slashdot crowd.
It's much faster than XP, uses your memory and other resources far more intelligently, and the performance benefits of DX10 over DX9 (even with some DX10 trickery involved) are things you simply can't find in any other OS out there, open source or otherwise. That's just an FYI.
Main features are aimed at DRM? Wow. Where did you come up with that gem of FUD? Incredible. Vista's main features are more intelligent system resource utilisation. Gah, I don't even want to get into this with someone who would hear such FUD and not even bother to research it before spreading it on like you're doing your friend a favour.
Don't try to be rational and logical when discussing Vista on slashdot! We all know Vista hides in the woods and attacks small animals for fun, factual debate will not change that!
I've been using Vista for months now, and it's the fastest Windows I've used yet. I play games on it, and I've yet to be upset by its performance. It doesn't get bogged down, and does everything I need it to.
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No, the prosecution would have to prove it's not for either, before you'd get in trouble.
Vista has 0 open ports by default. Nice FUD there.
I think that was exactly his point - the often-idolised soldiers are just as fucked up as the rest of us - some are good, some are not good. He's taking them down of their pedestal and putting them in the bar, where we all want to be.
Well, if you don't know what a person is or what murder is, maybe discussing capital murder might not be a great idea. :)
Microkernels, from what I understand, do take a (slight) performance hit, but are far more stable. If we adopted them in our current OSs, they would be slightly slower, but they'd be far more future proof, with less problems than we see now on the desktop (pick your OS - they all have these issues - dodgy drivers, etc.).
I know what you're saying, but it doesn't change the fact the site obviously knows it's dealing with copyrighted material, and is facilitating people downloading it, and is making money off it. That means it's engaging in copyright infringement for a profit, which is a criminal offense in many places. I know it doesn't host anything, but the fact it's not doing anything to get rid of copyrighted material it has indexed that is brought to its attention means it's complicit in the infringement, which is exactly what the case claims.
Not being rude, but that doesn't mean a thing. Firstly, those are just your experiences, and secondly, it's going to take more than a few people thinking "oh" to actually tip the status-quo of desktoppery we see every day. At most, if what you experienced was repeated en masse, it's a start of the change, not the middle of it.
They do make money from it (see the adverts on their site). They also host the .torrent files, which are a key piece of information needed to download. If they only had magnet hashes, then fair enough. They also host the main trackers, which co-ordinates the infringement. I don't want them to get into any trouble, though - I use it a lot, and certainly don't agree with the MPAA and RIAA shit-storming nice folks.
Not even close. TPB only have torrents, 99.9% (at least) of which are of copyrighted material. TPB knows this. TPB also host the torrent files, and also run a tracker for these downloads. To claim they don't know what they're doing, which would be their only defense, is not going to hold much water, as they obviously are well-aware of what they're doing. If Google is told it has copyrighted material, it will remove it from its indexes and caches. ISPs also, if they're hosting copyrighted material, have to remove it unless they want to face prosecution.
Actually, if you couple the fact they know you can get copyrighted material off TPB, and they know the TPB has received X in money from advertisers, then you have a case that they're making money off copyright infringement, which (in many countries) elevates the civil offense to a criminal one. If they didn't have advertising and took no donations from people, but were given their hosting and bandwidth by another party, their position would look a lot better. As it is, they might have to show that 100% of their revenue goes back into the site, and never into anyone's pocket, and keep doing so, in order to avoid criminal prosecution. IANAL, etc. bleh blah.
Copyright infringement is NOT theft under ANY western country's law. None. You said it yourself - it's "copyright infringement". Theft is the act of illegally depriving someone of something. "Harry Potter and the Whatever of Whatever" didn't magically disappear from the studio, stores, and cinemas when someone downloaded it.
I don't know about the law, but what about copyright infringement for monetary gain? That's a criminal offense in some countries (the UK), and can result in being imprisoned.
Not to nit-pick, but Google indexes everything it can get its hands on. The Pirate Bay knowingly index torrents, knowing full-well what they're doing. Google can claim they have no idea. If Google ran a site that purposefully listed torrents, and also ran a tracker for said torrents to be tracked on, then you'd have a point. I still don't think The Pirate Bay deserves to get assreamed in court, though.
I've been using Vista for months, on an average Dell computer, and it's fine. It's fast, runs everything I want, doesn't crash, and gives me no problems. I don't know where all this hatred comes from.
Plenty of folks use DX10 at the moment. More are using it every single day. As for using OpenOffice, it's not 100% compatible. Documents saved don't look the same, you're never guaranteed compatibility, and those two facts alone mean it's not ready to be used alongside MSOffice for document editing and sharing. And no, you can't run MSOffice under Wine with any guarantee it'll work fine.
And games? You've given me 5 examples. Fantastic. I, however, play more games than those 5, so your argument needs work.
Adobe? Flash. Photoshop. Dreamweaver. InDesign.
It's not a punishment, but an attempt to recoup the losses the copyright holder had from someone not paying for their material. I'm not arguing with you - it's retarded. By this logic, the RIAA thinks everyone who downloaded a track seeded it to 150,000 other people, as opposed to the more normal assumption of a share ratio of 1:1.something, 1:2 at best. Gah.
Which is a shame, as the iPhone's camera is really bad. There should be a fund you can donate to in order to supply these women, these vital women, with decent cameraphones.
They recreated the photos, not the actual taking of the photos.
Does it say that a particular jurisdiction has found them guilty of fraud? Nope. Fraud can be decided by anyone - you're confusing that with a court of law charging someone with fraud. As everyone using PayPal's service are bound by their Ts&Cs, they have every right to call fraud on anything on their network should they want to.
If you think the OS is the GUI, then fine - you got me. But, if you know the OS isn't the GUI, and you knew of the new features of Vista, read this post for a decent break-down of some areas Vista excels at.
Care to enlighten us to this crippling DRM that is dragging Vista down? As I've yet to be stopped doing anything with any media I have. I rip DVDs, I take off DRM from downloaded tracks, everything I've done on XP and Linux.
But what if there are some things you want to load (say, DirectX 10) which you can't load in Gentoo? Are you supposed to rejoice in the fact you got to choose which components you wanted in your functionality-lacking OS install? Being able to customise an OS install is not as important as being able to use that OS to perform tasks you want. I can't use Gentoo because it doesn't run the applications I need (Adobe, Office, games). Not that I'm knocking Gentoo, I just don't see how your argument is anything but fanboyish nose-cutting/face-spiting posturing, desperately trying to ilicit "hear hear"s from the rest of the slashdot crowd.
It's much faster than XP, uses your memory and other resources far more intelligently, and the performance benefits of DX10 over DX9 (even with some DX10 trickery involved) are things you simply can't find in any other OS out there, open source or otherwise. That's just an FYI.
Since eBay bought PayPal?
Main features are aimed at DRM? Wow. Where did you come up with that gem of FUD? Incredible. Vista's main features are more intelligent system resource utilisation. Gah, I don't even want to get into this with someone who would hear such FUD and not even bother to research it before spreading it on like you're doing your friend a favour.
Don't try to be rational and logical when discussing Vista on slashdot! We all know Vista hides in the woods and attacks small animals for fun, factual debate will not change that!
I've been using Vista for months now, and it's the fastest Windows I've used yet. I play games on it, and I've yet to be upset by its performance. It doesn't get bogged down, and does everything I need it to.