Online license checking, obviously. Photoshop is the most widely-pirated software, and Adobe doesn't like that. If you don't want your image editor phoning home, use GIMP.
Well, hey, if we're going for refurbed military hardware, why not go for the SR-71? The two-seat trainer version, of course. For when you absolutely, positively need to get from DC to LA in under 70 minutes, accept no substitutes.
At least, that's what I'd want if I was President, but that's also probably why I'd never get elected.
Win7 is supposedly designed to run on netbooks (I'm guessing that the current trend of netbooks that can only run either Linux or some eight-year-old version of Windows that Microsoft desperately wants to kill off kind of scared them a little) so system requirements should be lower than for Vista, which is a bit of a relief.
Legislation is sort of like computer code. It needs to be unambiguous in order to work.
If you can think of an algorithm to determine if all the parts of a bill are related to each other, I'd like to see it. I'm fairly certain that the problem is undecidable.
Or perhaps they'll continue making low-end high volume integrated graphics motherboard chipsets and are just leaving the low-volume neckbeard motherboard segment to Intel.
Well, at my job management stays the fuck out of the way.
This may be less productive in the long run. For example, I'm posting on Slashdot right now.
But the fact is, when you have a complicated system, you need to make sure that more than one person understands it. Sure, in this case it was done with malice aforethought, but a situation where Childs got hit by a bus the day before he would have otherwise locked everyone else out is not hard to imagine.
No, that doesn't work. What if, instead of just refusing to divulge the password, Childs had shot himself in the head or gotten hit by a bus or something. He locked down his network so well that only through a password that was only in his head could anyone have admin access.
No, you're not allowed to discriminate along lines of race, sex, or any of another half-dozen factors specifically mentioned in the law, or the government will fine you and/or shit down your throat.
Yes, it's hard to prove, in much the same way that proving that a firing was racially motivated in a "right-to-work" state is hard to prove, but it is most certainly illegal.
I'm just pointing out that the law is a waste of time and money, not an onerous restriction on trade and free speech, e.g. that it's stupid but not so terrible that the ESA will bother taking it to court and getting it thrown out.
Every console on the market already has lockout features. The Wii, PS3, and 360 have them right there in the system menu. The Nintendo DS does not, but portables aren't covered by this law.
So, we have a piece of feel-good legislation that does nothing, basically.
The Sega Saturn analog controller (packaged with NiGHTS into Dreams) had an analog stick and two analog triggers. (The analog triggers were basically Sega's lasting innovation in controllers, really. That and the staggered joystick layout.) Does this patent predate NiGHTS?
I think he means no energy from the diesel engine, i.e. that the battery charge will be sufficient for the entire trip once the train gets up to speed, assuming no gradient larger than 1%.
Heh. Economics. A "science" where any given phenomenon can be explained in a number of different ways limited only by the number of different people explaining it. No, thank you; I'll stick with physics and computer science.
Why, praytell, have so many otherwise intelligent people been lured onto the gold bandwagon lately?
Because Ron Paul's cult of personality caught on with a bunch of otherwise intelligent people, mostly computer geeks. I'm still not entirely sure why it has. Perhaps it's because us computer people think that human society should (or worse, does) run on a set of simple, consistent rules, the way a computer system does. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, but it's an intriguing idea that caught on with a lot of people.
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Because sometimes (read: very often) the DRM will prevent the end-user from exercising rights he would have under standard Fair Use doctrines.
Online license checking, obviously. Photoshop is the most widely-pirated software, and Adobe doesn't like that. If you don't want your image editor phoning home, use GIMP.
Well, hey, if we're going for refurbed military hardware, why not go for the SR-71? The two-seat trainer version, of course. For when you absolutely, positively need to get from DC to LA in under 70 minutes, accept no substitutes.
At least, that's what I'd want if I was President, but that's also probably why I'd never get elected.
Win7 is supposedly designed to run on netbooks (I'm guessing that the current trend of netbooks that can only run either Linux or some eight-year-old version of Windows that Microsoft desperately wants to kill off kind of scared them a little) so system requirements should be lower than for Vista, which is a bit of a relief.
Legislation is sort of like computer code. It needs to be unambiguous in order to work.
If you can think of an algorithm to determine if all the parts of a bill are related to each other, I'd like to see it. I'm fairly certain that the problem is undecidable.
Or perhaps they'll continue making low-end high volume integrated graphics motherboard chipsets and are just leaving the low-volume neckbeard motherboard segment to Intel.
The "paper docs" are even easier to forge than the microchip?
for as long as it takes you to download the MP3 versions of all the songs you had on Yahoo music. Then you get to uninstall Rhapsody.
It's possible to use the Vista bootloader to chainload GRUB rather than the other way around (which is the default for most Linux installs.)
Yes, it's a pain to set up, but so is any dual-boot setup.
x86-64 and EM64T are the same instruction set.
Well, at my job management stays the fuck out of the way.
This may be less productive in the long run. For example, I'm posting on Slashdot right now.
But the fact is, when you have a complicated system, you need to make sure that more than one person understands it. Sure, in this case it was done with malice aforethought, but a situation where Childs got hit by a bus the day before he would have otherwise locked everyone else out is not hard to imagine.
No, that doesn't work. What if, instead of just refusing to divulge the password, Childs had shot himself in the head or gotten hit by a bus or something. He locked down his network so well that only through a password that was only in his head could anyone have admin access.
No, you're not allowed to discriminate along lines of race, sex, or any of another half-dozen factors specifically mentioned in the law, or the government will fine you and/or shit down your throat.
Yes, it's hard to prove, in much the same way that proving that a firing was racially motivated in a "right-to-work" state is hard to prove, but it is most certainly illegal.
Likewise, I never learned to cook until I was in college.
Now I'm pretty good at it.
I use Moonshell as my portable audio player, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't support WMA. It does support AAC, Ogg, FLAC, etc, though.
Also, is there a Linux-based WMA encoder that doesn't suck?
This guy was in a minimum-security rehabilitation work camp.
It's not the prison systems fault in this particular case.
Ah, didn't see that part. No, that's Nintendo-specific, and a very specific patent, too.This doesn't seem quite so frivolous anymore.
(in response to your sig: Both.)
I'm just pointing out that the law is a waste of time and money, not an onerous restriction on trade and free speech, e.g. that it's stupid but not so terrible that the ESA will bother taking it to court and getting it thrown out.
Every console on the market already has lockout features. The Wii, PS3, and 360 have them right there in the system menu. The Nintendo DS does not, but portables aren't covered by this law.
So, we have a piece of feel-good legislation that does nothing, basically.
14th Amendment arguments aside (I think others have adequately covered them):
Article 1, section 8 of the New York State Constitution also guarantees free speech.
Read it:
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/lbdcinfo/senconstitution.html
You did know that each state has its own constitution, didn't you?
The Sega Saturn analog controller (packaged with NiGHTS into Dreams) had an analog stick and two analog triggers. (The analog triggers were basically Sega's lasting innovation in controllers, really. That and the staggered joystick layout.) Does this patent predate NiGHTS?
I think he means no energy from the diesel engine, i.e. that the battery charge will be sufficient for the entire trip once the train gets up to speed, assuming no gradient larger than 1%.
Heh. Economics. A "science" where any given phenomenon can be explained in a number of different ways limited only by the number of different people explaining it. No, thank you; I'll stick with physics and computer science.
Why, praytell, have so many otherwise intelligent people been lured onto the gold bandwagon lately?
Because Ron Paul's cult of personality caught on with a bunch of otherwise intelligent people, mostly computer geeks. I'm still not entirely sure why it has. Perhaps it's because us computer people think that human society should (or worse, does) run on a set of simple, consistent rules, the way a computer system does. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, but it's an intriguing idea that caught on with a lot of people.