If you get sued fight them tooth and nail. Get a good lawyer, and some help from the EFF and other folks. We just need one person with balls enough to fight, and when they win it will set a precedent.
Just out of curiosity, on what grounds do you think a person "with balls enough to fight" is going to win the case?
I mean, we're talking people who are sharing thousands of copyrighted songs. I think we can assume it likely that they are real songs, not cleverly renamed mp3's of white noise intended to honeypot the RIAA's searchers. So the defendents are going to be in a situation where (a) they have actually broken the law, and (b) they are being sued by the sort of lawyers the RIAA can afford to pay, i.e. experienced and aggressive ones.
How do you think they're going to win? I know you all think the RIAA is evil and the laws are unreasonable, and I agree with you. But I say this with absolute confidence: if any of these 261 people being sued stands up and fights tool and nail in the courtroom, they will lose, and they will be crucified.
What's Linux-hostile about Westpac? I mean, they suck as a bank (I recently closed my account with them due to their outrageous fees), but when it came to internet banking (and I can't think of any other service a bank provides that can be "Linux-friendly" or "Linux-hostile") they have always had a perfectly sensible all HTML no plugins/Java/ActiveX/IE-only/etc. system which I was accessing from Linux with zero problems even as long ago as 1997..
It is a very, very sad list. No mention of Ultima IV, Planescape, Wing Commander III, Baldur's Gate, Planetfall, Zork, or any of the myriad of games with *REAL* endings.
Did it occur to you that when you see a list of "top 11 videogame endings", and every single one of them is for a console game, none of them for a PC game, that they're probably using the word "videogame" to mean console games, as opposed to "computer games"?
Or do you prefer to think that they just all hated the endings of your favourite PC CRPGS?
Apparently they claim to have had "more than 300 companies in the first four business days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO's Intellectual Property License for Linux."
Yeah, but 299 of those inquiries were from people on Slashdot and kuro5hin calling up just to see what SCO would say to them!
The reality is that optimizing C compilers can produce faster code than most programmers
Yes, but "most programmers" don't sit down to write an OS in assembly. Optimizing C compilers most certainly do not produce faster code than a true kick-ass assembly guru, and I assume that's the sort of person who would take on a project like this.
After writing something at a snail's pace for days, the developer often says to himself: I'll come back later and code this up as a binary tree, for now I'm just going to use a linear search and get it done.
On that front, however, you may well be correct. Writing something in "100% asm" is almost certainly more about ego than performance. One adage which actually is true is the old "10% of the code takes 90% of the CPU time" one, so write it, profile it, and then rewrite the critical bits in assembly.
You are aware that Thailand is not actually a provice of Korea, right? It's a different country? Just checking, since you seem to think that a Thai gaming curfew is going to stop Koreans dying from 72 hour gaming marathons.
RIAA Radar is a site which may be of interest to Slashdotters, which I presume is done using this Amazon API.. check if a CD was release by an RIAA member label before you buy it!
Keep in mind, up to this point all the people (or students) the RIAA has sued have settled. What would happen if at least one stands up and goes to court?
Um, they'd lose? And be stuck with damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered? On what grounds do you think thse defendants would be able to win the case against the RIAA?
Granted, it would draw more attention to the situation if a few people got walloped with billion dollar judgements than if they made thousand dollar settlements, but what's in it for the defendant?
Personally, I'm just curious what the the track-by-track pricing scheme would be for an album like "NIN-Broken" where they've got about 90 tracks of silence. Do those go for 99cents too?
So, saying that serial is faster than the "equivalent" parallel interface is confusing, and incorrect, because one could be referring to equivalent clock rates being used for each interface, in which case parallel will provide at least twice the data throughput. On the other hand, "equivalent" could be referring to identical throughput rates, in which case the serial and parallel interfaces would provide, by definition, identical data rates.
I took "equivalent" to mean "an equivalent level of technological sophistication". In the past, the best parallel interface that could be made at a home PC level of sophistication and expense was faster than the best serial interface. Now it seems the pendulum has swung..
Aragorn lives a while after LOTR into the hundreds. But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties-- movie got it right.
The original commenter never said otherwise! He merely dissed the journalist for being surprised at this fact - because, as we all well know, a lack of knowledge of Tolkien minutiae renders one unfit to write for USA Today.
Arguably, if my applications were made 'Altivec-aware' they'd run significantly faster on the G4, but if I were to use SSE2 extensions on the Athlon or P4, they'd run faster on those platforms, too.
Well, actually if you used SSE2 extensions on your 800MHz Athlon it'd crash, since they're not supported by any AMD chip prior to the Opteron.:-)
In fact, given the age of your Athlon, it doesn't even support SSE, which wasn't added until the AthlonXP. And 3DNow, which it does support, is hardly in the same class as Altivec.
There was no 'co-ordinated worldwide release' for Reloaded, here in Britain we got it a week an a half later than the US.
There was more of a co-ordinated worldwide release than usual. I believe Reloaded opened in a record number of countries simultaneously. But the UK still got screwed, as always. I have no idea why the UK is always the last English speaking country in the world to get Hollywood movies. Surely it's a more lucrative market than Australia and New Zealand?
Tell her that 'daemon' actually means something closer to "guardian angel" than "demon".. All of those daemons running in the background on your machine are attendant spirits.
Yeah right. Like some fundy Christian that thinks BSD is a Satanic OS is going to be mollified by that. "Oh, that's not Satan, that's just a supernatural attendant spirit from Greek mythology". "DEVIL! DEVIL! DEVIL!"
Fuck 'em, I say. If they're that stupid, they deserve to use Windows until the end of time.
Please don't RTFJF. You'll just end up with some distorted view of what ESR thinks a hacker is (i.e., a description of ESR and his hairy buddies). Hell, it'll even have you believing that hackers don't drink.
This is bullshit. It's very sane to have hobbies that involve other things than your profession. It's called balance in your life.
He didn't say never trust a computer professional that doesn't list computers as their only hobby. I have various hobbies - DJ'ing, cooking, reading, cinema, and dicking around with my computer. I think I have balance in my life.
But I do spend hobby time on my computer, and I do believe that not doing so is a bad sign when it comes to a computing professional. I don't think it's the same as being a salesman or a plumber at all, I think it does require an interest outside of work hours.
"As for the hardware itself, Phantom will use mostly standard PC parts", says the article. Well, we all know what that means: big and expensive! It's all very well if you're Microsoft and can afford to sell a console at a loss after wasting money putting unnecessarily general-purpose components into it. But some startup reckons they can do it? Ludicrous. There may or may not be room for a 4th console in the market, but there's never been room for a "console" built out of standard PC components, produced by a company with no reputation to lure developers and no billions in the bank to buy into the market.
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If you get sued fight them tooth and nail. Get a good lawyer, and some help from the EFF and other folks. We just need one person with balls enough to fight, and when they win it will set a precedent.
Just out of curiosity, on what grounds do you think a person "with balls enough to fight" is going to win the case?
I mean, we're talking people who are sharing thousands of copyrighted songs. I think we can assume it likely that they are real songs, not cleverly renamed mp3's of white noise intended to honeypot the RIAA's searchers. So the defendents are going to be in a situation where (a) they have actually broken the law, and (b) they are being sued by the sort of lawyers the RIAA can afford to pay, i.e. experienced and aggressive ones.
How do you think they're going to win? I know you all think the RIAA is evil and the laws are unreasonable, and I agree with you. But I say this with absolute confidence: if any of these 261 people being sued stands up and fights tool and nail in the courtroom, they will lose, and they will be crucified.
What's Linux-hostile about Westpac? I mean, they suck as a bank (I recently closed my account with them due to their outrageous fees), but when it came to internet banking (and I can't think of any other service a bank provides that can be "Linux-friendly" or "Linux-hostile") they have always had a perfectly sensible all HTML no plugins/Java/ActiveX/IE-only/etc. system which I was accessing from Linux with zero problems even as long ago as 1997..
It is a very, very sad list. No mention of Ultima IV, Planescape, Wing Commander III, Baldur's Gate, Planetfall, Zork, or any of the myriad of games with *REAL* endings.
Did it occur to you that when you see a list of "top 11 videogame endings", and every single one of them is for a console game, none of them for a PC game, that they're probably using the word "videogame" to mean console games, as opposed to "computer games"?
Or do you prefer to think that they just all hated the endings of your favourite PC CRPGS?
The purtainent chapter of the Copywrite Code [copyright.gov] reads:
..and the pertinent question is how did you manage to link to www.copyright.gov when you can't spell "copyright"?
Come on, Affleck was the bomb in "Phantoms" !!!
Apparently they claim to have had "more than 300 companies in the first four business days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO's Intellectual Property License for Linux."
Yeah, but 299 of those inquiries were from people on Slashdot and kuro5hin calling up just to see what SCO would say to them!
The reality is that optimizing C compilers can produce faster code than most programmers
Yes, but "most programmers" don't sit down to write an OS in assembly. Optimizing C compilers most certainly do not produce faster code than a true kick-ass assembly guru, and I assume that's the sort of person who would take on a project like this.
After writing something at a snail's pace for days, the developer often says to himself: I'll come back later and code this up as a binary tree, for now I'm just going to use a linear search and get it done.
On that front, however, you may well be correct. Writing something in "100% asm" is almost certainly more about ego than performance. One adage which actually is true is the old "10% of the code takes 90% of the CPU time" one, so write it, profile it, and then rewrite the critical bits in assembly.
..I'm so glad I use AMD exclusively!
You are aware that Thailand is not actually a provice of Korea, right? It's a different country? Just checking, since you seem to think that a Thai gaming curfew is going to stop Koreans dying from 72 hour gaming marathons.
The imdb forum, no offense, has got to be the filth of the Internet.
You've never read the aintitcoolnews.com forums, have you? They make the IMDB forums look like Plato's Dialogues.
Damn, so it does. I am officially a d0rk.
RIAA Radar is a site which may be of interest to Slashdotters, which I presume is done using this Amazon API.. check if a CD was release by an RIAA member label before you buy it!
Keep in mind, up to this point all the people (or students) the RIAA has sued have settled. What would happen if at least one stands up and goes to court?
Um, they'd lose? And be stuck with damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered? On what grounds do you think thse defendants would be able to win the case against the RIAA?
Granted, it would draw more attention to the situation if a few people got walloped with billion dollar judgements than if they made thousand dollar settlements, but what's in it for the defendant?
Personally, I'm just curious what the the track-by-track pricing scheme would be for an album like "NIN-Broken" where they've got about 90 tracks of silence. Do those go for 99cents too?
..and if you do sell them for 99c, do you get sued by John Cage's record label?
So, saying that serial is faster than the "equivalent" parallel interface is confusing, and incorrect, because one could be referring to equivalent clock rates being used for each interface, in which case parallel will provide at least twice the data throughput. On the other hand, "equivalent" could be referring to identical throughput rates, in which case the serial and parallel interfaces would provide, by definition, identical data rates.
I took "equivalent" to mean "an equivalent level of technological sophistication". In the past, the best parallel interface that could be made at a home PC level of sophistication and expense was faster than the best serial interface. Now it seems the pendulum has swung..
I have a much lower user ID than him, and I had no fucking clue what XD2 was either.
Aragorn lives a while after LOTR into the hundreds. But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties-- movie got it right.
The original commenter never said otherwise! He merely dissed the journalist for being surprised at this fact - because, as we all well know, a lack of knowledge of Tolkien minutiae renders one unfit to write for USA Today.
Does anybody know whether Apple plans to ship a keyboard with the G5?
They do, but according to the inside tip I got, the keyboard only has one key!
Arguably, if my applications were made 'Altivec-aware' they'd run significantly faster on the G4, but if I were to use SSE2 extensions on the Athlon or P4, they'd run faster on those platforms, too.
Well, actually if you used SSE2 extensions on your 800MHz Athlon it'd crash, since they're not supported by any AMD chip prior to the Opteron. :-)
In fact, given the age of your Athlon, it doesn't even support SSE, which wasn't added until the AthlonXP. And 3DNow, which it does support, is hardly in the same class as Altivec.
There was no 'co-ordinated worldwide release' for Reloaded, here in Britain we got it a week an a half later than the US.
There was more of a co-ordinated worldwide release than usual. I believe Reloaded opened in a record number of countries simultaneously. But the UK still got screwed, as always. I have no idea why the UK is always the last English speaking country in the world to get Hollywood movies. Surely it's a more lucrative market than Australia and New Zealand?
Tell her that 'daemon' actually means something closer to "guardian angel" than "demon" .. All of those daemons running in the background on your machine are attendant spirits.
Yeah right. Like some fundy Christian that thinks BSD is a Satanic OS is going to be mollified by that. "Oh, that's not Satan, that's just a supernatural attendant spirit from Greek mythology". "DEVIL! DEVIL! DEVIL!"
Fuck 'em, I say. If they're that stupid, they deserve to use Windows until the end of time.
Please don't RTFJF. You'll just end up with some distorted view of what ESR thinks a hacker is (i.e., a description of ESR and his hairy buddies). Hell, it'll even have you believing that hackers don't drink.
This is bullshit. It's very sane to have hobbies that involve other things than your profession. It's called balance in your life.
He didn't say never trust a computer professional that doesn't list computers as their only hobby. I have various hobbies - DJ'ing, cooking, reading, cinema, and dicking around with my computer. I think I have balance in my life.
But I do spend hobby time on my computer, and I do believe that not doing so is a bad sign when it comes to a computing professional. I don't think it's the same as being a salesman or a plumber at all, I think it does require an interest outside of work hours.
"As for the hardware itself, Phantom will use mostly standard PC parts", says the article. Well, we all know what that means: big and expensive! It's all very well if you're Microsoft and can afford to sell a console at a loss after wasting money putting unnecessarily general-purpose components into it. But some startup reckons they can do it? Ludicrous. There may or may not be room for a 4th console in the market, but there's never been room for a "console" built out of standard PC components, produced by a company with no reputation to lure developers and no billions in the bank to buy into the market.
It goes in one side blistering fast at 3,000+ fps
More than 3000 frames per second? Yeah, sure, that's fast, but the human eye can only see 50 or so, so what's the point!?