Various flavors of Linux can take a flying leap. The mainline Linux kernel is generally in very strong shape
Right, because the kernel is so useful without any applications.
Most of all, Linux does not compromise basic performance for "rights management", which Vista does.
Did you even read the story? Its a scheduler giving more priority to the sound system than to the network system, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DRM.
Vista's worst engineering decision is to make a system optimized for restrictions and money-farming, not for user experience. The WGA breakdown is the best example. The legitimate users who paid a ridiculous sum to use Vista's 'ultimate' features (you know, the ones which are free in Linux and at least standard in MacOSX) had their systems crippled, and the pirates who bypassed WGA were not even affected. The whole feature does exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to do. That's failed engineering, any way you look at it.
I have Vista, and haven't had my system crippled. Enough of zealotry already.
Indeed. The heads would then quickly start laughing at you. I could never take seriously a computer manufacturer that associated itself with cows. That, and the brand new gateway one of my dormmates got in college proved it was shitty beyond anything I'd ever seen. It must have had a blazing fast 2000rpm hard drive... ugh.
No, the said that audio and network are both high priority services, and if network was given priority over audio, you'd get popping. So they give audio a bit more priority.
In cases where people are using gigabit, its getting TOO much priority. Perhaps you should read the article, and take all the bullet points together, not seperately.
It'd be nice if the entire response was posted though.
Um, isnt the fact that not even Microsofts own software can handle OOXML which btw. is designed by Microsoft themselves, proof enough that something is seriously wrong with the design of OOXML?
No, because the manually edited document did not conform to the standards. I read what the author did; basically he seems to think that a document conforming to a standard must: 1) be easily modifiable by hand. 2) That you should be able to open the document and start editing away without knowing the spec. In the end, he basically is saying "its too complex to manually modify!!" Which is absurd; a program should be doing the modification, one built to adhere to the specification. Nothing about a standard says that it need work with notepad just because its based off of xml.
I mean if not even the maker of OOXML can get it to work properly in its own products, how are third parties supposed to do it? And if no one is able to implement OOXML correctly, what is this "standard" good for besides being a great smoke-and-mirrors tactic by Microsoft themselves?
You assume his manual edits were done according to spec, which is not likely given that the spec seems pretty complex. I would say that Excel handles it fine, as long as you obey the specfication. A third party will need to invest some time making a standard compliant reader / writer, but once its done, its done.
Its not that you can't implement it properly; its that doing so in notepad will prove very time consuming and error prone. But that doesn't suprise me; its meant to be done in an automated fashion anyway. May as well complain that you can't telnet to a DNS server and manually talk to it successfully.
You don't think your system of "redistributing wealth" more or less equally is communism? Everything else IS a problem that would simply vanish if it weren't for taxes. Call it a strawman all you want, these are STILL valid problems with expecting everyone to "pay their debt to society." I can give you the address of a trailer pack where if you like to see it for yourself.
Then go look up where your tax dollars are going; its going to these very programs.
But I suppose you'd rather stick you head in the sand than see that taxes simply steal from honest hardworking people to fund other people's agendas.
You also never exactly tell me what I'm building off of that didn't get paid for by my parents or I. It wasn't through taxes I got an education. I got one DESPITE taxes making it harder.
I think you need a healthy dose of reality. In case you didn't know, communism failed. It failed because there was no motivation to excel and do better. People expected to be taken care of. Ultimately, such a system is doomed to failure.
Please explain to me how my tax money is being well spent to send members of our society to a desert to fight for more oil or some abstract war on terror? Please tell me how it benefits me or even society to wage the "war on drugs." Prohibition worked really well didn't it? I'm so glad that I can pay my debt to society by funding torture in Cuba and around the globe.
I also find it amusing that my "debt" must go to lazy idiots that can't keep their legs closed, who sit and do nothing be have more kids. Somehow apparently I "owe" them flat screen HD tvs and brand new trucks, things I can't even afford for myself.
I guess my debt also includes not being able to fix my own fucking house, so that more stupid lazy people can pile into the trailer park down the street.
What about THEIR debt to society? Don't they have an obligation to give back? Because all I see is constant taking and taking and taking.
Nevermind that living my life (which includes spending money) helps keep other people employed. The job I perform everyday helps. Although not so much, because a good chunk of my income goes to making sure someone that does nothing can afford a four-wheeler. Yes, because its more important for someone else to have something without working for it than it is for me to be able to use what I've earned.
Maybe YOU should move to a country that more closely matches your ideals instead of trying to drag down everyone to the lowest level here.
You want to know what people are really like? Go work in a food shelter and offer to help the homeless find and get jobs. See how many of them tell you they'd rather a handout.
What utter nonsense, no matter how many times you included my comments in your post it does not make yours correct (well except the parts were you are quoting me of course).
The only comments of yours which I include ARE quotes from you, so that you can see what points I'm responding to.
Copyright does not exist at all without a government enforcement of it. In THIS case both countries we are talking about are members of the WTO, WHICH STATES HOW SIGNATORIES MUST RESPECT COPYRIGHT AND OTHER IP LAWS. What part of that don't you get? The WTO ALSO gets to say if one country may IGNORE those IP laws as compensation should a defendant be found guilty of violating some other portion of the WTO laws.
In no country in the world is carte blanche given to agreements between people all those agreements are still bound and limited by the law and there is no country that does not place clearly defined limits on gambling.
The WTO court disagrees, which is why it ruled against the US. The court found that, even though the US probably didn't intend to allow gambling, that it in fact did enter into such an agreement to do so.
All financial transaction require the agreement of the countries involved in those transactions, you are in fact not free to remove money from one country and take it to another, you require the consent of both countries to conduct that transaction and that consent can be and in fact has often been withdrawn.
Really, so people give up thier cash when they board an international flight? They lose access to their credit or debit cards? In this case, the US DID open the doors for international gambling, and according to a treaty it entered into it MUST comply with that treaty or face consequences (in this case, Antigua would be allowed to violate US IP).
As for contesting the court case, of course they would contest it, it would be arrogantly stupid to not turn up to court, as it would degrade the future value of the court, when the US government wishes to use the court themselves.
The only options are to contest or not show up at all? What about simply accepting the punishment? That's a viable option as well. Or, they could remove the restriction on international gambling. Both those options are still on the table, at least that's what I got from the article I read.
The purpose of our government is to protect individual rights. Taking so much from people so that others may "benefit" does not make it right, nor is it something that we should continue. Your right to swing your fist ends at my face; likewise your right to sit on your ass and do nothing ends when it becomes a burden to me.
As far as your belief on what society does, many societies have historically gotten rid of those that would bring the society down. Indians would kill babies with obvious afflictions, for example.
Humans began to band together not to provide for each other, but to protect themselve from other humans. You really, really need to look at history a bit more.
The IP exists in treaty between countries, all the signatories to that treaty, that it passes through a third party does not abrogate that copyright treaty, and copyright protects the authors not the country from where the works originate, the author or owners of the work are free to travel anywhere in the world covered by that treaty and that work shifts with them, they do not have to shift the work.
The treaty you talk about is part of joining the WTO though; so if the WTO rules a nation does not have to respect the IP of another country, it stands to reason the country could export. To not allow it would discourage smaller countries from joining the WTO, because they'd effectively have no power.
Gambling is not viewed as a service in the majority of countries, it is viewed as gambling and separately legislated and controlled. As the gambling is occurring in both countries, legislation controlling gambling from both countries should apply, as any transfer of funds requires the cooperation of governments those governments are certainly entitled to establish controls on those transfers.
The gambling is only occuring in one country; this works like sales tax in the US. You are charged sales tax only if the server is in the same jurisdiction. If not, the seller is not obligated to collect the sales tax. Governments have nothing to do with bank transactions; I am free to convert my money to another currency and use it in another country.
Your argument about other goods is of course factitious as those goods have to pass customs and be considered safe prior to being allowed into the country ie. apply the same conditions to the gambling. From my point of view I would ban all gambling unless the odds were equal and in fact all parties involved were gambling equally.
There is nothing life threatening about gambling online. Its not your right as an individual to interfere with the actions of two consenting parties. The only factor to consider is that the gaming site is honest about its payout chances; dishonesty would be fraud. Otherwise, you should have no say in what two consenting parties do with their money.
If 'you' read the article you will see it is only the opinion of the journalist, and until the case is actually settled no real conclusions can be drawn, they can only be speculated on. Although of course the copyright is clear cut and controlled by separate treaty, regardless of the assertions in the case.
The lawyer representing the island seems to share the same opinion, as apparently does the US, or they would not bother fighting the ruling. It simply wouldn't be worth the expense. Again, the treaty you refer to is one that countries adapt when they join the WTO. Maybe you should research the WTO a bit more.
In this country though we are supposed to be individuals which provide for ourselves. A standing army doesn't benifit us, the government throwing away the consitution through illegal campaigns (illegal wars, including war on drugs, terror, bad words etc.).
The lower class pretty much doesn't pay taxes, and us a hugely disproporiant amount of taxes (welfare, medicare, medicad, food stamps, section 8 housing, etc etc).
Not wanting a huge tax burden does not make you a sociopath. Nor are you a sociopath for letting people suffere the consequences of their own choices.
But don't worry, thanks to the taxes you so love, I'll be lower class soon too!
The real issue is whether gambling can actually be considered to be trade. What controls are in place to ensure the gambling activities are in any way fair, so should it be illegal to gamble beyond civil jurisdiction, most likely, should Antigua and Barbuda win and be able to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, to a population of 70,000, seriously who would give a fuck, nobody will be able to import that product from them, and at 70,000 that ain't even the population of a regional town.
I'm having trouble with your run-on sentence, so I hope I got your meaning. Anyway, its pretty clear that services are considered in trade, as "entertainment services" are explicitly mentioned. The fact that you could get ripped off is irrelevent; people could travel there and gamble and it would be perfectly legal, so why not on the internet? If people keep losing at these sites, they'll stop going. That's true of all gambling establishments.
You assume no one would be able to import the IP that they are violating; I don't see anything that forbids it, and indeed it would be a useless rule from the WTO if it would only be legal to violate within thier borders. I makes much more sense that they'd be able to export the violated IP given that the WTO is trying to even the field between small and large.
In turn the US or any other country who gets effected by B$ online gambling cut quite indifferently cut 70,000 people out of trade in either direction with out even noticing.
Exactly why I think they'd be able to export the violated IP; otherwise why would a nation join the WTO?
Whilst the current US administration has pretty well demonstrated it ignorance, greed and corruption, that does not by any stretch of the imagination make every US law wrong, or the country as a whole guilty or the American people deserving of getting ripped off by overseas Internet gambling houses.
People throw away money on all sorts of stupid things. The fashion industry is built around it. We need new waredrobes every year because some twit on TLC says some styles are "out?" The fact is that the government, sort of keeping gambling here "honest" should stay out of it.
So the stakes are really high for the survivability of the WTO and whether that organisation should continue to exist, and whether it should attempt to force it's corporate greed driven will upon any countries internal laws.
If you read the article, you'd see the stakes are just as high for the US.
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Witholding content from the ESRB raters is just what Washington needs to turn the ESRB from a self-regulating body to a government-regulated body.
Which would quickly be sued over constitutional issues and disbanded. Personally I think the game industry should have gone straight to that option.
Various flavors of Linux can take a flying leap. The mainline Linux kernel is generally in very strong shape
Right, because the kernel is so useful without any applications.
Most of all, Linux does not compromise basic performance for "rights management", which Vista does.
Did you even read the story? Its a scheduler giving more priority to the sound system than to the network system, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DRM.
Vista's worst engineering decision is to make a system optimized for restrictions and money-farming, not for user experience. The WGA breakdown is the best example. The legitimate users who paid a ridiculous sum to use Vista's 'ultimate' features (you know, the ones which are free in Linux and at least standard in MacOSX) had their systems crippled, and the pirates who bypassed WGA were not even affected. The whole feature does exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to do. That's failed engineering, any way you look at it.
I have Vista, and haven't had my system crippled. Enough of zealotry already.
Since when did six digit ids count as not being new?
It was a stock Mandriva installation. While you may have a point, its not something that should be expected of an end user to know.
Indeed. The heads would then quickly start laughing at you. I could never take seriously a computer manufacturer that associated itself with cows. That, and the brand new gateway one of my dormmates got in college proved it was shitty beyond anything I'd ever seen. It must have had a blazing fast 2000rpm hard drive... ugh.
Wonderful, mob rule, the only way to go!
Um, the cold war started before the war even ended. Using the cold war as a justification for itar is a bit silly in that context.
We have things like the cold war because of human nature, not the techonlogy level we're at.
The house and the radar operator were stationary, but there was some wind. Look it up, this has been documented.
Moving the columns within excel? Certainly that should not happen, but it doesn't mean the spec is broken (not that you were saying that).
I know I must have hit on something, since a mod simply went with overrated on a normal 1 post..
Because Vista removed sound drivers from kernel space, thanks to the crappy job done by sound driver writers.
I've had it happen. More often though, some sound daemon would crash and I'd have no sound at all until I rebooted.
No, the said that audio and network are both high priority services, and if network was given priority over audio, you'd get popping. So they give audio a bit more priority.
In cases where people are using gigabit, its getting TOO much priority. Perhaps you should read the article, and take all the bullet points together, not seperately.
It'd be nice if the entire response was posted though.
Its a Star Trek: TNG episode where Picard was captured and tortured by the Romulans.
It isn't the radar that is inaccurate.
Oh, so a radar gun that clocks a house at 150 MPH isn't unreliable?
Please, radar guns are NOT accurate.
Um, isnt the fact that not even Microsofts own software can handle OOXML which btw. is designed by Microsoft themselves, proof enough that something is seriously wrong with the design of OOXML?
No, because the manually edited document did not conform to the standards. I read what the author did; basically he seems to think that a document conforming to a standard must: 1) be easily modifiable by hand. 2) That you should be able to open the document and start editing away without knowing the spec. In the end, he basically is saying "its too complex to manually modify!!" Which is absurd; a program should be doing the modification, one built to adhere to the specification. Nothing about a standard says that it need work with notepad just because its based off of xml.
I mean if not even the maker of OOXML can get it to work properly in its own products, how are third parties supposed to do it? And if no one is able to implement OOXML correctly, what is this "standard" good for besides being a great smoke-and-mirrors tactic by Microsoft themselves?
You assume his manual edits were done according to spec, which is not likely given that the spec seems pretty complex. I would say that Excel handles it fine, as long as you obey the specfication. A third party will need to invest some time making a standard compliant reader / writer, but once its done, its done.
Its not that you can't implement it properly; its that doing so in notepad will prove very time consuming and error prone. But that doesn't suprise me; its meant to be done in an automated fashion anyway. May as well complain that you can't telnet to a DNS server and manually talk to it successfully.
You don't think your system of "redistributing wealth" more or less equally is communism? Everything else IS a problem that would simply vanish if it weren't for taxes. Call it a strawman all you want, these are STILL valid problems with expecting everyone to "pay their debt to society." I can give you the address of a trailer pack where if you like to see it for yourself.
Then go look up where your tax dollars are going; its going to these very programs.
But I suppose you'd rather stick you head in the sand than see that taxes simply steal from honest hardworking people to fund other people's agendas.
You also never exactly tell me what I'm building off of that didn't get paid for by my parents or I. It wasn't through taxes I got an education. I got one DESPITE taxes making it harder.
That's a great way to determine VALID accounts to spam.
I think you need a healthy dose of reality. In case you didn't know, communism failed. It failed because there was no motivation to excel and do better. People expected to be taken care of. Ultimately, such a system is doomed to failure.
Please explain to me how my tax money is being well spent to send members of our society to a desert to fight for more oil or some abstract war on terror? Please tell me how it benefits me or even society to wage the "war on drugs." Prohibition worked really well didn't it? I'm so glad that I can pay my debt to society by funding torture in Cuba and around the globe.
I also find it amusing that my "debt" must go to lazy idiots that can't keep their legs closed, who sit and do nothing be have more kids. Somehow apparently I "owe" them flat screen HD tvs and brand new trucks, things I can't even afford for myself.
I guess my debt also includes not being able to fix my own fucking house, so that more stupid lazy people can pile into the trailer park down the street.
What about THEIR debt to society? Don't they have an obligation to give back? Because all I see is constant taking and taking and taking.
Nevermind that living my life (which includes spending money) helps keep other people employed. The job I perform everyday helps. Although not so much, because a good chunk of my income goes to making sure someone that does nothing can afford a four-wheeler. Yes, because its more important for someone else to have something without working for it than it is for me to be able to use what I've earned.
Maybe YOU should move to a country that more closely matches your ideals instead of trying to drag down everyone to the lowest level here.
You want to know what people are really like? Go work in a food shelter and offer to help the homeless find and get jobs. See how many of them tell you they'd rather a handout.
Ya, that's some debt I owe. Retard.
Um, I'm not sure that we really need that much sugar in our diet. Especially not the amounts a typical american consumes.
What utter nonsense, no matter how many times you included my comments in your post it does not make yours correct (well except the parts were you are quoting me of course).
The only comments of yours which I include ARE quotes from you, so that you can see what points I'm responding to.
Copyright does not exist at all without a government enforcement of it. In THIS case both countries we are talking about are members of the WTO, WHICH STATES HOW SIGNATORIES MUST RESPECT COPYRIGHT AND OTHER IP LAWS. What part of that don't you get? The WTO ALSO gets to say if one country may IGNORE those IP laws as compensation should a defendant be found guilty of violating some other portion of the WTO laws.
In no country in the world is carte blanche given to agreements between people all those agreements are still bound and limited by the law and there is no country that does not place clearly defined limits on gambling.
The WTO court disagrees, which is why it ruled against the US. The court found that, even though the US probably didn't intend to allow gambling, that it in fact did enter into such an agreement to do so.
All financial transaction require the agreement of the countries involved in those transactions, you are in fact not free to remove money from one country and take it to another, you require the consent of both countries to conduct that transaction and that consent can be and in fact has often been withdrawn.
Really, so people give up thier cash when they board an international flight? They lose access to their credit or debit cards? In this case, the US DID open the doors for international gambling, and according to a treaty it entered into it MUST comply with that treaty or face consequences (in this case, Antigua would be allowed to violate US IP).
As for contesting the court case, of course they would contest it, it would be arrogantly stupid to not turn up to court, as it would degrade the future value of the court, when the US government wishes to use the court themselves.
The only options are to contest or not show up at all? What about simply accepting the punishment? That's a viable option as well. Or, they could remove the restriction on international gambling. Both those options are still on the table, at least that's what I got from the article I read.
The purpose of our government is to protect individual rights. Taking so much from people so that others may "benefit" does not make it right, nor is it something that we should continue. Your right to swing your fist ends at my face; likewise your right to sit on your ass and do nothing ends when it becomes a burden to me.
As far as your belief on what society does, many societies have historically gotten rid of those that would bring the society down. Indians would kill babies with obvious afflictions, for example.
Humans began to band together not to provide for each other, but to protect themselve from other humans. You really, really need to look at history a bit more.
The IP exists in treaty between countries, all the signatories to that treaty, that it passes through a third party does not abrogate that copyright treaty, and copyright protects the authors not the country from where the works originate, the author or owners of the work are free to travel anywhere in the world covered by that treaty and that work shifts with them, they do not have to shift the work.
The treaty you talk about is part of joining the WTO though; so if the WTO rules a nation does not have to respect the IP of another country, it stands to reason the country could export. To not allow it would discourage smaller countries from joining the WTO, because they'd effectively have no power.
Gambling is not viewed as a service in the majority of countries, it is viewed as gambling and separately legislated and controlled. As the gambling is occurring in both countries, legislation controlling gambling from both countries should apply, as any transfer of funds requires the cooperation of governments those governments are certainly entitled to establish controls on those transfers.
The gambling is only occuring in one country; this works like sales tax in the US. You are charged sales tax only if the server is in the same jurisdiction. If not, the seller is not obligated to collect the sales tax. Governments have nothing to do with bank transactions; I am free to convert my money to another currency and use it in another country.
Your argument about other goods is of course factitious as those goods have to pass customs and be considered safe prior to being allowed into the country ie. apply the same conditions to the gambling. From my point of view I would ban all gambling unless the odds were equal and in fact all parties involved were gambling equally.
There is nothing life threatening about gambling online. Its not your right as an individual to interfere with the actions of two consenting parties. The only factor to consider is that the gaming site is honest about its payout chances; dishonesty would be fraud. Otherwise, you should have no say in what two consenting parties do with their money.
If 'you' read the article you will see it is only the opinion of the journalist, and until the case is actually settled no real conclusions can be drawn, they can only be speculated on. Although of course the copyright is clear cut and controlled by separate treaty, regardless of the assertions in the case.
The lawyer representing the island seems to share the same opinion, as apparently does the US, or they would not bother fighting the ruling. It simply wouldn't be worth the expense. Again, the treaty you refer to is one that countries adapt when they join the WTO. Maybe you should research the WTO a bit more.
In this country though we are supposed to be individuals which provide for ourselves. A standing army doesn't benifit us, the government throwing away the consitution through illegal campaigns (illegal wars, including war on drugs, terror, bad words etc.).
The lower class pretty much doesn't pay taxes, and us a hugely disproporiant amount of taxes (welfare, medicare, medicad, food stamps, section 8 housing, etc etc).
Not wanting a huge tax burden does not make you a sociopath. Nor are you a sociopath for letting people suffere the consequences of their own choices.
But don't worry, thanks to the taxes you so love, I'll be lower class soon too!
The real issue is whether gambling can actually be considered to be trade. What controls are in place to ensure the gambling activities are in any way fair, so should it be illegal to gamble beyond civil jurisdiction, most likely, should Antigua and Barbuda win and be able to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, to a population of 70,000, seriously who would give a fuck, nobody will be able to import that product from them, and at 70,000 that ain't even the population of a regional town.
I'm having trouble with your run-on sentence, so I hope I got your meaning. Anyway, its pretty clear that services are considered in trade, as "entertainment services" are explicitly mentioned. The fact that you could get ripped off is irrelevent; people could travel there and gamble and it would be perfectly legal, so why not on the internet? If people keep losing at these sites, they'll stop going. That's true of all gambling establishments.
You assume no one would be able to import the IP that they are violating; I don't see anything that forbids it, and indeed it would be a useless rule from the WTO if it would only be legal to violate within thier borders. I makes much more sense that they'd be able to export the violated IP given that the WTO is trying to even the field between small and large.
In turn the US or any other country who gets effected by B$ online gambling cut quite indifferently cut 70,000 people out of trade in either direction with out even noticing.
Exactly why I think they'd be able to export the violated IP; otherwise why would a nation join the WTO?
Whilst the current US administration has pretty well demonstrated it ignorance, greed and corruption, that does not by any stretch of the imagination make every US law wrong, or the country as a whole guilty or the American people deserving of getting ripped off by overseas Internet gambling houses.
People throw away money on all sorts of stupid things. The fashion industry is built around it. We need new waredrobes every year because some twit on TLC says some styles are "out?" The fact is that the government, sort of keeping gambling here "honest" should stay out of it.
So the stakes are really high for the survivability of the WTO and whether that organisation should continue to exist, and whether it should attempt to force it's corporate greed driven will upon any countries internal laws.
If you read the article, you'd see the stakes are just as high for the US.
Well, endurance != speed or strength, so I don't know why your observations would confuse you.