That's not what he was claiming was the right way to do it...How about "centralized credibility" as opposed to (what he claims, not my opinion) "distributed chaos"? Having one legitimate group with credibility doesn't ensure quality information, but certainly prevents contradictions and improves the overall quality.
Actually, you can download Windows from the MSDN site, but you need a subscription. What you are paying for is the license, not the software itself. So downloading it would be useless unless you had a license to run it.
No, Slashdot does not have a Mozilla section. The sections are all the things on the left hand side of the site under the text "Sections." The Mozilla thing that you are linking to is a TOPIC, not a section. There are tons of topics, but not so many sections.
the user will eventually turn the machine on, and then what? does this technology work after the machine has already booted into windows? people generally dont buy a computer to only listen to music or watch DVDs...And furthermore, this isnt really making windows obsolete, its just adding functionality to the system.
The large amount of piracy of this game (30000 people on one torrent the other day) can be largely attributed to the amount of hype surrounding this game. it could be said that id did this to itself by hyping this game up a bit too much. im sure, however, that Doom3's sales will provide quite a hefty amount of profit for id and its employees, as there is quite a large amount of the population that still believes in supporting the developers.
"...and press 4 if you are actually using linux in hopes of getting a discount."
seriously though, this is quite the dilemma for microsoft. on one hand, more companies might consider this method, and microsoft wins because of a larger userbase for its products. on the other, it has its investors whining because of these business methods that are losing profits. it'll be interesting to see how microsoft plays this to keep its investors happy while keeping linux pinned down (somewhat).
By Rob Pegoraro
The Washington Post
Sunday, August 1, 2004; Page F06
TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature -- the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people.
Huh? Permission? Doesn't the government's involvement in consumer electronics stop with making sure that a gadget doesn't jam your neighbor's reception or electrocute you? Since when do the feds get to vote on product designs?
The answer is, since last November, when the FCC voted to require manufacturers to support the "broadcast flag" system by July 1 of next year. This convoluted mechanism aims to stop full-quality copies of digital broadcasts from circulating on the Internet.
The FCC didn't mandate any one anti-file-sharing scheme and instead invited companies to submit their own proposals, which brings us to TiVo's vaguely Soviet predicament. Among the schemes a handful of firms have proposed, only TiVo's would allow tightly controlled online transfers of recorded programs.
For this, the company has drawn the ire of the National Football League and the Motion Picture Association of America, which have asked the FCC to deny TiVo's proposal.
The NFL says that TiVo's Internet-sharing feature will allow people to send game broadcasts to blacked-out viewers in real time (a team's home game can be aired locally only if it sells out beforehand).
"It's a question of pure ability to sell tickets," said Frank Hawkins, the NFL's senior vice president for business affairs. "Buffalo typically sells out September and October, but they've got an open-air stadium. They'll never sell out those December games if they are unable to enforce the blackout rule."
This is an important point: The NFL is not asking the FCC to protect its television business -- never mind that the flag exists only to stop indiscriminate file sharing, not cure every copyright-infringement issue.
No, the NFL is asking for help with a stadium business, one that already benefits from massive government welfare. (A December 2002 Buffalo News story calculated that the taxpayers of Erie County, N.Y., had anted up about $148 million for the Bills and their stadium over the previous decade.)
In other words, the league is asking manufacturers and viewers to further subsidize team owners who are already gorging themselves at the public trough.
There's also the slight problem that the NFL's nightmare -- blacked-out viewers watching a game live on the Internet -- is all but impossible. With almost every broadband connection available today, it would take hours to upload a game. A recipient would be lucky to finish watching a Sunday afternoon game before Monday, and sending a high-definition copy would take most of the week.
Jim Burger, a lawyer for TiVo, fumed about the NFL's complaint: "Maybe their engineers understand how to inflate a football, but I don't think they understand encoded, encrypted MPEG-2," TiVo's tightly secured format.
Whenever full-quality, real-time video on the Internet does become commonplace, I expect to see the NFL capitalizing on it instead of complaining, just as it has profited from such earlier advances as satellite TV.
The MPAA, meanwhile, says that the way TiVo would allow customers to share recordings online with people who may not be friends or family members amounts to indiscriminate redistribution.
The Washington-based group wants TiVo to impose an "affinity requirement," said Fritz Attaway, its executive vice president for government relations.
But how can TiVo tell if the people to whom you've sent a program are really friends and family without launching its own Total Information Awareness program? Attaway called that "a good question." Until t
perhaps the technique could be reverse-engineered to allow the forgers to know whether or not their images can be detected as forgeries, and use this information to enhance their forging techniques to evade the detection tools...
this is someone microsoft WILL listen to, given his former position, and change their strategy to better accomodate for the changing market nowadays.
he said that the tables have turned since microsoft was attacking the more expensive proprietary solutions corporations...maybe its a cycle and eventually we will see linux on top with something new attacking it from below...?
one can only imagine the amount of (valuable) material that we never see due to procedures like this...one could argue that this hinders progress both for individuals and for larger groups. ISPs should really be denied the ability to do this...congressmen?
this reminds me of that woman that sued mcdonalds for "making her fat"...how could this guy not realize that copying papers and turning them in as his own is wrong? should have stopped him?! The world is going downhill when people begin to reject common sense in favor of outrageous accusations such as this one.
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So much for "quiet"...
well said.
...should be enough cover his gas costs.
;)
That's not what he was claiming was the right way to do it...How about "centralized credibility" as opposed to (what he claims, not my opinion) "distributed chaos"? Having one legitimate group with credibility doesn't ensure quality information, but certainly prevents contradictions and improves the overall quality.
What the hell is the point of this thing?
Do I even need to point out the irony there?
Actually, you can download Windows from the MSDN site, but you need a subscription. What you are paying for is the license, not the software itself. So downloading it would be useless unless you had a license to run it.
No, Slashdot does not have a Mozilla section. The sections are all the things on the left hand side of the site under the text "Sections." The Mozilla thing that you are linking to is a TOPIC, not a section. There are tons of topics, but not so many sections.
the user will eventually turn the machine on, and then what? does this technology work after the machine has already booted into windows? people generally dont buy a computer to only listen to music or watch DVDs...And furthermore, this isnt really making windows obsolete, its just adding functionality to the system.
The large amount of piracy of this game (30000 people on one torrent the other day) can be largely attributed to the amount of hype surrounding this game. it could be said that id did this to itself by hyping this game up a bit too much. im sure, however, that Doom3's sales will provide quite a hefty amount of profit for id and its employees, as there is quite a large amount of the population that still believes in supporting the developers.
"...and press 4 if you are actually using linux in hopes of getting a discount."
seriously though, this is quite the dilemma for microsoft. on one hand, more companies might consider this method, and microsoft wins because of a larger userbase for its products. on the other, it has its investors whining because of these business methods that are losing profits. it'll be interesting to see how microsoft plays this to keep its investors happy while keeping linux pinned down (somewhat).
TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag Wavers
By Rob Pegoraro The Washington Post Sunday, August 1, 2004; Page F06
TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature -- the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people.
Huh? Permission? Doesn't the government's involvement in consumer electronics stop with making sure that a gadget doesn't jam your neighbor's reception or electrocute you? Since when do the feds get to vote on product designs?
The answer is, since last November, when the FCC voted to require manufacturers to support the "broadcast flag" system by July 1 of next year. This convoluted mechanism aims to stop full-quality copies of digital broadcasts from circulating on the Internet.
The FCC didn't mandate any one anti-file-sharing scheme and instead invited companies to submit their own proposals, which brings us to TiVo's vaguely Soviet predicament. Among the schemes a handful of firms have proposed, only TiVo's would allow tightly controlled online transfers of recorded programs.
For this, the company has drawn the ire of the National Football League and the Motion Picture Association of America, which have asked the FCC to deny TiVo's proposal.
The NFL says that TiVo's Internet-sharing feature will allow people to send game broadcasts to blacked-out viewers in real time (a team's home game can be aired locally only if it sells out beforehand).
"It's a question of pure ability to sell tickets," said Frank Hawkins, the NFL's senior vice president for business affairs. "Buffalo typically sells out September and October, but they've got an open-air stadium. They'll never sell out those December games if they are unable to enforce the blackout rule."
This is an important point: The NFL is not asking the FCC to protect its television business -- never mind that the flag exists only to stop indiscriminate file sharing, not cure every copyright-infringement issue.
No, the NFL is asking for help with a stadium business, one that already benefits from massive government welfare. (A December 2002 Buffalo News story calculated that the taxpayers of Erie County, N.Y., had anted up about $148 million for the Bills and their stadium over the previous decade.)
In other words, the league is asking manufacturers and viewers to further subsidize team owners who are already gorging themselves at the public trough.
There's also the slight problem that the NFL's nightmare -- blacked-out viewers watching a game live on the Internet -- is all but impossible. With almost every broadband connection available today, it would take hours to upload a game. A recipient would be lucky to finish watching a Sunday afternoon game before Monday, and sending a high-definition copy would take most of the week.
Jim Burger, a lawyer for TiVo, fumed about the NFL's complaint: "Maybe their engineers understand how to inflate a football, but I don't think they understand encoded, encrypted MPEG-2," TiVo's tightly secured format.
Whenever full-quality, real-time video on the Internet does become commonplace, I expect to see the NFL capitalizing on it instead of complaining, just as it has profited from such earlier advances as satellite TV.
The MPAA, meanwhile, says that the way TiVo would allow customers to share recordings online with people who may not be friends or family members amounts to indiscriminate redistribution.
The Washington-based group wants TiVo to impose an "affinity requirement," said Fritz Attaway, its executive vice president for government relations.
But how can TiVo tell if the people to whom you've sent a program are really friends and family without launching its own Total Information Awareness program? Attaway called that "a good question." Until t
Or you can use bugmenot on the site: username: calendar@yahoo.com password: dateme don't ask, i didn't make it :P
perhaps the technique could be reverse-engineered to allow the forgers to know whether or not their images can be detected as forgeries, and use this information to enhance their forging techniques to evade the detection tools...
this is someone microsoft WILL listen to, given his former position, and change their strategy to better accomodate for the changing market nowadays.
he said that the tables have turned since microsoft was attacking the more expensive proprietary solutions corporations...maybe its a cycle and eventually we will see linux on top with something new attacking it from below...?
google isn't an ISP :D
they are just trying to get rid of the fanboys since exploits will affect ALL browsers then... ;)
thats all good, but it said attitude control, not altitude.
is in a better position than them to win the prize when this group is the only one who has achieved the goal, whether with luck or not?
stickies --freeware, small, many features.
this virus has an unknown effect: /. over and over! ;)
it submits stories to
one can only imagine the amount of (valuable) material that we never see due to procedures like this...one could argue that this hinders progress both for individuals and for larger groups. ISPs should really be denied the ability to do this...congressmen?
Popup Cop does all of that and even more, and it is a smoothly integrated toolbar to IE, if you are running it, that is.
the spammers have succeeded in....oh wait.
this reminds me of that woman that sued mcdonalds for "making her fat"...how could this guy not realize that copying papers and turning them in as his own is wrong?
should have stopped him?! The world is going downhill when people begin to reject common sense in favor of outrageous accusations such as this one.