It kinda brings to light the outrageousness of the Patent Office's "let the courts sort it out" policy. Because convincing the courts means one lawyer trying to convince a jury of laypeople it's obvious, and another trying to confuse the shit out of them. These are "Internet Explorer is teh intarnet!!one" class people here, yet they are having the final say over just how fucked up the industry should become.
The bubble is flexible, so it can probably withstand much more violent accelerations than the rest of the ship. The mass of the bubble and the gas inside is negligible next to the pressure, so the bubble won't even deform much. Just treat the bubble like drywall without a stud - don't screw heavy cupboards into it, and you'll be fine.
It will be very interesting to see if Microsoft tries to shut this down. On the one hand, it damn well ought to be legal - there's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be, not even some form of copyright infringement on the firmware. But on the other hand, Microsoft is selling XBoxes very cheaply to push games, so they don't want people using them as general purpose machines. I fear this will prove my pessimistic theory that only money matters in court, but i hope not.
Why don't you actually read the comments in this story? It's clear that while the editors missed it (big surprise), the majority of us are in violent agreement that playing a movie without sound to make fun of it isn't parody. It seems that on Slashdot, maybe 10% have "extreme" views on any given subject, and the other 90% do nothing but bitch about those few.
I really think standard market forces will help here. Currently plain-old-tv tuner cards are selling very well, because software support is very good and it works fine with standard cable or broadcast. And there are a few non-flag cards that are selling extremely well, partly because people want to get them before they're banned. So when they're banned, manufacturers will start making flag-enabled cards. About 10 people will buy them, and then they'll realize that they don't work (as the entertainment industry will surely abuse the flag), and they'll tell their friends, and the flag enabled cards simply won't sell. It's not necessary to boycot a useless product. So when plain old tv goes the way of black-and-white, all those hardware manufacturers will have a significant interest in changing the law. Once they succeed, the market for HDTV tuners will slowly recover - and perhaps hardware manufacturers will mistrust the entertainment industry a bit more, which i see as a good thing.
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How could taking part in the creation of a Death Star, especially with the knowledge that the first one was used to destroy the peaceful planet of Alderaan, be a morally defensible position? Especially for the contractors, who weren't even drafted. Anyway, they're aliens, who cares?
Also, consider the phrase "Under God." Although the founding fathers didn't write it, and this probably isn't its intent, you can consider that statement as contrasting us with a theocracy. In a theocracy, the King derives his power directly from God ("The Divine Right of Kings"), whereas here, we believe that our government is seperate from God.
If time continues to progress at 1 year per year, and copyrights are extended faster than that, then no copyright will expire in a limited time. Granted, this may not be constitutionally mandated in Europe, but what if they extend it further than it currently is in the US? Then we will have to extend it it to match them.
If governments won't stop this trend, maybe competition can. If people come up with a licence that expires in, say, 15 years, and a trademark logo ("Sane copyright inside!"), and companies who wouldn't be impacted by this start using it, it might become popular. Then, people who care could exert direct competitive pressure against those who don't go along.
No, I don't think this will actually happen, but wouldn't it be cool?
No, it's quite true that they are suffering due to piracy, though in this case, they deserve it. At some point they released the original version on laserdisc, and this got ripped, so there's a better-than-VHS quality version going around.
Now, there's a huge demand for Star Wars, and there's a huge demand for it on DVD. But it's been so long since DVDs came out that even honest people convinced themselves, "screw it, they're never going to release the DVD so I may as well get the pirated version - after all, I own the VHS." Most of these people will buy the DVD, but some will not, especially those upset about who shoots first, etc.
Basically, there was a huge demand, and because Lucas was too arrogant and wimpy to release a DVD ("But it's not perfect yet - Han still shoots! Greed should just have a heart attack!"), the piracy filled the demand. If he had just released a DVD when they became the format du jour, he would have made way more money, and not seemed like such a jerk. He screwed up - piracy is a feature of the industry: you can either profit from this, or be destroyed.
He's wrong anyway. Just because any number is a possibility doesn't mean it's the one they're looking for. You have to find a pattern. In this case, the pattern is f(n) = the nth 10-digit block of the digits of e whose digits add up to 49. f(5) is 5966290435. The linux.org login no longer works. And of course, I figured all that out with Google.
I'm not making any comment on the morality of EULA infringement, but if nobody bought it but thousands are asking for support, maybe you would be smarter to sell your support. It's much harder to pirate.
Also, consider which direction you'll squeeze people with stricter timeout enforcement. If you've had no payments, then there must be nobody who downloaded the program, finds it worth $20 to them, and is honest. Even if few people are honest, with millions of downloads, it must not be that essential to people. That's another reason why selling support might be smarter - people will need your support in using your HTML editor after they've started a project with it more than they will need to use your editor over all the other, in some cases free, editors you compete with.
Please don't view all that as an insult, I know it sounds harsh.
The reason it's a text mode installer is because you have to kill X before you install. Keep in mind that half the installation is "insmod nvidia", which probably shouldn't be done when X is running, and you're going to have to restart X anyway.
Honest question - if diffusing laser light with a lens affects it's coherence to the point where it's impossible to derive any benefit at all from interference patterns, then how does holography work? My understanding is, you split a laser beam, one half bounces off an object, and when it is recombined with the reference beam, it creates an interference pattern which is recorded on the film.
Suffice it to say that "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software." is a wonderful precedent, and if it still holds with "a movie" in place of "embedded software," then we'd finally be allowed to use play the movies we purchase however the fuck we want.
Lasers are absolutely not inherently more dangerous than any other form of light. The danger comes from the amplitude of light that enters your eye, which is a function of the power of the source, the distance, and the focusing. So assuming they focus the laser as diffusely as they focus the red light from current optical mice, it's no more dangerous.
It's not actually mounted, that's just the device. What the error means is that you're still using IDE-SCSI emulation for that drive. Check to make sure you don't have anything like hdc=ide-scsi in your kernel's command line. Either check/etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo after making changes, or mount/boot and check/mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst or grub.conf.
Changing environment. The downside was probably that it wasted energy, which is a very bad thing if you're fighting for your survival in the wild. But if you have an overabundance of food, like those of us in developed countries do, which only happened in the past few hundred years, it may be a good thing.
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It kinda brings to light the outrageousness of the Patent Office's "let the courts sort it out" policy. Because convincing the courts means one lawyer trying to convince a jury of laypeople it's obvious, and another trying to confuse the shit out of them. These are "Internet Explorer is teh intarnet!!one" class people here, yet they are having the final say over just how fucked up the industry should become.
The bubble is flexible, so it can probably withstand much more violent accelerations than the rest of the ship. The mass of the bubble and the gas inside is negligible next to the pressure, so the bubble won't even deform much. Just treat the bubble like drywall without a stud - don't screw heavy cupboards into it, and you'll be fine.
It displays Pascals triangle.
It will be very interesting to see if Microsoft tries to shut this down. On the one hand, it damn well ought to be legal - there's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be, not even some form of copyright infringement on the firmware. But on the other hand, Microsoft is selling XBoxes very cheaply to push games, so they don't want people using them as general purpose machines. I fear this will prove my pessimistic theory that only money matters in court, but i hope not.
Why don't you actually read the comments in this story? It's clear that while the editors missed it (big surprise), the majority of us are in violent agreement that playing a movie without sound to make fun of it isn't parody. It seems that on Slashdot, maybe 10% have "extreme" views on any given subject, and the other 90% do nothing but bitch about those few.
I really think standard market forces will help here. Currently plain-old-tv tuner cards are selling very well, because software support is very good and it works fine with standard cable or broadcast. And there are a few non-flag cards that are selling extremely well, partly because people want to get them before they're banned. So when they're banned, manufacturers will start making flag-enabled cards. About 10 people will buy them, and then they'll realize that they don't work (as the entertainment industry will surely abuse the flag), and they'll tell their friends, and the flag enabled cards simply won't sell. It's not necessary to boycot a useless product. So when plain old tv goes the way of black-and-white, all those hardware manufacturers will have a significant interest in changing the law. Once they succeed, the market for HDTV tuners will slowly recover - and perhaps hardware manufacturers will mistrust the entertainment industry a bit more, which i see as a good thing.
How could taking part in the creation of a Death Star, especially with the knowledge that the first one was used to destroy the peaceful planet of Alderaan, be a morally defensible position? Especially for the contractors, who weren't even drafted. Anyway, they're aliens, who cares?
Also, consider the phrase "Under God." Although the founding fathers didn't write it, and this probably isn't its intent, you can consider that statement as contrasting us with a theocracy. In a theocracy, the King derives his power directly from God ("The Divine Right of Kings"), whereas here, we believe that our government is seperate from God.
If governments won't stop this trend, maybe competition can. If people come up with a licence that expires in, say, 15 years, and a trademark logo ("Sane copyright inside!"), and companies who wouldn't be impacted by this start using it, it might become popular. Then, people who care could exert direct competitive pressure against those who don't go along.
No, I don't think this will actually happen, but wouldn't it be cool?
Can the pcHDTV capture non-HDTV (broadcast or cable NTSC) signals also?
Now, there's a huge demand for Star Wars, and there's a huge demand for it on DVD. But it's been so long since DVDs came out that even honest people convinced themselves, "screw it, they're never going to release the DVD so I may as well get the pirated version - after all, I own the VHS." Most of these people will buy the DVD, but some will not, especially those upset about who shoots first, etc.
Basically, there was a huge demand, and because Lucas was too arrogant and wimpy to release a DVD ("But it's not perfect yet - Han still shoots! Greed should just have a heart attack!"), the piracy filled the demand. If he had just released a DVD when they became the format du jour, he would have made way more money, and not seemed like such a jerk. He screwed up - piracy is a feature of the industry: you can either profit from this, or be destroyed.
He's wrong anyway. Just because any number is a possibility doesn't mean it's the one they're looking for. You have to find a pattern. In this case, the pattern is f(n) = the nth 10-digit block of the digits of e whose digits add up to 49. f(5) is 5966290435. The linux.org login no longer works. And of course, I figured all that out with Google.
Also, consider which direction you'll squeeze people with stricter timeout enforcement. If you've had no payments, then there must be nobody who downloaded the program, finds it worth $20 to them, and is honest. Even if few people are honest, with millions of downloads, it must not be that essential to people. That's another reason why selling support might be smarter - people will need your support in using your HTML editor after they've started a project with it more than they will need to use your editor over all the other, in some cases free, editors you compete with.
Please don't view all that as an insult, I know it sounds harsh.
The reason it's a text mode installer is because you have to kill X before you install. Keep in mind that half the installation is "insmod nvidia", which probably shouldn't be done when X is running, and you're going to have to restart X anyway.
Also, there are other open libc's, some of which may be better (I don't know).
So bug them about it, or maybe offer to sign an NDA and try to compile it yourself.
Honest question - if diffusing laser light with a lens affects it's coherence to the point where it's impossible to derive any benefit at all from interference patterns, then how does holography work? My understanding is, you split a laser beam, one half bounces off an object, and when it is recombined with the reference beam, it creates an interference pattern which is recorded on the film.
Suffice it to say that "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software." is a wonderful precedent, and if it still holds with "a movie" in place of "embedded software," then we'd finally be allowed to use play the movies we purchase however the fuck we want.
In case anyone wants to buy one of those DVD players for Linux instead of stealing them, here's the link.
Lasers are absolutely not inherently more dangerous than any other form of light. The danger comes from the amplitude of light that enters your eye, which is a function of the power of the source, the distance, and the focusing. So assuming they focus the laser as diffusely as they focus the red light from current optical mice, it's no more dangerous.
20TB / 1.25 GB/s = 4.55 days, 24 / 4.55 = 5.27, so 5.27 Libraries of congress per day.
Actually, I think he succesfully baited those who defend metric (of which I am one).
It's not actually mounted, that's just the device. What the error means is that you're still using IDE-SCSI emulation for that drive. Check to make sure you don't have anything like hdc=ide-scsi in your kernel's command line. Either check /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo after making changes, or mount /boot and check /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst or grub.conf.
If you want a good music player without skins, you should try FooBar2000.
Changing environment. The downside was probably that it wasted energy, which is a very bad thing if you're fighting for your survival in the wild. But if you have an overabundance of food, like those of us in developed countries do, which only happened in the past few hundred years, it may be a good thing.