Why not engineer different viruses to attack different cancers? This way we could deal with less variables (ie: lots of different cells being attacked while others being left unharmed) and still get good results.
I would much prefer being treated with a virus if I knew it had one function and did it well, rather than 100 different funtions that it may or may not do well.
But my simply looking at their site I have not agreed to their terms and conditions (I didn't say "yes" to anything and therefore didn't enter into a legal agreement).
I'm also wondering how these terms and conditions can be enforced against people who are not within legal juristiction.
"IMHO the thing to ask is "what are they *really* protecting here?"
I would have thought money (do advertisers pay more to get the ads on the front page?), but I could be wrong:-)
...strip out all of the applications (what half of them are doing embedded in there I'll never understand) and just make a nice list during installation so that users (or companies selling preinstalled windows) can pick and choose what they want installed. They shouldn't throw apps out completely, but they should include them on a CD so that users may chosse what they want. This way we could have WMP or IE if we wanted to and if not, then we can just say no.
You forgot the locked 3" thick reinforced steel box!
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Yes, it was distributing copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holders, but it was also useful for finding perfectly legel content. I'm sorry to see it go, I'm just not sorry to see copyrighted content taken down.
"I'm not sorry to see this site go, we need to concentrate more on having LEGAL torrent sites."
The MPAA needs to concentrate on setting these up themselves. People want the content and will most probably pay (a reduced) fee to download it. If the MPAA set up an iTunes type service they'd probably make a lot of money without p***ing everybody off. Their current behaviour makes me want to go download a mass of stuff just to spite them.
"Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the Unix software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities,"
All the judge is saying is the he is surprised that SCO have not managed to turn up any real evidence yet, dispite making claims to the media that they already have it. I don't see any bias here, just a judges view (and frustration) of what is going on. He's not saying that he either likes or dislikes either party involved, or where this case is going (although he doesn't appear to have much hope of SCO turning anything up).
Then again...I have a nice little solution (quite by accident, in fact it's just due to me not bothering to sort my configuration out) anyway: any character sets not installed (all except the default) show up as a funny little square where the characters would normally be. I'd say that it's a pretty good give away when I've got http://www.p[]ypal.com (or there abouts) showing in the address bar...
Don't quote me on this but AFAIK there will be SATA support. I have no idea if it'll be "out of the box" but I have heard reports that there's a SATA enabled bootdisk avaliable (I haven't read the changelog or anything yet). I'll have to try it out later since I already have a SATA hard drive:-)
FYI, there's a SATA ISO floating around somewhere for slackware 10 that some kind soul made. It runs just fine, but I can't remember where it was hosted:-/ Perhaps if SATA _isn't_ supported out of the box someone else will follow suit and make another one for 10.1.
I'm quite happy with the current package managers for slackware. Swaret seems very good for keeping yourself up-to-date, but of course, I'm yet to find a nice automated way of configuring lots of things from one place (I've never had to do this since I've only ever used 2 machines). The only reason I've had to grab tarballs and compile by hand is when I havn't managed to find a slackware package or I've wanted to play with the options to make it more hardware specific....or I just feel like it:-) So far I've had no problems using slackwares package managers.
It was in the context of piracy, not fair use:) I used the word unscrupulous to mean that it wasn't somebody just taping a show to watch later etc, it was somebody intending to mass distribute the material.
Regular users don't really contribute that much to piracy. Lets ignore the people downloading things for a moment and concentrate on the uploaders (the real problem). The people distributing most of the content are "hard core" pirates. They are the one's who will be paying lots of money for ways to get around copyprotection (or manually doing it themselves). I should imagine that as soon as a method of getting around the broadcast flag is published every single one of the main rippers nd distributers will be using it widely and carrying like they are right now. Sure, home users wont be able to record off of the TV/Radio until startups start offering the hacks for a small fee, which wouldn't take too long.
"DRM never has been about absolute control. It has, from its inception, been about making piracy enough of an inconvenience that regular user don't bother to do it." And they usually don't. They just get the material they want off of somebody else who does bother. DRM schemes ONLY stop regular users (and even then, only until someone writes up an easy to use program/utility that the public can use) while they are a mild inconvenience to the professionals. It only takes one unscrupulous person to make one DRM-less copy of something (be it actual material or a box that ignores DRM) and distribute it and then everybody can have a copy.
I'm tired of the industry trying to use technology to solve a social problem.
Or perhaps they'll just sit down and watch the programmes at the time they're aired in stead of doing something else and watching them when they come back.
I live in the UK and I _am_ outraged. Unfortunatly the EU has managed to get itself integrated into so many places. It's like trying to get rid of a HUGE widespread weed.
"But I don't live there, so I guess it's none of my business if they want to copy one of America's worst mistakes." Since the world is quickly becoming a smaller place I'd say that this IS your business. International politics are everybodies concern as they effect all of us.
Hmmm...IMHO the software cycle goes more like: software has bugs. Software gets patched. Software gets fixed and lots more features added in the next version. Software has more bugs....
Generally software does not get stronger. People keep adding (more code) to it before it can get there.
And yes, I'm talking about all software here, not just MS.
The books are fantastic...but only if you DO get into them. I can see where you're coming from though. There's a lot of faffing around in parts of the books while the films just keep the momentum going. IMHO they did a great job with the films, but I wouldn't call them better than the books. Even, maybe.
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You're both right. The name came about because the guy who thought of it thought it sounded interesting rather than the generic "spider this" or "web that" kind of thing. However, the name was adopted because it fitted well since the server was indeed "a patchy server" at the time. Had it not sounded like a pun on the status of the software it may not have been adopted as the name.
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Why not engineer different viruses to attack different cancers? This way we could deal with less variables (ie: lots of different cells being attacked while others being left unharmed) and still get good results.
I would much prefer being treated with a virus if I knew it had one function and did it well, rather than 100 different funtions that it may or may not do well.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'd never even heard of them before today :)
But my simply looking at their site I have not agreed to their terms and conditions (I didn't say "yes" to anything and therefore didn't enter into a legal agreement).
:-)
I'm also wondering how these terms and conditions can be enforced against people who are not within legal juristiction.
"IMHO the thing to ask is "what are they *really* protecting here?"
I would have thought money (do advertisers pay more to get the ads on the front page?), but I could be wrong
...strip out all of the applications (what half of them are doing embedded in there I'll never understand) and just make a nice list during installation so that users (or companies selling preinstalled windows) can pick and choose what they want installed. They shouldn't throw apps out completely, but they should include them on a CD so that users may chosse what they want. This way we could have WMP or IE if we wanted to and if not, then we can just say no.
Can't we just extend the foot upwards and have steve ballmer?
You forgot the locked 3" thick reinforced steel box!
Yes, it was distributing copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holders, but it was also useful for finding perfectly legel content. I'm sorry to see it go, I'm just not sorry to see copyrighted content taken down.
"I'm not sorry to see this site go, we need to concentrate more on having LEGAL torrent sites."
The MPAA needs to concentrate on setting these up themselves. People want the content and will most probably pay (a reduced) fee to download it. If the MPAA set up an iTunes type service they'd probably make a lot of money without p***ing everybody off. Their current behaviour makes me want to go download a mass of stuff just to spite them.
"Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the Unix software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities,"
All the judge is saying is the he is surprised that SCO have not managed to turn up any real evidence yet, dispite making claims to the media that they already have it. I don't see any bias here, just a judges view (and frustration) of what is going on. He's not saying that he either likes or dislikes either party involved, or where this case is going (although he doesn't appear to have much hope of SCO turning anything up).
Sceptisism is not bias.
...is anything like the netbsd logo I'm going to scream! What's wrong with the demon?
Why does Microsoft regularly seem to decide to break with open standards and impliment their own version of them?
Perhaps the submitter of the story should have thought ahead and added a machine translation link aswell...
Now that sounds like a more elegant solution all round. Thanks.
Out of the frying pan into the fire?
Darn it! you're right :-(
Then again...I have a nice little solution (quite by accident, in fact it's just due to me not bothering to sort my configuration out) anyway: any character sets not installed (all except the default) show up as a funny little square where the characters would normally be. I'd say that it's a pretty good give away when I've got http://www.p[]ypal.com (or there abouts) showing in the address bar...
Same here running on slackware 10 (firefox 1.0). It can't find the domain now...
Don't quote me on this but AFAIK there will be SATA support. I have no idea if it'll be "out of the box" but I have heard reports that there's a SATA enabled bootdisk avaliable (I haven't read the changelog or anything yet). :-)
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I'll have to try it out later since I already have a SATA hard drive
FYI, there's a SATA ISO floating around somewhere for slackware 10 that some kind soul made. It runs just fine, but I can't remember where it was hosted
Perhaps if SATA _isn't_ supported out of the box someone else will follow suit and make another one for 10.1.
I'm quite happy with the current package managers for slackware. Swaret seems very good for keeping yourself up-to-date, but of course, I'm yet to find a nice automated way of configuring lots of things from one place (I've never had to do this since I've only ever used 2 machines). :-)
The only reason I've had to grab tarballs and compile by hand is when I havn't managed to find a slackware package or I've wanted to play with the options to make it more hardware specific....or I just feel like it
So far I've had no problems using slackwares package managers.
It was in the context of piracy, not fair use :)
I used the word unscrupulous to mean that it wasn't somebody just taping a show to watch later etc, it was somebody intending to mass distribute the material.
Regular users don't really contribute that much to piracy. Lets ignore the people downloading things for a moment and concentrate on the uploaders (the real problem). The people distributing most of the content are "hard core" pirates. They are the one's who will be paying lots of money for ways to get around copyprotection (or manually doing it themselves). I should imagine that as soon as a method of getting around the broadcast flag is published every single one of the main rippers nd distributers will be using it widely and carrying like they are right now. Sure, home users wont be able to record off of the TV/Radio until startups start offering the hacks for a small fee, which wouldn't take too long.
"DRM never has been about absolute control. It has, from its inception, been about making piracy enough of an inconvenience that regular user don't bother to do it."
And they usually don't. They just get the material they want off of somebody else who does bother.
DRM schemes ONLY stop regular users (and even then, only until someone writes up an easy to use program/utility that the public can use) while they are a mild inconvenience to the professionals.
It only takes one unscrupulous person to make one DRM-less copy of something (be it actual material or a box that ignores DRM) and distribute it and then everybody can have a copy.
I'm tired of the industry trying to use technology to solve a social problem.
Or perhaps they'll just sit down and watch the programmes at the time they're aired in stead of doing something else and watching them when they come back.
I live in the UK and I _am_ outraged. Unfortunatly the EU has managed to get itself integrated into so many places. It's like trying to get rid of a HUGE widespread weed.
"But I don't live there, so I guess it's none of my business if they want to copy one of America's worst mistakes."
Since the world is quickly becoming a smaller place I'd say that this IS your business. International politics are everybodies concern as they effect all of us.
what if we rebooted with a better OS's boot disk in the drive...?
Hmmm...IMHO the software cycle goes more like: software has bugs. Software gets patched. Software gets fixed and lots more features added in the next version. Software has more bugs....
Generally software does not get stronger. People keep adding (more code) to it before it can get there.
And yes, I'm talking about all software here, not just MS.
The books are fantastic...but only if you DO get into them.
I can see where you're coming from though. There's a lot of faffing around in parts of the books while the films just keep the momentum going.
IMHO they did a great job with the films, but I wouldn't call them better than the books. Even, maybe.
You're both right. The name came about because the guy who thought of it thought it sounded interesting rather than the generic "spider this" or "web that" kind of thing.
However, the name was adopted because it fitted well since the server was indeed "a patchy server" at the time. Had it not sounded like a pun on the status of the software it may not have been adopted as the name.
Hence, you are _both_ correct.