pretty much by definition pirates are not being inconvenienced by digital rights management, as the DRM was removed in the pirated version. So the only people who are inconvenienced are the innocent customers.
Pepperspray is not the minimal level of force. The minimal level of force would have been to pick the protesters up and move them arrest them whatever. The use of pepper spray was to instil fear into the protesters.
Now if this was one officer getting out of hand then his colleagues should have restrained him on the other hand if that behaviour is state sanctioned then perhaps it is a crisis of democracy.
my school had around 4 bbc computers in 1983 and they were expensive compared to the other 8 bit systems but games were the main use of computers and consoles and there were a lot of them i wouldnt go as far as to say every child but master systems spectrums c64, dragon 32 did get into a lot of homes. Even if you didnt have a computer one of your mates would have.
I think its pretty fair to say around 30 years ago computers and consoles took off, and then there were the arcade machines which everyone played or watched such as the original space invaders, frogger and tank battle, Atari had their early game systems i remember playing missile command that was probably at a friends house.
Former zx81 user here back in my teens, also spectrum, amiga, ( bbc model a and b) in school, when i was in university we got access to the main frame in the library and programmed in pascal and cobol.
Mid 70's pong was available and played along with squash and tennis ok the ball was square and we just had moving paddles. around the age of 12 led watches and calculators became cheap and common place.
There isn't that much of a change in circumstances these days really average joe was playing games in the 70's and 80's as they do now. before Internet we had BBS systems and huge phone bills but obviously just a small minority wanted more than games pretty much as today really. I reckon my dads first computer who is now in his 70's was a 286 compaq and he got that to do spreadsheets.
Anyway at least in the UK i doubt you would find many people in their mid 40's who didn't have a spectrum a c64 or other 8 bit computer in their teens, the sega systems also came along about then too.
There does appear to be some moves on the law in the uk and ireland (don't know about malta the other country where format shifting is not legal yet).
for an Irish view point and also a European view this page might be informative on the subject. Least it seems that the Hargreaves Report created for the UK may well be used as the basis of Irish legislation.
Not Stealing until you leave with the intention of depriving the owner of his property.
You might take something outside to see how it looks in daylight but as long as you bring it inside again not theft. Depriving someone of a sale isn't theft it is generally called competition. Choosing to buy online at a lower price than your local store is not theft either. Choosing to buy one authors book rather than yours isn't theft.
sounds like another tool to attempt to keep those damn pirates at bay.
I was reading an article at forensic focus about a tool aimed at youtube downloader to identify media that had been format shifted from the original and "pirated" from youtube.
Seems that having a local copy of somethingyou could click and play on youtube is going to be a copyright violation, maybe it is but a pretty trivial one of course if you can get stupid amount of money for each infringing file found on some poor saps hard drive...
The Netherlands will still allow the import of frozen halal or kosher meat. Which seems to suggest you are correct, it is about making life harder for jews and muslims.
The Netherlands seems to have changed from peaceful easy going to extremely right ring. From banning products to banning religious practices.
Hal-ah and Kosher meat is soon to be banned from production in the Netherlands, which seems very much an attack on the Muslim and Jewish communities. Strangely importing of frozen Hal-ah meat is not an issue. Hal-ah meat is of extremely high quality due to the stringent rules of what is fit to be eaten and you don't need to be Jewish or Muslim to appreciate that.
It's such a far cry from the freedom loving Dutch people who were the most welcoming and friendly that you would find in Europe. Sad to see the about turn
Virtualbox will allow you to install android and have your apps work pretty much.
ok there will be a bit of overhead but your cpu and ram are already over kill for android.
As for farmville on ubuntu, it works already not found a facebook game that doesn't.
The Video was disappointing and online opposition isn't clear or current. (please prove me wrong) There seems to be nowhere that clearly explains the problem with acta. I would hope that somewhere there might be presentation of the facts about acta that will draw interest and understanding in ordinary people and generate a better reaction than wtf and so what why should I care.
booth my father and uncle have had prostate cancer treated and survived, guess that its a pretty good bet I am likely to have it at some point as well. I think i'll have the screening it's recommended for over 50's so in a few years it will be one of those things i'll have to put up with as i'd rather live to a reasonable age.
ok so if its not prior art my android phone must be ok as it needs a button press to activate the screen before you can unlock it.
if it is prior art then the patent shouldn't be valid either way this patent is insane and in no way should be valid. Physical slide buttons have existed for years , pinball emulators use a slide action to launch the ball.
where is the difference really between using a mouse to drag or a touch pad or a touchscreen operated mouse. it is just an event flag that the software waits for. is there any difference between drag to unlock and dragging a slider on the side of a web browser touch screen or otherwise.
every gui has had events including sliding events for years so where is the novelty in this its wait for event unlock. rather than wait for event do something.
It is bogus, just an attempt to block sales of alternative products. Only an idiot would grant a patent to a button press no matter what event it triggers.
The first iPhone was unveiled by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 and released on June 29, 2007 seems slide to unlock was available for windows mobile 2 months before the first iphone was released
open moko linux running on a htc universal from the sdcard used the slide to unlock gesture on the touch screen, there must be records of it on xda developers and i'm pretty sure that is older than the iphone
Lots of things didnt work but that unlock gesture did.
Sometimes the news is not in the article but in the comments, actually scratch that slashdot is all about the comments.
Home networking is always of some interest to most of us, and a round up of whats available good reliable / unreliable of currently available gear makes for interesting (and mostly reliable) reading on slashdot.
Where else will you get this kind of update on what's current and what matters rather than the consumer view point which is just going to cover it lets me connect to my isp and didn't cost a lot.
I'd rate this topic as one of the best this month, seriously.
voice command so far to me has always been pure entertainment and of no practical use what so ever
one christmas i set up a nokia 3310 to dial a number automatically the key word was "arse" it was hilarious after 5 minutes sounding like a farmer with tourettes my brother and sister dying of laughter watching me try to get it to dial, it did so.
A later phone with windows mobile was little better, the american bitch just couldn't understand a british accent and would eventually get in a huff and quit. Funny as anything to observe the conversation but no use really.
I did sometimes get voice command to work playing mp3's but you needed to know what songs were available cool when it went to plan not so when it failed, Even on a PC it was always a struggle to get programs like dragon naturally speaking to work with any kind of accuracy. Perhaps one day voice control will be reliable but i am yet to be convinced. Still it is always good for a laugh for 5 minutes any way. i will have to test iris:)
not really my tablet has 8gb of flash with around 6.3 GB free to use as you wish + another 8gb mini sd my netbook has an 8gb sdd and i run libre office on that everyday. The bigger question would be how much ram is needed/ available to run libre office.
I don't know why tablets are so expensive compared to netbooks or phones. my android phone from samsung cost â90 without a contract the internal hardware must be very close to that of a tablet, so why is it costing â400 for a larger capacitive screen and a bigger battery.
The answer is probably because that is what people will pay at least for an iPad. I guess its a lot to do with perception of value rather than cost cheap == inferior even when its not. The brand nameis often the most expensive component.
Sadly I heard about it first on facebook, rather than here. Steve Jobs has shaped our world without his vision there would have been no apple and...
Condolences to his family he is irreplaceable, now there is just faceless corporations designing hardware to make a profit and no real leadership to make it great.
Steve jobs was a catalyst and without him the future just got further away.
seriously given the choice of agreeing to the terms and conditions in microsofts eula and running windows on a mac , those who want to will.
psystar was a different case entirely Apple branded software licensed to run on apple hardware , windows licensed to run on any x86 hardware. Psystar only got hit because they were legally visible and a potential threat to apple revenues. individuals make hackintoshes everyday Windows is for any PC clone and apple pc's are pc clones even if they are not marketed as such
sometimes friends go missing for a while and pop back up, sometimes its because they want to get away from facebook sometimes it is just random. it used to bother me when friends came and went, you always think it's something you did. After a while you realise that you have just drifted apart so far there is only memories in common.
it's almost as bad as friends reunited, which is more people who used to go to the same places as me years ago.
not really I have my android phone I use my xda universal retired when i got the android phone and 1 or 2 motorola razr's. sat gathering dust.
So I have 3 working phones i could easily give away. In the uk you can get sim cards for free o2 for example you can apply for 4 free sim cards Vodaphone has topups from 5 euro or £ and even without top ups as long as the number is called once every 6 months then you have an almost free cell phone.
why not give it to a child?
when I was in middle school i would walk to and from school (8 - 12) often diverting via ditches playgrounds ect. I guess my mum would worry some but I always eventually got home. The technology wasn't there when i was a kid but i'm sure she would have liked to know where i was and called me if i was particularly late.
One crucial difference in most of europe is there is no charge for incoming calls and texts so even with no credit , a mobile can be called.
obviously a child has to be taught to be responsibility and there has to be appropriate use of the phone which means you don't use it in class. Facebook updates could be a pain but even before mobile phones kids would pass notes in class. The mobile is hardly different.
On the whole giving a mobile to a child is teaching them responsibility and a little independence, kids should be able to play out with friends and not have an adult looking over their shoulder all the time.
Obviously any kid will want a better phone than they have but that will need to be earned by demonstrating they can be responsible. I really don't see a problem with giving kids basic phones initially and more advanced phones as they get older.
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why not? who is in the stronger position here?
pretty much by definition pirates are not being inconvenienced by digital rights management, as the DRM was removed in the pirated version. So the only people who are inconvenienced are the innocent customers.
Pepperspray is not the minimal level of force. The minimal level of force would have been to pick the protesters up and move them arrest them whatever. The use of pepper spray was to instil fear into the protesters.
Now if this was one officer getting out of hand then his colleagues should have restrained him on the other hand if that behaviour is state sanctioned then perhaps it is a crisis of democracy.
my school had around 4 bbc computers in 1983 and they were expensive compared to the other 8 bit systems but games were the main use of computers and consoles and there were a lot of them i wouldnt go as far as to say every child but master systems spectrums c64, dragon 32 did get into a lot of homes. Even if you didnt have a computer one of your mates would have.
I think its pretty fair to say around 30 years ago computers and consoles took off, and then there were the arcade machines which everyone played or watched such as the original space invaders, frogger and tank battle, Atari had their early game systems i remember playing missile command that was probably at a friends house.
Former zx81 user here back in my teens, also spectrum, amiga, ( bbc model a and b) in school, when i was in university we got access to the main frame in the library and programmed in pascal and cobol.
Mid 70's pong was available and played along with squash and tennis ok the ball was square and we just had moving paddles. around the age of 12 led watches and calculators became cheap and common place.
There isn't that much of a change in circumstances these days really average joe was playing games in the 70's and 80's as they do now. before Internet we had BBS systems and huge phone bills but obviously just a small minority wanted more than games pretty much as today really. I reckon my dads first computer who is now in his 70's was a 286 compaq and he got that to do spreadsheets.
Anyway at least in the UK i doubt you would find many people in their mid 40's who didn't have a spectrum a c64 or other 8 bit computer in their teens, the sega systems also came along about then too.
There does appear to be some moves on the law in the uk and ireland (don't know about malta the other country where format shifting is not legal yet).
for an Irish view point and also a European view this page might be informative on the subject.
Least it seems that the Hargreaves Report created for the UK may well be used as the basis of Irish legislation.
http://www.lindascales.com/category/copyright/
while fairly dry it is still just about readable and shouldn't induce sleep within the first paragraph.
Not Stealing until you leave with the intention of depriving the owner of his property.
You might take something outside to see how it looks in daylight but as long as you bring it inside again not theft. Depriving someone of a sale isn't theft it is generally called competition. Choosing to buy online at a lower price than your local store is not theft either. Choosing to buy one authors book rather than yours isn't theft.
sounds like another tool to attempt to keep those damn pirates at bay.
I was reading an article at forensic focus about a tool aimed at youtube downloader to identify media that had been format shifted from the original and "pirated" from youtube.
Seems that having a local copy of somethingyou could click and play on youtube is going to be a copyright violation, maybe it is but a pretty trivial one of course if you can get stupid amount of money for each infringing file found on some poor saps hard drive...
http://articles.forensicfocus.com/2011/10/07/youdetect-implementing-the-principles-of-statistical-classifiers-and-cluster-analysis-for-the-purposes-of-classifying-illegally-acquired-multimedia-files-i/
The Netherlands will still allow the import of frozen halal or kosher meat. Which seems to suggest you are correct, it is about making life harder for jews and muslims.
The Netherlands seems to have changed from peaceful easy going to extremely right ring.
From banning products to banning religious practices.
Hal-ah and Kosher meat is soon to be banned from production in the Netherlands, which seems very much an attack on the Muslim and Jewish communities. Strangely importing of frozen Hal-ah meat is not an issue. Hal-ah meat is of extremely high quality due to the stringent rules of what is fit to be eaten and you don't need to be Jewish or Muslim to appreciate that.
It's such a far cry from the freedom loving Dutch people who were the most welcoming and friendly that you would find in Europe. Sad to see the about turn
Virtualbox will allow you to install android and have your apps work pretty much.
ok there will be a bit of overhead but your cpu and ram are already over kill for android.
As for farmville on ubuntu, it works already not found a facebook game that doesn't.
The Video was disappointing and online opposition isn't clear or current. (please prove me wrong) There seems to be nowhere that clearly explains the problem with acta. I would hope that somewhere there might be presentation of the facts about acta that will draw interest and understanding in ordinary people and generate a better reaction than wtf and so what why should I care.
I think it will pass with barely a murmur.
booth my father and uncle have had prostate cancer treated and survived, guess that its a pretty good bet I am likely to have it at some point as well. I think i'll have the screening it's recommended for over 50's so in a few years it will be one of those things i'll have to put up with as i'd rather live to a reasonable age.
ok
so if its not prior art my android phone must be ok as it needs a button press to activate the screen before you can unlock it.
if it is prior art then the patent shouldn't be valid either way this patent is insane and in no way should be valid.
Physical slide buttons have existed for years , pinball emulators use a slide action to launch the ball.
where is the difference really between using a mouse to drag or a touch pad or a touchscreen operated mouse. it is just an event flag that the software waits for. is there any difference between drag to unlock and dragging a slider on the side of a web browser touch screen or otherwise.
every gui has had events including sliding events for years so where is the novelty in this its wait for event unlock. rather than wait for event do something.
It is bogus, just an attempt to block sales of alternative products. Only an idiot would grant a patent to a button press no matter what event it triggers.
how about the Neonode N1m from 2005 not prior art? certainly the judge in the netherlands who was shown this decided it was.
http://www.androidcentral.com/apple-granted-patent-slide-unlock-even-though-it-existed-2-years-they-invented-it There is a video showing the Neonode N1m using slide to unlock.
sorry no open moko or opie did it earlier
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304826 windows mobile april 1st 2007 version 1 presumably there are earlier alpha beta's
qtopia had it in 2007
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=251584&page=179
The first iPhone was unveiled by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 and released on June 29, 2007 seems slide to unlock was available for windows mobile 2 months before the first iphone was released
open moko linux running on a htc universal from the sdcard used the slide to unlock gesture on the touch screen, there must be records of it on xda developers and i'm pretty sure that is older than the iphone
Lots of things didnt work but that unlock gesture did.
Sometimes the news is not in the article but in the comments, actually scratch that slashdot is all about the comments.
Home networking is always of some interest to most of us, and a round up of whats available good reliable / unreliable of currently available gear makes for interesting (and mostly reliable) reading on slashdot.
Where else will you get this kind of update on what's current and what matters rather than the consumer view point which is just going to cover it lets me connect to my isp and didn't cost a lot.
I'd rate this topic as one of the best this month, seriously.
voice command so far to me has always been pure entertainment and of no practical use what so ever
one christmas i set up a nokia 3310 to dial a number automatically the key word was "arse" it was hilarious after 5 minutes sounding like a farmer with tourettes my brother and sister dying of laughter watching me try to get it to dial, it did so.
A later phone with windows mobile was little better, the american bitch just couldn't understand a british accent and would eventually get in a huff and quit. Funny as anything to observe the conversation but no use really.
I did sometimes get voice command to work playing mp3's but you needed to know what songs were available cool when it went to plan not so when it failed, Even on a PC it was always a struggle to get programs like dragon naturally speaking to work with any kind of accuracy. Perhaps one day voice control will be reliable but i am yet to be convinced. Still it is always good for a laugh for 5 minutes any way. i will have to test iris :)
not really my tablet has 8gb of flash with around 6.3 GB free to use as you wish + another 8gb mini sd
my netbook has an 8gb sdd and i run libre office on that everyday. The bigger question would be how much ram is needed/ available to run libre office.
I don't know why tablets are so expensive compared to netbooks or phones.
my android phone from samsung cost â90 without a contract the internal hardware must be very close to that of a tablet, so why is it costing â400 for a larger capacitive screen and a bigger battery.
The answer is probably because that is what people will pay at least for an iPad. I guess its a lot to do with perception of value rather than cost cheap == inferior even when its not. The brand nameis often the most expensive component.
Sadly I heard about it first on facebook, rather than here. Steve Jobs has shaped our world without his vision there would have been no apple and ...
Condolences to his family he is irreplaceable, now there is just faceless corporations designing hardware to make a profit and no real leadership to make it great.
Steve jobs was a catalyst and without him the future just got further away.
seriously given the choice of agreeing to the terms and conditions in microsofts eula and running windows on a mac , those who want to will.
psystar was a different case entirely Apple branded software licensed to run on apple hardware , windows licensed to run on any x86 hardware. Psystar only got hit because they were legally visible and a potential threat to apple revenues. individuals make hackintoshes everyday
Windows is for any PC clone and apple pc's are pc clones even if they are not marketed as such
sometimes friends go missing for a while and pop back up, sometimes its because they want to get away from facebook sometimes it is just random. it used to bother me when friends came and went, you always think it's something you did. After a while you realise that you have just drifted apart so far there is only memories in common.
it's almost as bad as friends reunited, which is more people who used to go to the same places as me years ago.
not really
I have my android phone I use my xda universal retired when i got the android phone and 1 or 2 motorola razr's. sat gathering dust.
So I have 3 working phones i could easily give away. In the uk you can get sim cards for free o2 for example you can apply for 4 free sim cards Vodaphone has topups from 5 euro or £ and even without top ups as long as the number is called once every 6 months then you have an almost free cell phone.
why not give it to a child?
when I was in middle school i would walk to and from school (8 - 12) often diverting via ditches playgrounds ect. I guess my mum would worry some but I always eventually got home. The technology wasn't there when i was a kid but i'm sure she would have liked to know where i was and called me if i was particularly late.
One crucial difference in most of europe is there is no charge for incoming calls and texts so even with no credit , a mobile can be called.
obviously a child has to be taught to be responsibility and there has to be appropriate use of the phone which means you don't use it in class. Facebook updates could be a pain but even before mobile phones kids would pass notes in class. The mobile is hardly different.
On the whole giving a mobile to a child is teaching them responsibility and a little independence, kids should be able to play out with friends and not have an adult looking over their shoulder all the time.
Obviously any kid will want a better phone than they have but that will need to be earned by demonstrating they can be responsible. I really don't see a problem with giving kids basic phones initially and more advanced phones as they get older.