1. It criminalizes the creation of software designed to circumvent copyright. That's not happening here.
2. It grants"safe harbor" to ISPs and companies against violations*BY THEIR USERS* so long as the company has a takedown & dispute resolution mechanism. In this case Sony claims copyright, and Twitter can absolve itself of responsibility by leaving the user in question to be the one to file a counterclaim (presumably on fair-use grounds)
A simple 2-3% tax on corporate earnings from the new United Korea until the cost is repaid
I have a similar idea. How about I buy a plane ticket to fly over and hit some sense into your silly head, and once you gain more sense, then you can dock 2% of your income to repay me the plane ticket. Sounds fair?
I'm not even sure how to react to this... I understand that money buys influence... Either Sony has successfully coerced companies into similar relations in the past, with the White House as a mediator, or vice versa.
Democracy = each *vote* has equal power Capitalism = each *dollar* has equal power
We're just seeing the first half of "capitalist democracy" in action. It's how capitalism has always worked and will always work.
Why is there critical systems allowed to be in the same network as email?
Email from operations to the shop floor: "Hey Klaus, we've determined that for the following job we need parameters set at P=123.79 and Q=119.11". Klaus prints out out from his email-connected computer. Picks up the printout, walks across to the control computers, and starts typing in the parameters from the printout. Unfortunately he has a typo that causes the entire batch to be not quite up to spec.
Solution: come up with a way for the parameters to be taking precisely from email into production, without the error-prone act of typing them out again.
Noordhuis had not one but TWO responses: (1) as you said he dismissed it as trivial, (2) when someone else nevertheless accepted the change he tried to undo it and chided them publically for bypassing both him and (???forgot alias).
Noordhuis chided someone publically, he got chided back publically, seems about fair.
Relativity is a description of the geometry of the universe. If you would rather believe in your own personal fantasies instead of one of the most well-supported theories in science, congratulations, you are yet another variety of religious loon.
There are lots of spacetimes that satisfy general relativity and are still pretty goofy. Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, for instance, are ones where you can jump into someone's infinite future. (or more precisely: they're ones with two paths through spacetime, one of which has an infinite duration, the other a finite duration, so if you travel down the "finite" one and your friend travels down the "infinite" one then you'll still be arrive while he's been dead for an eternity).
2c per CD? How does that price work out for those of us who keep our definitive backups on AWS or iCloud or OneDrive? And who also would need to pay for a fatter internet connection to get at all the files?
I have no doubt that FLACworks great for the niche who have lots of CDs, lots of hard drives, and who have time and money to spend curating them. But really, if you have kids or emmigrate or whatever, the FLACs are as good as gone when you realize you don't have the time or money you need to keep them useful.
Our computers still support ASCII from 1960. I'm sure that mp3 support won't go away in my lifetime. And copyright terms will expire before even your 2nd generation of lossy recoding happens.
The ads are replaced with a small message thanking them for being a contributor. The space where the advert would have been is filled with a pixelated pattern, instead of being removed entirely
Maybe we'll get to see pop-ups with pixelated messages of thanks!
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society. Incidentally, What Adults Can Learn From Kids ~ {null}, which is why society would function much more smoothly if the voting age were raised back to 25.
Wow! That's mean. As a 40 year old myself, I've learnt a lot from my and other kids. I wonder whether you, Anonymous Coward, have enough life experience to back up your claims?
If it is truly single player why would you need a network connection? If the changes are made centrally then there is no need for an always-on connection: just provide optional updates from time to time.
It sounded to me as if (1) yes they are providing updates from time to time, and that "time to time" is every time you do a commercial transaction. (2) why do they need the network connection? I assume because it was lower-risk for them and their schedule to use the same economy engine than to develop two separate economy engines.
Maybe they discovered that their economic engine felt a bit lackluster unless there are huge numbers of participants (reminds me of Ultima Online) and they wanted to force there to be a higher number of participants, both single-player and multi-player. So they're forcing everyone to contribute to make the economy engine feel more realistic.
Does Frontier even have a choise but do refund? Single player was part of contract that backer bought, you can go back later and change contract to your liking.
To be clear: THEY STILL HAVE single-player. The only thing is that single-player requires an online connection, and is done in a galaxy that evolves.
Call me anti-social but I don't like playing with others
??? They said the game would have single-player. Presumably that means "not playing with others". The only thing is that the single-player game will require an online connection and the galaxy will gradually evolve.
Now you are going to be sharing the galaxy with immature, adolescent school kids and any unusual features you will ascribe to a human moderator putting them there. It's going to have more similarity to Eve Online than Elite.
Why do you say that? They clearly state that they will have single- and multi-player. And they say that single-player requires an online connection so it gets a gradually evolving galaxy. That sounds more like automatically-downloaded DLC, entirely different from "sharing the galaxy".
It took a while for me to decode all that marketing speak to figure out that they were canning single player.
How did you get that? What I understood was that single-player still exists, but it requires an internet connection and is in a galaxy that steadily evolves. Here's what they actually said:
it does mean the single player has to connect to the server from time to time, but this has the added advantage that everyone can participate in the activities that can happen in the galaxy
So: their statement is that single player exists, and it's in an evolving galaxy, sort of like implicit/automatic DLC.
Honestly, your complaints seem totally ridiculous.
I'm in the same boat as you. I paid an initial kickstarter fee. I enjoy seeing screenshots and videos. And when the game comes out then I'll get a copy of it at no extra cost. That's what kickstarter is.
If you're "fatigued" by their requests for more backing? If you're upset that you don't get access to the beta without paying for more money? First world problems, a.k.a. "whining".
I thought.NET cached its JIT images. Is this mistaken? If not, what's really new in.NET Native?
JIT has to be done very quickly. Therefore it's purely local (method-by-method) rather than cross-method. Also even within a method it only has time to do simple easy optimizations. NGEN is a way to do JIT ahead of time. But it still only uses the same JIT algorithm, i.e. doesn't do heavy-duty optimization.
Also,.NET Native does build-time generation of interop and serialization code..NET Native uses the VisualC++ compiler backend, benefitting from its long history of optimizations. All this adds up to massive perf benefits - in some apps, 50% cold startup time improvements, 85% reduction in.NET startup costs.
.NET applications still need read about 1GB of libraries from the disk (only portions are kept in memory). This is why.NET applications are so brutally slow to load. Will this improve?
.NET Native speeds up startup times considerably. The way it works is it compiles your.NET app into native code, does whole-program optimization, and "shakes out" all the bits of the framework that aren't actually even needed by your code. (.NET Native is still under development, and currently available in preview form for store apps)
disclaimer: I'm on the.NET team (in particular on the VB/C# language team)
In concept making the.NET framework open source sounds cool. But, does making it open source mean that I can make a change to the framework, recompile it, distribute the binary framework along with my dependent application, and expect that someone else can just install my version of the framework and be good?
Yes exactly that. Imagine you wanted to change System.Xml.dll. You'd do that, and distribute your modified version of the binary alongside your app. (You won't be installing the binary framework system-wide; you'll only be distributing your updates to it locally).
Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates (“Microsoft”) promise not to assert any.NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a.NET Runtime or as part of any application designed to run on a.NET Runtime.
If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under this promise will automatically terminate.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I am on Microsoft's VB/C# language team
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You've got the wrong handle on DMCA...
1. It criminalizes the creation of software designed to circumvent copyright. That's not happening here.
2. It grants"safe harbor" to ISPs and companies against violations*BY THEIR USERS* so long as the company has a takedown & dispute resolution mechanism. In this case Sony claims copyright, and Twitter can absolve itself of responsibility by leaving the user in question to be the one to file a counterclaim (presumably on fair-use grounds)
A simple 2-3% tax on corporate earnings from the new United Korea until the cost is repaid
I have a similar idea. How about I buy a plane ticket to fly over and hit some sense into your silly head, and once you gain more sense, then you can dock 2% of your income to repay me the plane ticket. Sounds fair?
I'm not even sure how to react to this... I understand that money buys influence... Either Sony has successfully coerced companies into similar relations in the past, with the White House as a mediator, or vice versa.
Democracy = each *vote* has equal power
Capitalism = each *dollar* has equal power
We're just seeing the first half of "capitalist democracy" in action. It's how capitalism has always worked and will always work.
Ok. Does that mean the full Visual Studio is free as well? Cost is the main hindrance for adoption of it anyway.
Yes it is free. "Visual Studio Community Edition" it's called.
Why is there critical systems allowed to be in the same network as email?
Email from operations to the shop floor: "Hey Klaus, we've determined that for the following job we need parameters set at P=123.79 and Q=119.11". Klaus prints out out from his email-connected computer. Picks up the printout, walks across to the control computers, and starts typing in the parameters from the printout. Unfortunately he has a typo that causes the entire batch to be not quite up to spec.
Solution: come up with a way for the parameters to be taking precisely from email into production, without the error-prone act of typing them out again.
Noordhuis had not one but TWO responses: (1) as you said he dismissed it as trivial, (2) when someone else nevertheless accepted the change he tried to undo it and chided them publically for bypassing both him and (???forgot alias).
Noordhuis chided someone publically, he got chided back publically, seems about fair.
The best way to fight discrimination is to set the example by not discriminating.
[citation needed]
Relativity is a description of the geometry of the universe. If you would rather believe in your own personal fantasies instead of one of the most well-supported theories in science, congratulations, you are yet another variety of religious loon.
There are lots of spacetimes that satisfy general relativity and are still pretty goofy. Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, for instance, are ones where you can jump into someone's infinite future. (or more precisely: they're ones with two paths through spacetime, one of which has an infinite duration, the other a finite duration, so if you travel down the "finite" one and your friend travels down the "infinite" one then you'll still be arrive while he's been dead for an eternity).
2c per CD? How does that price work out for those of us who keep our definitive backups on AWS or iCloud or OneDrive? And who also would need to pay for a fatter internet connection to get at all the files?
I have no doubt that FLACworks great for the niche who have lots of CDs, lots of hard drives, and who have time and money to spend curating them. But really, if you have kids or emmigrate or whatever, the FLACs are as good as gone when you realize you don't have the time or money you need to keep them useful.
4-5 generations? ...
Our computers still support ASCII from 1960. I'm sure that mp3 support won't go away in my lifetime. And copyright terms will expire before even your 2nd generation of lossy recoding happens.
The ads are replaced with a small message thanking them for being a contributor. The space where the advert would have been is filled with a pixelated pattern, instead of being removed entirely
Maybe we'll get to see pop-ups with pixelated messages of thanks!
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society. Incidentally, What Adults Can Learn From Kids ~ {null}, which is why society would function much more smoothly if the voting age were raised back to 25.
Wow! That's mean. As a 40 year old myself, I've learnt a lot from my and other kids. I wonder whether you, Anonymous Coward, have enough life experience to back up your claims?
I have yet to be convinced that any of these vendors can provide as much uptime and reliability as a decent IT department
A good place to start would be getting the numbers. Do you know any numbers about uptime of web-servers maintained by IT departments?
If it is truly single player why would you need a network connection? If the changes are made centrally then there is no need for an always-on connection: just provide optional updates from time to time.
It sounded to me as if (1) yes they are providing updates from time to time, and that "time to time" is every time you do a commercial transaction. (2) why do they need the network connection? I assume because it was lower-risk for them and their schedule to use the same economy engine than to develop two separate economy engines.
Maybe they discovered that their economic engine felt a bit lackluster unless there are huge numbers of participants (reminds me of Ultima Online) and they wanted to force there to be a higher number of participants, both single-player and multi-player. So they're forcing everyone to contribute to make the economy engine feel more realistic.
Gosh, $500 is a lot. What kind of things did you keep paying for?
Does Frontier even have a choise but do refund? Single player was part of contract that backer bought, you can go back later and change contract to your liking.
To be clear: THEY STILL HAVE single-player. The only thing is that single-player requires an online connection, and is done in a galaxy that evolves.
Call me anti-social but I don't like playing with others
??? They said the game would have single-player. Presumably that means "not playing with others". The only thing is that the single-player game will require an online connection and the galaxy will gradually evolve.
Now you are going to be sharing the galaxy with immature, adolescent school kids and any unusual features you will ascribe to a human moderator putting them there. It's going to have more similarity to Eve Online than Elite.
Why do you say that? They clearly state that they will have single- and multi-player. And they say that single-player requires an online connection so it gets a gradually evolving galaxy. That sounds more like automatically-downloaded DLC, entirely different from "sharing the galaxy".
It took a while for me to decode all that marketing speak to figure out that they were canning single player.
How did you get that? What I understood was that single-player still exists, but it requires an internet connection and is in a galaxy that steadily evolves. Here's what they actually said:
it does mean the single player has to connect to the server from time to time, but this has the added advantage that everyone can participate in the activities that can happen in the galaxy
So: their statement is that single player exists, and it's in an evolving galaxy, sort of like implicit/automatic DLC.
Honestly, your complaints seem totally ridiculous.
I'm in the same boat as you. I paid an initial kickstarter fee. I enjoy seeing screenshots and videos. And when the game comes out then I'll get a copy of it at no extra cost. That's what kickstarter is.
If you're "fatigued" by their requests for more backing? If you're upset that you don't get access to the beta without paying for more money? First world problems, a.k.a. "whining".
I love that one! Wife and I have a few squares after dinner each night. Delicious.
I thought .NET cached its JIT images. Is this mistaken? If not, what's really new in .NET Native?
JIT has to be done very quickly. Therefore it's purely local (method-by-method) rather than cross-method. Also even within a method it only has time to do simple easy optimizations. NGEN is a way to do JIT ahead of time. But it still only uses the same JIT algorithm, i.e. doesn't do heavy-duty optimization.
Also, .NET Native does build-time generation of interop and serialization code. .NET Native uses the VisualC++ compiler backend, benefitting from its long history of optimizations. All this adds up to massive perf benefits - in some apps, 50% cold startup time improvements, 85% reduction in .NET startup costs.
.NET applications still need read about 1GB of libraries from the disk (only portions are kept in memory). This is why .NET applications are so brutally slow to load. Will this improve?
.NET Native speeds up startup times considerably. The way it works is it compiles your .NET app into native code, does whole-program optimization, and "shakes out" all the bits of the framework that aren't actually even needed by your code. (.NET Native is still under development, and currently available in preview form for store apps)
disclaimer: I'm on the .NET team (in particular on the VB/C# language team)
In concept making the .NET framework open source sounds cool. But, does making it open source mean that I can make a change to the framework, recompile it, distribute the binary framework along with my dependent application, and expect that someone else can just install my version of the framework and be good?
Yes exactly that. Imagine you wanted to change System.Xml.dll. You'd do that, and distribute your modified version of the binary alongside your app. (You won't be installing the binary framework system-wide; you'll only be distributing your updates to it locally).
disclaimer: I'm on the VB/C# language team.
They're taking it Mono a Mono. With nasty patent clauses, no doubt.
:) Microsoft's patent clauses are spelled out here https://github.com/dotnet/core...
I guess these are the key paragraphs:
Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates (“Microsoft”) promise not to assert any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or as part of any application designed to run on a .NET Runtime.
If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under this promise will automatically terminate.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I am on Microsoft's VB/C# language team