If there is no grace period then what happens if you park up, get out of the car to pay, and a photo van takes a picture of your car before you manage to pay for your ticket?
33 TB per day at £200 per TB (regular 1TB 3.5" hard disks can be bought for about £80 now, guessing high for redundancy) works out to only £2,409,000 per year costs in storage. Not a massive amount compared to how much our government throws away on other things.
Interesting.. my WINE install passes WGA (I've only tested it by downloading the exe version of WGA using Linux-native Firefox, running it under WINE then copy & pasting the code given to the site), might possibly be because I used the ies4linux script to install IE, because I run WINE under it's own user, or maybe Microsoft's documentation is out of date, but either way it seems to validate and let me download updates, software etc through MS's site.
On Gentoo Linux, just set the "nodrm" use flag for xpdf and it will ignore DRM in the file, allowing you to print "protected" files even when the DRM says that printing the file is not allowed.
At a guess it's probably that easy on other distros too.
No, the GPL is a licensing agreement you must accept before redistributing the source code. If you do not accept the agreement you can look at the code and use the binaries (and I believe use the code yourself in your own software as long as you do not distribute this code), just not give the source code or binaries made using the code to someone else.
Lords is appointed (ie unelected), Commons could be proportional depending upon your definition of proportional - it's proportional to the number of seats they win (so if Labour for example has MPs elected in 2 areas it gets 2 seats), but disproportional the number of votes cast (see here - SDP-Liberal Alliance had 23 seats with 25.4% of the votes in the 1983 general election, whereas Labour had more than 9 times the seats with only 2.2% more votes).
Cryptography is slightly different than DRM though - a crypto system is just going to prevent users from reading a file unless they have the key, but a DRM system usually has different rules depending upon the license - can the user burn the item to CD, can it be played on X device etc, all of which need to (currently) be implemented in software.
If the DRM software is all open source (ie it doesnt need to be linked against closed source libraries to compile which actually contains the DRM parts), how can it prevent me from disabling the license checks for burning the media to disk, then using that feature on a DRM-infected file that doesn't allow that for example? The best it seems to me it can do is prevent me from accessing the content altogether, which pretty much just looks to me like plain-old encryption, or will need to rely on closed hardware, or software which I can't compile myself (which requires digitally signing).
netnifty@netnifty_linux ~ $ strings ftp.exe | grep -i Cali @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
That's from the Windows XP 64-bit Edition ftp.exe, but keep in mind that this is just the text based ftp client, and not the TCP/IP stack we're looking at here. Anyone know which file(s) contains the Windows TCP/IP stack?
Staples in the UK sell XP Pro for £209.99, which is ~$360. Ok it's not the cheapest your going to find, and OEM versions are about half that price, but it's still a significant amount for an operating system, especially when compared to the Free alternatives.
Mainstream report for XP runs out 31st December 2006 according to this (however according to note 14 which it references - "Mainstream support will end 2 years after the next version of this product is launched. Extended support will end 5 years after Mainstream support ends." so I wouldn't worry too much about suddenly having to switch to Vista).
My experience is with XP-64 (pretty much same as XP SP2 but it's 64-bit) on an A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard (which is a relatively new motherboard, only was released october or november 2004 IIRC), and the install disk doesnt recognise the hard disks attached to either the Silicon Image SATA connectors or the NForce ones.
My issues aren't with whether or not it requires third party drivers (hardware is released all the time), but in the way it requires them (on the internal floppy drive and ignoring even external ones attached to USB ports).
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If there is no grace period then what happens if you park up, get out of the car to pay, and a photo van takes a picture of your car before you manage to pay for your ticket?
Moonlight can be compiled against ffmpeg (my Gentoo box has Moonlight compiled like this and it works fine) so the codecs from MS are not necessary.
33 TB per day at £200 per TB (regular 1TB 3.5" hard disks can be bought for about £80 now, guessing high for redundancy) works out to only £2,409,000 per year costs in storage. Not a massive amount compared to how much our government throws away on other things.
On every phone I've had bluetooth works fine for this (although it is slow, it does do the job).
In KPDF, go into the Settings Menu / Configure KPDF and untick "Obey DRM Restrictions".
It's easy get 32-bit firefox on Gentoo AMD64 - just emerge firefox-bin .
Praise for companies moving towards our goals, opposition to companies moving away from them..
Just open the "files" tab and enter "smb://SERVERNAME" for the path. Then just drag the files into your playlist.
Interesting.. my WINE install passes WGA (I've only tested it by downloading the exe version of WGA using Linux-native Firefox, running it under WINE then copy & pasting the code given to the site), might possibly be because I used the ies4linux script to install IE, because I run WINE under it's own user, or maybe Microsoft's documentation is out of date, but either way it seems to validate and let me download updates, software etc through MS's site.
On Gentoo Linux, just set the "nodrm" use flag for xpdf and it will ignore DRM in the file, allowing you to print "protected" files even when the DRM says that printing the file is not allowed.
At a guess it's probably that easy on other distros too.
At a guess it probably uses DirectX 10, which will only be available for Vista.
Don't know why DirectX 10 is only available in Vista though, given that DirectX 9.0c is available from every MS OS from Windows 98 to XP...
No, the GPL is a licensing agreement you must accept before redistributing the source code. If you do not accept the agreement you can look at the code and use the binaries (and I believe use the code yourself in your own software as long as you do not distribute this code), just not give the source code or binaries made using the code to someone else.
Lords is appointed (ie unelected), Commons could be proportional depending upon your definition of proportional - it's proportional to the number of seats they win (so if Labour for example has MPs elected in 2 areas it gets 2 seats), but disproportional the number of votes cast (see here - SDP-Liberal Alliance had 23 seats with 25.4% of the votes in the 1983 general election, whereas Labour had more than 9 times the seats with only 2.2% more votes).
FAT32 is limited to 4GB file size, not too bad most of the time, but could be annoying if you wanted to store an ISO of a DVD for example.
Cryptography is slightly different than DRM though - a crypto system is just going to prevent users from reading a file unless they have the key, but a DRM system usually has different rules depending upon the license - can the user burn the item to CD, can it be played on X device etc, all of which need to (currently) be implemented in software.
If the DRM software is all open source (ie it doesnt need to be linked against closed source libraries to compile which actually contains the DRM parts), how can it prevent me from disabling the license checks for burning the media to disk, then using that feature on a DRM-infected file that doesn't allow that for example? The best it seems to me it can do is prevent me from accessing the content altogether, which pretty much just looks to me like plain-old encryption, or will need to rely on closed hardware, or software which I can't compile myself (which requires digitally signing).
netnifty@netnifty_linux ~ $ strings ftp.exe | grep -i Cali
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
That's from the Windows XP 64-bit Edition ftp.exe, but keep in mind that this is just the text based ftp client, and not the TCP/IP stack we're looking at here. Anyone know which file(s) contains the Windows TCP/IP stack?
Staples in the UK sell XP Pro for £209.99, which is ~$360. Ok it's not the cheapest your going to find, and OEM versions are about half that price, but it's still a significant amount for an operating system, especially when compared to the Free alternatives.
Apparently it's called Hyperdrive explains why I couldn't find Hyperspace in the listings.
Windows x64 edition versions here.
At a guess I'd assume it would be due to unlicenced use of the licensed FM frequencies.
About a minute after it's too late to save their data, usually.
Here.
Mainstream report for XP runs out 31st December 2006 according to this (however according to note 14 which it references - "Mainstream support will end 2 years after the next version of this product is launched. Extended support will end 5 years after Mainstream support ends." so I wouldn't worry too much about suddenly having to switch to Vista).
The Skedar Home world on the N64 game "Perfect Dark" has three suns.
My experience is with XP-64 (pretty much same as XP SP2 but it's 64-bit) on an A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard (which is a relatively new motherboard, only was released october or november 2004 IIRC), and the install disk doesnt recognise the hard disks attached to either the Silicon Image SATA connectors or the NForce ones.
My issues aren't with whether or not it requires third party drivers (hardware is released all the time), but in the way it requires them (on the internal floppy drive and ignoring even external ones attached to USB ports).