Yes you could. As long as the copyright holder doesn't approve a translation for sale as hardware (i.e. books or translated DVDs), you are morally free** to publish it in any not-yet-commercialized language as long as you don't make money. And if the author feels that your translation is good enough for retail, it should be selected just for that, and you should be then paid for your work.
1.Work for free 2.Make some community happy 3.Profit! (If you work well enough.)
Now THAT's a business model I like!
** : FUCK the law. I'm not gonna kill people or steal REAL things, ever. Publishing music and movies on the net makes free publicity. Might lose some sales, though, but you can't copy *going* to a concert or theater. Book authors should get paid once per publisher, on time-limited contracts, including translation rights and other copy-rights or not. Music authors should publish their music on the 'Net and sell beautifully-packaged CDs in stores, making their living from that, and live shows, and merchandising; record labels would just care for promotion and distribution and get some paltry percentage of sales revenue, with time-locked contracts. You get the idea... Laws that do not allow such freedoms will be scrapped at some point and ever more ignored until then.
As per the subject line, I'm confused, too : I once put a DVD in a laptop running Vista and it simply refused to play. "No Protected Content Path" or something. That was a DVD, not a HDDVD or BluRay. Now how am I supposed to replace an integrated X200? Or a laptop's LCD? The message appeared on WMP, and the other players (VLC and WinDVD) refused to display anything. So I can't play a DVD on a factory install. Thank you for testing your products, Toshiba. (I solved the issue by booting on the Linux partition.)
About that, I'd like to know the name of ONE linux distro that will automagically detect the various temperature sensors, SMART hard disks, and, more importantly, where cpufreq works OUT OF THE BOX? My CPU's temp is 40°C above what it could. And I have to check in the BIOS screens to know that. I'm tired of leg-burning laptops, and poor support from both vendors and The Community. Some guy wrote five drivers that support 235 webcams. Some guys have made whole games in their moms' basements. Now, lots of guys are hacking various funny things like sched.c, but who cares for useful things that might be no fun?
... blah. Let's imagine that only top-selling products are made. People die needlessly. Someone in the pharma industry figures that people do value their health and begins to sell the products at their natural capitalistic price : MARGINAL PRODUCTION COST.
The drugs will go on being developed by universities, just like now. NO problem whatsoever.
The only reason why living in the West we think knowledge is super-important is because our societies have organized themselves into very efficient competitive systems where the only missing ingredient is the knowledge of how to do something. Find it (a cool game, a new drug) and a whole host of people and governments will help you spread that knowledge and get rich. However, it doesn't work that way everywhere.
True. It does work here though! So it can work anywhere. Just change the society...
It will be much faster since you'll only have the time window in which your product will not have been copied yet to recoup your R&D cost! And if you sell at the marginal production cost like a good little capitalist who does not have a Government-granted right to extort money from IDEAS, there will be much less incentive to copy it in the first place.
So your product WILL be copied and improved upon and further on, and progress will go orders of magnitude faster.
You see, capitalism is that system where everything that can be sold will end up being sold at its marginal production cost.
That's what happening right now. Capitalism does not need Intellectual Property rights. Because it actually takes time to even begin to copy a product, so if you recoup your R&D costs in that time window, you can sell the product at its marginal production cost; moreover, there will be less incentive to copy your idea so as to sell it at half the profit if your profits are not obscene.
The fact that Internet reduces the marginal cost of copying/transmitting information to very near zero multiplies the value of information, not reduces it. The value of information is proportional of how many people have it, because, when in more heads, ideas can evolve faster.
Intellectual Property rights actually only reduce the value of information. They are a state-granted monopoly. They must be scrapped. Otherwise China will eat us all. (Since our govts are too stupid and greedy to see to that, I, for one, welcome our new IP-disregarding overlords.)
If you're laughing now, then learn that some guy could manage to plant square miles of Cannabis Sativa in that desert. Use that to begin designing a living ecosystem and voilà, problem solved.
And yes, it is easy. Proof : some Swiss growers use aquaponics, that is, the roots of the plants are suspended in water, where the nutrients and everything are produced by an independent ecosystem under controlled conditions.
In the desert, the conditions are well-known and relatively stable. Oh an for water : use condensation like everyone is told to know how to do when they go there. Condensate on a large enough surface and you'll have enough H2O for your plants. When you have the plants, use them for compost. Use the gas for energy. Repeat. At some point you'll have enough humidity in your valley (oh yes, you want to begin in a valley) and you'll have natural condensation: rains. Do that in enough of lots of little spots in the Sahara. Little spots. Lots of them. Average. Statistically relevant. That can be modelled and computed. What power is needed. What area. How many. How distant.** The long-term result is a living half-continent where there had been a Mars-like environment.
(** : Put the ideas in order yourself. You have a brain, use it. Mine is too tired for now. I've thought about that for so long and so many times that a)my brain contains a fucking BLUEPRINT of the full project and b)I can't even begin to imagine how comes that not everyone knows it.)
Then we'll live in a society where commerce and finance are held by private companies, but everything infrastructure (health service, roads, public transports, education and such) will be managed city-by-city, transparently, decisions being taken by referendum : you pay for the project that you approve of. NO TAXES whatsoever. But communities can sell services to industries. Like renting ad space, for an obvious, though obnoxious one.
And we can scrap the Intellectual Property bullshit altogether. Don't come whining about your development costs : one main reason it takes 25+ years for useful tech to go from lab to consumer is that the "inventors" want to Reap Profit Off Their Hard Work. Why can't they build their own industry? Their tech will be copied anyway, so, better to start soon before someone else invents it too.
Innovation is an evolutionary algorithm. So now that we have a tech that allows us to transmit zero-cost copies of any information with 100% fidelity, we can begin to value Intellectual Property at its marginal production cost. If that cost can be offset in the time it takes for a product to begin to get copied, then the Holy Necessary Incentive is met! Especially if the industries realize that their best way to make profits is to sell their products at such a price point that the people who produce them can afford them too.
In such a world we'd all have nuclear-powered flying cars.
STFU with your T1. It is slower than ADSL, which is absolute CRAP by the way : no-one REALLY wants a 90/10 connexion!! SDSL now that's something. Last-mile over wireless, that's even much better. The access will be on a public, locally-administered budget, with a federal agency to check that it works and that there's no fraud. (Translated into American.)
If you can access them remotely, why can't the device just connect to the Net, register a DynDNS for itself and display the URL on some screen?
That's brain-dead-easy to develop and deploy if you have some people on staff. Let's say 8 admins with a lot of scripts... Since it's Microsoft, they run Windows, thus ensuring that any server that goes down (and they need quadruple redundancy) can be brought back up with a simple reboot. WTF am I saying? Even my box could probably manage DNS for some gazillions of such accounts, given enough bandwidth...
In the future, everything will be as broken as it is now. It will still be an horrible amount of work to get the setup just right and that's not even beginning to take security into account. <br>(The cause is that people who believe it's impossible to build programs with no bugs. That, and economics.)</p> <p>The only problem.... Why don't you run your http server on port 8080? I've been using DynDNS to acess my FTP during two years. Never had the slightest issue. (Apart from the fact that setting up a simple FTP just to share one folder, on Linux, compared to doing same in Windows, is a major hemorrhoid. No, I don't want to hear about easy Linux solutions. I did it, it sucked, period. Why doesn't it work as simply as everything on OSX? You know, the BSD even an untrained chimp can use. Now compare that to every other BSD : you need classes just to understand their crazy partitioning system.)</p> (How comes that my Firefox spell checker doesn't know "http"???)
Abstract your memory allocation/freeing. sizeof() is not your friend, it's your fucking doppelgänger, your second personality, the voice in your head overdubbing every malloc.
malloc syntax : malloc(sizeof(foo)). It might not be all that needed with int, char, long, float and double, but it is required and necessary for everything ELSE.
Test every case. Syntax : switch()case:break; default:printf("This condition is impossible. Check for bugs.")
Secretly? Mach and BSD are designed to run and scale on anything from a wristwatch to a Google datacenter.
As for developing a full Office suite, how hard is that exactly? It's not like they don't know how to produce quality software (usable, stable, cute, slightly lacking in customization). So that should not take that many years.
Oh, and, I seem to remember that Office2k4 was the last version and that the continued develoment agreement is coning to an end now. Is that right?
Years, right. That's the amount of time NeoOffice takes to load.
I can't wait to see a Mac version that's fast enough so as not to have a framerate you can count in binary on one finger! And doesn't require me to either a)jump through hoops to get running and integrated or b)grab an Office2004 install on BitTorrent.
Well-written software should install in the "BINARIES" folder and ONE link to the main executable in a user-editable menu. Libraries do not need to be shared on desktop machines, they all have hard drives >80G now.
Just like on MacOSX. If there is ONE thing Apple has ever done right in their whole history, it's the OSX UI and admin. (Yeah, I know - NextSTEP. Never used that, I'm too young. And I would have been too poor at the time to buy a $4000 workstation. At least OSX can be installed on a cheap box now.)
Come to think of it, what Apple must do now : sell MacOSX as software, but telling ppl up-front it will work without any third-party driver, only on THEIR machines. They'd lose some sales of Macintoshes, but they'd earn an astronomical order of magnitude more money.
To address your point : Sandbox? Why? Users can install plugins in $HOME/.appname/plugins already. So why should it work in any way other than OSX? If you're an admin, your users can't install anything without root password. If you're at home, you only see a prompt when you install or uninstall something.
Windows is always screaming for attention. MacOSX annoys you only when it needs to know something. Linux is heading in the Right Direction (tm) : IF IT CAN BE AUTOMATED, DO IT. And DO NOT ASK THE LUSER. The Computer knows better. (Silver-Bullet's Proof: just TRY to get any Linux to recognize the sensors on your mobo. If it doesn't work out of the box, it never will. Or it will, in some years. Maybe. If one lm-sensors dev ever gets the exact same mobo as yours. If and only if. Maybe I should buy TWO mobos every time, so I can send them one. Same goes for cpufreq.)
NO. Any running code uses resources. I can notice the difference.
Small, efficient viruses? No more. (Vista is so bloated that any creation of new processes is bound to take 10 sec+ anyway... so if you have a computer that is not supposed to be running any app and your HDD is working and your eth0 is up and transmitting : you are 0wn3d.)
I never caught any sort of virus or malware whatsoever on XP. As for Vista, I used it for an hour to configure it right and install useful programs (bittorrent, an MSN client, FireFox, etc.) and saw one hundred UAC prompts. Then proceeded to replace it with Ubuntu. And, you know what? Users are now so used to change interfaces or systems when they change their GSM that they already acquired the mental habit of switching. So, if you tell them "this is easier after 10 minutes - and look how cute it is! And yes, it can run games, too."
KOffice/OpenOffice, Kopete/Gaim/aMSN, Azureus, Firefox/Safari, Evolution/Thunderbird. Typical needs of typical users are fulfilled already.
Just make ONE Outlook/Exchange stack clone and Windows will be definitely irrelevant. (Games? Yeah. They'll come. WoW is made to run flawlessly on Wine, for one. I wouldn't dismiss their 10e6's of subscribers.)
(can't remember what you bizarre english speaking people actually call numbers with six zeroes. I call them millions, but that's French. In English, billions have nine zeroes, right?)
Well, long-winded and off-topic enough. Mod me down. Contains insightful and interesting ideas though. Mod me up.
The fancy display mechanism works out of the box on Ubuntu and MacOSX.
UAC = no possible benefits with default settings. There is no admin password by default on Vista, so users just have to click Yes or Allow to install malware. But since there are lots of programs that insist on writing in places other than %HOME%, Vista users learn to click Allow every time. And they end up either Allowing the installation of malware or disabling UAC.
If this wasn't Microsoft I'd suspect the press release to be humor. Maybe their Daylight Savings Patch made today April 1st on their hardware. That or they really are that stupid.
Yes. And about this. Can anyone here on the major "News For Nerds" site actually write code? Because, all I've ever seen here about great one-man projects is "humans can't do that, it's not possible". (Yeah Right. Just as writing a whole game engine from scratch? Then go tell that to both guys I know who just did it.)
I'm not very impressed by the technical skill : it is rather easy to do. I figure all a webcam driver has to do is "open v4L from device mmaped at [address] and pass video data to application"... not much more. I read the code to tm395c (scsi card) once and even I could figure it out : all it does is initialize some magic numbers and then translate I/O to requests and back. And don't you dare tell me that all webcams encode their 640x480x2.5bit-color in a different way.
But I'm really amazed that no one here had ever thought to do Just That. Or even think that it was at all possible. News for Wannabe Nerds. (Why didn't I do it myself? Because I dropped out of Programming and never learned it.)
Well that is SO stupid. It boggles my mind to think that you can't even have a marginal source of income, that's calculated precisely so that you end up working for $1.50 an hour - if that - without getting taxed.
See the revenue for the first weekend a movie shows, it's pretty much always above the total cost of production.
That is a fact.
Therefore, the people who funded the production of movies have no absolute moral right to monopolize the distribution of the works to their profit for the next 70 years after the death of the author or the first publication date.
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Yes you could. As long as the copyright holder doesn't approve a translation for sale as hardware (i.e. books or translated DVDs), you are morally free** to publish it in any not-yet-commercialized language as long as you don't make money. And if the author feels that your translation is good enough for retail, it should be selected just for that, and you should be then paid for your work.
1.Work for free
2.Make some community happy
3.Profit! (If you work well enough.)
Now THAT's a business model I like!
** : FUCK the law. I'm not gonna kill people or steal REAL things, ever. Publishing music and movies on the net makes free publicity. Might lose some sales, though, but you can't copy *going* to a concert or theater.
Book authors should get paid once per publisher, on time-limited contracts, including translation rights and other copy-rights or not. Music authors should publish their music on the 'Net and sell beautifully-packaged CDs in stores, making their living from that, and live shows, and merchandising; record labels would just care for promotion and distribution and get some paltry percentage of sales revenue, with time-locked contracts. You get the idea... Laws that do not allow such freedoms will be scrapped at some point and ever more ignored until then.
As per the subject line, I'm confused, too : I once put a DVD in a laptop running Vista and it simply refused to play. "No Protected Content Path" or something. That was a DVD, not a HDDVD or BluRay. Now how am I supposed to replace an integrated X200? Or a laptop's LCD?
The message appeared on WMP, and the other players (VLC and WinDVD) refused to display anything.
So I can't play a DVD on a factory install. Thank you for testing your products, Toshiba.
(I solved the issue by booting on the Linux partition.)
About that, I'd like to know the name of ONE linux distro that will automagically detect the various temperature sensors, SMART hard disks, and, more importantly, where cpufreq works OUT OF THE BOX? My CPU's temp is 40°C above what it could. And I have to check in the BIOS screens to know that.
I'm tired of leg-burning laptops, and poor support from both vendors and The Community. Some guy wrote five drivers that support 235 webcams. Some guys have made whole games in their moms' basements. Now, lots of guys are hacking various funny things like sched.c, but who cares for useful things that might be no fun?
... blah. Let's imagine that only top-selling products are made. People die needlessly. Someone in the pharma industry figures that people do value their health and begins to sell the products at their natural capitalistic price : MARGINAL PRODUCTION COST.
The drugs will go on being developed by universities, just like now. NO problem whatsoever.
Maybe if VMS could have been a Multics clone, we'd all be running secure OSes by now, too.
No idea what the humidity level is. But I know that it is a survival technique in such deserts; thus, it works.
True. It does work here though! So it can work anywhere. Just change the society ...
It will be much faster since you'll only have the time window in which your product will not have been copied yet to recoup your R&D cost! And if you sell at the marginal production cost like a good little capitalist who does not have a Government-granted right to extort money from IDEAS, there will be much less incentive to copy it in the first place.
So your product WILL be copied and improved upon and further on, and progress will go orders of magnitude faster.
You see, capitalism is that system where everything that can be sold will end up being sold at its marginal production cost.
That's what happening right now. Capitalism does not need Intellectual Property rights. Because it actually takes time to even begin to copy a product, so if you recoup your R&D costs in that time window, you can sell the product at its marginal production cost; moreover, there will be less incentive to copy your idea so as to sell it at half the profit if your profits are not obscene.
The fact that Internet reduces the marginal cost of copying/transmitting information to very near zero multiplies the value of information, not reduces it. The value of information is proportional of how many people have it, because, when in more heads, ideas can evolve faster.
Intellectual Property rights actually only reduce the value of information. They are a state-granted monopoly. They must be scrapped. Otherwise China will eat us all. (Since our govts are too stupid and greedy to see to that, I, for one, welcome our new IP-disregarding overlords.)
Make it a paradise? Use terraforming, moron.
If you're laughing now, then learn that some guy could manage to plant square miles of Cannabis Sativa in that desert. Use that to begin designing a living ecosystem and voilà, problem solved.
And yes, it is easy. Proof : some Swiss growers use aquaponics, that is, the roots of the plants are suspended in water, where the nutrients and everything are produced by an independent ecosystem under controlled conditions.
(** : Put the ideas in order yourself. You have a brain, use it. Mine is too tired for now. I've thought about that for so long and so many times that a)my brain contains a fucking BLUEPRINT of the full project and b)I can't even begin to imagine how comes that not everyone knows it.)In the desert, the conditions are well-known and relatively stable. Oh an for water : use condensation like everyone is told to know how to do when they go there. Condensate on a large enough surface and you'll have enough H2O for your plants. When you have the plants, use them for compost. Use the gas for energy. Repeat. At some point you'll have enough humidity in your valley (oh yes, you want to begin in a valley) and you'll have natural condensation: rains.
Do that in enough of lots of little spots in the Sahara. Little spots. Lots of them. Average. Statistically relevant. That can be modelled and computed. What power is needed. What area. How many. How distant.**
The long-term result is a living half-continent where there had been a Mars-like environment.
Then we'll live in a society where commerce and finance are held by private companies, but everything infrastructure (health service, roads, public transports, education and such) will be managed city-by-city, transparently, decisions being taken by referendum : you pay for the project that you approve of. NO TAXES whatsoever. But communities can sell services to industries. Like renting ad space, for an obvious, though obnoxious one.
And we can scrap the Intellectual Property bullshit altogether. Don't come whining about your development costs : one main reason it takes 25+ years for useful tech to go from lab to consumer is that the "inventors" want to Reap Profit Off Their Hard Work. Why can't they build their own industry? Their tech will be copied anyway, so, better to start soon before someone else invents it too.
Innovation is an evolutionary algorithm. So now that we have a tech that allows us to transmit zero-cost copies of any information with 100% fidelity, we can begin to value Intellectual Property at its marginal production cost. If that cost can be offset in the time it takes for a product to begin to get copied, then the Holy Necessary Incentive is met! Especially if the industries realize that their best way to make profits is to sell their products at such a price point that the people who produce them can afford them too.
In such a world we'd all have nuclear-powered flying cars.
STFU with your T1. It is slower than ADSL, which is absolute CRAP by the way : no-one REALLY wants a 90/10 connexion!! SDSL now that's something. Last-mile over wireless, that's even much better. The access will be on a public, locally-administered budget, with a federal agency to check that it works and that there's no fraud.
(Translated into American.)
If you can access them remotely, why can't the device just connect to the Net, register a DynDNS for itself and display the URL on some screen?
That's brain-dead-easy to develop and deploy if you have some people on staff. Let's say 8 admins with a lot of scripts... Since it's Microsoft, they run Windows, thus ensuring that any server that goes down (and they need quadruple redundancy) can be brought back up with a simple reboot.
WTF am I saying? Even my box could probably manage DNS for some gazillions of such accounts, given enough bandwidth...
In the future, everything will be as broken as it is now. It will still be an horrible amount of work to get the setup just right and that's not even beginning to take security into account.
<br>(The cause is that people who believe it's impossible to build programs with no bugs. That, and economics.)</p>
<p>The only problem.... Why don't you run your http server on port 8080? I've been using DynDNS to acess my FTP during two years. Never had the slightest issue. (Apart from the fact that setting up a simple FTP just to share one folder, on Linux, compared to doing same in Windows, is a major hemorrhoid. No, I don't want to hear about easy Linux solutions. I did it, it sucked, period. Why doesn't it work as simply as everything on OSX? You know, the BSD even an untrained chimp can use. Now compare that to every other BSD : you need classes just to understand their crazy partitioning system.)</p>
(How comes that my Firefox spell checker doesn't know "http"???)
All projects are not bound to have bugs!!!
Just check propoerly for errors.
Count properly in arrays.
Check bounds.
Abstract your memory allocation/freeing.
sizeof() is not your friend, it's your fucking doppelgänger, your second personality, the voice in your head overdubbing every malloc.
malloc syntax : malloc(sizeof(foo)). It might not be all that needed with int, char, long, float and double, but it is required and necessary for everything ELSE.
Test every case.
Syntax : switch()case:break; default:printf("This condition is impossible. Check for bugs.")
How hard is THAT exactly?
Slowness is with regard to startup time AND frame rate. (Try to use any port OOo + X11 or NeoOffice on a Mac Mini G4. And weep.)
Slowness is not due to portability. Fast code is fast code. (I am SO not going to try to read the millions LOC in OOo...)
Secretly? Mach and BSD are designed to run and scale on anything from a wristwatch to a Google datacenter.
As for developing a full Office suite, how hard is that exactly? It's not like they don't know how to produce quality software (usable, stable, cute, slightly lacking in customization). So that should not take that many years.
Oh, and, I seem to remember that Office2k4 was the last version and that the continued develoment agreement is coning to an end now. Is that right?
Years, right. That's the amount of time NeoOffice takes to load.
I can't wait to see a Mac version that's fast enough so as not to have a framerate you can count in binary on one finger! And doesn't require me to either a)jump through hoops to get running and integrated or b)grab an Office2004 install on BitTorrent.
Well-written software should install in the "BINARIES" folder and ONE link to the main executable in a user-editable menu. Libraries do not need to be shared on desktop machines, they all have hard drives >80G now.
Just like on MacOSX. If there is ONE thing Apple has ever done right in their whole history, it's the OSX UI and admin. (Yeah, I know - NextSTEP. Never used that, I'm too young. And I would have been too poor at the time to buy a $4000 workstation. At least OSX can be installed on a cheap box now.)
Come to think of it, what Apple must do now : sell MacOSX as software, but telling ppl up-front it will work without any third-party driver, only on THEIR machines. They'd lose some sales of Macintoshes, but they'd earn an astronomical order of magnitude more money.
To address your point : Sandbox? Why? Users can install plugins in $HOME/.appname/plugins already. So why should it work in any way other than OSX? If you're an admin, your users can't install anything without root password. If you're at home, you only see a prompt when you install or uninstall something.
Windows is always screaming for attention. MacOSX annoys you only when it needs to know something. Linux is heading in the Right Direction (tm) : IF IT CAN BE AUTOMATED, DO IT. And DO NOT ASK THE LUSER. The Computer knows better. (Silver-Bullet's Proof: just TRY to get any Linux to recognize the sensors on your mobo. If it doesn't work out of the box, it never will. Or it will, in some years. Maybe. If one lm-sensors dev ever gets the exact same mobo as yours. If and only if. Maybe I should buy TWO mobos every time, so I can send them one. Same goes for cpufreq.)
NO. Any running code uses resources. I can notice the difference.
Small, efficient viruses? No more. (Vista is so bloated that any creation of new processes is bound to take 10 sec+ anyway... so if you have a computer that is not supposed to be running any app and your HDD is working and your eth0 is up and transmitting : you are 0wn3d.)
I never caught any sort of virus or malware whatsoever on XP. As for Vista, I used it for an hour to configure it right and install useful programs (bittorrent, an MSN client, FireFox, etc.) and saw one hundred UAC prompts. Then proceeded to replace it with Ubuntu. And, you know what?
Users are now so used to change interfaces or systems when they change their GSM that they already acquired the mental habit of switching. So, if you tell them "this is easier after 10 minutes - and look how cute it is! And yes, it can run games, too."
KOffice/OpenOffice, Kopete/Gaim/aMSN, Azureus, Firefox/Safari, Evolution/Thunderbird. Typical needs of typical users are fulfilled already.
Just make ONE Outlook/Exchange stack clone and Windows will be definitely irrelevant. (Games? Yeah. They'll come. WoW is made to run flawlessly on Wine, for one. I wouldn't dismiss their 10e6's of subscribers.)
(can't remember what you bizarre english speaking people actually call numbers with six zeroes. I call them millions, but that's French. In English, billions have nine zeroes, right?)
Well, long-winded and off-topic enough. Mod me down. Contains insightful and interesting ideas though. Mod me up.
THANK GOD I finally found ONE slashdotter who actually CAN READ REAL BOOKS.
The fancy display mechanism works out of the box on Ubuntu and MacOSX.
UAC = no possible benefits with default settings. There is no admin password by default on Vista, so users just have to click Yes or Allow to install malware. But since there are lots of programs that insist on writing in places other than %HOME%, Vista users learn to click Allow every time. And they end up either Allowing the installation of malware or disabling UAC.
If this wasn't Microsoft I'd suspect the press release to be humor. Maybe their Daylight Savings Patch made today April 1st on their hardware. That or they really are that stupid.
Yes. And about this.
... not much more. I read the code to tm395c (scsi card) once and even I could figure it out : all it does is initialize some magic numbers and then translate I/O to requests and back. And don't you dare tell me that all webcams encode their 640x480x2.5bit-color in a different way.
Can anyone here on the major "News For Nerds" site actually write code? Because, all I've ever seen here about great one-man projects is "humans can't do that, it's not possible". (Yeah Right. Just as writing a whole game engine from scratch? Then go tell that to both guys I know who just did it.)
I'm not very impressed by the technical skill : it is rather easy to do. I figure all a webcam driver has to do is "open v4L from device mmaped at [address] and pass video data to application"
But I'm really amazed that no one here had ever thought to do Just That. Or even think that it was at all possible. News for Wannabe Nerds.
(Why didn't I do it myself? Because I dropped out of Programming and never learned it.)
Well that is SO stupid. It boggles my mind to think that you can't even have a marginal source of income, that's calculated precisely so that you end up working for $1.50 an hour - if that - without getting taxed.
Have you all lost your minds?
See the revenue for the first weekend a movie shows, it's pretty much always above the total cost of production.
That is a fact.
Therefore, the people who funded the production of movies have no absolute moral right to monopolize the distribution of the works to their profit for the next 70 years after the death of the author or the first publication date.
That is my opinion.
Batty? "Batshit insane KILL THE MORON kill the moron KILL KILL"