This is interesting. Also listed as defendants are other companies that seem to have nothing to do with each other, ie Kazaa, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, etc. Anyone?
>Incorrect. Many more people were kiled in wars in the 20th century than have required artificial limbs.
I think the parent's point is that the advances in technology have allowed more people to live long enough to have an artificial limb. In WW2 battlefield medicine and troop protection was in a state where most who got wounded to the point where they could have used an artificial limb didn't survive.
>If by "Operation Iraqi Freedom" you mean the invasion of Iraq as carried out by Bush and his allies then I tihnk you'll find it led to around 100,000 deaths - deaths which would not have occured had no advances in military technology been made in the 20th century.
Those 100,000 deaths you speak of were not military. Most of those deaths are civilians being killed by fellow citizens. Some of the technologies available to military personal, Kevlar especially, are either too expensive for civilians or illegal to buy. Kevlar alone would have saved thousands.
>It's too early to state deaths in action which has not finished. By all accounts it looks as if Bush and his allies will have to beat an embarassing Vietnam style retreat from both Iraq and Afghanistan, as the initial euphoria of rapidly killing lots of (largely unarmed) people fades and is replaced by the slow loss of soldiers in cheaply constructed roadside bombs, sniper attacks, suicide bomb infiltration of the police and army etc. Plus, the imbalance in force/deaths will result in anti-US candidates being elected in any subsequent elections.
It doesn't look like the killing of unarmed civilians is going to fade. First, the attackers don't appear to have any form of command structure. In Vietnam, the Viet Cong at least organized themselves and coordinated more than 2 or 3 otherwise unrelated attacks. Your last point is half right. The deaths will probably result in anti-US candidates being elected, but it will be the effect of the bombings and other attacks by terrorists.
He's not transfering the program itself, only information on how to use it. So technically speaking, the copyright for the file he would have emailed is his.
I agree with 2 or 3 others here. The X5L would definitly be my choice. It can do your ogg AND flac, along with mp4 and the video crowd. What catches my attention with the 'L' variant is the long battery life. Cowon claims 35+ hours which may seem like a little overkill, but according to user reviews I have read it is not far off. If you can't afford the 'X', they also have an M5L with the same battery life and audio codec support, but no video or pictures.
Yes, they had to start with usable products. Skype is in a different position though. They have a usable product, but the difference comes in at cost. It costs nothing for the program (full version) and the basic services. Windows does "come with the computer," but from there after, they have to pay for the major upgrades. If it comes to the point were Skype wants to charge for the basics, or the program becomes unusable, then their following will fall apart and they will lose most users, even those that pay.
Your second point is very true. With the product being the way it is and with the pricing, it is attracting a large crowd. If they do something in the future that the customers don't like, they will just switch to other services, like Gizmo. Most of these other services use SIP as well, and it is free to call other SIP numbers in other services like Vonage.
I was more thinking of the 100 mil. You could get your own supercomputer AND pay someone to steal the source code for Vista and modify it to make it work on your new gaming machine.
The export option is very excellent. Especially when you have to pay a minimum of $150 *extra* on top of the $250 you would shell out for MS Office 2003.
This is probably just another piece of shit from M$ to lure the uneducated even deeper into their hell. Maybe the next thing they'll try is to actually make Windoze work!
So the corporations pay taxes. So what. I pay taxes, not in Europe though. If the corporations can have that sort of lobbying power just because they pay taxes, my lobbying power should be as much as their's.
If Win2k3 is so much more secure than Linux, why doesn't M$ let us have it for free? Oh, I get it, giving stuff away is too much like the open source community, the same one that is bashing them right now.
I agree. This guy is a real idiot to say anything about Linux with everything that supports it. Linux and Apple don't need "thousands of people on standby to deal with problems."
"SPIEGEL: But your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less frequently a victim of virus attacks...
Gates:... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many respects, even more significantly affected."
I would like Bill Gates to find a virus that will run under Linux besides ones that he wrote.
I also do this to transport documents to a printer. My OOo docs are on average a whole one-third smaller. The docs are usually text only, I have not tried it with graphics.
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This is interesting. Also listed as defendants are other companies that seem to have nothing to do with each other, ie Kazaa, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, etc. Anyone?
>Incorrect. Many more people were kiled in wars in the 20th century than have required artificial limbs.
I think the parent's point is that the advances in technology have allowed more people to live long enough to have an artificial limb. In WW2 battlefield medicine and troop protection was in a state where most who got wounded to the point where they could have used an artificial limb didn't survive.
>If by "Operation Iraqi Freedom" you mean the invasion of Iraq as carried out by Bush and his allies then I tihnk you'll find it led to around 100,000 deaths - deaths which would not have occured had no advances in military technology been made in the 20th century.
Those 100,000 deaths you speak of were not military. Most of those deaths are civilians being killed by fellow citizens. Some of the technologies available to military personal, Kevlar especially, are either too expensive for civilians or illegal to buy. Kevlar alone would have saved thousands.
>It's too early to state deaths in action which has not finished. By all accounts it looks as if Bush and his allies will have to beat an embarassing Vietnam style retreat from both Iraq and Afghanistan, as the initial euphoria of rapidly killing lots of (largely unarmed) people fades and is replaced by the slow loss of soldiers in cheaply constructed roadside bombs, sniper attacks, suicide bomb infiltration of the police and army etc. Plus, the imbalance in force/deaths will result in anti-US candidates being elected in any subsequent elections.
It doesn't look like the killing of unarmed civilians is going to fade. First, the attackers don't appear to have any form of command structure. In Vietnam, the Viet Cong at least organized themselves and coordinated more than 2 or 3 otherwise unrelated attacks. Your last point is half right. The deaths will probably result in anti-US candidates being elected, but it will be the effect of the bombings and other attacks by terrorists.
He's not transfering the program itself, only information on how to use it. So technically speaking, the copyright for the file he would have emailed is his.
I agree with 2 or 3 others here. The X5L would definitly be my choice. It can do your ogg AND flac, along with mp4 and the video crowd. What catches my attention with the 'L' variant is the long battery life. Cowon claims 35+ hours which may seem like a little overkill, but according to user reviews I have read it is not far off. If you can't afford the 'X', they also have an M5L with the same battery life and audio codec support, but no video or pictures.
Yes, they had to start with usable products. Skype is in a different position though. They have a usable product, but the difference comes in at cost. It costs nothing for the program (full version) and the basic services. Windows does "come with the computer," but from there after, they have to pay for the major upgrades. If it comes to the point were Skype wants to charge for the basics, or the program becomes unusable, then their following will fall apart and they will lose most users, even those that pay.
Your second point is very true. With the product being the way it is and with the pricing, it is attracting a large crowd. If they do something in the future that the customers don't like, they will just switch to other services, like Gizmo. Most of these other services use SIP as well, and it is free to call other SIP numbers in other services like Vonage.
Your argument falls apart once you get past the name to some other points, like usability and cost.
Somebody mod the parent informative please.
One thing the article forgets to mention: You can search, but you can't get. You have to pay $15 per month to access.
MAFIAA is... "MAFIAA-Artists-Fucking-the-Innocent Association of America."
Your link doesn't work for me.
I was more thinking of the 100 mil. You could get your own supercomputer AND pay someone to steal the source code for Vista and modify it to make it work on your new gaming machine.
Only on the Unix systems. And as long as people update their OS, whatever it might be, regularly, nobody should have a problem.
This is too true. But compared to Microsoft, they are doing better with software. Apple's software actually works the way it should.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/14/144 2212&tid=93&tid=3
Read this before you get to excited.
The export option is very excellent. Especially when you have to pay a minimum of $150 *extra* on top of the $250 you would shell out for MS Office 2003.
I think TheSync is run by a bunch of fucking liberals.
This is probably just another piece of shit from M$ to lure the uneducated even deeper into their hell. Maybe the next thing they'll try is to actually make Windoze work!
"This so smells of anti trust it is not funny."
Maybe the next case will let wine users have DirectX! I better not get my hopes up though.
Dell's are bi.
So the corporations pay taxes. So what. I pay taxes, not in Europe though. If the corporations can have that sort of lobbying power just because they pay taxes, my lobbying power should be as much as their's.
If Win2k3 is so much more secure than Linux, why doesn't M$ let us have it for free? Oh, I get it, giving stuff away is too much like the open source community, the same one that is bashing them right now.
I agree. This guy is a real idiot to say anything about Linux with everything that supports it. Linux and Apple don't need "thousands of people on standby to deal with problems."
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... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many respects, even more significantly affected."
"SPIEGEL: But your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less frequently a victim of virus attacks
Gates:
I would like Bill Gates to find a virus that will run under Linux besides ones that he wrote.
I also do this to transport documents to a printer. My OOo docs are on average a whole one-third smaller. The docs are usually text only, I have not tried it with graphics.
This is so sad I am crying my eyes out. Intel will no longer make the worlds best processor besides the Pentium III, Pentium 4, Athlon, Athlon XP,...