Modded consoles are not only used for copyright circumvention, but to enable the hardware to do other stuff that it couldn't do before. Since I bought the console, I own the hardware, I should be allowed to extract any added value from it I want, right?
Isn't it kind of like banning all BitTorrent traffic, even though there are legitimate uses?
I understand the pirated games part, but how can he possibly be charged with anything about modding consoles? Sure, the console manufacturer doesn't want you to do it, and (in the case of the Xbox 360) they'll go to great lengths to prevent you from doing it (that's their "right"). They can't make it illegal though, can they? That's just stupid.
many of my classmates (the majority of whom went to private schools or paid a premium to go out of state to top public schools) are noticeably better prepared than me and the handful of other students in my situation.
Interesting you say that. I know a few people educated through the PhD level that say their state undergrad education was on par with those from MIT, Princeton etc.
I'm working now for a company as an intern that has hired many MIT folks, and I feel that I'm at least as prepared (if not more) by my school than they were. Part of that is probably because I'm an excellent student (and actually write firmware in my spare time), but a lot of it is the fundamental CS/CprE courses I've had, because I simply wouldn't know where to begin most projects without them.
Probably what it all boils down to is not where you go to school, but whether or not you actually learn.
that could mean the difference between admission to an elite private college and a less exclusive public one.
Who gives a shit? In most science/engineering fields, going to a public school for undergrad is the same education you get at an "elite" school, for $30,000 less in tuition.
I kid. Actually my university forces students to buy 1500 pages of what they call a "print subsidy". If we don't use it by the end of the semester, we lose it (and don't get any money back). This is counter productive to saving resources, because people will print off books like Dante's Inferno rather than leave themselves with 1400 pages of printable paper at the end of the semester. This is the reason why I don't own a printer.
Plus, I print stuff out so rarely that the place I work at doesn't bat an eye when I use work printers to do it. Owning a printer is overrated.
Really? I don't think so, at least there are no more environmentalists per capita than in any other profession. The vast majority of professional farmers grow cash crops, not edible food. The water they drink is purified (but the water that the animals drink is not). In some cases (like my uncle's farm) there's no potable purified water source, and they buy their drinking water at the local grocery store in 5 gallon increments.
Professional farmers are (for the most part) mono croppers who use genetically engineered seeds. These seeds are often engineered to be basically unable to grow without the specific kind of protection a chemical from company X (oddly enough, the same company that sold them the seeds) provides. This is not only bad for the farmer (he has to buy lots of chemical Y from company X), but it's terrible for biodiversity, something that environmentalists are very concerned about.
Specifically, read about different seed/chemical tests done in India.
But not all plants are as sunlight and nutrient hungry as corn, so it's not really a great comparison. You might be able to get away with some fiber optics magic if you're growing plants that don't need as much sunlight.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why anyone would actually sign one of these deals... apparently nobody else can either;-)
I'm really confused by all of this patent nonsense, but admittedly I've not really made any attempts to understand (or even read TFA).
My question is this: aren't patents on the public record? Aren't things like Ubuntu/Red Hat open source? How hard is it for M$ to say "Look at patent 5,656,565 and lines 1-3,000 of kernel.c. This is a violation of our IP rights."
I have to be misunderstanding something, because if it was really that simple I don't understand why anyone would sign a deal without first having M$ point out what was wrong. Of course, maybe that's why everyone is pissed off... anyone care to enlighten me?
unless you are talking about spreading stuff between cores, an event-driven model will almost always beat a multithreaded model, at least performance-wise.
I think we are talking about spreading between cores. Even if most machines sold before late 2006 don't have multiple cores, most machines now do. Don't most of the major OEMs sell Core2Duos now?
Anyways, power users are likely to have a machine with multiple cores, and power users are likely going to be using FF3. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a multithreaded UI.
It's not very hard to duplicate (for me at least).
When I'm running beryl 0.2.0 and another 3D graphics intensive application (say, Warcraft III) and I open up *any* window, it's black (although it's decorated). Closing war3 and reopening the window yields a window that isn't black. All windows before war3 is started are not black.
stop wasteing engery on the fake blogs and use the free time for something fun like encoraging youg women to remove their clothing or even better let you do it.
You're pretty ambitious. I would've started with something like:
It's interesting you say that. I'm a gamer, but play mostly FPS games so I don't do the whole online currency thing.
I am, however, an avid outdoorsman. I probably have spent well over $10,000 if you combine my bikes, backpack & related gear (camp stove, etc.), sleeping bags, expidition food costs, gas getting there or whatever else. $100 seems pretty damn cheap for a hobby to me.
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Looks like they're totally Linux/Apache based... maybe GWB can do something right after all?
Which creative uses would those be? Apparently sentence fragments aren't understandable, whoda thunk?
Modded consoles are not only used for copyright circumvention, but to enable the hardware to do other stuff that it couldn't do before. Since I bought the console, I own the hardware, I should be allowed to extract any added value from it I want, right?
Isn't it kind of like banning all BitTorrent traffic, even though there are legitimate uses?
I understand the pirated games part, but how can he possibly be charged with anything about modding consoles? Sure, the console manufacturer doesn't want you to do it, and (in the case of the Xbox 360) they'll go to great lengths to prevent you from doing it (that's their "right"). They can't make it illegal though, can they? That's just stupid.
I'm working now for a company as an intern that has hired many MIT folks, and I feel that I'm at least as prepared (if not more) by my school than they were. Part of that is probably because I'm an excellent student (and actually write firmware in my spare time), but a lot of it is the fundamental CS/CprE courses I've had, because I simply wouldn't know where to begin most projects without them.
Probably what it all boils down to is not where you go to school, but whether or not you actually learn.
If clueless HR people are doing the hiring of research/development staff, that company is already in the shitter.
Yes, because I'm sure that congress will decide to spend the cut money on other space projects.
The one at work.
I kid. Actually my university forces students to buy 1500 pages of what they call a "print subsidy". If we don't use it by the end of the semester, we lose it (and don't get any money back). This is counter productive to saving resources, because people will print off books like Dante's Inferno rather than leave themselves with 1400 pages of printable paper at the end of the semester. This is the reason why I don't own a printer.
Plus, I print stuff out so rarely that the place I work at doesn't bat an eye when I use work printers to do it. Owning a printer is overrated.
Professional farmers are (for the most part) mono croppers who use genetically engineered seeds. These seeds are often engineered to be basically unable to grow without the specific kind of protection a chemical from company X (oddly enough, the same company that sold them the seeds) provides. This is not only bad for the farmer (he has to buy lots of chemical Y from company X), but it's terrible for biodiversity, something that environmentalists are very concerned about.
Specifically, read about different seed/chemical tests done in India.
But not all plants are as sunlight and nutrient hungry as corn, so it's not really a great comparison. You might be able to get away with some fiber optics magic if you're growing plants that don't need as much sunlight.
fertilizers
A small caveat: fertilizers aren't necessarily teh evil kemikalz that hurt teh envirunments. Those would be pesticides.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why anyone would actually sign one of these deals... apparently nobody else can either ;-)
I'm really confused by all of this patent nonsense, but admittedly I've not really made any attempts to understand (or even read TFA).
My question is this: aren't patents on the public record? Aren't things like Ubuntu/Red Hat open source? How hard is it for M$ to say "Look at patent 5,656,565 and lines 1-3,000 of kernel.c. This is a violation of our IP rights."
I have to be misunderstanding something, because if it was really that simple I don't understand why anyone would sign a deal without first having M$ point out what was wrong. Of course, maybe that's why everyone is pissed off... anyone care to enlighten me?
Ah, okay, must've missed that. Thanks for the info!
Anyways, power users are likely to have a machine with multiple cores, and power users are likely going to be using FF3. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a multithreaded UI.
I hate this too.
Yeah, you're right about all that. I was just pointing out that it's possible to fit a simple program into less than 20k.
It's not very hard to duplicate (for me at least).
When I'm running beryl 0.2.0 and another 3D graphics intensive application (say, Warcraft III) and I open up *any* window, it's black (although it's decorated). Closing war3 and reopening the window yields a window that isn't black. All windows before war3 is started are not black.
But (s)locate does, which is basically the same thing except that I don't have to worry about it sending my info to google.
I'm sorry, I don't understand your notation. How many Library of Congresses is one yonk?
Yes, because he should let someone who _isn't_ a doctor cut things out of him.
It's interesting you say that. I'm a gamer, but play mostly FPS games so I don't do the whole online currency thing.
I am, however, an avid outdoorsman. I probably have spent well over $10,000 if you combine my bikes, backpack & related gear (camp stove, etc.), sleeping bags, expidition food costs, gas getting there or whatever else. $100 seems pretty damn cheap for a hobby to me.