I remember the later versions of Syndicate (the expansion pack) did support network gaming, but I don't think it supported TCP/IP. I could be wrong about that though...
Um, what? This thread is about a UK law, and thus has nothing to do with the American First amendment.
Didn't you get the memo. Bush during one of his buddy sessions with Blair, pushed through the paper work to allow the US to annex the UK. Of course, you get all the extra responsbilities without any of the benefits.
Also, are you saying that if found possessing child pornography on your computer you shouldn't be prosecuted.
Considering the ease of how most computers are compromised through a Trojan horse, its a nice way to send someone you don't like to jail. I'm surprised it hasn't been used more often.
One would wonder if the defense team could get access to the computer afterwards to prove there was a back door installed or would the prosecution not allow "tampering" with the evidence and not let the defense use it as evidence.
Of course that could lead to a plausible deniability if you were harboring such images and were guilty but left an inactive copy of back orifice on your computer so you could blame a so called "hacker" when you were caught.
These are the same rich kids who spend thousands of dollars a year to have the fastest computer on the block,
These aren't kids usually, but rather 40 somethings with a great deal of disposable income. I've known a few to dump $7,000 on a Ultima Online account.
I think it is a sad state of affairs that these sites don't (or can't) just use embedded mp4 files.
I'm kind of torn myself. Mp4 would be better quality and could be downloaded, but I don't really have any desire to download 99% of the videos on Youtube. And I've got flash players on WinXp, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X so i'm not really hard pressed to worry about it.
And they have blocked random game companies like Paradox Interactive who potrayed China as seperate states in the war simulation computer game "Hearts of Iron" (I and II)
Umm... No. A Dell with the same hardware as a Mac pro is more expensive.
They run the same applications. They run more games.
Um... They can rame the same applications and technically the Mac can run more games because not only can it play Mac OS X only games but it can also boot into WinXp and play any windows game there.
Until those converts from Windows run into how OSX handles Windows Media Video files and end up comparing it against what they saw when they used Windows instead.
I believe that is Microsoft's fault. After all they use a close format and even partially dropped support for WMV on a Mac. Personally, Quicktime and VLC work just fine for Divx and various other torrent media.
Besides, WMV and Mov wars on the web are loosing to Flash (Youtube and Google videos) so that is a moot point. If you want to watch video on webpages it will be all flash soon and everything else will run under VLC.
If you can run the entire OS in a VM, without the user knowing,
So would the best solution is to try to run 3d FPS games to see if they work?
As far as I know one of the problems with VM is that 3d acceleration may not work as expected, but most VM companies are trying to get around this with much success.
"Once the law is passed, they can rush through technical implementations and force the HW guys to comply, even if (portions of) the law is utter shiat and wouldn't hold up in a court room. At that point, it doesn't matter what a Judge says, because the hardware specs are already in place."
Unless of course no one buys such bitterly broken and useless hardware they have to bury them in a landfill somewhere. Of course I'm having a hunch they are already digging a hole for UMB movies right now.
You think politicians don't do anything useful now? Imagine the levels of inactivity you are going to force them into if you tell them that if they mess up too many times, their career is over.
Simple solution. Allow only one terms for any office.
Be it the President, Sentator, Governor or even local mayors.
Now many people complain that this would mean the person in office would have little time to do anything and sometimes people don't like change. Well the simple solution to this is to increase the time limit of the term itself.
Say instead of 4 year term for the President he'll get a 6 year term. Besides... Presidents spend most of their 1st term wasted trying to get re-elected instead of actually doing anything of real use.
Turn over in government is a good thing. Career politicians cause them to enjoy the job too much and start playing the "good ol boy" system where nothing changes. With constant turnover, things will get down more often because the persons in power won't have to worry about being re-elected, but of course the voters won't have to worry about having a sleezy politician in power for 30+ years either.
Columbine didn't horrify me. I could see it, you know? I had recourse when I was in school.
The funny thing was I could relate to Columbine guys. I had thought of the same thing when I was a Freshman... Get a gun... Shoot people til they shot me because of all the stresss and teen angst I guess.
Of course I never carried through with other than sitting there fantasizing in my head. Heck... I never wrote it down or even got more serious than daydreaming in class how I would like to show them all.
When I saw Columbine several years after graduating, I thought to myself "Damn. Somone finally snapped and did it."
I didn't think it was the right thing to do, but I could empathize with where they were coming from. I'm sure everyone has thought about going postal sometime in their life, but most of us would never carry it out.
The problem here is that RMS and the FSF are trying to protect freedoms by placing restrictions on them.
Its kind of like a law that punishes people that kidknap you off the street and lock you in their basement.
Sure that restricts the kidnapper's freedom from doing what they want, but the hostages in the basement would beg to differ.
The point of these DRM restrictions allow the original author of the code to prevent people down the line from going against the spirit of the GPL by adding DRM to the code they so graciously received for free.
If these people want to use DRM they are free to do so but they can't use code of author's who disagree with DRM. Hence, if you want DRM use someone else's BSD or GPLv2 licensed code or write your own.
GPLv3 is for original author's who want their works not to be used in ways that violate free access to the code and what you can do with it.
To be fair, I can't find Deustchland on the map either nor Myanmar... But in reality the Hungarians don't refer to their nation as Hungary, but rather Magyarország.
So heck... We can keep calling Hungary or Germany or Burma anything we want because they call themselves something else.
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If this has so utterly failed, why not develop the new model that replaces it?
Because the powers that be (aka RIAA) has put very tough entry barriers to market.
Since when do they need a purpose, exactly?
If a cop knocks on your door tonight and asks if he can look around without a warrant and no apparent reason.
Wouldn't you ask him "for what purpose?"
I challenge you: name any recent game that is worth playing.
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I remember the later versions of Syndicate (the expansion pack) did support network gaming, but I don't think it supported TCP/IP. I could be wrong about that though...
Um, what? This thread is about a UK law, and thus has nothing to do with the American First amendment.
Didn't you get the memo. Bush during one of his buddy sessions with Blair, pushed through the paper work to allow the US to annex the UK. Of course, you get all the extra responsbilities without any of the benefits.
Also, are you saying that if found possessing child pornography on your computer you shouldn't be prosecuted.
Considering the ease of how most computers are compromised through a Trojan horse, its a nice way to send someone you don't like to jail. I'm surprised it hasn't been used more often.
One would wonder if the defense team could get access to the computer afterwards to prove there was a back door installed or would the prosecution not allow "tampering" with the evidence and not let the defense use it as evidence.
Of course that could lead to a plausible deniability if you were harboring such images and were guilty but left an inactive copy of back orifice on your computer so you could blame a so called "hacker" when you were caught.
These are the same rich kids who spend thousands of dollars a year to have the fastest computer on the block,
These aren't kids usually, but rather 40 somethings with a great deal of disposable income. I've known a few to dump $7,000 on a Ultima Online account.
I think it is a sad state of affairs that these sites don't (or can't) just use embedded mp4 files.
I'm kind of torn myself. Mp4 would be better quality and could be downloaded, but I don't really have any desire to download 99% of the videos on Youtube. And I've got flash players on WinXp, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X so i'm not really hard pressed to worry about it.
Do any of these copycats offer actual video downloads
To be fair, IMO the majority of videos on Youtube are cool to watch, but I see no reason to keep copies for eternity.
Unless of course you have an affinity to watching kids dance.
Drop the "new age" reference and you just described Catholicism. What's your point?
Or Scientology?
They get all their money from people in foreign countries buying tons of consumer crap manufactured by cheap exploited laborers. Just like the U.S.
Actually, we in the US don't make manufactured goods anymore. We just borrow money from nations that do.
And they have blocked random game companies like Paradox Interactive who potrayed China as seperate states in the war simulation computer game "Hearts of Iron" (I and II)
Hmm, they should run their tool on its own source code, that would be fun.
And if they figure out how to get the tool to modify and improve its own code we'll have Strong AI.
Because they are cheaper.
Umm... No. A Dell with the same hardware as a Mac pro is more expensive.
They run the same applications. They run more games.
Um... They can rame the same applications and technically the Mac can run more games because not only can it play Mac OS X only games but it can also boot into WinXp and play any windows game there.
Until those converts from Windows run into how OSX handles Windows Media Video files and end up comparing it against what they saw when they used Windows instead.
I believe that is Microsoft's fault. After all they use a close format and even partially dropped support for WMV on a Mac. Personally, Quicktime and VLC work just fine for Divx and various other torrent media.
Besides, WMV and Mov wars on the web are loosing to Flash (Youtube and Google videos) so that is a moot point. If you want to watch video on webpages it will be all flash soon and everything else will run under VLC.
If you can run the entire OS in a VM, without the user knowing,
So would the best solution is to try to run 3d FPS games to see if they work?
As far as I know one of the problems with VM is that 3d acceleration may not work as expected, but most VM companies are trying to get around this with much success.
"Once the law is passed, they can rush through technical implementations and force the HW guys to comply, even if (portions of) the law is utter shiat and wouldn't hold up in a court room. At that point, it doesn't matter what a Judge says, because the hardware specs are already in place."
Unless of course no one buys such bitterly broken and useless hardware they have to bury them in a landfill somewhere. Of course I'm having a hunch they are already digging a hole for UMB movies right now.
You think politicians don't do anything useful now? Imagine the levels of inactivity you are going to force them into if you tell them that if they mess up too many times, their career is over.
Simple solution. Allow only one terms for any office.
Be it the President, Sentator, Governor or even local mayors.
Now many people complain that this would mean the person in office would have little time to do anything and sometimes people don't like change. Well the simple solution to this is to increase the time limit of the term itself.
Say instead of 4 year term for the President he'll get a 6 year term. Besides... Presidents spend most of their 1st term wasted trying to get re-elected instead of actually doing anything of real use.
Turn over in government is a good thing. Career politicians cause them to enjoy the job too much and start playing the "good ol boy" system where nothing changes. With constant turnover, things will get down more often because the persons in power won't have to worry about being re-elected, but of course the voters won't have to worry about having a sleezy politician in power for 30+ years either.
Columbine didn't horrify me. I could see it, you know? I had recourse when I was in school.
The funny thing was I could relate to Columbine guys. I had thought of the same thing when I was a Freshman... Get a gun... Shoot people til they shot me because of all the stresss and teen angst I guess.
Of course I never carried through with other than sitting there fantasizing in my head. Heck... I never wrote it down or even got more serious than daydreaming in class how I would like to show them all.
When I saw Columbine several years after graduating, I thought to myself "Damn. Somone finally snapped and did it."
I didn't think it was the right thing to do, but I could empathize with where they were coming from. I'm sure everyone has thought about going postal sometime in their life, but most of us would never carry it out.
Does everyone in the world have to check these databases, or just if you're sending mail from inside of the US?
1. Are you sending spam?
2. Does your country have an extradition agrement with the US?
answers all 250 emails per day, organizes them, and archives 'em? :)
Too much free time?
The problem here is that RMS and the FSF are trying to protect freedoms by placing restrictions on them.
Its kind of like a law that punishes people that kidknap you off the street and lock you in their basement.
Sure that restricts the kidnapper's freedom from doing what they want, but the hostages in the basement would beg to differ.
The point of these DRM restrictions allow the original author of the code to prevent people down the line from going against the spirit of the GPL by adding DRM to the code they so graciously received for free.
If these people want to use DRM they are free to do so but they can't use code of author's who disagree with DRM. Hence, if you want DRM use someone else's BSD or GPLv2 licensed code or write your own.
GPLv3 is for original author's who want their works not to be used in ways that violate free access to the code and what you can do with it.
Suppose MS wanted to run Free Software on the next XBOX and didn't want people to mess around with it.
For starters, I don't think MS would ever do that and if they did they wouldn't use GPL but some other kind of license they came up with.
And again, RMS is not something you just dump DRM on. It's not an ill conceived business plan...
;)
It's a series of tubes.
To be fair, I can't find Deustchland on the map either nor Myanmar... But in reality the Hungarians don't refer to their nation as Hungary, but rather Magyarország.
So heck... We can keep calling Hungary or Germany or Burma anything we want because they call themselves something else.