> I don't even know why people bother with the DMCA. It's US-only.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the US has been imposing the DMCA (or worse) on other countries through various kinds of trade agreements for the last few years. Very, very few countries have had the balls to push back on this. Isreal is about the only example.
> Having done museum copywork in the past, I can assure you that getting
> high-quality images of paintings is NOT simple - lighting is critical to
> capture the texture, color, and avoid reflections and shadows. It's not
> just point-and-click.
Is it a creative transformation or is it a technical process? Copyright is about protecting creative works, and while there's some argument that there could be some element of creativity involved, the question would be whether there's enough creative transformation to pass a threshold of a new work or whether it's really just more of an photographic algorithm. Apparently, the UK has a much, much lower threshold for creativity than the US.
It's like I'm suddenly in some strange parallel universe where Beta won.
Of course, one does have to consider that these statistics also mean that somewhere between 80-90% of the population simply don't give a shit about Blu-ray versus HD-DVD.
> BattleBots on Comedy Central was amazing back in the day.
Yes, it certainly was "amazing". They took a 30 minute show which they could have filled start-to-finish with footage of RC vehicles beating the crap out of each other, and they added all the assorted filler junk like questionable"expert" analysis and commentary, talking head interviews, builder backgrounds, etc. Oh, and some random supermodel down in "the pit".
The end result was more like pro-wrestling than anything I could recognize as a science show.
> that does not have a major quality of life impact
Depending on how dry things get, high-traffic gavel roads can spew amazing amounts of dust on nearby residents. Like, "can't hang clothes out to dry" amounts. Dust suppression becomes necessary, and unfortunately most forms of dust suppression can be pretty nasty.
They're also a lot noisier and people living on gravel roads see about 20-30% more wear on vehicle suspensions.
They did. They also kept manufacturing them under that contract until Marvell spun up manufacturing. I'd be very surprised if Intel doesn't have the expertise and manufacturing capabilities to start building ARM processors ASAP, if they aren't already. Whether they can legally do so after selling of the business... who knows.
> How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips?
The way they used to compete with them was by manufacturing (StrongARM, XScale). Wouldn't surprise me if they're still manufacturing some ARM processors for someone in one of their fabs, and it also wouldn't surprise me if they're still collecting royalties on some of the ARM stuff they've spun off over the years.
> Both vi and emacs can handle files with 10k lines easily.
Additionally, vi and emacs are just the editors. The command line is the IDE, and for *nix development it's perfectly adequate. There's decades of work behind it to make it adequate.
I wouldn't touch Windows development without an IDE.
"transferring that update to the new system, then running a full antivirus scan."
I guess I've been out of the Microsoft ecosystem for a long, long time... is it now common practice to run AV scans in a probably compromised environment? Or are malware authors so lazy these days that they can't even bother to write code which breaks any installed AV software?
> The way Britain and the US are going, the only true bastion of > freedom and human rights will be Canada soon
I believe Industry Canada has similar enforcement capabilities, although they very rarely use them.
This stuff is really intended as a public safety action; if someone is blasting into spectrum needed for things like police radios, air traffic control, etc, there needs to be a way to track them and shut them down ASAP. That the same process is used for just nuisance stuff like pirate radio doesn't mean it's a bad law.
> With all the 16:9 and 16:10 wide format screens now, moving the > tabs to the side would make more sense. A lot more can be usefully > fit in that way
But will it make things more usable? There's more to usability than just real-estate.
As a unscientific experiment, try moving your mouse from side to side of the screen, then try moving it top to bottom and back. Side to side should feel a lot easier for the average person. So from a usability perspective, keeping everything along the top of the browser requires less vertical movement.
Then there's the whole locality issue. Having tabs on a separate area means the mouse will have to travel a whole lot further than it does when everything is in the top part of the browser.
> The entire article is predicated on the idea that anti-virus software > is effective at stopping malware.
Well, that and the idea that this government-approved-and-supported anti-virus software is going to remain just anti-virus software rather than morph into a complex anti-virus-spam-terra-pedo-mob-commie-liberal-vegan-tax-dodger package.
Net neutrality people would rarely say it's wrong to discriminate against your own users with your own content. They only have a problem with third parties acting as gatekeepers.
> I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.
I dunno... off hand, I actually don't find a WTC 2.0 attack to be much less likely than the real story, which is that someone with authority to take Air Force One for a joyride - someone in the White House - deliberately planned a very low-level jetliner flight over Manhattan with a fighter escort and nobody in the decision making process maybe thought "hey, do you think this might freak people out?"
Let's see... either 1992 or 1993... it was one of the very first commercial Linux distros (Yggdrasil, IIRC). About 30 floppies in the stack, and it came with Motif so we could port our HP-UX applications (although it was mostly intended to be just another X head). I believe the system was a Dell 386DX with 8MB of RAM.
For a while we also had Solaris x86 running on it. The system was eventually stolen from the office. I'd like to think it was one of the first computer thieves to encounter a Linux boot prompt.
My next Linux install was in 1995, on an old Micro Channel 386SX. That was a classic install where you had to build a custom kernel, write your own network driver, etc. This led me to reboot the defunct MCA Linux project.
> won't use kde 4 because they nuked the konqueror, which is my > favorite file manager of all time
Heh? Konqueror still works just fine for file managing. It's not the default anymore, true, but I can't think of anything it doesn't do that it did in 3.5.
> I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.04 yesterday and have so far found > it to be exactly what was promised
I upgraded my netbook from 8.10 yesterday and... things did not go so well. About half the time I login, plasma crashes and takes everything but kwin with it. Suspend seems to be broken, and I can't even get it to shutdown cleanly. Every once in a while (mainly when bringing up menus) the whole thing freezes for a good 15-30 seconds.
Since the only significant chunk of state I care about is my browser bookmarks, I'm probably just going to do a clean install tonight.
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>> How can you be sure the volcano you use is *really* Mount Doom in
>> this late, degenerate age?
> Because of all the Orcs and shit?
No, it could just be a Republican convention.
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> I don't even know why people bother with the DMCA. It's US-only.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the US has been imposing the DMCA (or worse) on other countries through various kinds of trade agreements for the last few years. Very, very few countries have had the balls to push back on this. Isreal is about the only example.
> How about a "Thinking Brain" dog for some of the terminally
> stupid people I have to deal with?
I always wondered why Americans made such a fuss over the choice of the presidential dog...
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> What if we created a union of RIAA suit defendants?
Because it would probably be cheaper to just buy music?
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> Having done museum copywork in the past, I can assure you that getting
> high-quality images of paintings is NOT simple - lighting is critical to
> capture the texture, color, and avoid reflections and shadows. It's not
> just point-and-click.
Is it a creative transformation or is it a technical process? Copyright is about protecting creative works, and while there's some argument that there could be some element of creativity involved, the question would be whether there's enough creative transformation to pass a threshold of a new work or whether it's really just more of an photographic algorithm. Apparently, the UK has a much, much lower threshold for creativity than the US.
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> If only there was one for Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007...
"Oh... did you... like, maybe you should have turned left back there at the stop sign? Or, like, was that a red light?"
> The porn industry wanted the longer play time though,
> so my dad had to get the other player.
I'm sure your father will be thrilled to know that for Father's Day, his porn viewing habits have been broadcasted to the world.
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It's like I'm suddenly in some strange parallel universe where Beta won.
Of course, one does have to consider that these statistics also mean that somewhere between 80-90% of the population simply don't give a shit about Blu-ray versus HD-DVD.
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> BattleBots on Comedy Central was amazing back in the day.
Yes, it certainly was "amazing". They took a 30 minute show which they could have filled start-to-finish with footage of RC vehicles beating the crap out of each other, and they added all the assorted filler junk like questionable"expert" analysis and commentary, talking head interviews, builder backgrounds, etc. Oh, and some random supermodel down in "the pit".
The end result was more like pro-wrestling than anything I could recognize as a science show.
c.
> that does not have a major quality of life impact
Depending on how dry things get, high-traffic gavel roads can spew amazing amounts of dust on nearby residents. Like, "can't hang clothes out to dry" amounts. Dust suppression becomes necessary, and unfortunately most forms of dust suppression can be pretty nasty.
They're also a lot noisier and people living on gravel roads see about 20-30% more wear on vehicle suspensions.
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They did. They also kept manufacturing them under that contract until Marvell spun up manufacturing. I'd be very surprised if Intel doesn't have the expertise and manufacturing capabilities to start building ARM processors ASAP, if they aren't already. Whether they can legally do so after selling of the business... who knows.
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> How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips?
The way they used to compete with them was by manufacturing (StrongARM, XScale). Wouldn't surprise me if they're still manufacturing some ARM processors for someone in one of their fabs, and it also wouldn't surprise me if they're still collecting royalties on some of the ARM stuff they've spun off over the years.
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> Sadly, I don't think there's a whole lot we can do about it.
No problem... the geeks just need to out-reproduce the normals, then geekery will seem normal.
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> Both vi and emacs can handle files with 10k lines easily.
Additionally, vi and emacs are just the editors. The command line is the IDE, and for *nix development it's perfectly adequate. There's decades of work behind it to make it adequate.
I wouldn't touch Windows development without an IDE.
c.
"transferring that update to the new system, then running a full antivirus scan."
I guess I've been out of the Microsoft ecosystem for a long, long time... is it now common practice to run AV scans in a probably compromised environment? Or are malware authors so lazy these days that they can't even bother to write code which breaks any installed AV software?
c.
> The way Britain and the US are going, the only true bastion of
> freedom and human rights will be Canada soon
I believe Industry Canada has similar enforcement capabilities, although they very rarely use them.
This stuff is really intended as a public safety action; if someone is blasting into spectrum needed for things like police radios, air traffic control, etc, there needs to be a way to track them and shut them down ASAP. That the same process is used for just nuisance stuff like pirate radio doesn't mean it's a bad law.
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> I'm truly at a lose when I try to think of anything
> that man has brought to the ticket.
Same as Quayle. He's there to discourage anyone from taking a shot at Obama.
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> With all the 16:9 and 16:10 wide format screens now, moving the
> tabs to the side would make more sense. A lot more can be usefully
> fit in that way
But will it make things more usable? There's more to usability than just real-estate.
As a unscientific experiment, try moving your mouse from side to side of the screen, then try moving it top to bottom and back. Side to side should feel a lot easier for the average person. So from a usability perspective, keeping everything along the top of the browser requires less vertical movement.
Then there's the whole locality issue. Having tabs on a separate area means the mouse will have to travel a whole lot further than it does when everything is in the top part of the browser.
c.
> The entire article is predicated on the idea that anti-virus software
> is effective at stopping malware.
Well, that and the idea that this government-approved-and-supported anti-virus software is going to remain just anti-virus software rather than morph into a complex anti-virus-spam-terra-pedo-mob-commie-liberal-vegan-tax-dodger package.
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> i know net neutrality people say thats wrong
Net neutrality people would rarely say it's wrong to discriminate against your own users with your own content. They only have a problem with third parties acting as gatekeepers.
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> I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.
I dunno... off hand, I actually don't find a WTC 2.0 attack to be much less likely than the real story, which is that someone with authority to take Air Force One for a joyride - someone in the White House - deliberately planned a very low-level jetliner flight over Manhattan with a fighter escort and nobody in the decision making process maybe thought "hey, do you think this might freak people out?"
c.
Let's see... either 1992 or 1993... it was one of the very first commercial Linux distros (Yggdrasil, IIRC). About 30 floppies in the stack, and it came with Motif so we could port our HP-UX applications (although it was mostly intended to be just another X head). I believe the system was a Dell 386DX with 8MB of RAM.
For a while we also had Solaris x86 running on it. The system was eventually stolen from the office. I'd like to think it was one of the first computer thieves to encounter a Linux boot prompt.
My next Linux install was in 1995, on an old Micro Channel 386SX. That was a classic install where you had to build a custom kernel, write your own network driver, etc. This led me to reboot the defunct MCA Linux project.
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> won't use kde 4 because they nuked the konqueror, which is my
> favorite file manager of all time
Heh? Konqueror still works just fine for file managing. It's not the default anymore, true, but I can't think of anything it doesn't do that it did in 3.5.
Just make sure you're using KDE 4.2.
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> I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.04 yesterday and have so far found
> it to be exactly what was promised
I upgraded my netbook from 8.10 yesterday and... things did not go so well. About half the time I login, plasma crashes and takes everything but kwin with it. Suspend seems to be broken, and I can't even get it to shutdown cleanly. Every once in a while (mainly when bringing up menus) the whole thing freezes for a good 15-30 seconds.
Since the only significant chunk of state I care about is my browser bookmarks, I'm probably just going to do a clean install tonight.
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> Anyone want to take a wager on when or how this will be cracked?
Judging from past versions, by pirating a corporate version of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition sometime during the beta/release candidate phase.
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