Introducing the new 360.8.4.2 audio technology: 360 satellite speakers covering all angles at ear-level, 8 directional speakers at 8 corners of the room with robotic arms dynamically adjusted according to the audience location, 4 subs strategically placed at 4 corners with patent-pending 'synchro-bass cylinder distribution' techology, and 2 spatial-diversified speakers, one above your head and the other placed inside your couch. Decoding is done via the Earth Simulator Computer in Japan and data is fed through a single OC-48 link. The receiving node houses an enterprise-class router proccessed via a 128 3.2GHz Intel Beowulf cluster, with backend 16TB fibre-channel storage as cache. Signal is distributed to each IPv6 addressed speakers via 802.11g.
According to the spokeperson of Supersubmersion Technology, "the invention of this technology enable family to fully experience movies like the latest quantum-redigitalized Starwars episode 1-9, plus the latest episode 31 'Return of JarJarBinks', where the audience can feel the JarJarBinks are really enraged".
Very rich man vs very rich company... I wonder if either party shared more of their profit because of the wild success.
It's likely that it doesn't matter if PJ get 100M more or not. Don't tell me he's fighting for the little guys before or after him, but it's all about control isn't it?
The sad truth is that how the world operates does not allow 100 PJ who are only 1% as rich (still very rich), but only 1 PJ who's 100 times richer.
And people need to stop fucking voting republican OR democrat. Put someone who actually values personal property rights and personal liberty as a whole.
Unlike the OS situation, hotmail is far from majority service of all email users. They'll pissed off the customers that they stop using it, or hotmail stop taking this stupid stance.
For example, if there were the capability and there really was a newspaper that had advertising that actually jumped up in front of what you had started reading, or some other intrusive behavior, that paper would be likely shunned by most consumers and the paper would fail.
Those subscription/promo cards in magazines are as annoying as the pop ups. Every time I buy a magazine for reading in a flight, the first thing I do is shake the crap outta the magazine and trash them all before I start reading. Kinda like closing the pop ups. OTOH, those promo cards won't fly back into the magazines themselves, unlike popups. Still it's pretty annoying. Let's face it, if they find a way to make them fly back into the magazine and it's cheap, they'll do it.
Yes it's kinda work in/. but consider the filtering and moderation is not against the comments but the people themselves!/.ers are specific group of people who shares similar background/knowledge/experience to certain extent. Why we find it useful is because the news are moderated, i.e. news are posted only if it is relevant to this group. Other that goes against the common value set will be thrown out. LA Times is facing the entire net-public, not/.ers. Just imagine a/.er who is for MPAA/RIAA, loves MS and knows poop about open-source. See how 'useful'/. is for him.
I have to ditto, hard. In this community, I have to agree upon the several values:
Anything MS is evil
Anything RIAA, MPAA is evil
All software must be open-sourced, or else it's evil
Google's great, other search engines are evil
Communist countries are evil
All governments are evil
Anything Starwar's interesting
The list goes on and on... Without abiding to these values, you're sure to be modded down and your message will be never seen again. Better yet with your karma -1 you'll start with 0 the next time! Now this is censorship.
I for one would be willing to commit to ZERO purchases of any media (dvd, sacd, cd, etc.) for one calendar year.
Others like-minded protestors have already stopped purchasing any media, and are actively downloading from BearShare, BT and the likes...
This topic is really wearing off. Anybody has any good suggestion on giving consumer a choice while protecting the artists work (any artists, including your favourite indy band)? We don't live in utopia. I realize most of the slashdotters are very conscience on good and bad, while most of the net-public goes for the most convenient.
True that it is not an acceptable defense at those trials, but let's put them into perspectives. They were using 'just following orders' as a defense tactics and those in trials are prominent nazi, not regular joe-blow factory worker who manufactured tanks an bombs.
The original poster of this thread is arguing that instead of 'nobody is to blame', he's saying everybody is to blame. Every level of officer has to make the decision of whether the order was lawful or not, and that makes them partly responsible, however, they were NEVER in position to make decisions like 'lets make a nuke', or 'lets drop a nuke'. Military is not a democratic process.
I would agree that everybody in that chain-of-command has part responsibility. However, I would argue that the workers or the pilot or the likes are that much responsible as the generals up there who make the decision. Did the worker or the pilot really have a say in this? If they did and refuse to take the order, that'll be considered treason and probably sent to prison for life. Did the worker or the pilot comes up with the idea of such attack? Nobody wants to be responsible for the decision, but ultimately somebody made the decision, and the pilot/worker has no say in this.
If the main intention is to destroy the war manufacturing facilities at Nagasaki, then I wonder if anybody gave warning to the civilians to escape? Did Japanese government knows the target? Did the US inform the Japanese government? Or directly to the civilians (paper leaflets)? At that point in the the Japanese barely has any air force left as I recall from books.
Coolstreaming is another application that uses p2p idea for realtime TV. It's developed by a guy in Hong Kong. It's been around for quite some time. Yeah they used it for cable TV there with thousands of users and really good streaming quality, so they're now shut down due to copyright issue.
But while they are priced like consumer electronics, the machines still aren't even remotely as easy to use
Because it can and it is supposed to do a lot of stuff. If you want to eat toast, get a toaster and some bread. If you want to browse web, get webTV (does it still exist?) and learn to use mouse and keyboard. If you want to browse, play games, word process, financial planning, edit digital photos/videos and then burn on DVDs, oh maybe some nice fading effects between scenes and btw get some nice background music but just that 2 minutes... How is it suppose to be easy to use if one intends to use it for many many things?
We have to see the picture to cause the emotional distress. Unless we see the picture, the plantiff has no right to sue. Show us the damn freaking picture, NOW!!!!
to sue her boyfriend instead of yahoo, but apparently it's the smell of money. Now it's like suing the car manufacturer instead of the bad driver who struck your car.
He started to whine when others tried to "reverse-engineer" his precious BK. Well, too bad for him that reverse-engineering is allowed. Looking at his comments
Why do OSS people attempts to reverse engineer it? Because it's a good piece of software and a lot of people use it. This guy has all the right to moan and bitch about the software because he wrote it. He asked people not to do it and I think OSS people should consider. Others who collectively pressure/force him to open source it, and/or reverse engineer it, pretty much acts like draconian corporations just like MS, in the opposite direction. I always thought OSS people are 'liberal' people, but in this case it seems they choke his throat and shake him all around and pretty much force him to comply. Or else they reverse engineer it.
so what's personal use? less than 5 movies? does that mean if i'm caught with more than 5 movies i'm a dealer?
Like you said, I think it's very hard to draw a line. The so called dealers would not have existed if there's nobody that want to have the movies for personal use. And even now, all we need is to have each person to have 5 movies available on our p2p client and we probably have access to all the movies since the start of human history:) I wonder what if the internet throughput is great for everyone, then p2p will evolve to just streaming around and not necessary to download everything. By then everyone will only have a few on the p2p network. So is it legal or illegal?
I see one of the major benefit is'local-vs-remote' password. But if the machine is connected to the net, it's also vulnerable eh? So that mean local security is very important with such password DB stored? Or maybe put the entire DB on a USB key and plug it in when needed?
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Put open-source aside, isn't that kind of like bundling IE on Windoze, where you put in additional software on top of the original to add value?
According to the spokeperson of Supersubmersion Technology, "the invention of this technology enable family to fully experience movies like the latest quantum-redigitalized Starwars episode 1-9, plus the latest episode 31 'Return of JarJarBinks', where the audience can feel the JarJarBinks are really enraged".
It's likely that it doesn't matter if PJ get 100M more or not. Don't tell me he's fighting for the little guys before or after him, but it's all about control isn't it?
The sad truth is that how the world operates does not allow 100 PJ who are only 1% as rich (still very rich), but only 1 PJ who's 100 times richer.
Sounds as if there's any real alternative?
Unlike the OS situation, hotmail is far from majority service of all email users. They'll pissed off the customers that they stop using it, or hotmail stop taking this stupid stance.
Those subscription/promo cards in magazines are as annoying as the pop ups. Every time I buy a magazine for reading in a flight, the first thing I do is shake the crap outta the magazine and trash them all before I start reading. Kinda like closing the pop ups. OTOH, those promo cards won't fly back into the magazines themselves, unlike popups. Still it's pretty annoying. Let's face it, if they find a way to make them fly back into the magazine and it's cheap, they'll do it.
Yes it's kinda work in /. but consider the filtering and moderation is not against the comments but the people themselves! /.ers are specific group of people who shares similar background/knowledge/experience to certain extent. Why we find it useful is because the news are moderated, i.e. news are posted only if it is relevant to this group. Other that goes against the common value set will be thrown out. LA Times is facing the entire net-public, not /.ers. Just imagine a /.er who is for MPAA/RIAA, loves MS and knows poop about open-source. See how 'useful' /. is for him.
- Anything MS is evil
- Anything RIAA, MPAA is evil
- All software must be open-sourced, or else it's evil
- Google's great, other search engines are evil
- Communist countries are evil
- All governments are evil
- Anything Starwar's interesting
The list goes on and on... Without abiding to these values, you're sure to be modded down and your message will be never seen again. Better yet with your karma -1 you'll start with 0 the next time! Now this is censorship.Others like-minded protestors have already stopped purchasing any media, and are actively downloading from BearShare, BT and the likes...
This topic is really wearing off. Anybody has any good suggestion on giving consumer a choice while protecting the artists work (any artists, including your favourite indy band)? We don't live in utopia. I realize most of the slashdotters are very conscience on good and bad, while most of the net-public goes for the most convenient.
The original poster of this thread is arguing that instead of 'nobody is to blame', he's saying everybody is to blame. Every level of officer has to make the decision of whether the order was lawful or not, and that makes them partly responsible, however, they were NEVER in position to make decisions like 'lets make a nuke', or 'lets drop a nuke'. Military is not a democratic process.
I would agree that everybody in that chain-of-command has part responsibility. However, I would argue that the workers or the pilot or the likes are that much responsible as the generals up there who make the decision. Did the worker or the pilot really have a say in this? If they did and refuse to take the order, that'll be considered treason and probably sent to prison for life. Did the worker or the pilot comes up with the idea of such attack? Nobody wants to be responsible for the decision, but ultimately somebody made the decision, and the pilot/worker has no say in this.
If the main intention is to destroy the war manufacturing facilities at Nagasaki, then I wonder if anybody gave warning to the civilians to escape? Did Japanese government knows the target? Did the US inform the Japanese government? Or directly to the civilians (paper leaflets)? At that point in the the Japanese barely has any air force left as I recall from books.
... It's like saying if you have any morality, don't buy anything produced from China. Start from yourself and try that first.
http://www.coolstreaming.org/
Because it can and it is supposed to do a lot of stuff. If you want to eat toast, get a toaster and some bread. If you want to browse web, get webTV (does it still exist?) and learn to use mouse and keyboard. If you want to browse, play games, word process, financial planning, edit digital photos/videos and then burn on DVDs, oh maybe some nice fading effects between scenes and btw get some nice background music but just that 2 minutes... How is it suppose to be easy to use if one intends to use it for many many things?
Actually, it can also contain network/shared drives from other computers. So you weren't able to tell even before Longhorn.
It's still 'news' as accepted by the public if FOX and CNN still call those programs 'news'.
We have to see the picture to cause the emotional distress. Unless we see the picture, the plantiff has no right to sue. Show us the damn freaking picture, NOW!!!!
to sue her boyfriend instead of yahoo, but apparently it's the smell of money. Now it's like suing the car manufacturer instead of the bad driver who struck your car.
So I can set up my own 65535-machines network inside my home and each have its own unique internet-addressable IP? :)
Why do OSS people attempts to reverse engineer it? Because it's a good piece of software and a lot of people use it. This guy has all the right to moan and bitch about the software because he wrote it. He asked people not to do it and I think OSS people should consider. Others who collectively pressure/force him to open source it, and/or reverse engineer it, pretty much acts like draconian corporations just like MS, in the opposite direction. I always thought OSS people are 'liberal' people, but in this case it seems they choke his throat and shake him all around and pretty much force him to comply. Or else they reverse engineer it.
True that IBM is eagar to support OSS but I don't think their majority of army of Global Services work on OSS support.
Like you said, I think it's very hard to draw a line. The so called dealers would not have existed if there's nobody that want to have the movies for personal use. And even now, all we need is to have each person to have 5 movies available on our p2p client and we probably have access to all the movies since the start of human history :) I wonder what if the internet throughput is great for everyone, then p2p will evolve to just streaming around and not necessary to download everything. By then everyone will only have a few on the p2p network. So is it legal or illegal?
Wow... so if I use it under Linux the "Windows menu key" will still pops up the 'Start' menu??
I see one of the major benefit is'local-vs-remote' password. But if the machine is connected to the net, it's also vulnerable eh? So that mean local security is very important with such password DB stored? Or maybe put the entire DB on a USB key and plug it in when needed?